In response to this homework assignment, I don’t have time at the moment to go seek out new things, but cinema is an area I know pretty well so I can offer something without having to do a lot of research. I will choose recent works because older works have already been discussed to death or forgotten altogether.

Lowbrow trash: Landmine Goes Click.

Highbrow Trash: Upstream Color.

Classic: Moonrise Kingdom.

I didn’t pick Ex Machina as a classic even though I think it’s a better film than Moonrise Kingdom. If one defintion of a classic is “stands the test of time” then despite MK being made in 2012, it is indeed timeless. I don’t think that is true of Ex Machina. After we actually get AIs walking around and cultural norms change again it’ll seem really dated and confusing I suspect.

And don’t watch Landmine Goes Click under any conditions. What a piece of gutter crud.