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#1 Posted : 5/20/2019 6:21:06 AM

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So, there is already a movie and book bin thread. But those are for "good" movies and books.

But what about movies and books that transcend all of the just "good" works, and are part of your essential watching/reading?

This thread is to compile all the timeless classics. If there were going to be a vault with limited but undefined size, what movies and books would you want preserved for all of time? This isn't a compilation of just what you like. It's to compile works that are accessible to anyone. Otherwise, i would be spamming Dragon Ball, but it's fairly inaccessible to those who haven't watched any of it, so it won't go on my list.

Please separate the categories. Movies are self explanatory, with books being classed as fiction, non-fiction and philosophy. TV show category is also good. If there need to be more categories, i'm all ears. Or eyes, since this is a text medium.

If you've already posted your list and want to make additions, just edit your existing post to make a more cohesive personal list. Write all of your timeless masterpieces, and don't worry about having repeated entries by other people. The more prevalent a certain work is, the more it speaks for its value. If you see something on someone else's list, and you wholeheartedly agree with that addition, add it to your own.

My list (so far):


MOVIES:

12 Angry Men
The Matrix Trilogy
Groundhog Day
Shaolin (2011)
Fearless


BOOKS:

FICTION:

Dune by Frank Herbert
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
1984 by George Orwell
The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
Three Body Problem trilogy by Cixin Liu
Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

NON-FICTION:

How to Make Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene
A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking

PHILOSOPHY:

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
Tao Te Ching by Laozi


TV SHOWS:

Black Mirror
Silicon Valley
Avatar: The Last Airbender
The Simpsons
Futurama
Breaking Bad
The Green Room with Paul Provenza
Rick and Morty
The Boondocks
Seinfeld


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#2 Posted : 5/20/2019 3:05:39 PM

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Workingmans Dead, American Beauty, Axis: Bold As Love, Electric Ladyland, DSOTM, Animals, The Wall, Wish You Were Here, some of my favorite timeless masterpieces.
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#3 Posted : 5/20/2019 7:58:44 PM

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MOVIES:

Contact
Before Sunrise
Before Sunset
There's Something About Mary
Kingpin
Stuck On You
Gone With The Wind
Godfather I and II
Meet Joe Black
Misery
Groundhog Day
Mean Streets
Scarface
Alien
Legends of the Fall
Dance with the Wolves
Solaris (1979)
Goodfellas
Casino
A Bronx Tale
Once Upon A Time In America
Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Disney's Beauty and The Beast
The Shawshank Redemption
E.T the Extraterestrial
Silence of The Lambs
Forest Gump
Castaway
The Deerhunter
Rocky
Braveheart


BOOKS:

FICTION:

The Complete Plays and Poems of Shakespeare
By Reason of Insanity By Shane Stevens
One Flew Over the Cukoo's Nest by Ken Kessey
Four Past Midnight by Stephen King
Different Seasons by Stephen King
Pet Semetery by Stephen King
Skeleton Crew by Stephen King
Graveyeard Shift by Stephen King
Revival by Stephen King
The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
ELEVEN: Short Stories by Patricia Highsmith
The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe
Frankenstein by Mary Shelly
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
The Deep Blue Good-bye by John D. MacDonald
The Decievers by John D. MacDonald
Begginers by Raymond Carvard
The Seducers Diary by Kierkigaard
The Witches by Roald Dahl
The Count of Montecristo by Alexandre Dumas
The Postman Always Rings Twice by John M. Cain.
The Island of Doctor Moreau by H.G. Wells

NON-FICTION:

Scripts People Live by Claude Steiner
Born To Win: Transactional Analysis With Gestalt Experiments by Muriel James
The Complete Memoirs of Jaques Casanova de Seingalt translated by Arthur Machen
Napoleon, by Vincent Cronin.
Why Big Fierce Animals Are Rare by Paul Colinvaux
Murder Machine by Gene Mustain and Jerry Capecci
A History of Warfareby John Keegan
The Face of Battle by John Keegan
The Art of Seduction by Robert Greene
Green River, Running Red by Ann Rule
Fatal Vision by John Mcginnes


PHILOSOPHY:

Think on These Things by Krishnamurti.
On The Shortness of Life by Seneca (Runner up, On Anger)
Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle. (Runner up Poetics)
The Will to Doubt by Bertrand Russell
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius



TV SHOWS:

Breaking Bad
The Tommyknockers

Todo lo que quiero es que me recuerdes siempre así...amándote. Mantay kuna kayadidididi~~Ayahuasca shamudididi. Silence โ—‹ Shiva โ—‡ eternal Purusha.
What we have done is establish the rule of authority in silence. Silence is the administrator of the universe. In silence is the script of Natural Law, eternally guiding the destiny of everyone. The Joy of Giving โ™กSee the job. Do the job. Stay out of the misery.โ™ก
May this world be established with a sense of well-being and happiness. May all beings in all worlds be blessed with peace, contentment, and freedom.
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#4 Posted : 5/21/2019 12:42:31 PM

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Movies.

