OVERLOOKED, UNDERAPPRECIATED AMERICAN FILMS
If
you're looking for substance over style, attention to detail,
casting that isn't beholding to marketing, films that shed light
on the human condition; and if you can live without special effects
and gratuitous violence for a couple of hours, the films listed
below (from past and present) promise to satisfy.
Henry Fool (Hal Hartley)
Seconds (John Frankenheimer)
It Felt Like Love (Eliza Hittman)
Matewan (John Sayles)
Ghost Dog (Jim Jarmusch)
Fruitvale Station (Ryan Coogler)
The Rider (Chloe Zhao)
The Woodsman (Nicole Kassell
The Swimmer (Frank Perry)
Take This Waltz (Sarah Polley)
Winter’s Bone (Debra Granik)
Where theTruth Lies (Atom Agoyan)
The Slender Thread (Sydney Pollack)
Secret Ceremony (Joseph Losey)
Doubt (John Shanely)
The Beautiful Boy (Felix Van Groeningen)
Far From Heaven (Todd Haynes)
The Mosquito Coast (Peter Wier)
Bagdad Cafe (Percy Adlon)
Clean and Sober (Glen G. Caron)
Birdy (Alan Parker)
Bound for Glory (Hal Ashby)
Electra Glide in Blue (James Guercio)
You Can Count on Me (Kenneth Lonergan)
Images (Robert Altman)
Skate Kitchen (Crystal Moselle)
Beasts of the Southern Wild (Benh Zeitlin)
Short Cuts (Robert Altman)
The Station Agent (Tom McCarthy)
That's What I Am (Michael Pavone)
House of Games (David Mamet)
Johnny Got His Gun (Dalton Trumbo)
Union Square (Nancy Savoca)
Happiness (Tod Solondz)
The Rain People (Francis Ford Coppola)
Her (Spike Jonze)
The Straight Story (David Lynch)
Midnight Clear (Keith Gordon)
Carnal Knowledge (Mike Nichols)
Lucy and Wendy (Kelly Reichardt)
The Messenger (Oren Moverman)
Half Nelson (Ryan Fleck)
The Big Short (Adam McKay)
A Perfect World (Clint Eastwood)
American
Honey (Andrea Arnold)
Fugitive Pieces (Jeremy Podeswa)
FOREIGN
FILM RECOMMENDATIONS
BRITISH
FILM RECOMMENDATIONS
