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Mentions and Favorites: Ari Aster

Every film he has mentioned liking, seeing, or cited as inspiration in interviews. Started this series of lists because I love these artists' work and I think knowing what their influences are help understand and contextualize them better.

I watched Midsommar on a whim in 2019 after being underwhelmed by Hereditary, and it hooked me so much I watched it 4 more times in a 6-month period. And contrary to popular opinion, I loved Beau, and I liked Eddington immediately and it's already vindicated. I will always be seated for anything he makes.

Not on Letterboxd:
Barry | Documentary Now! | The Sopranos | Succession

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  • Backrooms
  • Shifty
  • Afternoons of Solitude
  • Babygirl
  • Misericordia
  • Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
  • Poor Things
  • Past Lives
  • Walk Up
  • No Bears
  • Pearl
  • Everything Everywhere All at Once
  • This Much I Know to Be True
  • The Backrooms (Found Footage)
  • The Green Knight
  • The Irishman
  • Uncut Gems
  • Instinct
  • Parasite
  • The Lighthouse
  • The Souvenir
  • If Beale Street Could Talk
  • The Sisters Brothers
  • Roma
  • The Favourite
  • The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
  • Incredibles 2
  • The Wild Pear Tree
  • Burning
  • BlacKkKlansman
  • The House That Jack Built
  • Climax
  • Shoplifters
  • Happy as Lazzaro
  • Border
  • Cold War
  • Support the Girls
  • The Wolf House
  • Isle of Dogs
  • Minding the Gap
  • Shirkers
  • Sorry to Bother You
  • Hale County This Morning, This Evening
  • Eighth Grade
  • Mandy
  • Phantom Thread
  • Custody
  • The Death of Stalin
  • Lady Bird
  • First Reformed
  • Zama
  • Dunkirk
  • You Were Never Really Here
  • Good Time
  • The Killing of a Sacred Deer
  • Claire's Camera
  • The Rider
  • Twin Peaks: The Return
  • Loveless
  • Western
  • The Green Fog
  • Get Out
  • Silence
  • Patriots Day
  • Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: One More Time with Feeling
  • Moonlight
  • Graduation
  • The Handmaiden
  • The Wailing
  • Manchester by the Sea
  • The Lobster
  • 45 Years
  • The Witch
  • Ex Machina
  • A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence
  • Mr. Turner
  • The Babadook
  • Whiplash
  • Hard to Be a God
  • Under the Skin
  • The Immigrant
  • Behind the Candelabra
  • Computer Chess
  • Before Midnight
  • Spring Breakers
  • The Master
  • It's Such a Beautiful Day
  • Beyond the Hills
  • Margaret
  • Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
  • Play
  • I'm Still Here
  • Another Year
  • Nostalgia for the Light
  • Four Lions
  • A Serious Man
  • The White Ribbon
  • Mother
  • Thirst
  • Still Walking