What follows is a list/collection of highly important and/or socially annotative films. If you are one who is wont to call your self a cinematic connoisseur, you must view these films. If you do not see their worth, then I will call you hopeless and silly, and say, "You should cease the pursuit of objectives which you will never fulfill." Footnote: I, the scribe of such a "So You'd Like to...Guide," am fully aware of the futility of the creation of such a guide (or any guide for that matter), and only populate such guides with underappreciated films for my own amusement. This list is not arranged in order of most high a quality, but how high the level of enjoyment/absorption. I don't have the discipline to order them all accordingly--that is, some (namely the first three) are ordered correctly, and some are not.


1. David Fincher's Fight Club.

2. Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver (Collector's Edition).

3. Wes Anderson's The Royal Tenenbaums (The Criterion Collection).

4. Stanley Kubrick's The Shining.

5. Federico Fellini's 8 1/2 - Criterion Collection.

6. Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Amélie.

7. D.A. Pennebaker's Bob Dylan - Don't Look Back.

8. Richard Linklater's Waking Life.

9. Spike Jonze's Being John Malkovich (Ws Spec).

10. Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Special Edition).

11. Alejandro González Iñárritu's Amores Perros.

12. Stanley Kubrick's 2001 - A Space Odyssey.

13. Tim Burton's Edward Scissorhands (Widescreen Anniversary Edition).

14. Terry Gilliam's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Criterion Collection.

15. Wes Anderson's Rushmore - Criterion Collection.



I would like to revise this list, but am too tired and not that interested. I would like to erase this list, but Halfvalue.com will not let me. I would like to remove some films from this list, but will not and cannot. I suppose I am doomed to be forever exposed as the pseudo-intellectual that I am.