...with a one sentence explanation/reason for each.

Backup Top Movies (in no particular order):

The Royal Tenenbaums - No Country for Old Men - Lost in Translation - The Hurt Locker - Kill Bill Vol. 1 - Amélie - Before Sunset - Y tu mamá también - Cache (Hidden) - Pan's Labyrinth - Brokeback Mountain - In the Mood for Love - Adaptation - The New World - Memento - Donnie Darko - The Incredibles - Primer - Knocked Up - Casino Royale - United 93 - Man on Wire - Almost Famous - Grizzly Man - Ghost World - Fantastic Mr. Fox - Oldboy - Black Hawk Down - Elephant - 28 Days Later... - Capturing the Friedmans - Inland Empire - The World

Breaking the Fourth Wall: 10 Films That Let You Know You're Watching Them

Bibi Andersson and Liv Ullmann in Persona (1966)

"A Candy-Colored Clown They Call The Sandman..."

Luis Buñuel, Pierre Batcheff, Salvador Dalí, Jaume Miravitlles, Simone Mareuil, and Fano Messan in Un chien andalou (1929)

Ewan McGregor, Robert Carlyle, Jonny Lee Miller, Ewen Bremner, and Kelly Macdonald in Trainspotting (1996)

I think it's safe to say that though the documentary style of filmmaking has been around for a while, it has taken an unexpected rise in the 21st  century, and a whole slew of recent documentary films have become beacons for specific social and political movements like never before. This newly popularized style of muckraking is no doubt powerful, and the most effective of these films really bend and fold the reality into a dramatic narrative in a way that speaks directly to its audience. But at the root of every problem is an antagonizer, someone or something that pulls the strings, and it's usually the role of the documentary to call these adversaries out and expose their wrongdoings to the entire world. When done right, these evildoers enter the realm of some of the greatest and most memorable movie villains ever – Hannibal Lecter, Dracula, Darth Vader, HAL 9000, and so on. So, here it goes – my list of the 10 best documentary villains.

http://classywithatouchofsleaze.blogspot.com/2010/07/10-best-documentary-villains.html

The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters (2007)

http://classywithatouchofsleaze.blogspot.com/2010/09/unsolved-movie-mysteries.html

Mystery is probably one of the most popular genres of film, and also one of the oldest - the first true 'mystery' movie can be dated all the way back to 1903 with "The Great Train Robbery." Being a fairly established genre, a mystery movie follows a general set of rules, but the most imperative one of all is that something which is at first hidden or unknown must be revealed. The timing of this revelation is a matter of dramatic choice; typically it serves as the climax of the movie, the point where suspense breaks and the audience can breathe a sigh of relief. It's the thrill of discovery that makes these movies so much fun - we all want to think we're smarter than everyone else, and whether we do it consciously or not, we all like to search for covered truths, especially in film. So what do we do with the movies that don't play by the rules? Leaving a mystery unsolved or incomplete is probably considered one of the greatest narrative faux pas ever, and the idea of neglecting closure on a mystery is so out of touch with popular mindset that Hollywood has all but ruled out the idea. Still, that mindset didn't stop some renegade directors from crafting these sinister movies that boggle the mind and leave it boggling long after the credits roll. This isn't some cheap trick - in almost every instance, for what we don't learn in the story, we learn something deeper on a fundamental human level - a truth about ourselves and the limits of what can even be known as truth. Woah man. So, here we go - my 10 favorite unsolved movie mysteries:

Toshirô Mifune and Machiko Kyô in Rashomon (1950)

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