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• Vertigo

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  This iconic Hitchcock masterpiece merits all of the film school essays it has undoubtedly inspired, and also, it contains a midcentury-modern nightmare sequence that is as aesthetically satisfying as it is frightening. Watch Jimmy Stewart at his…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Brazil

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  "In the dystopian masterpiece Brazil, Jonathan Pryce plays a daydreaming everyman who finds himself caught in the soul-crushing gears of a nightmarish bureaucracy. This cautionary tale by Terry Gilliam, one of the great films of the 1980s, has come…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Le temps retrouvé

  Time regained

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  "Time Regained distills all of Marcel Proust’s iconic "In Search of Lost Time" into a single epic feature. The film opens in 1922, as Proust is on his deathbed pouring through old photographs that summon the events of his life. Gradually, we watch…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Waking Life

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  You know that feeling you get from lucid dreaming? That's what you get watching Richard Linklater's exploration of consciousness and its edges.

• Зеркало

  Mirror

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  "A subtly ravishing passage through the halls of time and memory, this sublime reflection on twentieth-century Russian history by Andrei Tarkovsky (STALKER) is as much a poem composed in images, or a hypnagogic hallucination, as it is a work of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie

  Discreet charm of the bourgeoisie

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  "In Luis Buñuel’s deliciously satiric masterpiece, an upper-middle-class sextet sits down to a dinner that is continually delayed, their attempts to eat thwarted by vaudevillian events both actual and imagined, including terrorist attacks, military…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Dreams

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  "Unfolding in a series of eight mythic vignettes, this late work by Akira Kurosawa was inspired by the beloved director’s own nighttime visions, along with stories from Japanese folklore. In a visually sumptuous journey through the master’s…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Science of Sleep

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  "A playful romantic fantasy set inside the topsy-turvey brain of Stephane, an eccentric young man whose dreams constantly invade his waking life. Unable to find the secret to his neighbor's heart while awake, he searches for the answer in his…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Trainspotting

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  "A jolt of adrenaline shot straight to the heart of 1990s British cinema, this darkly funny adaptation of Irvine Welsh’s novel was a major breakthrough for director Danny Boyle, producer Andrew Macdonald, and screenwriter John Hodge. With live-wire…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Long day's journey into night

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  "A noirish stunner about a lost soul on a quest to find a missing woman from his past. Following leads across Guizhou province, the man crosses paths with a series of colorful characters, among them a prickly hairdresser. When the search leads him…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Rosemary's Baby

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  "... faithfully adapted from Ira Levin’s best seller, stars a revelatory Mia Farrow as a young mother-to-be who grows increasingly suspicious that her overfriendly elderly neighbors (played by Sidney Blackmer and an Oscar-winning Ruth Gordon) and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Being John Malkovich

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  Impossible project. Superb acting. Ridiculous premise. Perfectly executed.

• Jacob's Ladder

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  A Vietnam veteran returns home from the war with disoriented sense of time and context. Unsure of whether he is losing his grip on reality due to PTSD or suffering from the effects of a government experiment on his platoon, he struggles to cope with…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Get Out

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  In which we are introduced to the 'sunken place' through a bone-chilling hypnosis scene. "When Chris, an African American man, visits his white girlfriend's family estate, he becomes ensnared in a sinister plot. At first Chris reads the family's…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Mulholland Dr.

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  "A love story in the city of dreams . . . Blonde Betty Elms (Naomi Watts) has only just arrived in Hollywood to become a movie star when she meets an enigmatic brunette with amnesia (Laura Harring). Meanwhile, as the two set off to solve the second…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Wizard of Oz

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  Perhaps the longest dream sequence in cinema history.

• Dumbo

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  In which we learn that alcohol makes baby elephants hallucinate.