The Recycled Film

With all of today’s unwanted remakes, disappointing sequels, and 3D blockbusters, it seems unfathomable that a silent film could win at the Oscars. But then again, Michel Hazanavicius’s The Artist isn’t your average silent film.

My favorite scene from Tim Burton’s Edward Scissorhands is also one of my favorite movie scenes of all-time. Winona Ryder’s “Ice Dance” is so simple and beautiful, yet so complex and poignant.

Every film nerd out there has a few famous films that they’ve never gotten around to seeing. Here are 10 films or film series that I’ve never seen, and will probably never see; followed by 10 more that I haven’t seen, but would like to.

Is Dziga Vertov’s 1929 silent film ‘Man with a Movie Camera’ a complement to this year’s YouTube crowdsourcing success ‘Life in a Day’? Both are intimate records of human life, yet neither functions like a typical “documentary.”

Director Doug Pray dives into the feedback-laced, lawless logic of grunge, an underground music movement that transformed Seattle and revolutionized American popular culture.

Both Monument Valley and John Wayne would become staples of John Ford’s western movies in years to come, but nothing would ever touch the beauty and excitement of their 1939 debut film, “Stagecoach.”

There are some films you just know you’re going to love. But what I didn’t know about Spencer Susser’s debut feature HESHER is that it’s really two or three films, rolled up into one amazing burrito of heavy metal entertainment.

The Music Box Theatre in Chicago recently screened 1977′s ROLLING THUNDER, an understated story of revenge that has long been unavailable on DVD. Features screenwriter Paul Schrader and cinematographer Jordan Cronenweth.

What better place, than a pay-to-park lot in Virginia, to see Americans at their most reprehensible, vulgar, and egocentric? Director Meghan Eckman has painted a very unique portrait of humanity.

This amazing documentary on “death with dignity” in Oregon and Washington will open your eyes to a new side of a big controversy, as told by the terminally ill people who “use the law.”