I always have a IMDb tab open when watching CineFix's lists. I just keep adding films to my watchlist as the video goes on. Currently have about 250 films that I still need to see and I couldn't be happier about it.
All the films listed in this video: Funny Games 1997 2007 Nosferatu 1922 1979 Logan 2017 Swiss Army Man 2016 It Follows 2014 Sunset Boulevard 1950 Dog Star man 1964 City of God 2002 Me and Earl and the Dying Girl 2015 Holy Motors 2012 Cronos 1993 The Fall 2006 The Five Obstructions 2003 The imagniarium of Dr. Parnassus 2009 Enter the void 2009 Songs from the second floor 2000 Breathless 1960 Last Year at Marienbad 1961 Persona 1966 A Ghost Story 2017 The Holy mountain 1973 The Discreet Charm of the Borgeoisie 1972 Rubber 2010 Under the Skin 2013 Funky Forest: The First Contact 2005 weird Synecdoche, New York 2008 A Pigeon sat on a Branch reflecting on Existence 2014 Possessession 1981 Dogville 2003 Gerry 2002 Mr. Nobody 2009 The Lobster 2015 Playtime 1967 Love 2015 Irreversible 2002 The Fountain 2006 Big Eyes 2014 What Dreams May Come 1998 Ex Machina 2015 Brazil 1984 Birdman 2014 Interstellar 2014 Se7en 1995 Moulin Rouge 2001 Loving Vincent 2017 Pulp Fiction 1994 Stranger than Fiction 2006 Beetlejuice 1988 Get Out 2017 Blow Up 1966 The Bicycle Thief 1948 Metropolis 1927 Black Swan 2010 500 Days of Summer 2009 Whiplash 2014 eXistenZ 1999 A Field in England 2013 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 2004 Being John Malkovich 1999 The Tree of Life 2011 The Act of Killing 2010 Paprika 2006 The Mirror 1975 8½ 1963 The Diving Bell and the Butterfly 2007 Waking Life 2001 The Godfather Part II 1974 The Silence of the Lambs 1991 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers 2002 Prometheus 2012 Snow White and the Seven Dwarves 1937 Come Along, Do! 1898 As seen through a Telescope 1900 The Jazz Singer 1927 Battleship Potemkin 1925 Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope 1977 Toy Story 1995 Gravity 2013 Roundhay Garden Scene 1888 Citizen Kane 1941 The Maltese Falcon 1941 Avatar 2009 Pan's Laybrinth 2006 Mulholland Drive 2001 The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 2015 The Truman Show 1998 The Matrix 1999 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban 2004 Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom Generation 1984 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 2003 Back to the Future 1985 Memento 2000 Russian Ark 2002 There will be blood 2007 Gummo 1997 A clockwork Orange 1971 Slumdog Millionaire 2008 A Colour Box 1935 La Jetée 1962 Entr'Acte 1924 Anemic Cinema 1926 Ballet Mécanique 1925 The Man with the Movie Camera 1929 Un chien Andalou 1929 Meshes of the Afternoon 1943 The Flicker 1966 Blue 1993 Back and Forth 1969 Koyaanisqatsi 1982 Baraka 1992 The Life and Death of 9413 a Hollywood Extra 1928 Berlin: Symphony of a Metropolis 1927 Surface Tension1 1968 Chelsea Girl 1966 Mothlight 1963 Stellar 1993 Water For Maya 2000 MIA: 2001: A Space Odyssey, 1968 References left on the cutting room floor: Melancholia, 2011 Eraserhead, 1977
Thanks to people who pointed out my typos. I corrected them, even though I thought they were hilarious. i was really tempted to leave them the way they were. Someone really should make the film "The Silence of the Lamps."
This is hilarious because (to take your joke seriously) the movie would be over before you'd even stood up from your seat, so you'd literally have to become bored within one second of watching. Which is sadly the exact attention span we as a society have developed.
@@tubeuser2222 This is funny because you are explaining the joke within the sentence "Roundhay Garden Scene was so boring I walked out of the cinema" as a way to condemn our society on how our attention span has devolved to such low spans of time.
@@dirtthrower1998 as a kid i used to plan snack and bathroom breaks to sync with the 20 mins of commercials they shoved down our throats every hour. Now i get pissed when youtube makes me sit thru a 15 second ad i cant skip. And a majority of ads are designed to fit a 5 second window. I hate ads as much as the next guy but our attention span in the mainstream is more rapid fire than ever.
FRIENDLY REMINDER: If you say "that film is bad and pretentious", and you have not actually SEEN the film in question, then YOU are the one being pretentious! Don't make this mistake! Also, remember that nothing is original, so making a list like this is difficult, and the picks will be entirely subjective (like many lists like this one are anyway).
What do you mean"nothing is original " ? There is alot of movies that's original with a story of its own. For example last year's Den of theives has original Shootout scenes,tense story build up,Character development. Its nothing like other movies.
"FRIENDLY REMINDER: If you say "that film is bad and pretentious", and you have not actually SEEN the film in question, then YOU are the one being pretentious!" False, and an example of not knowing what the word pretentious means, obviously. Pretentious: attempting to impress by affecting greater importance, talent, culture, etc., than is actually possessed. I don't see film X. Film X is said to be brilliant because patterns were made by scratching during processing. Saying I'm being pretentious is wrong. It is simply a fact that that claim is false. Saying film X is pretentious is true: that's the definition of the word pretentious.
RUclips comments : We want originality dammit! Cinefix : Here you go then, originality RUclips comments : Nooo. We meant originality we approve of, that conforms to our preconceptions.
VonBlade It’s hilarious how a fair majority people who are vocal about how they love a medium tend to sing the praises of a set catalogue of works. Lots of people like to brag about listening to classical music, but all they’ve really done is listened to part of the 5th Symphony and think that it makes them an expert.
yay you're right! love that comment...ah cinema is one of the greatest art forms there is (saying this as a painter), but we could push it further. ah how I love good movies, fantastic.
Mubi is pretty good, is kind of like FilmStruck when that was a thing. I'd say 70% of films in theater are commercialized and uninspired, those are the money makers and keep theaters open. CineFix does a pretty decent job covering a lot of great films. If you get the chance to go to a film festival near you, that's another place to see inspiring non-mainstream films :)
@Barbara Mulvaney good source for this is to look up legit filmmaker channels like Indie Mogul, Film Riot, Cinema Sins, etc, and see which films they suggest. Those are usually how I'm directed to the right ones to watch. Since you can't possibly watch everything, you need to find the 5% of gold mixed into the 95% of mediocrity. I work in film so it's easier when you're surrounded by it for sure, and my parents like really cheesy films so I ignore most of their suggestions haha. Hope u can find good sources!
@Long Change i wrote that years ago and was trying to justify putting dsm on this list while also trying to justify the haters. Dog star man is an interesting work of art, but not particularly watchable as a film, since it's basically just flashy imagery for 70 minutes
two kinds of people in the comment section 1. Amazed to see so many new and unheard movies. They are the amazing ones 2. People who are hurt to see so many movies exist out of their knowledge and they are claiming these lists to be absurd, crazy or pretentious, even mocking the way they always list movies no one ever heard of. And this is the annoying one
you forgot about the 3rd type. those who feel others are wrong for their own opinions. clearly there is no way to define original in film. hell the narrator said it himself. if that were the case, then the first time anyone did anything would be the most original of its kind. the problem is the definition of original. in this case anyway.
