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The Essential Digital Modernist Movies

Around the year 2000, digital cinematography was introduced to mainstream cinema. However, most directors treated digital camera either as a tool to create decidedly lo-fi, mundane imagery (see: most of the Dogme 95, and mumblecore movements; the found footage horror genre), or, on the other end of the spectrum, tried to conform the digital look to the look of film-shot movies (with its mushed colors, prevalence of grain, wide dynamic range--and, as a result, low contrast, etc.) as close as possible. The latter is the path the mainstream Hollywood, including postmodernist auteurs like Steven Soderbergh, and David Fincher, disappointingly took after the year 2010.

A handful of directors around the world actually embraced the unique technical quality, the idiosyncrasies and…

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  • Personal Problems
  • Hatsu Yume (First Dream)
  • The Mind's Eye
  • The Secret Aesthetics of the Martian Spies
  • Level Five
  • Zenboxing
  • Julien Donkey-Boy
  • Timecode
  • Elegy of a Voyage
  • All About Lily Chou-Chou
  • Hotel
  • She Puppet
  • Vidocq
  • *Corpus Callosum
  • Cremaster 3
  • Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones
  • Russian Ark
  • Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over
  • Party Monster
  • Hana and Alice
  • Casshern
  • Kamikaze Girls
  • Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
  • Sin City
  • Ultraviolet
  • Memories of Matsuko
  • Miami Vice
  • Inland Empire
  • Slipstream
  • Speed Racer
  • Love Exposure
  • The Spirit
  • Antichrist
  • Valhalla Rising
  • Tetsuo: The Bullet Man
  • Film Socialisme
  • Melancholia
  • Twixt
  • Holy Motors
  • Leviathan
  • Resident Evil: Retribution
  • Life of Pi
  • The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
  • The Rambler
  • The Great Gatsby
  • Real
  • Center Jenny
  • The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
  • Goodbye to Language
  • Hyperlinks or It Didn't Happen
  • Transformers: The Premake
  • The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
  • Dying of the Light
  • Blackhat
  • Tangerine
  • Journey to the Shore
  • Francofonia
  • The Walk
  • Despite the Night
  • Shin Godzilla
  • Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
  • Let the Summer Never Come Again
  • Twin Peaks: The Return
  • Hanagatami
  • Unsane
  • The Image Book
  • Killing
  • Polar
  • Family Romance, LLC
  • Gemini Man
  • Labyrinth of Cinema
  • Nikita Lavretski
  • The Five Rules Of Success
  • Desire Path
  • Minor Daemon, Vol. 1
  • The Green Knight
  • Zeros and Ones
  • Hinterland
  • Dune
  • Alan Resnick's Enterings
  • The Outwaters
  • Shin Ultraman
  • Fairytale