Want to Read a Philosophical Novel?: A Recommendation Flowchart (zoom in as necessary).
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Films that I have taught:
Force Majeure, Ruben Östlund, 2014
Snowpiercer, Bong Joon Ho, 2013
Sorry to Bother You, Boots Riley, 2018
Cold Souls, Sophie Barthes, 2009
Us, Jordan Peele, 2019
The Square, Ruben Östlund, 2017
Parasite, Bong Joon Ho, 2019
Cache, Michael Haneke, 2005
Queen & Slim, Melina Matsoukas, 2019
Synecdoche, New York, Charlie Kaufman, 2008
Remainder, Omer Fast, 2015 (with Tom McCarthy's novel)
Ikiru, Akira Kurosawa, 1952 (with Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilyich)
Chi-Raq, Spike Lee, 2015 (with Aristophanes' Lysistrata)
Stories We Tell, Sarah Polley, 2012
The Act of Killing, Joshua Oppenheimer, 2012
And some other favorites:
Bamboozled, Spike Lee, 2000
Blade Runner, Ridley Scott, 1982
Dogtooth, Yorgos Lanthimos, 2009
Dogville, Lars von Trier, 2003
Enemy, Denis Villeneuve, 2013
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Michel Gondry, 2004
Ex Machina, Alex Garland, 2014
The Face of Another, Hiroshi Teshigahara, 1966
The Game, David Fincher, 1997
Intacto, Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, 2001
Lost Highway, David Lynch, 1997
Magnolia, Paul Thomas Anderson, 1999
Memento, Christopher Nolan, 2000
Moon, Duncan Jones, 2009
No Country for Old Men, Coen Brothers, 2007
Only Lovers Left Alive, Jim Jarmusch, 2013
Phoenix, Christian Petzold, 2014
Reprise, Joachim Trier, 2006
The Royal Tennenbaums, Wes Anderson, 2001
The Skin I Live In, Pedro Almodóvar, 2011
Stalker, Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979
The Thin Red Line, Terrence Malick, 1998
Upstream Color, Shane Carruth, 2013
Youth, Paolo Sorrentino, 2015
Bonus: I won't try to claim that there's anything specifically philosophical about my taste in mannered indie rock, but since college, I have made a mixtape of newish music once or twice a year for friends. Here are the most recent (links are to Spotify playlists):
SAD Lamp (winter 2020)
Perpetual Autumn Machine (fall 2019)
I Have Been to the Mountain (winter 2019)
The Year of the Woman, Part 2 (fall 2018)
I Remember the Glow (fall 2017)
More Songs for On-Ramps (fall 2016)