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I would be interested in reading your comments on movies that you regard as great movies which never received much press.They can be old or new.
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Y'know...I could list 4, 40 or 140.But here's some less well known (not necessarily obscure) movies worth checking out. (DogStar Man is my definition of obscure, if you know what I mean.)
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I Know Where I'm Going - 1940's Powell/Pressburger gem got a great DVD release last year. One of the best Archers and not as well known as some of their others.
Lone Star - Mystery/love story shows Sayles at his best, with a great perf from Chris Cooper. Also check out Matewan & Eight Men Out.
Don't Look Now - Mystery, ghost story, cautionary tale. Starring Donald Sutherland and Julie Christy directed by Nichlas Roeg. Contains one of cinemas most erotic scenes.
Fearless - One of my favorite Peter Weir films, outstanding Jeff Bridges performance. Almost put The Last Wave here instead.
The Apostle - Robert Duval stars and directs this fine character study of a troubled evangelical preacher. Not quite as good as Tender Mercies but darned close.
The Grifters - Nasty, sly, neo noir features great cast (Benning, Houston, Cusack) and expert direction from Stephen Frears
Blood Simple - Nasty, sly, neo noir, first major film from the Cohen Bros, makes a good double feature with above.
Gods & Monsters - Bill Condon's reverie on the last days of director James Whale (Bride of Frnakenstein). Ian McKellen deserved the Oscar
The Advocate - Colin Firth stars in a tale of murder, justice, sex and power in the 14th century. Much more fun than The Name Of the Rose.
Angels & Insects: Based on A.S. Byatt's novel, delves into goings on at a Victorian English Country house where things are not as they seem.
The Draughtsman's Contract - I have to include at least one Peter Greenaway flick. I love this movie and it's gorgeous (though Drowning By Numbers is probably more "accessible", lol).
The Navigator - Fanatasy film from NZ with no FX but your imagination.
24 Hour Party People - Michael Winterbottom's look at "Madchester" era makes you fall in love with rock and roll again. Brief, demented turn from Andy Serkis. Also check out Winterbottom's Welcome to Serejavo.
Proof, Romper Stomper - Both circa 1991, the first a character driven starring then unknowns Russell Crowe and Hugo Weaving, the latter featuring Crowe's break-out role as a young tough.
Foreign Language:
Kitchen Stories - A tale of frienship from Scandinava. Funny. Absurd. Tragic. Maybe my favorite film from 2004.
The Return - Knockout debut film from Russia. Another "best of" from 2004.
Intimate Strangers, The Widow of St. Pierre - Director Pierre Leconte (Girl On The Bridge, Man On The Train) concocts a droll love story that grows from a chance encounter of mistaken identity. Intimate Strangers was another excellent film from 2004. The Widow of St. Pierre, a period film from a couple years earlier is also recommended.
The Devil's Backbone - Terrific ghost story from Spain.
No Man's Land - Absurdity and desperation in time of war.
Raise The Red Lantern - Beautiful film, also check out Ju Dou.
Early Summer - Another masterpiece from the maker of Tokyo Story. Just out this year in a Criterion edition. (YAY)
OK...so this wasn;t a short list.
Sayle's next movie after "Lone Star" and it's equal.
Thanks for reminding me. Those two marked a high water mark for Sayle's late period.
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hm, well, here are some obscure ones I likeHollywood Shuffle http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093200/
Eating Raoul http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083869/
Housekeeping http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093225/And, if you grew up in the 50's, The Atomic Cafe is a must!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083590/Maybe not really obscure but if you like old WWII movies, The Enemy Below http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050356/ was one of the few Navy films that I liked besides Das Boot.
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Thanks for reminding us!And in my mind it is for some strange reason always linked to another somewhat obscure masterpiece - Montenegro.
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"Silent Running"
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...it was one of my favorites in my last year in college. Thanks.
Saw this at the midnight show at the Playboy Theater in Chicago around 1972. Thought it was quite cool and outrageous.Saw it again about 3 years ago and thought it had not aged too well.
