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One of the finest "intersection of war and politics" movies of all time. Every American movie about Vietnam [and just about everyone about the Civil War] wishes it could be just *half* the movie Breaker Morant is.
Edit: My 2nd choice after that is Man Bites Dog, which manages to be both absurd and disturbing at the same time. After that, my tastes degenerate rapidly into samurai and yakuza movies and all manner of Hong Kong Kick Flick[tm]. I do love me some of that Ferrari-/candy apple-red arterial spray only found in East Asian films...
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Black Barney wrote: AMAL.
Freudian slip?
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Jackwraith wrote: Rashomon. It's an interesting little ethical tale that is timeless in its relevance and made by one of the finest directors to ever live.
A close second would be Blade Runner.
Great choice. The lumberjack scene early in the movie always blows me away. The long tracking shot that goes on for 2 or 3 minutes is great. I think I remember the commentary mentioning that Kurosawa may have been the first to film the forest canopy with the sun glinting through to signify the lumberjack's POV when looking up.
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Booty Call.
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The director, Michele Soavi, didn't really do anything in cinema after it. He started out doing assistant work for Dario Argento, Lamberto Bava, and those guys in the early 1980s and did a couple of very interesting pictures including a bizarre giallo called Stage Fright (aka Bloody Bird or Aquarius) where the killer wears this giant owl mask. He also did a weird Satanic cult thing with Jamie Lee Curtis' daughter called The Sect, but it was more odd than remarkable. Before Dellamore Dellamorte, he did the third installment of the Demons films, one called The Church. It's quite good, a very stylish monster movie with some cool Templar stuff in it.
He also did a really good documentary about Dario Argento sometime in the late 1980s, it was (I think) right before Opera came out.
As for Francesco Dellamorte...well, he's really Dylan Dog from the Italian horror comics. It was marketed in Italy and Europe as a Dylan Dog movie. Then we wound up with that terrible Dylan Dog movie here in the US, but who the hell here knows anything about Dylan Dog.
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