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  1. Grey Gardens 1976

    Documentary

    Edie Bouvier Beale and her mother, Edith, two aging, eccentric relatives of Jackie Kennedy Onassis, are the sole inhabitants of a Long Island estate. The women reveal themselves to be misfits with outsized, engaging personalities. Much of the conversation is centered on their pasts, as mother and daughter now rarely leave home.

    The sides of Grey Gardens

    • A mother and daughter in a decaying mansion
    • Little Edie's improvised outfits and songs
    • Cats and raccoons in the house

    Good for you if

    • you like spending time with Big Edie and Little Edie as they are.
    • you like a mother and daughter who bicker and can't leave each other.
    • you like a strange, closed world on a Long Island estate.

    Bad for you if

    • you need a story that goes somewhere.
    • you find 1970s handheld footage dated.

    About: mother and daughter · solitude · the past

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  2. The Five Obstructions 2003

    Documentary

    In 1967, experimental filmmaker Jorgen Leth created a striking short film, The Perfect Human, starring a man and women sitting in a box while a narrator poses questions about their relationship and humanity. Years later, Danish director Lars von Trier made a deal with Leth to remake his film five times, each under a different set of circumstances and with von Trier's strictly prescribed rules. As Leth completes each challenge, von Trier creates increasingly further elaborate stipulations.

    The sides of The Five Obstructions

    • Jørgen Leth remaking his own short film
    • Lars von Trier inventing the rules
    • One remake made as a cartoon

    Good for you if

    • you like a game between two directors that keeps getting stranger.
    • you're fascinated by Lars von Trier trying to break his mentor.
    • you enjoy two filmmakers sparring across a table.

    Bad for you if

    • you won't read subtitles for the Danish parts.
    • you need to know at the end who won the game between the two men.

    About: creativity · constraints · mentorship

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  3. Caesar Must Die 2012

    Documentary

    Inmates at a prison in Rome rehearse for a performance of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.

    The sides of Caesar Must Die

    • Prisoners rehearsing Julius Caesar
    • A high-security prison in Rome
    • Shakespeare's lines in real inmates' mouths

    Good for you if

    • you like real inmates playing Brutus and Caesar with everything they have.
    • you like stark black and white images of prison corridors turned into a stage.
    • you want to see how Shakespeare's betrayals echo the lives of men serving long sentences.

    Bad for you if

    • you won't read subtitles for an Italian film.
    • you find black and white images dated.

    About: freedom · betrayal · art

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  4. El show de Truman 1998

    Película

    Truman Burbank es un hombre corriente y algo ingenuo que ha vivido toda su vida en uno de esos pueblos donde nunca pasa nada. Sin embargo, de repente, unos extraños sucesos le hacen sospechar que algo anormal está ocurriendo. Todos sus amigos son actores, toda su ciudad es un plató, toda su vida está siendo filmada y emitida como el reality más ambicioso de la historia.

    Las caras de El show de Truman

    • Un hombre cuya vida entera es un programa de televisión
    • Un pueblo lleno de actores
    • Un barco que navega hasta el borde del cielo

    Buena para ti si

    • te gusta la sensación creciente de que el mundo es falso.
    • te gusta reírte de los anuncios colados en la vida de un hombre.
    • te gusta un héroe que quiere algo real, cueste lo que cueste.

    Mala para ti si

    • necesitas que la premisa se sostenga. Un pueblo entero lleva treinta años siendo un plató de televisión.
    • quieres descubrir el secreto a la vez que Truman. Aquí lo sabes desde los créditos iniciales.

    Temas: la libertad · la realidad · los medios

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  5. My Octopus Teacher 2020

    Documentary

    After years of swimming every day in the freezing ocean at the tip of Africa, Craig Foster meets an unlikely teacher: a young octopus who displays remarkable curiosity. Visiting her den and tracking her movements for months on end he eventually wins the animal’s trust and they develop a never-before-seen bond between human and wild animal.

