25 Great Psychological Thrillers That Are Worth Your Time. Described as a story which emphasizes the psychology of its characters and their unstable emotional states, the following films are benchmarks for what a successful psychological thriller should aspire to be.
Instead of displaying legions of gore and violence, their main objective is to play with your mind. To leave it up to you to construct the tension of what you have just witnessed. As the great perplexer David Lynch once said: “when you are spoon-fed a film, more people instantly know what it is. I love things that leave room to dream and are open to various interpretations. It’s a beautiful thing.” 25. Das Experiment is a 2001 German thriller from director Oliver Hirschbiegel, starring Moritz Bleibtreu as Tarek Fahd, or later only to be known as Prisoner 77. Tarek reads a newspaper advert regarding a social experiment in a simulated prison. Monitored and observed by scientists, the trial takes a plummet into the dark depths of human behaviour. 24. 23. 22. 21. 20. 19. 18.
Stanley Kubrick's List of Top 10 Films (The First and Only List He Ever Created) Image by Moody Man, via Flickr Commons When, over the past weekend, I noticed the words "Stanley Kubrick" had risen into Twitter's trending-topics list, I got excited.
I figured someone had discovered, in the back of a long-neglected studio vault, the last extant print of a Kubrick masterpiece we'd somehow all forgotten. No suck luck, of course; Kubrick scholars, given how much they still talk about even the auteur's never-realized projects like Napoleon, surely wouldn't let an entire movie slip into obscurity. The burst of tweets actually came in honor of Kubrick's 85th birthday, and hey, any chance to celebrate a director whose filmography includes the likes of Dr.
Strangelove, The Shining, and 2001: A Space Odyssey, I'll seize. "The first and only (as far as we know) Top 10 list Kubrick submitted to anyone was in 1963 to a fledgling American magazine named Cinema (which had been founded the previous year and ceased publication in 1976)," writes the BFI's Nick Wrigley. 1. Martin Scorsese Reveals His 12 Favorite Movies (and Writes a New Essay on Film Preservation) Cinema as we’ve almost always known it — “Edison, the Lumière brothers, Méliès, Porter, all the way through Griffith and on to Kubrick” — has “really almost gone.”
So writes Martin Scorsese in his recent essay for the New York Review of Books, “The Persisting Vision: Reading the Language of Cinema.” He argues that traditional film forms have “been overwhelmed by moving images coming at us all the time and absolutely everywhere, even faster than the visions coming at the astronaut” in Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. “We have no choice but to treat all these moving images coming at us as a language. We need to be able to understand what we’re seeing and find the tools to sort it all out.”
Quentin Tarantino Lists the 12 Greatest Films of All Time: From Taxi Driver to The Bad News Bears. Creative Commons image via Wikimedia Commons Any list of the most respected American filmmakers of the past half-century would have to include Stanley Kubrick, Woody Allen, and Martin Scorsese.
The latter two have kept creating, and prolifically, but that doesn't delay those heated debates about who will most proudly carry the auteur's tradition into the next few decades. Much smart money bets on Quentin Tarantino, who, at age 50, has already racked up over twenty years (and if you count My Best Friend's Birthday, over 25) of demonstrating his distinctive cinematic sensibility. That sensibility has made him a director of renown, but it comes in large part from his equally formidable stature as a film fan: his beginnings as a highly curatorial video-store clerk, his ownership of the revival theater the New Beverly Cinema (which I myself frequent), his cinephile's-dream home theater and large collection of prints.
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