Peter Kuplowsky

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Speed Racer

Studio blockbusters were at a crossroads in 2008, the success of Iron Man and The Dark Knight cemented the road we would take, but the hyper-reality and playful formal experimentation of Speed Racer was the road we should have travelled.

Local Legends

The rosetta stone to perhaps the most underrated filmmaker in American independent cinema - next to Patrick Wang at least.

A Bread Factory Part One: For the Sake of Gold

The parade of character disappearances and final shot in Part 2 trumps all, but Wang's climactic arts council meeting in Part 1 and its cathartic, yet trepidatious resolution is an all-timer.

My Neighbour Totoro

No notes. Only love and vibes.

High and Low

So good even a BATMAN movie was like yeah let's rip this off.

CHUNGKING EXPRESS

The best movies either take seven years to make or are tossed off within less than a month. The latter has never been epitomized by a movie better than this one.

Les Demoiselles de Rochefort

A trifle, but the most decadent and best tasting of trifles.

Pontypool

It's not the end of the world, it's just the end of the day.

Star Wars

Movies are worse for its existence, but that's a testament to its seismic impact and it would be personally disingenuous for me to pretend I didn't consider it to be one of the great movies.

Citizen Kane

I'll bet a month hasn't gone by since that I haven't thought of Mr. Bernstein's monologue about how a month hasn't gone by since that he hasn't thought of the girl in the white dress.

Further remarks

So my intentions can be plain, this is the beginning of 10 year plan to get a Matt Farley and/or Patrick Wang film into the Top 100.

I apologize in advance for my perceived apathy towards early cinema. Lot of great ones there, but I am sure other voters have got it covered.