True. I believe an original film is something that's groundbreaking and inspires a trend. Batman (1989) might not be a true adaption of Batman franchise, but it presented the superhero in an intriguing way that played a crucial role in the development of Batman: the animated series. If I have to pick the most original movie of all time, it would be Citizen Kane. You can see the movie has inspired even some of the modern directors like Martin Scorsese and Quentin Tarantino. (this is coming from a guy who watches movie for fun, so i m probably wrong, but that'[s my opinion)
Or people who simply have differing opinions as to what should be on the list. Y'know, because people are allowed to have those. RUclips comments are for discussions, after all.
How about a 4th category - people who fail to see the point of the comment. I can explain it to you, but then it is going to defeat the whole purpose of making it.
yeah but wouldn't it be great if people would be polite and shit? we forget that this internet is reality now, and we should be trying to act stable more or less.
It's true to its name and goal. These are some of the most original films of all time. Not necessarily enjoyable to watch (they even admit it in the video!), but that isn't the point of the list.
I absolutely loved seeing two oft-neglected cinema giants, Satoshi Kon (Paprika) and Stan Brakhage get some due attention. However, I still am waiting for the day you finally namedrop Don Hertzfeldt and his wonderful animated short films, from the crude absurdity of Rejected to the ambitious Meaning of Life, his contemplative and experimental Bill trilogy (It's Such a Beautiful Day) and most recently, World of Tomorrow which contains more novel high concept science fiction ideas in 20 minutes than the past few years of Hollywood blockbusters put together.
They need a series of documentary lists. Unfortunately, the avalanche of great docs that people never get to see (I average three or four per year out of hundreds barely released) makes it hard to make such lists meaningful. Maybe a list of most ENDURING documentaries would have to suffice. Or the most impactful docs - those that actually altered the scheme of the subject matter they tackled. Those would narrow things down.
I didn't care about the ranking itself, all these references are cinematographically satisfying. In fact, I didn't know that I was subscribed to this channel.
Listening to cinefix feels like reading an essay made by a student who just discovered how to use the thesaurus function on Word and started using it enthusiastically on every word in the essay. I love it.
A channel that clearly agonizes over their lists. Not just an attempt to create content "good enough to get views" but actually trying to make accurate lists that they are passionate about. Bravo!
I did some looking into Stan Brakhage, who directed Dog Star Man. I wasn't able to find anything about psychedelic use, and it wasn't that popular yet by 1964, so maybe he hadn't tried it. Brakhage was apparently a film studies teacher. Matt Stone and Trey Parker of South Park fame were his students!
Ian Krasnow I went to CU Boulder where Brakhage taught. So they take every opportunity they can to shove Brackage in your face. He was also an actor in Matt Stone and Trey Parker’s first film, Cannibal: The Musical. Known as Alfred Packer: The Musical in Boulder.
It's super weird, but once you actually understand the main guy's an actor and the camera is our own, it starts making sense (still super weird though XD) also, not exactly PG 13
You've approached this topic with so much thoughtfulness and presented such compelling arguments that I am extremely excited to watch all of these films. I'm disappointed that most people will shrug this video recommendations off as another listicle, because this "list" was really a meta-analytical video essay in five parts. Fantastic.
Perhaps some people don't expect a thesis on the title digging into every film ever made on the topic with narration of its entire premise. Occasionally less is more. Once a beautiful thing is described and dissected it often time looses something, something personal, bringing the subconscious into the conscious, taking that connection into the masses. An unknown lyric ironically at times sounds better than knowing the word, kinda thing.
Man I'm here early for this one. What can I say at a time like this: I'd like to thank my mom, my white collar job, my screen protectors, my boss being unable to see my screen.... and of course, God, for starting CineFix.
"Perfect Blue"? Constantly shifting reality/gas-lighting to the point where the protagonist sees herself as a non-corporeal spirit. This spirit form seems to come to life at several points, having its own will. Not only is the protagonist suffering from a breakdown of reality, so is her attacker! The stalker takes on the victims persona from time to time... Even at the end, after the stalker is in Hospital, there are hints that our hero is not really living in our world.
I would have included My Dinner with Andre on this list. It's just two guys having a conversation over dinner, and that's it. You can read a lot into it, but it is unique in its simplicity.
waking life Holy mountain Eraserhead It's such a beautiful day Decline of western civilization (idk if documentaries count but there's none offer like it)
Well, it has good acting, original storyline, believable characters and emotions. Music is beautiful too. But I see your point, I guess it's the kind of movie you either absolutly love, or just don't care about.
RaySquirrel He influenced a generation of these film students, that would use stock footage, altered and cut, in odd ways, then mix it with images of naked women, dancing with strobes and other shapes and colors projected to a screen behind psychedelic bands. The original Pink Floyd lineup would have long jam sessions at discotheques in the last third of the 60s.
Just finished gerry and had to come back to this video to see the few seconds of its mention. Slowly making my way through my cinefix recommended list but just wanted to say thank you guys for showing me all that cinema has to offer you've given me so much and I am forever grateful to how found this channel.
The first film of Roundhay was shot in my hometown of Leeds. The same guy shot this on Leeds Bridge. He invented film, then he got on a train and disappeared. Seriously no one knows what happened to him but he invented the medium of film and then was apparently murdered or abducted by aliens or who knows what. I'm not sure why this isn't more widely known. Listed as 'vanished' en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Le_Prince Leeds Bridge ruclips.net/video/wTlXaqG4VyE/видео.html
Cinemaspire, I thought it was going to be an example of why "original" shouldn't just refer to new styles of filming, kind of like an argument to absurdity, but then they actually included it as the no. 5 spot. I agree that it shouldn't have been in the list.
gnarth d'arkanen I think original should refer to an idea. The idea of a motion picture was around before Roundhay Garden Scene and it was just a new medium. Plus, it shouldn't be considered a film. If I take a 3 second video it's not considered a movie.
People should give a try to Stan Brakhage, I loved "window water baby moving". That guy is something else. Also, his children have said that he was obsessed with his films, they loved to participate in them because it was the few moments when he spent time with them. Not to mention he manipulated the film very manually, imagine! with paints and weird chemicals, it amazes me how long he lived considering this.
Haven't seen the whole video yet, but could you list all the movies showcased during the video inside the description box? It'd help a lot in my quest to become a true cinephile!
skylinefilms123, Only the 5 movies picked for positions are included in the description. They're asking for ALL the movies shown in the video, which are not in the description. Please actually read the comment completely before replying.
I really appreciate this list. Now I've got so many more movies on my to-watch list, so thanks! You've even got my favourite movie on here: Enter the Void!
Very pleased with this list--especially to see "Enter the Void" and "Dog Star Man" featured so prominently, as these are pure cinematic creations, utterly unique in their execution. Leos Carax is another French filmmaker criminally underrated and overlooked. I think that if one Hollywood film could make the cut it would be "Wizard of Oz" which I can't imagine seeing when it first came out. 2001: Space Odyssey probably deserved an honorable mention as did Sans Soleil by Chris Marker which really blew my mind. As did Road Warrior which I saw at a sneak preview weeks before it finally got a wide release. In truth this list could have 20 or 30 worthy candidates.
