Oh that time in your life when you’re forming your foundational belief systems and structures for interacting with the world. Ages 19–23 let’s say. In my time, in addition to the books, music, booze, girls, and friends you’d lay on the tracks for, there was also film. And the films that stuck with me, the ones that touched my soul and shook my sensibilities, I owe them a lot.
Fight Club
The Big Lebowski
Pulp Fiction
Amélie
The Royal Tennenbaums
The 400 Blows
Requiem for a Dream
The Matrix
Amores Perros
Run Lola Run
Trainspotting
Le Bonheur
The City of Lost Children
All About My Mother
8 1/2
Metropolis
Dr. Strangelove
Donnie Darko
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Adaptation
Office Space