    The sides of My Octopus Teacher

    • A diver in a kelp forest off South Africa
    • A year following one octopus
    • A shark hunting her in the shallows

    Good for you if

    • you like cold water, kelp and the life hidden in it.
    • you like seeing how clever an animal can be up close.
    • you can be moved to tears by a bond with an octopus.

    Bad for you if

    • a man's voice-over about his feelings for an animal makes you roll your eyes.
    • you need a story that moves. This is slow dives, day after day.

    About: connection · healing · the life cycle

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  6. Amid the glittering casinos of Macau, a gambler running from his past—and his debts—becomes fascinated by an enigmatic woman at the baccarat table.

    The sides of Ballad of a Small Player

    • A British gambler hiding out in Macau
    • Baccarat tables and growing debts
    • A mysterious woman at the casino

    Good for you if

    • you like the neon of Macau casinos and its waterfront at night.
    • you want Colin Farrell as a man losing himself at the tables.
    • you like a gambling story that drifts toward something dreamlike.

    Bad for you if

    • you need a plot that moves, not a man drifting from casino to casino.
    • you want a film where every question gets a clear answer.

    About: addiction · guilt · chance · escape

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  7. Acclaimed filmmaker Werner Herzog travels to Antarctica, where he finds a desolate, beautiful landscape, largely untouched by human hands, and a group of truly unique people who risk their lives to study it. Centered at McMurdo Station, the United States' largest Antarctic research center, Herzog explores the minds of the scientists willing to abandon civilization and endure volatile conditions to learn more about the continent's wildlife and awe-inspiring natural wonders.

    The sides of Encounters at the End of the World

    • A research station in Antarctica
    • Divers under the ice
    • A penguin heading inland alone

    Good for you if

    • you like ice caves, volcanoes and seals under the sea ice.
    • you like silent dives beneath the Antarctic ice.
    • you like Werner Herzog's odd questions to odd people.

    Bad for you if

    • you need momentum, and this one wanders at Herzog's pace.
    • you'd rather not hear musings on the end of humanity.

    About: nature · solitude · science · the end of the world

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  8. Severance 2022

    Series

    Mark leads a team of office workers whose memories have been surgically divided between their work and personal lives. When a mysterious colleague appears outside of work, it begins a journey to discover the truth about their jobs.

    The sides of Severance

    • Office workers with their memories split in two
    • The endless white corridors of Lumon Industries
    • A team sorting numbers they don't understand

    Good for you if

    • you like piecing together what Lumon really does.
    • you like goats in an office basement and a waffle party as a reward.
    • you like Mark slowly realising what his other self lives through.

    Bad for you if

    • you need things to move fast from the first episode.
    • you want answers at the end of every season.

    About: work · identity · grief · control

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  9. A hilarious introduction, using as examples some of the best films ever made, to some of Slovenian philosopher and psychoanalyst Slavoj Žižek's most exciting ideas on personal subjectivity, fantasy and reality, desire and sexuality.

    The sides of The Pervert's Guide to Cinema

    • Slavoj Žižek talking through famous films
    • Rebuilt sets from Hitchcock and Lynch films
    • Psychoanalysis applied to desire and fantasy

    Good for you if

    • you like an excited philosopher talking nonstop about movies.
    • you like strange readings of Psycho, The Birds and Blue Velvet.
    • you love classic Hollywood and want to see it with new eyes.

    Bad for you if

    • two and a half hours of lecture is too much for you.
    • you need a story with people to follow, not one man talking over film clips.

    About: desire · fantasy · cinema

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  10. Looking for Richard 1996

    Documentary

    Al Pacino's deeply-felt rumination on Shakespeare's significance and relevance to the modern world through interviews and an in-depth analysis of "Richard III."

    The sides of Looking for Richard

    • Al Pacino rehearsing Richard III
    • Actors and scholars on Shakespeare
    • New Yorkers asked about Shakespeare in the street

    Good for you if

    • you like Al Pacino playing Richard with relish.
    • you love Shakespeare's language spoken out loud.
    • you like the story of a king who kills his way to the throne.

    Bad for you if

    • you need momentum, not long talks about a play.
    • you want the battles, not the rehearsals.

