Movies
Films where the craft is the point, not the packaging.
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1
Stalker
dir. Andrei Tarkovsky · 1979
Three men walk toward a room that grants wishes and spend the film not entering it.
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2
In the Mood for Love
dir. Wong Kar-wai · 2000
Every frame is composed like a painting and every scene withholds the obvious one.
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3
Le Samouraï
dir. Jean-Pierre Melville · 1967
Almost no dialogue. The whole character is in how he straightens his hat.
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4
The Conversation
dir. Francis Ford Coppola · 1974
A film about an engineer who understands his instruments better than his life.
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5
Chungking Express
dir. Wong Kar-wai · 1994
Two loosely joined stories that have no business working together, and do.