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"Perfect Blue" by Satoshi Kon. Watching it dubbed multiple times so I notice the visuals. Also the changes between the sub and dub can bring more understanding.
Amelie
The Big Lebowski. Every time.
He just picks things up through the movie and uses them later. One of the best examples starts in the opening scene of the movie where he's buying milk and paying with a check, as he's writing it out there's a t.v. behind the cashier playing GWB Sr saying "This aggression against Kuwait will not stand", then way later in the movie someone is shouting at him and he uses the line "this aggression will not stand" and you know he's picked it up from that earlier scene and used it again. The movie is full of this kind of callback and interaction.
The conversation with him and Maude Lebowski is also a great example of this:
Maude Lebowski: Do you like sex, Mr. Lebowski?
The Dude: 'Scuse me?
Maude Lebowski: Sex. The physical act of love. Coitus. Do you like it?
The Dude: I was talking about my rug.
Maude Lebowski: You're not interested in sex?
The Dude: You mean coitus?
Gets me every time
The elder President Bush was HW.
Memento
12 Monkeys
Princess Bride
Fight Club
Everything, Everywhere, All at Once
Blade Runner (both movies)
Good list. I'd like to add:
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
- Eyes Wide Shut
- Inception
Lots of movies I’ve rewatched a lot of times but one I can think of off of the top of my head that offers something new on subsequent rewatched is The Truman Show.
There’s just… soooo much stuff there. Like, does Truman become aware of what’s going on over there course of the beginning of the movie, or is he already aware before the movie even began and trying to blend in?
And because the movie is really fun to watch, you will come back to it, and notice something new every time.
A fun little game is to point out all of the cameras that are visible. If you make that into a drinking game you would be dead by the end of the first act..
Secretary.
Doubt ne if you want, that movie has serious layers and is brilliantly written.
Hot Fuzz
Every watch you notice new little details. This film is the (modenr) textbook example of Checkov's gun.
"You wanna be a big cop in a small town? Fuck off up the model village."
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I'm a fan of Fifth Element. Super enjoyable and there is a lot going on. It took a few watches before I realized the protagonist and the antagonist never actually meet in the movie.
I had a lot of fun trying to look for more surveillance with each watch through of The Truman Show.
I’ve passed through Everything Everywhere All At Once approximately eighty times now, because on every single viewing, I’m discovering one or two tiny fragments of interrelationship that I’ve never seen before.
It’s a marvelous, marvelous movie.
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SCOTT!
PIL-GRIM!
Edgar Wright is amongst my favorite directors, and the first half of Scott Pilgrim Vs The World is my favorite movie ever. Fuck, I had to take a film class with one of the world's oddest professor in college before I could properly explain why I love the movie so much.
Each time I watch it I notice a little something more. I've lowkey been thinking about making a fan-cut with the deleted scenes and everything.
12 Monkeys
In The Mouth of Madness
The Thing
Other than what everyone else has said (great taste in film, lemmings) I'll throw out...
In the Mouth of Madness. People tend to rank The Thing as his best movie, but the other two parts of the "Apocalypse Trilogy" are also excellent. Prince of Darkness has plenty to reccomend it, but I actually have watched IMM at least 10 times. The practical effects hold up well, and I feel like I catch new little details or acting quirks on each watch. Sam Neill and Julie Carmen are both really on their game and amazingly bring a lot of both subtlety and camp to the roles. The soundtrack is really banging too, if you're a fan of Carpenter's synth-rock.
And for something completely different, but still an "at least 10 views" favorite: Rian Johnson's Brick. You'll probably need at least 2 viewings just to catch all the dialogue, which is very fast and uses a weird made up slang. The main victim makes a phone call in the first act that basically reveals everything if you understand what she's saying, but it takes the whole movie for that to happen. It's just a fun, good mystery story too. Great sense of style, great (slightly off kilter) acting choices all around. Its one of those movies that's a little like poetry or a great album, just fun to watch and enjoy for itself.
God I love Brick. Watched it countless times growing up and don't see it talked about enough online.
Brick is wonderful, such a brilliant movie.
There's a new film on Netflix called Brick and I was so disappointed that it's not the same one!
If you liked Brick, you might also like Assassination of a High School President by Brett Simon: Similar noir type tone with little details that reveal the underlying mystery. You'll probably figure it out before the end (it's a little cliche) but it's still a decent watch.
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Blade Runner
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Monte Python and the Holy Grail
Christmas Carol (1951 w/Alistair Sim)
Star Wars OT and PT
Schuh des Manitu, (T)Raumschiff Suprise,
The Netflix TV show Dark. Holy hell. I missed SO much the first time. If you haven't seen this show do yourself a favor and watch it, the amount of detail is crazy, and the casting is top notch. Watch it in German with English subtitles though, the English dubbing is really, really horrendous.
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The Matrix.
This was the first DVD I ever purchased, and it was glorious being able to pause the movie & go frame by frame.
I don’t think I did 10 times, but Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy sure offered something new every time I watched it.
God that movie was subtle.
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