    About: shakespeare · acting · ambition

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  11. This Is Not a Film 2011

    Documentary

    Renowned Iranian director Jafar Panahi received a 6-year prison sentence and a 20-year ban from filmmaking and conducting interviews with foreign press due to his open support for the opposition party in Iran's 2009 election. In this film, which was shot secretly by Panahi's close friend Mojtaba Mirtahmasb and smuggled into France on a USB stick concealed inside a cake for a last-minute submission to Cannes, Panahi documents his daily life under house arrest as he awaits a decision on his appeal.

    The sides of This Is Not a Film

    • A director banned from making films
    • An apartment in Tehran under house arrest
    • A film smuggled out inside a cake

    Good for you if

    • you want to see a ban on filmmaking from the inside.
    • you care about Jafar Panahi defying a state that silenced him.
    • you like a quiet day at home, phone calls and a pet iguana.

    Bad for you if

    • you won't read subtitles in Persian.
    • you need clear answers, and this film leaves you unsure what is staged and how Panahi's appeal ends.

    About: censorship · freedom · creation

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  12. Moon 2009

    Película

    La película cuenta la historia de Sam Bell, un astronauta que se encuentra cerca de finalizar su contrato con Lunar, empresa para la que ha trabajado durante tres años viviendo en Selene, una base lunar desde la que ha estado extrayendo gas de la mina Helium 3, a causa de la terrible crisis energética que está pasando la Tierra. Dos semanas antes de su regreso a casa con su mujer y su hija, Sam comienza a tener extrañas visiones y a sentirse extraño, pero no será hasta la llegada de sus sustituto cuando Sam vea sus sospechas en cuanto a los verdaderos propósitos de Lunar hechos realidad, pues algo más que su contrato va a expirar en breve.

    Las caras de Moon

    • Un hombre solo en una base lunar
    • Un robot asistente llamado GERTY
    • Un secreto sobre su contrato

    Buena para ti si

    • te gusta ver a Sam Rockwell sosteniendo una película casi solo.
    • te gustan el silencio, el aislamiento y un ritmo pausado.
    • te gusta una película tranquila que lo cambia todo tras un solo accidente.

    Mala para ti si

    • quieres espacio con persecuciones y explosiones.
    • necesitas esperanza y la soledad te pesa.

    Temas: la identidad · la soledad · la explotación

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  13. Stutz 2022

    Documentary

    In candid conversations with actor Jonah Hill, leading psychiatrist Phil Stutz explores his early life experiences and unique, visual model of therapy.

    The sides of Stutz

    • Jonah Hill filming his own therapist
    • Therapy tools drawn on index cards
    • A psychiatrist living with Parkinson's

    Good for you if

    • you like long, honest conversations about how to live.
    • you like the warmth between Jonah Hill and Phil Stutz.
    • you want to know the man behind the therapist.

    Bad for you if

    • you roll your eyes at self-help and open hearts on camera.
    • you need more than two men talking in a room.

    About: therapy · self-acceptance · mentorship

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  14. Disclosure 2020

    Documentary

    An investigation of how Hollywood's fabled stories have deeply influenced how Americans feel about transgender people, and how transgender people have been taught to feel about themselves.

    The sides of Disclosure

    • Trans actors and writers talking about the screen
    • Decades of film and TV clips
    • How Hollywood shaped the way people see trans lives

    Good for you if

    • you want trans people telling their own story of growing up with Hollywood.
    • you like tracing a century of film and TV images.
    • you like being moved by people recalling what the screen did to them.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't sit through cruel jokes and painful scenes being replayed.
    • you'd rather keep your distance from heartfelt, personal testimony.

    About: representation · identity · media

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  15. Performance artist Marina Abramovic prepares for a major retrospective of her work at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

    The sides of Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present

    • Marina Abramović before her MoMA retrospective
    • An artist sitting silent for hours, facing strangers
    • A reunion with her former partner Ulay

    Good for you if

    • you want to see how a famous artist prepares a show.
    • you like watching one woman hold a room in total silence.
    • you're drawn to strong, uncompromising people.

    Bad for you if

    • you need momentum and can't sit through long silences.
    • you have no patience for strange art, like walking the Great Wall to break up or staring at strangers for hours.

    About: art · endurance · presence · love

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  16. Amanda is a divorced woman who makes a living as a photographer. During the Fall of the year Amanda begins to see the world in new and different ways when she begins to question her role in life, her relationships with her career and men and what it all means. As the layers to her everyday experiences fall away insertions in the story with scientists, and philosophers and religious leaders impart information directly to an off-screen interviewer about academic issues, and Amanda begins to understand the basis to the quantum world beneath. During her epiphany as she considers the Great Questions raised by the host of inserted thinkers, she slowly comprehends the various inspirations and begins to see the world in a new way.

    The sides of What the #$*! Do We (K)now!?

    • A divorced photographer questioning her life
    • Interviews about quantum physics and the mind
    • Animated cells at a wedding party

    Good for you if

    • you like big questions about consciousness and reality.
    • you enjoy a mix of fiction, interviews and odd animated sequences.

    Bad for you if

    • you need the science to hold up to scrutiny.
    • you roll your eyes at talk of creating your own reality.

    About: consciousness · self-help · spirituality

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  17. Hacia rutas salvajes 2007

    Película

    A principios de los años noventa, el joven e idealista Christopher McCandless adopta el nombre de Alexander Supertramp, deja sus posesiones y sus ahorros a la beneficencia y abandona el mundo civilizado con rumbo a la salvaje Alaska para entrar en contacto con la Naturaleza y descubrir el verdadero sentido de la vida. Adaptación del best-seller de Jon Krakauer, basado en las notas del diario de McCandless.

    Las caras de Hacia rutas salvajes

    • Un graduado que lo regala todo
    • Un viaje por carretera por Estados Unidos
    • Un autobús abandonado en Alaska

    Buena para ti si

    • te gustan los grandes paisajes y la vida salvaje.
    • te gusta un joven en busca de sentido.
    • te gusta la historia real de un graduado que regaló sus ahorros y viajó a dedo hasta Alaska.

    Mala para ti si

    • dos horas y media es demasiado para tu noche.
    • no soportas ver sufrir a unos padres. Su familia espera dos años sin noticias suyas.

    Temas: la libertad · la familia · la naturaleza

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  18. A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man being mistreated by his "owner" as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous façade, there is revealed a person of great intelligence and sensitivity.

    The sides of The Elephant Man

    • A disfigured man shown as a sideshow freak
    • A surgeon played by Anthony Hopkins
    • Victorian London in black and white

    Good for you if

    • you like being moved by John Merrick's gentleness.
    • you like John Hurt under heavy makeup, acting with his voice and eyes.
    • you love David Lynch's black and white images.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't watch a man mocked and beaten for how he looks.
    • you need an ending that doesn't break your heart.

    About: dignity · cruelty · kindness

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  19. Werner Herzog's exploration of the Internet and the connected world.

    The sides of Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World

    • Werner Herzog asking what the internet is doing to us
    • The first message sent between two computers
    • Robots, hackers and dreams of Mars

    Good for you if

    • you like hearing the people who built the internet tell how it began.
    • you like Herzog asking whether the internet dreams of itself.
    • you like odd detours to people who flee all radio waves.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't face a family harassed online after their daughter's death.
    • you need momentum more than ten loose chapters of musing.

    About: technology · the future · human connection

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  20. A funny, intimate and heartbreaking portrait of one of the world’s most beloved and inventive comedians, Robin Williams, told largely through his own words. Celebrates what he brought to comedy and to the culture at large, from the wild days of late-1970s L.A. to his death in 2014.

    The sides of Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind

    • Robin Williams in his own words
    • Stand-up clips from the late 1970s
    • Friends and family remembering him

    Good for you if

    • you want to laugh again at Robin Williams improvising at full speed.
    • you like a portrait that makes you laugh and cry in the same scene.
    • you want to hear the man behind Mork and Mrs. Doubtfire talk about himself.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't face depression and a death by suicide on screen.
    • you roll your eyes at loving tributes from famous friends.

    About: comedy · mental health · fame

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