Ok one more, and I PROMISE I'm done. The independent animator Don Hertzeldt is my favorite creator in any medium. His work includes the very meme-ified REJECTED CARTOONS, which I'm sure many of you here have seen.

But that was in 2000, and his work never stopped. Since then he's animated It's Such a Beautful Day, a three part series about a dying man (and I won't spoil any more than that, but it's incredible). Here's the first part.

In addition, he was recently nominated for the short animated film oscar for WORLD OF TOMORROW, his first fully digital film.

Other favorites include WISDOM TEETH and THE MEANING OF LIFE.

His work is highly surrealist, with a particular focus on absurdist philosophy and attacks on corporatized animation. Also he did a Simpsons couch gag.

A lot of these were on netflix, but I think they've since dried up online. There's a great bluray collection of his work, and I'm sure some of its available on rental places like Amazon and Vimeo.

SORRY FOR THE YOUTUBE DUMP D:

Ok one more, and I PROMISE I'm done. The independent animator Don Hertzeldt is my favorite creator in any medium. His work includes the very meme-ified REJECTED CARTOONS, which I'm sure many of you here have seen.

But that was in 2000, and his work never stopped. Since then he's animated It's Such a Beautful Day a three part series about a dying man (and I won't spoil any more than that, but it's incredible). Here's the first part.

You have great taste, I like a lot all his shorts but in particular "It's such a beautiful day" is one of the best things I have ever seen, the 3 shorts are sensational, great to see someone here saw them. 

That's actually a well known classic for people that is really into cinema, its a Tarkovsky movie at the end of the day, one of the greatests directors of the last century, but yeah, great movie, deserves to be aknowledge for more people. 

12 Angry Men (1957)

There's a good reason why this is ranked as the #5 highest rated movie of all time on IMDB.
http://m.imdb.com/chart/top

Perhaps I wouldn't put it in my own top 5, but it's certainly a film people should watch.
While it's certainly appreciated by many people, it seems to be a movie that many from our generation tend to overlook.
Every time I ask if someone has seen it, they haven't.

It's about twelve jury members on a murder case. That's it. That's the entire movie. Just that one discussion they have about whether the defendant is guilty or not. It's only 1h 36m long. Sounds boring, huh?
Well, it's not actually about the defendant or the murder case itself, but about each of these twelve characters, how they differ from each other, and what they learn about themselves through this process.
It starts off with 11 "Guilty" verdicts, and 1 "Not guilty" verdict. They have to reach a consensus before they can leave and go home.

I had no expectations going into this film, but it was quite enjoyable and I would recomend it to anyone.

Yes, and it's a travesty it has no NA blu-ray release. Stellaris does and it was well worth the 'Criterion surtax'.

Kokuhaku (Confessions)