I write sometimes. Top 4 is more of a four-way tie for my favorite film.
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Burden of Dreams 1982
Somehow a film that both valorizes and condemns the idea of the auteur: Herzog in this film comes off somewhere between the romantic ideal of an artist committed to realizing his vision, and a stubborn fool acting on unchecked hubris to the detriment of the people surrounding him. He decides that they need to actually pull this steam ship over an actual hill in the Amazon essentially because it would look cooler that way, and he's not wrong, but this…
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Fargo 1996
I haven't seen enough of their films to make any sweeping generalizations, but for the moment this seems to me like the only Coen Brothers movie that perfectly fuses their two distinct modes of operation into something transcendentally great: A grim thriller about killers and criminals who slowly lose control of a rapidly devolving situation, and a hilarious, downright goofy comedy populated by a wide community of oddball American caricatures. It's obviously closer thematically and stylistically to their dramas than…
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PlayTime 1967
One of my favorite films of all time, and that only gets more true on every re-watch. Whenever I watch it again I always pick up on gags that I completely missed the last time around, the film's jokes are so densely layered that I feel like I could watch it a million times and still miss things. All the jokes are so subtly choreographed that they feel like they're just happening naturally, you forget that you're watching a hundred…
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