The Enterprise guide to watching movies during the lockdown
The Enterprise guide to watching movies during the lockdown: With all these streaming services, deciding on which movies to watch is a chore unto itself. Things get easy when you have a favorite genre. And even if you don’t, chances are you have a favorite film for each genre. We have an internal strategy for how to consume movies when we’ve exhausted our genre-based selections.
Franchises: When you are stuck for a potentially long time, you have to think in terms of sagas, and story lines that play out over the course of at least six hours. As Hollywood’s bread and butter, these usually try to grab audiences of all ages, so you will generally find plenty of franchise movies to watch as a family. Here’s our selection of franchises to watch, while stuck at home:
- The Godfather series
- The Lord of the Rings (DO NOT waste time on the Hobbit)
- The Marvel Cinematic Universe (Your kids will thank you, your eardrums will not)
- The Planet of Apes series (with the reboots, that’s a good 10 movies)
- Star Wars
- Jurassic Park
- Die Hard
- The Dark Knight Trilogy
- Harry Potter
Directors: A marathon of your favorite directors is probably the best kind of marathon there is. The strategy almost always lands you hours deep into movies you will love. Here’s a lineup of some of our favorite directors and the movies they’ve done that we’d recommend.
- Francis Ford Coppola: Apocalypse Now, the Rainmaker
- David Lean: Bridge on the River Kwai, Lawrence of Arabia
- Stanley Kubrick: 2001: A Space Odyssey, Dr Strangelove, A Clockwork Orange, the Shining,
- Youssef Shahin: Iskanderia… Leh?, Al Yawm Al Sadis (poignant for the time), Al Massir, El Naser Salah El Din
- Darren Arenofsky: Pi, Requiem for a Dream, Black Swan, the Wrestler,
- Quentin Tarrentino (really, anything he’s done but Once Upon A Time in Hollywood): Django Unchained, Jackie Brown, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs
- Martin Scorcesce: Casino, Goodfellas, Raging Bull, the Departed,
- Werner Herzog: FitzCarraldo, Aguirre: Wrath of God, Cobra Verde,
- David Lynch: Mulholland Drive, Lost Highway,
- Coen Brothers: The Big Lebowski, Fargo, No Country for Old Men, Barton Fink, The LadyKillers.
Nostalgia: Then there are times when you just want to be reminded of the good old days. The movies of your childhood or adolescence, that come with a particular memory attached. Or maybe you’re just a hipster, who prefers the styles and sensibilities of times that were before you. Either way, here are recommendations for films from ‘70s, ‘80s, and 90’s that were considered classics of their times:
1970s films:
1980s films:
1990s films:
Awards: If you choose to buy into the illusion that awards matter and aren’t political, then this is the list for you. Don’t get us wrong. We may not buy into that notion, but many times, they do give out Oscars to films that deserve it. Our top 5 Academy Award winners for Best Film (who haven’t been named in any previous list in this issue) are: