El Topo by Jodorovsky: Check. 70’s spanish surrealism, it was pretty surreal alright.

Also, Comedian (2002) with Jerry Seinfeld and Pi (1998) by Aronofsky, check and check. Pi was intense.

My redesign of the original poster, made for a school assignment back in 2005.

This is “Blow-Up” from 1966.

A still of one of the greatest scenes ever, in the movie “The Hudsucker Proxy”, by the Coen brothers.

The Hula Hoop, you know, for kids!

Film project

Following up on my Jarmusch-post, I have similar “projects” with other directors, them being the Coen brothers, Wes Anderson, Stanley Kubrick, David Lynch, Darren Aronofsky, Akira Kurosawa, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Terry Gilliam, Hayao Miyazaki and Quentin Tarantino. And maybe Woody Allen.

So, let’s make more lists!

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Coen brothers

True Grit
A Serious Man
Burn After Reading
No Country for Old Men
The Ladykillers
Intolerable Cruelty
The Man Who Wasn’t There
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
The Big Lebowski
Fargo
The Hudsucker Proxy
Barton Fink
Miller’s Crossing
Raising Arizona
Blood Simple

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Wes Anderson

The Fantastic Mr. Fox
The Darjeeling Limited
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
The Royal Tenenbaums
Rushmore
Bottle Rocket

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Stanley Kubrick

Eyes Wide Shut
Full Metal Jacket
The Shining
Barry Lyndon
A Clockwork Orange
2001: A Spaec Odyssey
Dr. Strangelove
Lolita
Spartacus
Paths of Glory
The Killing
Killer’s Kiss
Fear and Desire

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David Lynch

Inland Empire
Rabbits
Mulholland Dr.
The Straight Story
Lost Highway
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
Twin Peaks (TV series)
Wild at Heart
Blue Velvet
Dune
The Elephant Man
Eraserhead
 + a lot of short films

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Darren Aronofsky

Machine Man (2012)
The Wolverine (2011)
Black Swan
The Wrestler
The Fountain
Requiem for a Dream
Pi

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Akira Kurosawa

Dreams (Yume)
Ran
The Shadow Warrior (Kagemusha)
Dersu Uzala
Dodesukaden
Red Beard (Akahige)
High and Low (Tengoku to jigoku)
Sanjuro
Yojimbo (Yôjinbô)
The Bad Sleep Well (Warui yatsu hodo yoku nemuru)
The Hidden Fortress (Kakushi-toride no san-akunin)
Throne of Blood (Kumonosu-jô)
Seven Samurai (Shichinin no samurai)
Ikiru
Rashomon

He has made a lot of other movies too, but these are the main ones. 

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Jean-Pierre Jeunet

Micmacs à tire-larigot
Un long dimanche de fiançailles (A Very Long Engagement)
Le fabuleux destin d’Amélie Poulain (Amelie of Montmartre)
Alien: Resurrection
La cité des enfants perdus (The City of Lost Children)
Delicatessen

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Terry Gilliam

The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (2011)
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Tideland
The Brothers Grimm
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Twelve Monkeys
The Fisher King
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Brazil
Time Bandits
Jabberwocky
Monty Python and the Holy Grail

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Hayao Miyazaki

Ponyo
Howl’s Moving Castle
Spirited Away
Princess Mononoke
Porco Rosso
Kiki’s Delivery Service
My Neighbor Totoro
Castle in the Sky
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
Arsene Lupin and the Castle of Cagliostro

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Quentin Tarantino

Kill Bill: Vol. 3 (2014..)
Inglourious Basterds
Death Proof
Kill Bill: Vol. 2 
Kill Bill: Vol. 1 
Jackie Brown
Pulp Fiction
Reservoir Dogs

Jim Jarmusch, maker of great movies.

I am in the process of finding and viewing all his movies. I own 4 on DVD, and download the rest until my economy picks up again.

I like the laidback style, always good soundtracks, and great actors that he uses in several movies, like Roberto Benigni, Tom Waits and Bill Murray.

Current “to-do” list:

• Permanent Vacation
• Stranger Than Paradise
• Down By Law
• Mystery Train
• Red Hot and Blue
• Night on Earth
• Dead Man
• Year of the Horse
• Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai
• Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet
• Coffee and Cigarettes
• Broken Flowers
• The Limits of Control

I watched Ghost World again, great movie! Then yesterday I got hold of the original graphic novel. It was also really good, slightly different storyline, but that is to be expected. I love the drawing style.

In one nostalgic scene Enid finds an old record from when she was a little girl. Did a search on Spotify and found the song, listening to it as I read the novel. I really love when things kinda melt together like that!

The song: Patience & Prudence – A Smile and a Ribbon

Great movie, “Låt den rätte komma inn”, or “Let the right one in”.