I'm stunned that the films of Peter Greenaway are never mentioned in any of these "Top 5' or 'Top 10" lists. He is utterly original. He has created a new film language using radical montage, framing and editing techniques, often with multiple layers at once that wonderfully destabilise both narrative and time. His films are incredibly beautiful, shocking and immersive but you are never passive, you always know that you are watching a film, a construct.
You are totally right (Draughtman, Baby of Macon, Pillow Book, Goltzius…), everything he has made apart from 8 and a half women, which was a bit of a turd, really.
A few more original gems: Haxan-It's a documentary about witchcraft from 1929, which was already kind of unusual. But it has these insane recreations in it were it tries to capture the hysteria of the medieval religious beliefs and has a kind of self-aware, humorous quality to it at how absurd and ridiculous the shit that medieval folks believed in. Underground-Insane epic that tries to tell the story of the downfall of Yugoslavia through an surreal, comedic crime saga filled with Slavic polka, slapstick fight scenes and tons of sex and violence. I recommend seeing it very, very high.
I enjoy comments like yours, intended as banal insults that the targets would notice either less than a flea's shouting into an elephant's ear or as a grand complement.
Funny Games The bicycle thief brazil Swiss army man It follows 2014 Sunset Boulevard (1950) Dog starman Me and Earl an the dying girl 2015 Holy Motors (2012) Cronos (1993) The fall 2006 The five obstructions (2003) Metropolis 1927 Ex Machina The imaginarium of Doctor Pamassus (2009) Enter the void (20009) Songs from the second floor (2000) Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind (2004) come along, Do! 1898 As seen thrugh a telescope 1900 the jazz singer 1927 El acorzado de potemkin 1925 breathless 1960 gravity Citizen Kane 1941 The maltese Falcon 1941 Being John Malkovich Last year at Marienbad 1961 Person 1966 A ghost story 2017 The holy mountain 1973 Muholland Drive 2001 The descreet charm of the burgeoise 1972 Rubber 2010 Under the skin Funky forest: the first cntact 2005 Synecdoche, New York 2008 A pigein sat on a branch reflecting on existence 2014 Possession 1981 Dogville 2003 Gerry 2002 Playtime Birdman 2014 Russian Ark 2002 Love (Jaspar Noe) There will be blood 2007 Big eyes 2014 se7en Loving vincent 2017 Get Out 2017 Blew up 1966 whiplash 2014 eXstenZ 1999 A field in England 2013 The act of killing The mirror 1975 8 1/2 (Fellini) The diving bell and the butterfly 2007 EXPERIMENTAL A colour box 1935 La jetée 1962 Gummo 1997 Entr'Acte 1924 Anemic cinema 1926 Ballet mecaniqueThe man with a movie camera 1929 Mashes of the afternoon 1943 Blue 1993 the flicker Koyaannisqatsi 1982 Baraka 1992 Back and forth 1969 The life and death of 9413 a Hollywood extra 1928 Berlin: Symphony of a Metropolis 197 Surfae tension 1968 Chelsea girl 1966 Dog star man 1964
Damn, so much hate in the comments. If you don't like this list, that's ok. There are no wrong answers. Compile your own list and cherish it because it is yours and nobody elses. If you read this I wish you have a wonderful day.
I've compiled a list of every film every chosen for a Cinefix movie list: boxd.it/1coZ2 More detailed version here: letterboxd.com/darrencb/list/every-movie-included-in-a-cinefix-movie-list/detail/
Guile21 - I'm not bothered about likes, I made this list only for me and anyone else who finds it useful. If most people don't find it useful, that's cool.
I'm soooo happy you've made this and stayed true to analyzing cinema rather than conforming to the most recent/popular stuff people seem to want. Definitely happy to see familiar films here, and thank you for featuring Gaspar Noe, a true visionary. I'm lucky to have seen 70% of the listed films and looking forward to viewing the rest! Thanks!
I do think "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" deserved mention - the first horror film AND the first cult film, certainly one of the first to eschew reality, (in favor of Expressionism), plus, a twist ending!
It always annoyed me how little attention Lavant’s incredible acting in Holy Motors has gained. It’s also one of the most aesthetically pleasing movies of 2012. Fantastically well-shot.
My God, I'm soo happy, you mentioned Holy Motors, it is one of my favourite films and I barely even know other people who have seen it. Great choice! :D
I think all of the videos that were shown in between the Top 5 are worthy of taking a look at... I've only seen and recognized probably a fourth of them... probably less. I thoroughly enjoyed this video.
I forgot Enter the Void exists, I loved that movie! I wish I could remember a movie after watching it, I've seen so many good ones then I forget it. My pick for an original vampire movie, a genre that has become really cliche, is called Let The Right One In. Very good, I recommend to anyone looking for a refreshing take on monster movies.
There's a wonderful little movie called "Bagdad Cafe" with CCH Pounder and Jack Palance in a completely non-characteristic side roll that I believe is one of the most visually stunning films I've seen yet. It's like each frame could be a poster. It also falls into this category as an original presentation. I think the ending got pretty corny but still didn't destroy it completely. It's one I like to show friends who've never seen or heard of it. It's like showing Dead Man to the Johnny Depp fans who claim to have seen ALL his movies yet never heard of it.
1:50 Actually it was 130 years ago because it was made and recorded in 1888 and it is 2018 so that's 130 years apart. Also, that movie is actually the second movie ever made (and keep in mind that, originally, the word "movie" meant moving film, exactly like how "talkie" meant talking film) and the very first movie ever made was the movie "The Horse In Motion" from 10 years earlier in 1878. The only difference is HOW they were recorded. They were both made on a zoetrope, but what separated Roundhay Garden Scene from The Horse In Motion was that Roundhay Garden Scene was recorded by projecting the drawing through a projector that is much closer to the modern projector that would later be used for the coming century.
This was good. I thought this would be like a watchmojo shit show and number 1 would be Avengers haha. Good for you guys. I might actually watch your channel again -_-
I was thinking that. These people must watch more than the most obvious 100 movies out there like WatchMojo...makes me want to check out more of their videos
Honestly, I don't see the appeal of Dog Star Man. It's original in the fact that it's just a bunch of incomprehensible nonsense. The whole point of film is to make you feel something - like any artform. But Dog Star Man tries to tell its anti-story with rapid uninteresting imagery. This isn't dreamlike or even beautiful - all it serves to do is make the viewer think that they are watching something breaktaking purely because its "original". If something tries to prove its originality by being incomprehensible mush, then doesn't that completely defeat the whole purpose of originality? Anything can be original. It takes effort to make something that the viewers of the film can react emotionally to.
I haven't seen Dog Star Man, but I have seen a number of Brakhage's other films, and Unconscious London Strata is one of my all time favourites. It's about 20 minutes long and consists of flickering colours and light, through which one occasionally catches glimpses of a city. It has no sound. It is beautiful, and it evokes an emotional reaction from me. Much of it reminds me of the effect of car headlights reflected on the surface of rain-slicked roads, something I saw a lot of when I used to spend hours wandering around listening to music while I was in a deeply depressive hole. Much of the imagery reminds me of nothing in particular, but is beautiful in the way that a Klee painting can be. Since there is no sound I like to experiment by adding my own soundtracks, and the film has a different feel when you listen with Bohor by Xenakis, or Drukqs by Aphex Twin, or 6 by Supersilent, or recordings of traffic in a small town, or simply silence. This kind of DIY art is impossible in conventional film, only the avant garde can liberate art from the shackles of artist expression and leave the work truly up the interpretation of the viewer. Perhaps the art does nothing for you, I myself am not particularly fond of "Mothlight" (another Brakhage film), but perhaps a deeply personal relationship can form between the viewer and the film. Consider this please: Why is it that when you watch a conventional film that doesn't resonate with you say that it just wasn't your cup of tea, but when you watch an avant garde film that doesn't resonate with you then it's incomprehensible nonsense?
