Best movie nobody's heard of...

[Shadowdancer]

There was a horror movie from earlier this year called "May" that I thought was very well done, and very much overlooked. A contemporary take on "Frankenstein" with lots of black humor, it's about a disturbed, friendless young woman who decides to make herself the perfect man.

 

[Nightfall]

Mm I heard about May. Might have to rent that...

 

[Knightcrawler]

Razorblade Smile a great British vampire flick.

Deathrace 2000 a great movie but campy as hell.

 

[Michael Tree]

The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T is great, as someone already mentioned. Live action ubertrippy Dr. Seuss movie, with the creepiest dance duel ever filmed.

[shudders] I still get drug flashbacks from that movie, and I don't even do drugs!

Cyrano de Bergerac with Gerard Depardiu is fantastic. It's beautifully filmed and acted, quite funny at times, has excellent action sequences, and is quite possibly one of the most romantic films ever made (but in a good way).

Delicatessen: A French post-apocalyptic dark comedy about cannibalism. By the same director and writer of The City of Lost Children and Amelie.

The Tall Guy: A silly comedy with Jeff Goldblum, Rowan Atkinson, and Emma Thompson. Features a broadway musical of the elephant man called "Elephant!" with the romantic ballad "I'm packing my trunk..." It also has the funniest sex scene I've ever seen.

Akira Kurosawa's Dreams: A series of short vignettes based on dreams that Kurosawa had. Exceedingly beautiful.

 

[d4]

my favorite comedy movie of all time hardly anyone's ever heard of.

Real Men with John Ritter and Jim Belushi.

it's hilariously funny in a very absurd way. you know the movie's going to be absurd when you discover the name of one of the main characters is Secret Agent Pirandello.

another oft-ignored favorite of mine is Until the End of the World. beautiful movie, though sci-fi parts are a bit dated now (they thought we'd all have videophones and solar power satellites by 1999...)

someone mentioned Benny and Joon -- i saw that when it first came out in the theatres and thought it was wonderful.

not-quite-forgotten but not as popular as it should be -- The Hudsucker Proxy with Tim Robbins, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and Paul Newman. it's kinda like a 1950s corporate fairy tale.

other Tim Robbins movies to see would be Erik the Viking and Bob Roberts -- though i can only recommend the second if you're politically liberal (like Robbins himself). it savagely makes fun of Republicans and conservatives and they may not think it's very funny...

 

[JediSoth]

My favorite movies that no one I know seems to have heard of are:

7 Faces of Dr. Lao - this movie starring Tony Randall is about an old Chinese man and his incredible circus that he brings to a Western town. "Every time you pick up a grain of sand you hold a universe in the palm of your hand."

Flesh & Blood (aka The Rose and the Sword) - one of Paul Verhoeven's first English language picture starring Rutger Hauer and a very young Jennifer Jason Leigh (who spends half the movie, it seems, naked). It takes place just as gunpowder was beginning to be used in warfare in western Europe. It features the most chaotic group of "friends" I've ever seen in a movie. Its a very good example of how a Chaotic Neutral/Evil party would operate.

JediSoth

 

[d4]

Flesh & Blood (aka The Rose and the Sword) - one of Paul Verhoeven's first English language picture starring Rutger Hauer and a very young Jennifer Jason Leigh (who spends half the movie, it seems, naked).

heh, i really hated that movie... except when JJL was onscreen...

 

[Hypersmurf]

The Tall Guy: A silly comedy with Jeff Goldblum, Rowan Atkinson, and Emma Thompson. Features a broadway musical of the elephant man called "Elephant!" with the romantic ballad "I'm packing my trunk..." It also has the funniest sex scene I've ever seen.

Heh. "I hope all your children have very small dicks! And that includes the girls!"

I'm going to put in a vote for the animated film Flight of Dragons, with the voices of John Ritter, Harry Morgan, and James Earl Jones.

Anyone who hasn't seen it should.

-Hyp.

 

[Barendd Nobeard]

Repo Man
Blood Simple
Central Station (Central do Brasil)

 

[Hypersmurf]

Repo Man

Eek. I've only seen it once - the redubbed-for-TV version.

"Flip you, you melon-farmer!" "Don't you say 'Flip you' to me, boy!"

"What about our relationship?" "Flip that!"

Yikes.

-Hyp.