Best movie nobody's heard of...

[Maerdwyn]

I've been wanting to see The Circle for quite a while - the move to Delaware from Northern California has severely curtailed the number of foreign releases easily available to me for rental .

Others to try, if you're interested, are Tahmina Milani's Two Women (for adults), and The Color of Paradise (for most - too intense for younger kids, though. This is by the same director as Children of Heaven: Majid Majidi. ).

I'm not as into Abbas Kiarostami's movies as most fans of Iranian cinema are, but he's a legend. His movies are mostly snapshots of his veiw of real life - sometimes very powerful, but often without much (er...anything) in the way of plot or (sometimes) character development. Ten (Most recently), A Taste of Cherry , The White Balloon, Close-up, among others.

Let me know how you like any of these you see - and if you find any others that you like but I haven't mentioned.

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Another movie (Not an Iranian one) that falls into the "great, but not widely seen" category is Night on Earth - five vignettes revolving around taxi drivers in different cities around the world. Jim Jarmusch directs; Roberto Benigni, Winona Ryder, Rosie Perez, Gena Rowlands, and others less well known to me star. Some of the tales are funny, the one set in Helsinki is terribly sad - all are great and leave you wanting to know more about the characters.

 

[Blue_Kryptonite]

Not sure how obscure it is, but I know I had never heard of it. Crossworlds, with Rutger Hauer. I got continual Zelazny/Amber vibes watching it.

 

[Olive]

Madre del dios... thanks Olive, I forgot all about Whit Stillman's movies [perhaps because he seems to have stopped making them!.

Yeah, I was thinking the otherday that it's been a some time since I last saw one. Any one ahve any idea?

Olive, how do you see Last Days as similar to Woody Allen's films, other than the omnipresent sense of New York City --both as place and as central metaphor-- that hangs over both?

It's the NYCness and the sheer talkiness. Erudite people sitting around talking about academic (in both senses of the word) subjects always remind me of Allen.

And Woody Allen smutty? Annoying? OK, sure, in his later works, I can see that. But so many of his early works are so good... Take the Money and Run, Bananas, Sleeper, Annie Hall, Manhattan, Zelig, Crimes and Misdeamenors its a little unfair fair to sum it all up as 'smutty with annoying characters'.

Actually I find a lot of his later stuff less smutty and annoying. sleeper is one of the smuttiest and most irritating films I've ever seen. Annie Hall is obviously different.

 

[Hypersmurf]

It's the NYCness and the sheer talkiness. Erudite people sitting around talking about academic (in both senses of the word) subjects always remind me of Allen.

Heh. I received this by email notification, so the quotes were omitted.

And I read it as "Erudite people always remind me of Alien", and spent a moment thinking "Did we watch the same movie?"

-Hyp.

 

[TracerBullet42]

Just wondering...

Have any of you, since reading this thread, watched Boondock Saints? I highly recommend it and would like to hear what others think of it?

(Should I have started a new thread to ask that?)

 

[Ace]

A couple of my favorite cheesball movies that no one knows

People Under the Stairs with Everett McGill and Wendy Robey (of Twin Peaks fame) as cannabilistic psychos

Hudson Hawk with Bruce Willis and Danny Aeilo

 

[Olive]

And I read it as "Erudite people always remind me of Alien", and spent a moment thinking "Did we watch the same movie?"

Imagine if you had read it as Aliens. Now that had some incoherent dialogue...

 

[Hypersmurf]

Imagine if you had read it as Aliens. Now that had some incoherent dialogue...

"A day in the Marine Corps is like a day on the farm! Every meal's a banquet; every paycheck's a fortune; every formation's a parade."

How many parades do you get on an average day on the farm?!

-Hyp.

 

[Mallus]

Hudson Hawk with Bruce Willis and Danny Aeilo

Hudson Hawk is not a little known film...

1) Its genius.

2) It was an expensive flop that got [mostly] savaged by critics. So it got kicked around in the media [10 worsts lists etc] for quite awhile. It got plenty of publicity, all bad.

 

[Wrath of the Swarm]

One of my favorite semi-obscure films is Starman. Simple plot, simple cinematography, beautifully-acted characters. The music, while a bit heavy on synth as was popular at the time (along with wearing onions on belts and rich men throwing coins from balloons), is oddly memorable.