The A.V. Club's Turning on a dime: 15 great gearshift movies

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‘"Gearshift movies," a term coined by P.T. Anderson, are films that head in one direction, stop on a dime, and veer off into radically different territory.’

  1. 1.
    Psycho (Collector's Edition)
    by Alfred Hitchcock
  2. 2.
    Audition (Uncut Special Edition)
    by Takashi Miike
  6. 6.
    Something Wild
    by Jonathan Demme
  7. 7.
    GoodFellas (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Martin Scorsese
  8. 8.
    Full Metal Jacket

  9. 9.
    Lost Highway
    by David Lynch
  10. 10.
    In the Bedroom

  11. 11.
    Wild Things (Unrated Edition)

  12. 12.
    The Ninth Configuration
    by William Peter Blatty
  14. 14.
    Adaptation (Superbit Collection)
    by Spike Jonze
  15. 15.
    The Crying Game (Collector's Edition)
    by Neil Jordan
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Created by blurgess on Feb 01, 2009.
 

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