Joined by a solid supporting cast in Catherine Keener and David Strathairn, Maladies will forever be known as the film that set Franco off towards a stint on General Hospital in 2010. Despite not knowing much on Carter, we're curious enough to include this in our top 100.
Herzog likewise reduces cinema to its most basic expressive formula: using the medium of the camera to transform the literal, untouched reality before us into something estranging and miraculous. ‘Cave’ accomplishes what all great art strives to do: wrench us from out of the entrenched armor of our mundane solipsisms and give us a glimpse of the eternal. The mutated albino alligator writhing aimlessly in a vast, expensive simulation, its natural impulses irrelevant and forgotten, is the perfect symbol for contemporary humanity. Herzog ominously warns us all: “The site is expanding.”