S Wilson, Ya beat me to it! Even if the movie makes you feel angry, irritable, nervous or nauseated, if you feel that it wasted your time or insulted your intelligence, you still had an emotional reaction. Mission accomplished.
To those feeling content about OP having an opinion about it, art isn't all about eliciting an emotional response. If that were the case, then pornography is the greatest genre of film.
i actually think dog star man is COMPULSIVELY watchable and one of the MOST BEAUTIFUL films of all time, i admit i like high brow experimental weird art but dog star man is UTTERLY BREATHTAKING to me, it was my introduction to truly experimental and out there avant garde cinema and im thankful to it for that, and its still even after all these years one of my ABSOLUTE favorites, if you havent seen it you DEFINITELY NEED TO
Cinefix is that one channel that makes me realize just how few films I've watched
I always have a IMDb tab open when watching CineFix's lists. I just keep adding films to my watchlist as the video goes on. Currently have about 250 films that I still need to see and I couldn't be happier about it.
Honestly. I'm a cinephile, but I feel like I've only seen less than 20% percent of these movies
Ralph Parker its the opposite for me. This channel is good for recap and recalling movies I’ve watched before. I am competing their movie lists though
Tiaan Engelbrecht you’ve got the right idea
Me too!
Please do a video on the best genre defining films. Films that truly capture the ideas and themes of the genre they’re in.
Thomas Grindol I feel like with the Western and Sci-fi lists they'll take genre one by one. I am hoping for an action movie list soon.
Thomas Grindol that would be really difficult for defining genre for each horror, scifi, western, musical, comedy, superhero,crime, etc.
Genre defining for horror: the exorcist
I'd argue Carnival of Souls as the most genre defining for horror. It is often cited as the most influential horror film in history...
Best Documentary Films should also be done..
All the films listed in this video:
Funny Games 1997 2007
Nosferatu 1922 1979
Logan 2017
Swiss Army Man 2016
It Follows 2014
Sunset Boulevard 1950
Dog Star man 1964
City of God 2002
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl 2015
Holy Motors 2012
Cronos 1993
The Fall 2006
The Five Obstructions 2003
The imagniarium of Dr. Parnassus 2009
Enter the void 2009
Songs from the second floor 2000
Breathless 1960
Last Year at Marienbad 1961
Persona 1966
A Ghost Story 2017
The Holy mountain 1973
The Discreet Charm of the Borgeoisie 1972
Rubber 2010
Under the Skin 2013
Funky Forest: The First Contact 2005 weird
Synecdoche, New York 2008
A Pigeon sat on a Branch reflecting on Existence 2014
Possessession 1981
Dogville 2003
Gerry 2002
Mr. Nobody 2009
The Lobster 2015
Playtime 1967
Love 2015
Irreversible 2002
The Fountain 2006
Big Eyes 2014
What Dreams May Come 1998
Ex Machina 2015
Brazil 1984
Birdman 2014
Interstellar 2014
Se7en 1995
Moulin Rouge 2001
Loving Vincent 2017
Pulp Fiction 1994
Stranger than Fiction 2006
Beetlejuice 1988
Get Out 2017
Blow Up 1966
The Bicycle Thief 1948
Metropolis 1927
Black Swan 2010
500 Days of Summer 2009
Whiplash 2014
eXistenZ 1999
A Field in England 2013
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 2004
Being John Malkovich 1999
The Tree of Life 2011
The Act of Killing 2010
Paprika 2006
The Mirror 1975
8½ 1963
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly 2007
Waking Life 2001
The Godfather Part II 1974
The Silence of the Lambs 1991
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers 2002
Prometheus 2012
Snow White and the Seven Dwarves 1937
Come Along, Do! 1898
As seen through a Telescope 1900
The Jazz Singer 1927
Battleship Potemkin 1925
Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope 1977
Toy Story 1995
Gravity 2013
Roundhay Garden Scene 1888
Citizen Kane 1941
The Maltese Falcon 1941
Avatar 2009
Pan's Laybrinth 2006
Mulholland Drive 2001
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 2015
The Truman Show 1998
The Matrix 1999
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban 2004
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom Generation 1984
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 2003
Back to the Future 1985
Memento 2000
Russian Ark 2002
There will be blood 2007
Gummo 1997
A clockwork Orange 1971
Slumdog Millionaire 2008
A Colour Box 1935
La Jetée 1962
Entr'Acte 1924
Anemic Cinema 1926
Ballet Mécanique 1925
The Man with the Movie Camera 1929
Un chien Andalou 1929
Meshes of the Afternoon 1943
The Flicker 1966
Blue 1993
Back and Forth 1969
Koyaanisqatsi 1982
Baraka 1992
The Life and Death of 9413 a Hollywood Extra 1928
Berlin: Symphony of a Metropolis 1927
Surface Tension1 1968
Chelsea Girl 1966
Mothlight 1963
Stellar 1993
Water For Maya 2000
MIA:
2001: A Space Odyssey, 1968
References left on the cutting room floor:
Melancholia, 2011
Eraserhead, 1977
Thanks you
Thank you, u saved me from doing it manually. thanks truly.
You gotta love "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Akbar"
"The silence of the lamps"???
Thanks to people who pointed out my typos. I corrected them, even though I thought they were hilarious. i was really tempted to leave them the way they were.
Someone really should make the film "The Silence of the Lamps."
Roundhay Garden Scene was so boring I walked out of the cinema
This honestly made me laugh. Thank you 👍
This is hilarious because (to take your joke seriously) the movie would be over before you'd even stood up from your seat, so you'd literally have to become bored within one second of watching. Which is sadly the exact attention span we as a society have developed.
@@tubeuser2222 This is funny because you are explaining the joke within the sentence "Roundhay Garden Scene was so boring I walked out of the cinema" as a way to condemn our society on how our attention span has devolved to such low spans of time.
@@dirtthrower1998 as a kid i used to plan snack and bathroom breaks to sync with the 20 mins of commercials they shoved down our throats every hour. Now i get pissed when youtube makes me sit thru a 15 second ad i cant skip. And a majority of ads are designed to fit a 5 second window. I hate ads as much as the next guy but our attention span in the mainstream is more rapid fire than ever.
@@tubeuser2222 This conversation went too long I didn't read it all
Saw Holy Motors after this. Thank you for not spoiling it.
i feel like watchmojos number 1 would be looper or something.
DeepFried Wat3rMel0n To be fair their list is voted by people who give a shit to go to their website.
The Force Awakens
Would be Citizen Kane
Nah, probably Inception.
+1 for this. I'm glad my RUclips reality bubble doesn't suggest this shit any more.
Roundhay Garden Scene is my favourite movie of all time, I did not see the twist at the end coming. I can't wait for the sequel.
Hahaha. You seem like a fun guy 😂😂
Sadly,original cast and crew are not returning.
Wanted too much money, I suppose.
