What Artist Watch

Inspired by our current show "Big Fish" we asked our visitors at the Existential Cafe Artist Talk to consider the narrative and provide examples of great narrative films. Below are all the films mentioned with links to the IMDB, with some including the visitor recommendations. Check out the film favorites that artists are talking about!

Princess Bride 1987
(Shauna Oddleifson)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093779/
Coraline 2009
(Asher Klassen)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0327597/
What’s Eating Gilbert Grape 1993
(Lee Claremont)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108550/?ref_=nv_sr_1
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children 1996 (Amber Powell)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1935859/?ref_=nv_sr_1
Memento 2001
(Joanne Gervais)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0209144/?ref_=nv_sr_1
Birdman 2014
(Liane McLaren)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2562232/?ref_=nv_sr_1
Run Lola Run 1998
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0130827/?ref_=nv_sr_1
Bridge to Terabithia 2007
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0398808/?ref_=nv_sr_2
100 year old Man Who Climbed out a Window and Disappeared 2013
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2113681/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
The Tree of Life 2011
(Petrina Mcneill)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0478304/?ref_=nv_sr_2
Everything is Illuminated 2005
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0404030/?ref_=nv_sr_1
Fences 2016
(Sharon McCoubrey)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2671706/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
Time Traveller’s Wife 2009
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0452694/?ref_=nv_sr_2
Grand Budapest Hotel 2014
(Rick Davidson)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2278388/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 2005 (Moozhan Ahmadzadegan)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0338013/?ref_=nv_sr_1
Life of Pi 2012
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0454876/?ref_=nv_sr_1
Shirley Valentine 1989
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098319/?ref_=nv_sr_1
Force Majeure 2014
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2121382/?ref_=nv_sr_2
2001: A Space Odyssey 1968
(Bernie)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062622/?ref_=nv_sr_1
Midnight in Paris 2011
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1605783/?ref_=nv_sr_3
The Swimmer 1968
(Rosanne)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063663/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
The Conversation 1974
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071360/?ref_=nv_sr_1
Orlando 1992
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107756/?ref_=nv_sr_5
Amelie 2001 (Jill)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0211915/?ref_=nv_sr_1
Pulp Fiction 1994
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110912/?ref_=nv_sr_1
Hero 2002
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0299977/?ref_=nv_sr_3
Star Wars: A New Hope 1977
​(Steve Kania)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076759/?ref_=nv_sr_7
My Neighbor Totoro 1988
​(Liane McLaren)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096283/?ref_=nv_sr_1
Pans Labyrinth 2006
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0457430/?ref_=nv_sr_1

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