I too saw it last year for the first time in many, many years and thought that it was a little long in the tooth. But I remember when I first saw it in the theatre around 1969, it was just different enough to have an impact.
It was one of the first American independents, a true "undergraound film" for its day.And it fit the anti-establishment sentiment of the times.
Wise Blood (the last John Huston film?). I still call em MvsevmsFlesh and Bone, with a very amoral, and I say that in a good way, Gwyneth Paltrow
Salem's Lot, the TV version with David Soul
The Salton Sea
Kiss Of The Vampire (or is it The Vampire's Kiss?) with a VERY confused Nicolas Cage
Innocent Blood (until it breaks down at the end)
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was "The Dead".
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...The Son's Room, Tampopo, Celebration, If...clark
Clark, did you sleep through the Donnie Darko blitz?Call them art, cult, under the radar, indy, critic fave, under-appreciated, lesser known...OK.
But to be obsure to me is to not have had a theatrical US release (or only a very short run) and not be readily available in a North American video format (VHS or DVD)and not necessarily critiacally acclaimed. Is a film that's been much written about truly obscurer?
I saw every one of these in the theater in a Midwestern American City. (OK, I admit I saw Wicker Man at a drive-in.)
OTOH, it's good to see you mention these flicks.
...the original poster, not you, gets to define "obscure". I simply chose some fine films that rarely get discussed, here or anywhere.clark
...lay off, I'm a Virgo.
Cool black+white from 1973.
I guess it's more obscure than Star Wars...but it's a highly regarded, oft screened film, considered by many to be Wender's best.Didn't anybody besides me and Victor go to the movies in the 70's????
He's been a naughty boy.
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...are a few "cult classics"."Repo Man", "Donnie Darko" and "Garden State" for example.
How about The Conversation, it got an Oscar nomination for best picture, but how many have seen the movie?Joseph
I've not only seen it, I saw it when it came out, and I own it on DVD. Hardly obscure, but it doesn't get the attention Apocalypse Now and the Godfathers do.
It's one of my favorites, along with my short-list of paranoid/conspiracy/espionage movies:
3 Days Of The Condor
All The President's Men
The Andromeda Strain
The Manchurian Candidate
Seven Days in May
The Parallax View (Outstanding)
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How about Scorpio? I'd seen it in theater only once when it was released. Back then I liked it very much and Paul Scofield was terrific, but I was a teenager then. Later I can't find any good review about the film, and it never released in DVD in our place.
So I my impression might be wrong.Joseph
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Michael Caine and Laurance Olivier. Fun and nasty.
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The term "obscure" is in the eye of the beholder
Maybe that is the right term
Rock Hudson, John Randolph
Comic Magazine (Japanese, 1986) aka: Kommikku Zasshi Nanka Iranai
Stars Uchida Yuya (Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence + Black Rain)A TV sensationalist dirt-digging news program (and its Director) spiral out of control
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"Where's Poppa" - 1970 jet-black comedy which could never be made in today's PC background. Carl Reiner, George Segal, Trish VanDever, Ruth Gordon, Ron Leibman."The Missouri Breaks" - An Arthur Penn directed eccentric western with Brando, Nicholson, Harry Dean Stanton, Randy Quaid, Fredric Forrest. A minor masterpiece. Another film which would be impossible to reproduce because of animal rights violated in spectacular "stunts". Brilliant performances.
At th3e top of my list of the worst westerns ever made. A good friend and I were dying to see it when it came out, given the talent. We were incredibly disapointed.
OK. I must be mistaken. I won't watch that one anymore, yielding to your superior taste and judgement.
Vice Squad, the nastiest, grittiest little police thriller you'll ever find and one that introduces one to a "pimp stick" and an exceptional character actor, Wings Hauser; Hollywood Shuffle, a hilarious, brilliantly written and acted film about the travails of talented Afro-Americans trying to break into films: many future stars got their first role in it (introduces one to the term, "hocakes").
Hidden, though it's become a cult classic of sorts is definitely worth seeing: an alien addicted to punk rock music and Ferraris? Yeah!
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