Monday, March 30, 2009

Wired's top 10 paranoia movies

http://www.wired.com/entertainment/hollywood/multimedia/2009/03/gallery_paranoidfilms?slide=2&slideView=2

10. The conversation - downloading.

9. Pi - a great movie, a bit slow at times, yet nutty all around.

8. The Game - have not heard of or seen.

7. Dr. Strangelove - kubrick classic!

6. Safe (1995) - Julianne Moore.  A seemingly happy-enough housewife and stepmother in 1990s Northern California, until she begins to have unexplainable seizures. Suspecting that chemicals in water, car exhaust and beauty cream are killing her, every moment in White's suburban life turns becomes just another room in a postmodern horror-movie fun house.

Sounds fun. 

5. Blade Runner - another classic movie that first began to question what I call the "terminator" futuristic fork.  Rutger Hauer perfectly casted.

4. A Scanner Darkly - decent movie, not as great IMO as some said it was.  Very similar to Waking Life, also by Linklater, of course.

3. Brazil - Brazil (1985)

In Terry Gilliam's classic dystopia, the government plasters the grimy walls with exhortations like "Don't suspect a friend. Report him." Terrorists strike everywhere, the Ministry of Information Retrieval does its work with pliers, and storm troopers are at the disposal of a bumbling bureaucracy. Bumbling bureaucrat Sam Lowry (Jonathan Pryce) finds himself battling for love and justice and sanity after rogue electrician and wanted 'terrorist' Harry Tuttle ziplines into his life. What happens to an honest man in a world where the government is paranoid, inept and yet, all-powerful?

I havn't heard of this either?  Downloading..

2.  Three days of the Condor - 1975 - Robert Redford - many moons since i've seen that one.

1. Dark City - I found this mediocre, at best.

Calgary april 9.  Very Excite.