The Neon Demon

Two of my favourite movies ever are Meyer's Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls and Argento's Suspiria which, in my eyes, makes it virtually impossible for The Neon Demon to fail.

Only God Forgives

 

A fantastic cipher composed of deliberate glances and considered movement that finds itself at the midpoint between Lynch and Tarkovsky.

 

Drive

Sleek neo-noir, loaded with style and topped with a light dusting of John Hughes' early eighties output to give it that bit more of an edge when shit inevitably goes wrong.
An excellent movie.

Valhalla Rising

It would appear that the best way to break a film watching hiatus is with a metaphysical viking movie.
The cinematography mimics a graphic novel, the tone is closer to that of space exploration and the whole thing is soundtracked by droning, doomy, post rock. All of which calls for cries of pretension, but then one man's pretension is another man's genius.
I'm the other man, this is fucking ace.

Pusher

Particularly sombre study of a week in the life of a drug dealer, detailing the almost instant disintegration of his world brought on by a single botched deal.

Bronson

Utterly compelling biopic of a man whose reaction to nearly everything is to try and smash its teeth in, suffused throughout with dark humour and outright surrealism.