The Beatles released A Hard Day’s Night in 1964 at the peak of Beatlemania, where literally nothing they did wasn’t accompanied by a bunch of adoring fans literally screaming their praises. They’re also pretty fab at gonzo, surreal, silly screen comedy. Run Time: 1 hr 27 min | Genre: Musical/Comedy | Director: Richard LesterĬast: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Wilfrid Brambell It’s a rambling, sometimes downright cosmic, trip through the American southwest, with a superb, idiosyncratic script by Carson and the legendary Sam Shepard that is rightly regarded as one of the very best films of the 1980s. After he recovers, he makes an attempt to reconnect with his brother ( Dean Stockwell) and later his son ( Carson) and wife ( Nastassja Kinski). Stanton plays a mute man who walks out of the desert and collapses. Dreamy and ethereal, with a distinctive score by the great Ry Cooder, Paris, Texas casts a singular spell, one that is remarkably hard to shake. Kit Carson) that is remarkably free of treacly sentimentality. Paris, Texas is a celebration of the American southwest made by a distinctly German auteur ( Wim Wenders) it’s a road trip movie that never hits any of the expected notes and a story about a father ( Harry Dean Stanton) attempting to reconnect with his son ( Hunter Carson, son of Karen Black and screenwriter L.M. This Palme d’Or-winning gem is an odd, beautiful mishmash. Run Time: 2 hr 27 min | Genre: Drama/Romance | Director: Wim WendersĬast: Harry Dean Stanton, Nastassja Kinski, Dean Stockwell Much like those obsidian monoliths, 2001 was the movie that, when the rest of cinema touched it, dramatically pushed the medium forward. The boundary-pushing visual effects also remain as impressive as ever, as well, clearing the path for Star Wars, Alien, and Avatar in one go. It’s also the rare movie that has become totally engrained in the cultural consciousness (a local museum did a highly Instagrammable photo ops where you could stand inside the mysterious white room), while still maintaining its enigmatic, thought-provoking essence. ( Ad Astra, we love you, but you owe 2001 a lot.) It helps that there’s still so much to unpack in Stanley Kubrick’s magnum opus – from the meaning of the monoliths to the true nature of the star child (and, to be honest, everything in between). Run Time: 2 hr 29 min | Genre: Sci-Fi/Adventure | Director: Stanley KubrickĬast: Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester, HAL the scary computerĢ001: A Space Odyssey is the kind of groundbreaking classic that we seem to take for granted these days even while scores of modern filmmakers are still regularly cribbing from it.
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