Just re-watched "Bob Roberts", a must-see movie for DUers. Other movies you would add to that list?

[ProfessorPlum]

In case you missed it the first time around, "Bob Roberts" is an incredibly salient movie, written and directed by Tim Robbins. Guest starring Gore Vidal(!), John Cusack, Jack Black, Alan Rickman, and a host of others in great cameos, it pointedly highlights Robbins' conclusions about how the American Empire is funded, and about how the right wing campaigns. Brilliant on many levels. Everyone on DU should see it at least once.

What other movies (and I guess I'd limit it to entertainments, not so much news/documentaries) would you recommend to the DU community as being especially enlightening?

[n2doc]

1. Idiocracy n/t

[WatchWhatISay]

2. One of my very favorite movies

It was like a forecast of W's administration. Unfortunately, almost nobody except liberals ever saw it or knows about it.

[MinM]

3. Power (1986)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091786/

This is a really intelligent movie about politics and the media. Although it may look old, it is as important today as twenty years ago. It shows how flawed the political, democratic system is, how much it is controlled by everything except the opinion of the voter.

Beside it's intelligent message the movie delivers great directing by Sidney Lumet. The music supervision is excellent showing the development of the main character with the always repeating song.

All actors deliver great performances, first of all Richard Gere in one of his good roles, an always great Gene Hackman, an early Denzel Washington with a nice nasty role. Kate Capshaw, Julie Christie, E.G. Marshall, J.T. Walsh and all others act pretty good too.

A really intelligent, important, exciting movie.

[ProfessorPlum]

4. Don't know that one, thanks for the recommendation

[Forkboy]

5. Good Night And Good Luck.

[tom_paine]

6. Network. Outfoxed. Farenheit 9/11.

[WilliamPitt]

7. Thirteen Days

Ignore Costner and his godawful attempts at a Boston accent, he's barely in the thing once it gets going.

The actors they got to play the main people in the unfolding of the Cuban Missile Crisis - LeMay, Atcheson, McCone, Rusk, McNamara, Taylor, Bundy, Sorensen, and especially Adlai "Until Hell Freezes Over" Stevenson - not only look exactly like the guys they're playing, but the screenwriters got the dialogue spot-on according to historical record.

Bruce Greenwood plays, quite simply, the best JFK I have ever seen done.

Steven Culp's version of Bobby Kennedy is not a performance. It is a haunting of his body by the man he is playing. It is extraordinary.

The film is one of the most riveteng I've ever seen. Just thinking about the very end of the movie as I sit here typing gave me goosebumps.

[ProfessorPlum]

9. Excellent one - also reminded me of "Seven Days in May"

which was screenwritten by Rod Serling and is excellent.

[avaistheone1]

8. Here are couple of good documentaries I recently viewed

These documentaries are well done, but beware they are both very grim.

"Flow" documentary investigation into what experts label the most important political and environmental issue of the 21st Century - The World Water Crisis.
http://www.flowthefilm.com/

"The GMO Trilogy" shows how genetically modified organisms (GMOs) put our health and environment at risk, may impact consumer perceptions and buying habits.
http://www.seedsofdeception.com/Public/TheGMOTrilogy/index.cfm

I believe both of these films are available from netflix, or you can order them directly from their websites. Personally I ordered "Flow" from netflix, and I ordered "The GMO Trilogy" directly from their website.

Thanks for posting this thread. I am always on the look out for good films.

[AlCzervik]

10. The Fog of War, The battle Of Algiers, Hoop Dreams, Winged Migration

and so many more.