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Hipster Film

Hip*ster: one who possesses tastes, social attitudes and opinions deemed cool by the cool. (Note: it is no longer recommended that one use the term “cool.” A Hipster would say instead “deck”.)

The Hipster walks among the masses in daily life but is not one of them and shuns or reduces to kitsch anything held dear by the mainstream.

- The Hipster Handbook by Robert Lanham

"Hipsters are film aficionados who take pride in their disdain of Hollywood fare that stars Meg Ryan, Julia Roberts, Tom Hanks, and Robin Williams. When it comes to trite cinema, these actors are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, although others such as Mel Gibson, Denzel Washington, Sandra Bullock, Vin Diesel, and Whoopi Goldberg are quickly gaining ground. Weeding through the crap at the video store can be tough for Hipsters, given the abundance of titles like ‘Mr. Deeds’ and ‘Men in Black II’, but we want to help. Here are a wide selection of titles that comprise the Hipster canon of essential film."

Here’s Lanham’s must sees for the hipster crowd (it’s very sarcastic readers, don’t get your knickers in a twist about Valley Girl being on there; and if you actually like Mel Gibson then there’s no hope so you should keep quiet too because I will laugh at you):

Send to Printer Rolling Out the Red Carpet, or The Oscars Suck Ass Hipster Film Hip*ster: one who possesses tastes, social attitudes and opinions deemed cool by the cool. (Note: it is no longer recommended that one use the term “cool.” A Hipster would say instead “deck”.) The Hipster walks among the masses in daily life but is not one of them and shuns or reduces to kitsch anything held dear by the mainstream. - The Hipster Handbook by Robert Lanham "Hipsters are film aficionados who take pride in their disdain of Hollywood fare that stars Meg Ryan, Julia Roberts, Tom Hanks, and Robin Williams. When it comes to trite cinema, these actors are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, although others such as Mel Gibson, Denzel Washington, Sandra Bullock, Vin Diesel, and Whoopi Goldberg are quickly gaining ground. Weeding through the crap at the video store can be tough for Hipsters, given the abundance of titles like ‘Mr. Deeds’ and ‘Men in Black II’, but we want to help. Here are a wide selection of titles that comprise the Hipster canon of essential film." Here’s Lanham’s must sees for the hipster crowd (it’s very sarcastic readers, don’t get your knickers in a twist about Valley Girl being on there; and if you actually like Mel Gibson then there’s no hope so you should keep quiet too because I will laugh at you):
	1.		Buffalo '66
	2.		Suspiria
	3.		Manhattan by Woody Allen
	4.		Down by Law - Criterion Collection
	5.		The Seventh Seal - Criterion Collection by Ingmar Bergman
	6.		The Killing by Stanley Kubrick
	7.		Blazing Saddles
	8.		Duel (Collector's Edition) by Steven Spielberg
	9.		Crumb (Special Edition) by Terry Zwigoff
	10.		Orpheus [1950, IMPORT, ALL REGIONS]
	11.		Drugstore Cowboy by Gus Van Sant
	12.		Brazil
	13.		Valley Girl by Martha Coolidge
	14.		Delicatessen
	15.		Blow Up by Michelangelo Antonioni
	16.		Barton Fink by Ethan Coen
	17.		Dazed & Confused (Widescreen Flashback Edition) by Richard Linklater
	18.		Pink Flamingos
	19.		8 1/2 - Criterion Collection
	20.		Rushmore by Wes Anderson
	21.		Russ Meyer's Faster Pussycat Kill!..kill! by Russ Meyer
	22.		Do the Right Thing
	23.		Blue Velvet (Special Edition) by David Lynch
	24.		Seven Samurai - Criterion Collection by Akira Kurosawa
	25.		The Apartment
	26.		The River's Edge by Allan Dwan
	27.		The Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter - Criterion Collection by Albert Maysles
	28.	?	Touch of Evil (Restored to Orson Welles' Vision)
	29.		The Night of the Hunter by Charles Laughton
	30.		Naked Lunch by David Cronenberg
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