Political Film Series

• A Face in the Crowd (1957, Elia Kazan): Media manipulation

• All the King's Men (1949, Robert Rossen): Power corrupts

• Election (1999, Alexander Payne): High school politics

• Gandhi (1982, Richard Attenborough): Nonviolent resistance

• Lincoln (2012, Steven Spielberg): Presidential politics

• No (2012, Pablo Larraín): Advertising revolution

• Parallax View (1974, Alan J. Pakula): Conspiracy unraveled

• Seven Days in May (1964, John Frankenheimer): Military coup

• The Death of Stalin

• The Last Emperor (1987, Bernardo Bertolucci): Imperial decline

• The Manchurian Candidate (1962, John Frankenheimer): Brainwashing thriller

• Wag the Dog (1997, Barry Levinson): Fake war for political distraction

• Z (1969, Costa-Gavras): Political assassination

Mind-Bending Films

• Coherence

• Mulholland Drive

• Primer

• Prisoners

Coen B Series

• A Serious Man

• Barton Fink

• Fargo

• Inside Llewyn Davis

• Intolerable Cruelty

• No Country for Old Men

• Raising Arizona

• The Big Lebowski

• True Grit

Wes Anderson Series

• Fantastic Mr. Fox

• Grand Budapest Hotel

• Royal Tennenbaums

• Rushmore