Suggestions

 

Fiction:

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

Caché, 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

Bamboozled, Spike Lee, 2000

Antebellum, Gerard Bush and Christopher Renz, 2020

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Michel Gondry, 2004

Memento, Christopher Nolan, 2000

Existenz, David Cronenberg, 1999

The Matrix, The Wachowskis, 1999

Inception, Christopher Nolan, 2010

The Power of the Dog, Jane Campion, 2021

The Game, David Fincher, 1997

Intacto, Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, 2001

Arrival, Denis Villeneuve, 2016

Dark City, Alex Proyas, 1998

Dogtooth, Yorgos Lanthimos, 2009

Annihilation, Alex Garland, 2018

Upstream Color, Shane Carruth, 2013

A Glitch in the Matrix, Rodney Asher, 2021

Homecoming King, Hasan Minhaj, 2017

And some other favorites:

Beau Travail, Claire Denis, 1999

Blade Runner, Ridley Scott, 1982

Dogville, Lars von Trier, 2003

Enemy, Denis Villeneuve, 2013

Ex Machina, Alex Garland, 2014

The Face of Another, Hiroshi Teshigahara, 1966

A Ghost Story, David Lowery, 2017

The Green Knight, David Lowery, 2021

The Lives of Others, Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, 2006

Lost Highway, David Lynch, 1997

Magnolia, Paul Thomas Anderson, 1999

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

Youth, Paolo Sorrentino, 2015