Ok, I'm watching Andrei Rublev and I wonder. Are there other films like this? Are there other intelligent films involving people searching for answers to unanswerable questions? Questions about faith or humanity. I'd really like to see some movies that really make you question yourself and your existence.
Tafellappen
06-29-04, 12:34 AM
Maybe you should check out White Chicks
EDIT: (For real) I'd suggest checking out the Seventh Seal by Bergman
DVD Smurf
06-29-04, 12:39 AM
Here are some that I liked from top of my head...
Nostalghia (1983)
2001: Space Odyssey (1968)
Stalker (1979)
The Wind Will Carry Us (1999)
Taste of Cherry (1997)
L'Humanite (1999)
8 1/2 (1963)
Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974)
Paris, Texas (1984)
Code Unknown (2000)
Lost Highway (1997)
Sweet Hereafter (1997)
Man on the Train (2002)
Contempt (1963)
Persona (1966)
Silence (1963)
Winter Light (1963)
Dreams (1990)
Cheers :beer:
DVD Smurf :)
RyoHazuki
06-29-04, 01:02 AM
Waking Life
Case01
06-29-04, 01:44 AM
1984
Mark_vdH
06-29-04, 05:33 AM
Ordet
The Seventh Seal
Ikiru
The Sweet Hereafter
Stalker
Hiroshima Mon Amour
Bowling For Columbine ;)
Abranut
06-29-04, 05:53 AM
I'd recommend Kyslowski's The Decologue or Three Colors Trilogy.
Fok
06-29-04, 03:24 PM
The lost highway still confuses me now. But if you're looking for a movie with questions, then this is the movie to watch.
sundog
06-29-04, 03:33 PM
Chris Marker's 1982 Sans Soleil. A tour-de-force documentary (you don't have to like it) spanning from Japan to Iceland to America and back again that weaves intricate images about world culture and faith that just seeps into your subconscious.
Rivero
06-29-04, 03:33 PM
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
wendersfan
06-29-04, 04:18 PM
Nine replies, and nobody has mentioned Tarkovsky's The Sacrifice yet?
PopcornTreeCt
06-29-04, 04:29 PM
Thanks for all the choices everyone.
tdirgins
06-29-04, 07:47 PM
Check out Mindwalk with Sam Waterson, John Heard and Liv Ullmann.
Norm de Plume
06-30-04, 11:59 PM
Woman in the Dunes
Frank TJ Mackey
07-01-04, 01:51 AM
The Sweet Hereafter is one of the most deeply moving films I have ever seen.
It's non-linear and requires (or I think it does) repeated viewings.
I did a report about it in a film class. I had already seen it 4 or 5 times, and then I watched it and wrote the paper in the middle of the night. I did well on that assignment.
It's about hope, love, loss, responsibility, drifting away from your grown children.
It's a masterpiece in the truest since of the word. I think everyone should see it.
I see several others have listed it above as well.
Atom Egoyian is the director, Sarah Polley, Ian Holm and Bruce Greenwood star.
BTW - don't watch if you've had a bad day.
Superboy
07-01-04, 01:54 AM
Originally posted by tdirgins
Check out Mindwalk with Sam Waterson, John Heard and Liv Ullmann.
Seems like they show this movie in every Philosophy class i've taken. Poor acting and stodgy, stiff script and writing, but great intellectual musings.
Parcher
07-01-04, 09:19 AM
Dawn of the Dead!
No, I'd say movies like Pi...
wordtoyamotha
07-01-04, 10:59 AM
Originally posted by Tafellappen
Maybe you should check out White Chicks
:lol:
I'll recommend Requiem For a Dream and A Clockwork Orange
El-Kabong
07-01-04, 11:15 AM
Soul Plane!
tommyp007
07-07-04, 04:05 PM
Mulholland Drive
The Usual Suspects
JFK
Bowling for Columbine
Fahrenheit 9/11
Malcom X
FuzzyBallz
07-07-04, 05:22 PM
Watch PBS or Discovery.
caiman
07-07-04, 05:50 PM
Gay******s from Outer Space
The title alone is mind boggling.
EDIT: for the curious - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0274518/
Rypro 525
07-07-04, 07:42 PM
Originally posted by PopcornTreeCt
Ok, I'm watching Andrei Rublev and I wonder. Are there other films like this? Are there other intelligent films involving people searching for answers to unanswerable questions? Questions about faith or humanity. I'd really like to see some movies that really make you question yourself and your existence. citizen kane
Infernal Affairs
http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=11354
NEUMANN
07-07-04, 08:42 PM
House of games-great movie about the human condition
lucasorion
07-07-04, 08:51 PM
Originally posted by tdirgins
Check out Mindwalk with Sam Waterson, John Heard and Liv Ullmann.
I second that, I saw it in my early teens and was totally fascinated by the conversations - I don't remember anything about the movie or performances, it was all about the writing.
baracine
07-08-04, 05:15 PM
Spielberg's A.I..
Tracer Bullet
07-08-04, 06:52 PM
Not an intellectual movie in that it makes any sense, but... My Dinner with Andre.
Buy: