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Movies
Deduplicated movie mentions with optional TMDB posters, release years, and ratings.
Out Of The Furnace
The Sixth Sense
Below
The Contractor
Passenger 57
Demolition Man
A Time to Kill ×2
Drop Zone
The Saint
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die
The Fall
Red 2
Watching the Detectives
Backrooms
American Fiction
Lucky Number Slevin
The Mist
The Prestige
The Housemaid
The Last Supper
Cape Fear
lost highway
Rock of Ages
The Gambler
Why is this relevant to https://cliuanon.substack.com/p/next-seminar-on-walter-benjamins and https://seansturm.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/benjamin-theses-on-the-philosophy-of-history.pdf ?
the blood of heroes
The Limits of Control
A Boy and His Dog
Stalker
(Tarkovsky) is about three men traveling toward a Room that grants your deepest wish, and the film's terrible joke is that they already know what they want and cannot bear to enter. The conclusion is available; the courage is not. This is almost a literal dramatization of your sentence.
Ikiru
(Kurosawa) compresses the structure: a man receives his terminal diagnosis and the rest of the film is him becoming worthy of the one act his life has been pointing at.
The Seventh Seal
(Bergman) literalizes it — Death is already at the table in the first scene. The chess game is just the time needed to arrive.
Andrei Rublev
is the slow ripening toward the final bell, the vocation the artist has been circling without touching. The genre name for this, loosely, is "transcendental style" — Schrader wrote the book. It's the cinema of patience, where plot is replaced by the approach to something already fixed. Given the Dante work you've been doing, *The Tree of Life* and *A Hidden Life* are the two that will likely feel closest — both are structured as ordered ascents toward a love that was there from the beginning.
Tombstone
One Fine Day
Hard Ticket to Hawaii
The Social Network
Half Nelson
Blue Moon
Red Sonja
Cop Land
Bad Lieutenant
Leaving Las Vegas
Jiu Jitsu
Vampires Kiss
Mom and Dad
A Hidden Life ×2
Silence ×2
Judge Dredd
Nocturnal Animals
Under the Silver Lake
Synecdoche, New York
There Will Be Blood ×2
Dark City
13 Assassins
Apocalypto
Magnolia
Sphere
Warrior ×2
Bullet to the Head
Southland Tales
Donnie Darko
the curious case of benjamin button
Midnight in Paris
Boyhood
Before Sunrise
Before Midnight
Before Sunset
Predator
They Live
Past Lives
Wrath of Man
Pulp Fiction
Adaptation
Lord of War