The book was better.
My Watchlist always gets doubled in size after watching one of you lists. Thank you for that!
sock life same bro same
How many of their videos have you seen, approximately?
"The Five Obstructions" sounds as if it was directed by Abed Nadir, it's so meta. Cool cool cool.
cool cool cool
FRIENDLY REMINDER: If you say "that film is bad and pretentious", and you have not actually SEEN the film in question, then YOU are the one being pretentious! Don't make this mistake!
Also, remember that nothing is original, so making a list like this is difficult, and the picks will be entirely subjective (like many lists like this one are anyway).
You forgot to mention the kneejerkiness of kneejerky Emperor's New Clothes analogy makers for the entirety of avant guard films.
i firsthand judged a few as pretentious then read your comment, absolutely right
What do you mean"nothing is original " ? There is alot of movies that's original with a story of its own. For example last year's Den of theives has original Shootout scenes,tense story build up,Character development. Its nothing like other movies.
"FRIENDLY REMINDER: If you say "that film is bad and pretentious", and you have not actually SEEN the film in question, then YOU are the one being pretentious!"
False, and an example of not knowing what the word pretentious means, obviously.
Pretentious: attempting to impress by affecting greater importance, talent, culture, etc., than is actually possessed.
I don't see film X. Film X is said to be brilliant because patterns were made by scratching during processing.
Saying I'm being pretentious is wrong. It is simply a fact that that claim is false.
Saying film X is pretentious is true: that's the definition of the word pretentious.
@@expatphotographer8745 Fine. Then you're a dickhead. Definition should apply now.
RUclips comments : We want originality dammit!
Cinefix : Here you go then, originality
RUclips comments : Nooo. We meant originality we approve of, that conforms to our preconceptions.
Most truthful comment in here.
VonBlade
You're not wrong.
Story of film is in that comment tbh
VonBlade It’s hilarious how a fair majority people who are vocal about how they love a medium tend to sing the praises of a set catalogue of works. Lots of people like to brag about listening to classical music, but all they’ve really done is listened to part of the 5th Symphony and think that it makes them an expert.
I appreciate it when people think something special to me is total dog shit, it just makes it more special.
Louis Nick It seems very fitting that you don't even feel you have to mention who wrote that symphony.
Nothing beats the originality of Avengers, Avengers 2, Avengers vs. Avengees, Avengers: The Avenging, and Avengers (Remastered)
unoriginal joke dumbass
Dono Sudono bruh that just makes it more meta
@@iiSairocksu what does meta mean? Seems like a pointless word like caveat
😂
They're based on comic books, no shit you ass
I think the entertainment culture, especially in America, caused me to forget that films are an art medium. Those last movie clips were mesmerizing
yay you're right! love that comment...ah cinema is one of the greatest art forms there is (saying this as a painter), but we could push it further. ah how I love good movies, fantastic.
stop watching american films that are mainstream enough to get tv adverts? theres tons of amazing american film that slips under radar every year
Mubi is pretty good, is kind of like FilmStruck when that was a thing. I'd say 70% of films in theater are commercialized and uninspired, those are the money makers and keep theaters open. CineFix does a pretty decent job covering a lot of great films. If you get the chance to go to a film festival near you, that's another place to see inspiring non-mainstream films :)
@Barbara Mulvaney good source for this is to look up legit filmmaker channels like Indie Mogul, Film Riot, Cinema Sins, etc, and see which films they suggest. Those are usually how I'm directed to the right ones to watch. Since you can't possibly watch everything, you need to find the 5% of gold mixed into the 95% of mediocrity. I work in film so it's easier when you're surrounded by it for sure, and my parents like really cheesy films so I ignore most of their suggestions haha. Hope u can find good sources!
art is entertainment and viceversa
Dog star man is legitimately brilliant and awe inspiring, despite it being unwatchable
@Long Change i wrote that years ago and was trying to justify putting dsm on this list while also trying to justify the haters. Dog star man is an interesting work of art, but not particularly watchable as a film, since it's basically just flashy imagery for 70 minutes
Enter the Void!!! I thought I died. Thank you so much for putting this where it belongs.
two kinds of people in the comment section
1. Amazed to see so many new and unheard movies. They are the amazing ones
2. People who are hurt to see so many movies exist out of their knowledge and they are claiming these lists to be absurd, crazy or pretentious, even mocking the way they always list movies no one ever heard of.
And this is the annoying one
you forgot about the 3rd type.
those who feel others are wrong for their own opinions.
clearly there is no way to define original in film. hell the narrator said it himself.
if that were the case, then the first time anyone did anything would be the most original of its kind.
the problem is the definition of original. in this case anyway.
True.
I believe an original film is something that's groundbreaking and inspires a trend.
Batman (1989) might not be a true adaption of Batman franchise, but it presented the superhero in an intriguing way that played a crucial role in the development of Batman: the animated series.
If I have to pick the most original movie of all time, it would be Citizen Kane.
You can see the movie has inspired even some of the modern directors like Martin Scorsese and Quentin Tarantino. (this is coming from a guy who watches movie for fun, so i m probably wrong, but that'[s my opinion)
Or people who simply have differing opinions as to what should be on the list.
Y'know, because people are allowed to have those. RUclips comments are for discussions, after all.
How about a 4th category - people who fail to see the point of the comment.
I can explain it to you, but then it is going to defeat the whole purpose of making it.
yeah but wouldn't it be great if people would be polite and shit? we forget that this internet is reality now, and we should be trying to act stable more or less.
This channel achieves that unique feat of making you fall more in love with the art form it discusses. Absolutely love your videos.
Keep it up.
Oh, this is MOST original not BEST original movies.
I was going to say the same!
Seriously, this list sucks
It's true to its name and goal. These are some of the most original films of all time. Not necessarily enjoyable to watch (they even admit it in the video!), but that isn't the point of the list.
If they did a BEST original movies list, you'd probably shit on that too.
I mean yeah, that's what they said in the title
"Forbidden Zone," "El Topo," and "Eraserhead" are as original as it gets. These 3 films should NOT be missed.
I absolutely loved seeing two oft-neglected cinema giants, Satoshi Kon (Paprika) and Stan Brakhage get some due attention. However, I still am waiting for the day you finally namedrop Don Hertzfeldt and his wonderful animated short films, from the crude absurdity of Rejected to the ambitious Meaning of Life, his contemplative and experimental Bill trilogy (It's Such a Beautiful Day) and most recently, World of Tomorrow which contains more novel high concept science fiction ideas in 20 minutes than the past few years of Hollywood blockbusters put together.
It's a genuine relief that you didn't fall back on your usual go tos... 2001, Memento, Citizen Kane, Vertigo, the Room ...that ilk.
Citizen Kane is a powerful movie and fairly original.
The first 4 you mentioned should be on the list instead of this Unknown Drivel! .... Then Add "A Hard Day's Night"
Please do a list of best Documentaries next!
They need a series of documentary lists. Unfortunately, the avalanche of great docs that people never get to see (I average three or four per year out of hundreds barely released) makes it hard to make such lists meaningful. Maybe a list of most ENDURING documentaries would have to suffice. Or the most impactful docs - those that actually altered the scheme of the subject matter they tackled. Those would narrow things down.
No reason to do it. We all know Cinefix will put F for Fake in the 1st place.
Henry Patterson Let me save you some time, just watch The Imposter.
I didn't care about the ranking itself, all these references are cinematographically satisfying.
In fact, I didn't know that I was subscribed to this channel.
☕️hot beverag
Listening to cinefix feels like reading an essay made by a student who just discovered how to use the thesaurus function on Word and started using it enthusiastically on every word in the essay. I love it.
A channel that clearly agonizes over their lists. Not just an attempt to create content "good enough to get views" but actually trying to make accurate lists that they are passionate about. Bravo!
Exactly. None of that clickbait bullshit.
Where the hell is the Emoji Movie?
awesome Boston it's where it belongs...in the garbage
awesome Boston, how dare you sir!
Don't tell Jack
Its far from original. Emojis been around for decades
Good one.
Aha no way, Dog Star Man is my favorite movie!
jk, wtf was that...
LSD man... LSD
The 60's man. All you need to know.
Look up some of Brakhage’s work.
I did some looking into Stan Brakhage, who directed Dog Star Man. I wasn't able to find anything about psychedelic use, and it wasn't that popular yet by 1964, so maybe he hadn't tried it.
Brakhage was apparently a film studies teacher. Matt Stone and Trey Parker of South Park fame were his students!
Ian Krasnow I went to CU Boulder where Brakhage taught. So they take every opportunity they can to shove Brackage in your face.
He was also an actor in Matt Stone and Trey Parker’s first film, Cannibal: The Musical. Known as Alfred Packer: The Musical in Boulder.
I feel like i should be on acid in order to watch holy motors
It's a terrifically weird film either way!
Yeah, weed didn't help for me.
That's the point, you shouldn't take drugs to watch any movie (well, you shouldn't take drugs at all). You need a clean mind.
It's super weird, but once you actually understand the main guy's an actor and the camera is our own, it starts making sense (still super weird though XD) also, not exactly PG 13
not such a good idea m8°, this movie... stick to weed i would say, but do as your heart desires
Hey thanks for spoiling the whole Roundhay Garden Scene Cinefix! Can't be too careful these days...
You've approached this topic with so much thoughtfulness and presented such compelling arguments that I am extremely excited to watch all of these films. I'm disappointed that most people will shrug this video recommendations off as another listicle, because this "list" was really a meta-analytical video essay in five parts.
Fantastic.
CineFix undoubtedly makes the best lists on RUclips.
These comments are deeply annoying. They put research and time into these lists
Yeah, I don't get where the influx of "this list is pretentious" comments are coming from. Have they ever seen a Cinefix list prior to this?
Perhaps some people don't expect a thesis on the title digging into every film ever made on the topic with narration of its entire premise. Occasionally less is more. Once a beautiful thing is described and dissected it often time looses something, something personal, bringing the subconscious into the conscious, taking that connection into the masses. An unknown lyric ironically at times sounds better than knowing the word, kinda thing.
Sandra Howell _Gravity_ sucks the sweat off a dead dog’s ballz.
I also put research and time into producing a shit
Great profile picture! And very true statement
Man I'm here early for this one. What can I say at a time like this: I'd like to thank my mom, my white collar job, my screen protectors, my boss being unable to see my screen.... and of course, God, for starting CineFix.
Nick Granese "I feel God in this Chili's tonight"
I can guarantee that whenever someone says "It has never been done before!" when talking about a film...it has definitely been done before.
You guys are truly doing the lords work please never stop
Glad he mentioned Tarkovsky .
"mentioned"... .0004 of a second, yeah.
How could he not. Tarkovsky is nothing if not original.
Thanks for mentioning Paprika, wonderful film. RIP Satoshi Kon.
Agreed :(
man paranoia agent was fucking great
"Perfect Blue"?
Constantly shifting reality/gas-lighting to the point where the protagonist sees herself as a non-corporeal spirit.
This spirit form seems to come to life at several points, having its own will.
Not only is the protagonist suffering from a breakdown of reality, so is her attacker!
The stalker takes on the victims persona from time to time...
Even at the end, after the stalker is in Hospital, there are hints that our hero is not really living in our world.
I would have included My Dinner with Andre on this list. It's just two guys having a conversation over dinner, and that's it. You can read a lot into it, but it is unique in its simplicity.
To this day, I want that damn vomit flag!
waking life
Holy mountain
Eraserhead
It's such a beautiful day
Decline of western civilization (idk if documentaries count but there's none offer like it)
Waking life had to be in my all time too 5
2001 was groundbreaking.
The Fall is so underrated I love it
Mostly because, outside of visual, it doesn't have much else
Well, it has good acting, original storyline, believable characters and emotions. Music is beautiful too. But I see your point, I guess it's the kind of movie you either absolutly love, or just don't care about.
Weird how Fall and Pan’s Labyrinth were released in the same year...Both are kinda similar in their themes..
Kosta Jovanovic Yeah, no pathos, emotional depth, no hinted layers. No progression of relationships, it was just pretty.
Dog Star Man looks deeply annoying.
Erik Dresner watch some of Brakhage’s work and give it a chance. Play some music while it’s on if you feel it works.
RaySquirrel He influenced a generation of these film students, that would use stock footage, altered and cut, in odd ways, then mix it with images of naked women, dancing with strobes and other shapes and colors projected to a screen behind psychedelic bands. The original Pink Floyd lineup would have long jam sessions at discotheques in the last third of the 60s.
LOLLLLLLL
Check out his "The Act of Seeing With One's Own Eyes" for his deeply disturbing examination on the art of documentary. Eat a big meal beforehand.
eduardo cardona it's so good u have to be stoned to enjoy it??? Sounds crap
Under The Skin is the most terrifying, most unsettling movie ever made
Just finished gerry and had to come back to this video to see the few seconds of its mention. Slowly making my way through my cinefix recommended list but just wanted to say thank you guys for showing me all that cinema has to offer you've given me so much and I am forever grateful to how found this channel.
The first film of Roundhay was shot in my hometown of Leeds. The same guy shot this on Leeds Bridge. He invented film, then he got on a train and disappeared. Seriously no one knows what happened to him but he invented the medium of film and then was apparently murdered or abducted by aliens or who knows what. I'm not sure why this isn't more widely known. Listed as 'vanished'
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Le_Prince
Leeds Bridge
ruclips.net/video/wTlXaqG4VyE/видео.html
Could've thrown some love to Apichatpong Weerasethakul
I don't think Roundhay Garden Scene should count
Michael Cole it's more a first example of film
Cinemaspire, I thought it was going to be an example of why "original" shouldn't just refer to new styles of filming, kind of like an argument to absurdity, but then they actually included it as the no. 5 spot. I agree that it shouldn't have been in the list.
gnarth d'arkanen I think original should refer to an idea. The idea of a motion picture was around before Roundhay Garden Scene and it was just a new medium. Plus, it shouldn't be considered a film. If I take a 3 second video it's not considered a movie.
Smokey and the bandit 2 should be on this list
This countdown is so well made that it makes me want to watch each film used to create every single second of this video.
People should give a try to Stan Brakhage, I loved "window water baby moving". That guy is something else. Also, his children have said that he was obsessed with his films, they loved to participate in them because it was the few moments when he spent time with them. Not to mention he manipulated the film very manually, imagine! with paints and weird chemicals, it amazes me how long he lived considering this.
Haven't seen the whole video yet, but could you list all the movies showcased during the video inside the description box? It'd help a lot in my quest to become a true cinephile!
