against type
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The film unlike everything else its director made. The detour, the outlier, the one that doesn't belong on the shelf. David Lynch made a G-rated Disney road movie about an old man crossing Iowa on a lawnmower. Park Chan-wook broke off the vengeance trilogy to make a whimsical romance set in a psychiatric ward. Ang Lee, between intimate literary dramas, made Hulk. You'd never find these by browsing a director's shelf, because they are exactly the films that shelf doesn't account for.
Big Trouble in Little China
Catch Me If You Can
Inside Llewyn Davis
Pacific Rim
The Straight Story
2001: A Space Odyssey
Mission to Mars
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Starman
Hulk
Paris Je T'aime
Once Upon a Time in America
I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK
True Grit
Taking Woodstock
Some Like It Hot
Three... Extremes
The Wind Rises
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