Best movie nobody's heard of...

[johnsemlak]

Fantasy or History related...

The Whole Wide World--Biography of Robert E Howard. Very good acting.

Sergei Eisenstein's movies (Alexander Nevsky is mentioned above, also Ivan the Terrible and Battleship Potomkin)

 

[howandwhy99]

I'll put another vote in for Jim Jarmusch's "Dead Man".

My all-time favorite little known movie is "Brother Sun, Sister Moon"
It tells the life story of Saint Francis of Assisi. Directed by Franco Zeffirelli, it even has Alec Guinness as the Pope.

 

[The_Universe]

Not fantasy or action, but a great movie (By George "I can't be trusted with my own creation" Lucas!): The Radioland Murders. Hilarious, and DIFFERENT.

 

[MrFilthyIke]

Ah...good times. What's yours?

They both comedies, and I don't know how "unkown" they are but...

Pooty Tang and Meet The Feebles

I "stumbled on both these films by accident on TV, and bout near
bust an internal organ laughing. Same with Yahoo Serious' Mr.
Accident. Guess I've just got weird tastes.

 

[AGGEMAM]

Being from across the pond brings a totally different perspective on this thread, I think that most of my favorite movies are unknown to most of you.

But let's start:

Italiensk for Begyndere (Italien for Beginners) by Hanne Vibeke Holst (danish, subtitled)

Mary Bon Tempi (Mary Forever) (Italien, subtitled) (can't remember the director)

Oh, and you americans should look out for the american version of a danish TV series "Kingdom Hospital" rewritten for english by Stephen King coming on ABC soon.

http://abc.go.com/movies/kingdomhospital.html

 

[Harp]

Great topic, and I have the perfect movie to suit the category -- the version of 'Robin Hood' which starred Patrick Bergin and Uma Thurman. Loved, loved, loved that movie, and I don't know of anyone else that's seen it. It came out at approximately the same time as Costner's version <*spit, spit*>, so the producers got scared, I suppose, and just ran it on network television. Definitely a "darker-n-grittier" version of the tale.

 

[AGGEMAM]

Great topic, and I have the perfect movie to suit the category -- the version of 'Robin Hood' which starred Patrick Bergin and Uma Thurman. Loved, loved, loved that movie, and I don't know of anyone else that's seen it. It came out at approximately the same time as Costner's version <*spit, spit*>, so the producers got scared, I suppose, and just ran it on network television. Definitely a "darker-n-grittier" version of the tale.

I concur. A lot better version than Costners. And in fact did a hellofalot better than the Costner version in the cinemas here.

 

[Storminator]

Siege of Firebase Gloria.

Vietnam film of pretty much endless action, that actual has the characters get ground down by. Very cool, but I've rarely talked to anyone that's heard of it.

PS

 

[Zander]

Great topic, and I have the perfect movie to suit the category -- the version of 'Robin Hood' which starred Patrick Bergin and Uma Thurman. Loved, loved, loved that movie, and I don't know of anyone else that's seen it. It came out at approximately the same time as Costner's version <*spit, spit*>, so the producers got scared, I suppose, and just ran it on network television. Definitely a "darker-n-grittier" version of the tale.

I've seen it on telly twice, most recently this Christmas. I agree that it's superior to the Costner version, but it's not my favourite telling. That goes to the Robin of Sherwood telly series from the mid-1980's starring Michael Praed. In the US, the first two episodes were combined to make a mini-movie which was out on video. You can get the whole thing on DVD in the UK.

 

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