I haven't done any research, but can you tell me how to be an expert without using effort to learn anything
every single title of the picks (and the clips of everything else) is in white just above the bottom of the frame.
I made a list of every film they ever included in a list if that helps: boxd.it/1coZ2
The titles are in the description
skylinefilms123, Only the 5 movies picked for positions are included in the description. They're asking for ALL the movies shown in the video, which are not in the description. Please actually read the comment completely before replying.
I really appreciate this list. Now I've got so many more movies on my to-watch list, so thanks! You've even got my favourite movie on here: Enter the Void!
This is the best list you've ever done.
0:00 Intro
0:23 5 - Technical Innovation
1:58 4 - Originality
4:08 3 - Storytelling
6:35 2 - Medium Specificity
9:19 1 - Experimental/Avant-garde
11:34 Outro
LOUIS LE PRINCE! thank you for recognizing him.
You have just opened a treasures chest of interesting movies for me.
This list makes me want to see all of these movies ASAP.
Very pleased with this list--especially to see "Enter the Void" and "Dog Star Man" featured so prominently, as these are pure cinematic creations, utterly unique in their execution. Leos Carax is another French filmmaker criminally underrated and overlooked. I think that if one Hollywood film could make the cut it would be "Wizard of Oz" which I can't imagine seeing when it first came out. 2001: Space Odyssey probably deserved an honorable mention as did Sans Soleil by Chris Marker which really blew my mind. As did Road Warrior which I saw at a sneak preview weeks before it finally got a wide release. In truth this list could have 20 or 30 worthy candidates.
I'm stunned that the films of Peter Greenaway are never mentioned in any of these "Top 5' or 'Top 10" lists. He is utterly original. He has created a new film language using radical montage, framing and editing techniques, often with multiple layers at once that wonderfully destabilise both narrative and time. His films are incredibly beautiful, shocking and immersive but you are never passive, you always know that you are watching a film, a construct.
You are totally right (Draughtman, Baby of Macon, Pillow Book, Goltzius…), everything he has made apart from 8 and a half women, which was a bit of a turd, really.
His films are awful but the critics are scared to criticise them because they don’t won’t to be called uncivilised!
I'm so glad I subscribed to CineFix
A few more original gems:
Haxan-It's a documentary about witchcraft from 1929, which was already kind of unusual. But it has these insane recreations in it were it tries to capture the hysteria of the medieval religious beliefs and has a kind of self-aware, humorous quality to it at how absurd and ridiculous the shit that medieval folks believed in.
Underground-Insane epic that tries to tell the story of the downfall of Yugoslavia through an surreal, comedic crime saga filled with Slavic polka, slapstick fight scenes and tons of sex and violence. I recommend seeing it very, very high.
I think you mean Hexen or Häxan. Or at least write Heaxan. Because those words all are words for witches.
Haxan and Underground, two of my favourites. Good to see people with taste and knowledge.
Gaspar Noe and Lars Von Trier should be on the "most self indulgent directors of all time" list
Add Tarantino
I enjoy comments like yours, intended as banal insults that the targets would notice either less than a flea's shouting into an elephant's ear or as a grand complement.
@@brucecollins2156 cry more. truth hurts
@@dumb_as_rocks You sat through the entirety of something like Climax and thought it was self indulgent??
@@ethancenteno6928 I certainly enjoyed Climax, but the end was incredibly self indulgent and verging on tedious
Funny Games
The bicycle thief
brazil
Swiss army man
It follows 2014
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
Dog starman
Me and Earl an the dying girl 2015
Holy Motors (2012)
Cronos (1993)
The fall 2006
The five obstructions (2003)
Metropolis 1927
Ex Machina
The imaginarium of Doctor Pamassus (2009)
Enter the void (20009)
Songs from the second floor (2000)
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind (2004)
come along, Do! 1898
As seen thrugh a telescope 1900
the jazz singer 1927
El acorzado de potemkin 1925
breathless 1960
gravity
Citizen Kane 1941
The maltese Falcon 1941
Being John Malkovich
Last year at Marienbad 1961
Person 1966
A ghost story 2017
The holy mountain 1973
Muholland Drive 2001
The descreet charm of the burgeoise 1972
Rubber 2010
Under the skin
Funky forest: the first cntact 2005
Synecdoche, New York 2008
A pigein sat on a branch reflecting on existence 2014
Possession 1981
Dogville 2003
Gerry 2002
Playtime
Birdman 2014
Russian Ark 2002
Love (Jaspar Noe)
There will be blood 2007
Big eyes 2014
se7en
Loving vincent 2017
Get Out 2017
Blew up 1966
whiplash 2014
eXstenZ 1999
A field in England 2013
The act of killing
The mirror 1975
8 1/2 (Fellini)
The diving bell and the butterfly 2007
EXPERIMENTAL
A colour box 1935
La jetée 1962
Gummo 1997
Entr'Acte 1924
Anemic cinema 1926
Ballet mecaniqueThe man with a movie camera 1929
Mashes of the afternoon 1943
Blue 1993
the flicker
Koyaannisqatsi 1982
Baraka 1992
Back and forth 1969
The life and death of 9413 a Hollywood extra 1928
Berlin: Symphony of a Metropolis 197
Surfae tension 1968
Chelsea girl 1966
Dog star man 1964
Facundo Durante thank you, I think I'll put this into a letterboxd list for anyone to reference
what about "camera man"? oh and you have to check the films of that Russian guy, whats his name...Aleksandr Sokurov!
EXCELLENT video. I saved it just to go through slowly and make a list of films to watch. Very interesting and stimulating narration as well.
Damn, so much hate in the comments. If you don't like this list, that's ok. There are no wrong answers. Compile your own list and cherish it because it is yours and nobody elses. If you read this I wish you have a wonderful day.
I've compiled a list of every film every chosen for a Cinefix movie list: boxd.it/1coZ2
More detailed version here: letterboxd.com/darrencb/list/every-movie-included-in-a-cinefix-movie-list/detail/
Amazing work ! Why aren't you in the top liked comments ?
Guile21 - I'm not bothered about likes, I made this list only for me and anyone else who finds it useful. If most people don't find it useful, that's cool.
MrRenegadePhoenix I've seen your comment before and I appreciate it. It's a great list. Thanks.
What an amazing list of lists. My hat is off to you sir!
I missed Shinya Tsukamoto’s IRON MAN, and although mentioned I think Jodorowsky and Terry Gilliam movies should go in a category yet to be defined.
I would like to a see a list for animation because is underappreciated media.
Did you ever see "Panique Au Village" aka "A Town Called Panic"? It's a very original stop motion movie ... It's absurd, it's hilarious, it's great!
goodial no i haven't heard about it but I'm going to check out and thank you for give me something to watch.
they already did one, top 10 beautifully animated films I think it was called
I'm soooo happy you've made this and stayed true to analyzing cinema rather than conforming to the most recent/popular stuff people seem to want. Definitely happy to see familiar films here, and thank you for featuring Gaspar Noe, a true visionary. I'm lucky to have seen 70% of the listed films and looking forward to viewing the rest! Thanks!
Wow,I did not expect this video to be so well done as it was.
Outstanding list guys, thanks. Love your out-loud thought process about criteria for inclusion on the list. Keep up the great work.
Inland Empire, The Nine Lives of Tomas Katz, Eraserhead, Pola X, Toad Road
wivuyao naked lunch
The Rover.
Agree with "Eraserhead"
What’s eating Gilbert Grape
@@samiam619 you must be joking. good movie, but nothing original there.
I do think "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" deserved mention - the first horror film AND the first cult film, certainly one of the first to eschew reality, (in favor of Expressionism), plus, a twist ending!
It always annoyed me how little attention Lavant’s incredible acting in Holy Motors has gained. It’s also one of the most aesthetically pleasing movies of 2012. Fantastically well-shot.
cinefix is like having a significant other just smart enough to be maddening.
Paprika got a shout out. That makes me happy.
My number one: The Lighthouse
totally not
@@merdefilms3837 but it is MY number one so totally. Why not though?
teh one with Willem Defoe and the guy from Twilight? That was good until the seagul scene then I just could not take it seriously at all
@@romanxxxxyoutube Its well shot, looks good, acting is good...but its basically an arty horror movie
@@atomiccritter6492 yes that's correct. An original one.
Pootie tang isnt on the list.
My God, I'm soo happy, you mentioned Holy Motors, it is one of my favourite films and I barely even know other people who have seen it. Great choice! :D
I think all of the videos that were shown in between the Top 5 are worthy of taking a look at... I've only seen and recognized probably a fourth of them... probably less. I thoroughly enjoyed this video.
Please do a list on Best Musical Scores of All Time, how music enhances the emotion in a scene
I got a Fortnite ad right when he got shot in Into The Void. Caught me off guard.
That's what we all see when we die.
I forgot Enter the Void exists, I loved that movie! I wish I could remember a movie after watching it, I've seen so many good ones then I forget it.
My pick for an original vampire movie, a genre that has become really cliche, is called Let The Right One In. Very good, I recommend to anyone looking for a refreshing take on monster movies.
Very good vampire movie. Better than the twilight movies
I've only seen a handful of the movies discussed in this video. I now have a new watch list. Thanks!
I've been to Roundhay; around 15 miles from my home. Pretty cool to live so close to arguably, the birth of film.
There's a wonderful little movie called "Bagdad Cafe" with CCH Pounder and Jack Palance in a completely non-characteristic side roll that I believe is one of the most visually stunning films I've seen yet. It's like each frame could be a poster. It also falls into this category as an original presentation. I think the ending got pretty corny but still didn't destroy it completely. It's one I like to show friends who've never seen or heard of it. It's like showing Dead Man to the Johnny Depp fans who claim to have seen ALL his movies yet never heard of it.
There are several films like this on my list; but i'm wondering ( full disclosure ) if they are merely quirky, and not genuinely 'Original' ( ? )
I watched holy motors for Eva mendes and had 0 clue he was meant to be an actor in different roles
I thought it was Amy Winehouse, tbh.
Holy Motors and Tokyo! works in the same universe?
Becouse both have Merde
I only watched Tokyo!
But I got to watch it IN Tokyo.
And it was some creepy shit.
Thank you SO MUCH for the subtitles! What a great way to learn more not only about movies, but language itself. Love everything about your videos 💕
a pigeon sat on a branch reflecting existence. how wonderful is that title.
I don't think I'll ever see any of these films, but interesting video and fascinating debate nonetheless.
Swiss Army Man doesn't get enough credit.
One of my favorite movies ever
@@jacksewell8688 Seriously ?
Johnny_ B_Goode yessir, ans I’m not ashamed of it lol
#1: BvS
Sarcasm this is
#2 Godzilla (Jene Reno version)
#3 Any Transformers film
#4 Female Ghostbusters
#5 Die Hard 5
1:50 Actually it was 130 years ago because it was made and recorded in 1888 and it is 2018 so that's 130 years apart. Also, that movie is actually the second movie ever made (and keep in mind that, originally, the word "movie" meant moving film, exactly like how "talkie" meant talking film) and the very first movie ever made was the movie "The Horse In Motion" from 10 years earlier in 1878. The only difference is HOW they were recorded. They were both made on a zoetrope, but what separated Roundhay Garden Scene from The Horse In Motion was that Roundhay Garden Scene was recorded by projecting the drawing through a projector that is much closer to the modern projector that would later be used for the coming century.
enter the void is such a work of art! definitely one of my favorites of all time
You should put “this is not a film” film
This was good. I thought this would be like a watchmojo shit show and number 1 would be Avengers haha.
Good for you guys. I might actually watch your channel again -_-
I was thinking that. These people must watch more than the most obvious 100 movies out there like WatchMojo...makes me want to check out more of their videos
Honestly, I don't see the appeal of Dog Star Man. It's original in the fact that it's just a bunch of incomprehensible nonsense. The whole point of film is to make you feel something - like any artform. But Dog Star Man tries to tell its anti-story with rapid uninteresting imagery. This isn't dreamlike or even beautiful - all it serves to do is make the viewer think that they are watching something breaktaking purely because its "original".
If something tries to prove its originality by being incomprehensible mush, then doesn't that completely defeat the whole purpose of originality? Anything can be original. It takes effort to make something that the viewers of the film can react emotionally to.
I haven't seen Dog Star Man, but I have seen a number of Brakhage's other films, and Unconscious London Strata is one of my all time favourites. It's about 20 minutes long and consists of flickering colours and light, through which one occasionally catches glimpses of a city. It has no sound. It is beautiful, and it evokes an emotional reaction from me. Much of it reminds me of the effect of car headlights reflected on the surface of rain-slicked roads, something I saw a lot of when I used to spend hours wandering around listening to music while I was in a deeply depressive hole. Much of the imagery reminds me of nothing in particular, but is beautiful in the way that a Klee painting can be. Since there is no sound I like to experiment by adding my own soundtracks, and the film has a different feel when you listen with Bohor by Xenakis, or Drukqs by Aphex Twin, or 6 by Supersilent, or recordings of traffic in a small town, or simply silence. This kind of DIY art is impossible in conventional film, only the avant garde can liberate art from the shackles of artist expression and leave the work truly up the interpretation of the viewer. Perhaps the art does nothing for you, I myself am not particularly fond of "Mothlight" (another Brakhage film), but perhaps a deeply personal relationship can form between the viewer and the film.
Consider this please: Why is it that when you watch a conventional film that doesn't resonate with you say that it just wasn't your cup of tea, but when you watch an avant garde film that doesn't resonate with you then it's incomprehensible nonsense?
So, as incomprehensible nonsense, I guess you feel disappointed. So then it did make you feel something.
S Wilson, Ya beat me to it!
Even if the movie makes you feel angry, irritable, nervous or nauseated, if you feel that it wasted your time or insulted your intelligence, you still had an emotional reaction.
Mission accomplished.
Paddy Scott fucking hell, you're pretentious.
To those feeling content about OP having an opinion about it, art isn't all about eliciting an emotional response. If that were the case, then pornography is the greatest genre of film.
i actually think dog star man is COMPULSIVELY watchable and one of the MOST BEAUTIFUL films of all time, i admit i like high brow experimental weird art but dog star man is UTTERLY BREATHTAKING to me, it was my introduction to truly experimental and out there avant garde cinema and im thankful to it for that, and its still even after all these years one of my ABSOLUTE favorites, if you havent seen it you DEFINITELY NEED TO
This is the most unapologetically cinefix list I’ve ever seen