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"pitch-black pictures... are becoming the only things acceptable to our culture's taste-makers... Granted, all films can't have pleasant endings, but if you admit to enjoying those that do, you're considered to be in the grip of a boring, unsophisticated state of mind." - Turan

Funny, and I thought that cheese was so hot right now.

All in the name of "good-bad-taste" and, of course, education (ie, this essay I'm writing), for those of you who haven't seen these films already, you should do so now.

Very Bad Things
Ghost World
American Splendor
Buffalo '66
Gummo
Julien Donkey-Boy
Pulp Fiction
Elephant
Bully
Slacker
Happiness
Running With Scissors
The Ice Storm
The Mudge Boy
Nowhere
Totally Fucked Up
Crash (Cronenberg)
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
Thank You For Smoking
Annie Hall
Blue Velvet
Match Point
Me and You And Everyone We Know
Election
Adaptation
The Royal Tenenbaums
Citizen Ruth
Heathers
Being John Malkovich
Rushmore
Napoleon Dynamite
My Own Private Idaho
Donnie Darko
Ed Wood
The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies*
I Heart Huckabees
Kids
Mysterious Skin

"refinement, taste and escapism - the miserable crumbs tossed from the table by the growing mass of Republican ThirtySomething Country-Club Christian Zombies who now rule this wretched planet."
(Zontar)

* I haven't seen this one. Yet. I just love the title.