Shadowlands
Der untergang
Natural born killers
The doors
Das leben der anderen
The life of brian
The meaning of life
Monty python and the holy grail
The adventures of baron munchhausen
The fisher king
The wolf of wall street
Close encounters of the third kind
Sleepy hollow
Charlie chocolate
Terminator 2
Interstellar
Gravity
The prestige
Inception
All of the harry potter movies
The people against larry flint
Hard rain
The edge
Fucking amal
North by northwest
Amsterdamned
And all movies from alex van warmerdam
Tinker tailor soldier spy
The day of the jackall
Get shorty
Pulp fiction
The big lebowsky
Mars attacks
Ed wood

I'll come back with the rest later.
 
dragonrider
#5 Posted : 5/22/2019 9:24:12 AM

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Man...i forgot mary poppins
Fargo
The life aquatic with steve sizou
The grand budapest hotel
Basic instinct
The matrix
Offscreen

I don't know about the lord of the rings trilogy...the art direction is awesome, but the character development and some of the acting is a bit flat. I still love it though.
 
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#6 Posted : 5/22/2019 7:06:20 PM

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Mars Atacks is really something. It was too cold for me to love it but after I came back from my first dmt trip I remembered that movie and said "Aha! Thats where the weirdness from that movie came from." And I am speaking about the "collective unconcious" or whatever one wants to call it, which is the source of creation and subsequently art, these being the expressions of the universe.
Todo lo que quiero es que me recuerdes siempre así...amándote. Mantay kuna kayadidididi~~Ayahuasca shamudididi. Silence โ—‹ Shiva โ—‡ eternal Purusha.
What we have done is establish the rule of authority in silence. Silence is the administrator of the universe. In silence is the script of Natural Law, eternally guiding the destiny of everyone. The Joy of Giving โ™กSee the job. Do the job. Stay out of the misery.โ™ก
May this world be established with a sense of well-being and happiness. May all beings in all worlds be blessed with peace, contentment, and freedom.
This mass of stress visible in the here & now has sensuality for its reason, sensuality for its source, sensuality for its cause, the reason being simply sensuality.
 
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#7 Posted : 5/23/2019 1:45:08 AM

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#8 Posted : 5/23/2019 5:08:27 PM

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Movies:
Diary of a Country Priest
Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom (Careful with this one)
Stalker
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoise
Pickpocket
The Flower of the 1001 Nights
Fanny and Alexander
Cries and Whispers
Dogville
The Color of Pomegranates (Sayat Nova)

Books:
The Castle, Franz Kafka
Joseph and His Brothers, Thomas Mann
War and Peace, Leon Tolstoy
Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes
One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky
Flowers of Evil, Charles Baudelaire
The Chants of Maldoror, Isidore Ducasse (Comte de Lautremont)
A Rebours ("Against Nature" or "Against the Grain" ) Joris Karl Huysmans
 
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#9 Posted : 5/23/2019 11:39:10 PM

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Kafka's The Castle rocks.
Todo lo que quiero es que me recuerdes siempre así...amándote. Mantay kuna kayadidididi~~Ayahuasca shamudididi. Silence โ—‹ Shiva โ—‡ eternal Purusha.
What we have done is establish the rule of authority in silence. Silence is the administrator of the universe. In silence is the script of Natural Law, eternally guiding the destiny of everyone. The Joy of Giving โ™กSee the job. Do the job. Stay out of the misery.โ™ก
May this world be established with a sense of well-being and happiness. May all beings in all worlds be blessed with peace, contentment, and freedom.
This mass of stress visible in the here & now has sensuality for its reason, sensuality for its source, sensuality for its cause, the reason being simply sensuality.
 
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#10 Posted : 5/25/2019 7:49:17 AM

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True Masterpieces?

Book: Walden

Album: Dark Side of the Moon

Film: The Animatrix

TV Show: The Maxx
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#11 Posted : 5/25/2019 9:46:17 AM

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Books

Fiction
The assault, harry mulisch
The evenings, gerard reve
The hitchhikers guide to the galaxy, douglas adams
Max havelaar, eduard douwes dekker
Fear and loathing in las vegas, Hunter s. Thompson
Siddhartha, herman hesse
The electric cool-aid acid test, tom wolfe

Non fiction and philosophy
Godel Escher Bach, douglas hostadter
Descartes' error, antonio damasio
The self comes to mind, antonio damasio
The philosophical writings of Descartes volume 1&2, john cottingham, robert stoothof, dugald murdoch
Global ethics. Seminal essays, thomas pogge and keith horton
Jihad vs mcworld, Benjamin r. Barber
Chimpanzee politics, Frans de waal
Good natured, Frans de Waal
Plato complete works, edited by John m. Cooper
Tractatus logico-philosophicus, ludwig wittgenstein
Choices, Michael d. Resnik
Long walk to freedom, nelson mandela
Introducing buddha, jane hope
 
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#12 Posted : 5/26/2019 4:01:47 AM

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Another album:

Unplugged in New York
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#13 Posted : 5/26/2019 5:02:00 PM
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Brave New World Revisited - Aldous Huxley
The Doors of Perception - Aldous Huxley
DMT: The Spirit Molecule - Dr. Rick Strassman
On The Road - Jack Kerouac
Lonesome Traveler - Jack Kerouac
Tristessa - Jack Kerouac
The Holy King James Bible - Various
Nag Hammadi library - Various
The Kybalion - Various
The Mystery of The Cathedrals - Fulcaneli (this one is extra interesting since Notre Dame just burned recently)
 
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#14 Posted : 5/26/2019 8:30:09 PM

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Books

Yi Ging, in the traduction of C. Javary
Several works by Aleister Crowley
The will to power by Friedrich Nietzsche
Tabula Smaragdina by Hermes Trismegistos


Movies

Samsara de Ron Fricke
Arthur Dee was one of the greatest alchemists of all time, not likely to his dad, I forgot his name, this small James Bond sorcerer working for the queen of a... Hail Arthur!
 
 
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