Great, trashy, doom-and-gloom, can't-win-don't try kind of fun. "Double Indemnity" is the only Billy Wilder movie I really love (sorry, my filmsnob cred sinks). I saw "Touch of Evil" in the theater during it's 50th anniversary re-release, the other two on DVD.

( Double Indemnity (**** out of ****) )

All the President's Men (1976)
The Apartment (1960)
Assisted Living (2005)
Brazil (1985)
Breathless (1957)

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Hiroshima, Mon Amour (***1/2 out of ****)
I really enjoyed Alain Resnais's "Hiroshima Mon Amour" and intellectually I understand it's a great, important, and influential movie.  Without it there probably wouldn't be "Memento" or "Lost in Translation" or many of the films of David Lynch.  Even my short film screenplay "Days Since She Called Me" is ( Read more... )