Run Lola Run (1998)

Franka Potente: I’ve drowned in The Bourne Supremacy and I’ve been lobotomised in American Horror Story, but watching myself being shot in Run Lola Run beats those. It’s one of the great perks of being an actor, though my dad didn’t enjoy the scene at all. I was recently bullied into showing the film to my daughters, who are seven and nine. They loved it, but were disappointed there wasn’t more blood when the explosive taped to mum’s chest goes off.

Touch of Evil (1958)

Eyes Wide Shut (1999)

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Flash Gordon (1980)

Trouble Every Day (2001)

Dracula (1931)

Memories of Murder (2003)

Daisies (1966)

"When the Czech director Věra Chytilová made Daisies, her second feature, Czechoslovakia had endured nearly two decades of repressive Communist rule, and she was one of the leading voices in a new generation of filmmakers who expressed resistance through gestures of allegorical insubordination that were semantically slippery enough to possibly get by the censors. Similarly, the Maries operate like guerrilla insurgents across Prague, disguising their true intentions and refusing to dutifully submit their bodies for either labor or male gratification."

SLC Punk (1998)

Touki-Bouki (1973)

Madam Satan (1930)

Bottle Rocket (1996)

Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988)

Little Miss Sunshine (2006)

Pierrot le fou (1965)

"After the release of Pierrot le fou, Godard gave the public a skeleton key to it: 'The only scenario that I had, the only subject...was to convey the sense of what Balthazar Claës was doing in The Unknown Masterpiece.' The Unknown Masterpiece is a novella by Balzac about a painter in seventeenth-century France who has been working alone for a decade on a portrait of a woman that he considers to be not only his masterpiece but an epochal advance in the history of art; he shows it to two artist friends, who find it to be an incomprehensible mess, a blunder and a disaster, and he kills himself. But Balthazar Claës is not a character in that novella (the painter is named Frenhofer); rather, he is the protagonist of another work by Balzac, The Quest of the Absolute. In that novel, an alchemist in single-minded pursuit of the secret of nature brings about his wife’s premature death, his financial ruin, and his public humiliation. The two fictions by Balzac that Godard’s memory had run together unite in Pierrot le fou, a self-portrait of the artist on the verge of pushing a philosophical inquiry into form, or rather formlessness, to an extreme that destroyed not only himself but also his wife."

Heavenly Creatures (1994)