What are some movies that every aspiring cinephile should watch?
battleship potemkin (sergei eisenstein, 1926)
city lights (charlie chaplin, 1931)
M (fritz lang, 1931)
freaks (tod browning, 1932)
brief encounter (david lean, 1945)
out of the past (jacques tourneur, 1947)
the third man (carol reed, 1949)
late spring (yasijuro ozu, 1949)
kiss me deadly (robert aldrich, 1955)
a man escaped (robert bresson, 1956)
touch of evil (orson welles, 1958)
la dolce vita (federico fellini, 1960)
peeping tom (michael powell, 1960)
man who shot liberty valance (john ford, 1962)
the exterminating angel (luis buñuel, 1962)
shock corridor (samuel fuller, 1963)
kwaidan (masaki kobayashi, 1964)
dragon inn (king hu, 1967)
playtime (jacques tati, 1967)
once upon a time in the west (sergio leone, 1968)
two-lane blacktop (monte hellman, 1971)
aguirre, wrath of god (werner herzog, 1972)
touki bouki (djibril diop mambety, 1973)
the conversation (francis ford coppola, 1974)
the passenger (michelangelo antonioni, 1975)
nashville (robert altman, 1975)
the killing of a chinese bookie (john cassavetes, 1976)
mikey and nicky (elaine may, 1976)
sorcerer (william friedkin, 1977)
days of heaven (terrence malick, 1978)
blow out (brian de palma, 1981)
8 diagram pole fighter (lau kar-leung, 1984)
mishima: a life in four chapters (paul schrader, 1985)
tampopo (jūzō itami, 1985)
blue velvet (david lynch, 1986)
something wild (jonathan demme, 1986)
landscape in the mist (theo angelopoulos, 1988)
sonatine (takeshi kitano, 1993)
salaam cinema (mohsen makhmalbaf, 1995)
fallen angels (wong kar-wai, 1995)
taste of cherry (abbas kiarostami, 1997)
cure (kiyoshi kurosawa, 1997)
the thin red line (terrence malick, 1999)
beau travail (claire denis, 1999)
yi yi (edward yang, 2000)
all about lily chou chou (shunji iwai, 2001)
memories of murder (bong joon-ho, 2003)
dogville (lars von trier, 2003)
tropical malady (apichatpong weerasethakul, 2004)
silent light (carlos reygadas, 2007)
sparrow (johnnie to, 2008)
holy motors (leos carax, 2012)
phoenix (christian petzold, 2014)
personal shopper (oliver assayas, 2016)
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Do you have any non-manga book recs? I would like to read more too, any genre
Sure! Here are 30 books I enjoyed reading sometime within the past decade or so, in order of date originally published:
BOOKS TO READ (or not, 's entirely up to you):
Pride and Prejudice (1813) Jane Austen
Wuthering Heights (1847) Emily Bronte
Crime and Punishment (1866) Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Time Machine (1895) H.G. Wells
The Metamorphosis (1915) Franz Kafka
The Hobbit (1937) J.R.R. Tolkien
Rebecca (1938) Daphne Du Maurier
Confessions of a Mask (1949) Yukio Mishima
Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) George Orwell
Lord of the Flies (1954) William Golding
The Talented Mr. Ripley (1955) Patricia Highsmith
Rabbit, Run (1960) John Updike
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (1962) Shirley Jackson
In Cold Blood (1966) Truman Capote
Interview with the Vampire (1976) Anne Rice
The Mosquito Coast (1981) Paul Theroux
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (1985) Patrick Suskind
Misery (1987) Stephen King
The Silence of the Lambs (1988) Thomas Harris
The Midwife's Apprentice (1991) Karen Cushman
Middlesex (2002) Jeffrey Eugenides
Oryx and Crake (2003) Margaret Atwood
The Road (2006) Cormac McCarthy
Heart-Shaped Box (2007) Joe Hill
The Hunger Games (2008) Suzanne Collins
Gone Girl (2012) Gillian Flynn
Annihilation (2014) Jeff VanderMeer
The Fisherman (2016) John Langan
The Marrow Thieves (2017) Cherie Dimaline
Paradise Rot (2018) Jenny Hval
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