Lesser Known Movies Worth Seeing

[barsoomcore]

I'm attempting to review 26 movies in 26 days on my blog:

http://barsoomcore.blogspot.com

They're all movies from my shelf -- I'm working in alphabetical order, choosing one movie for each letter of the alphabet. So far:

A: Akira
B: Black Orpheus
C: Crime Story
D: Dragon Inn
E: The Evil Dead
F: Fallen Angels

I'll mention one that isn't on my shelf: Bandits -- not the Barry Levinson picture with Bruce Willis but the German film by Katja von Garnier. GREAT film.

Four female convicts record a demo tape and send it to a music agency, hoping for a record deal and a chance to rebuild their lives. Their chance comes unexpectedly when they have to escape and go on the lam -- at which point the music executive realises he's got a tape by a bunch of fugitives, releases a single and our heroines become overnight pop sensations while trying to hide from the police!

Great music, wonderful performances from the actresses, some very sexy love scenes and a heart-wrenching finale. Definitely check it out.

 

[fredramsey]

Circle of Iron. Recently came out on DVD. It is a film about Zen that Bruce Lee wanted to make, and I think wrote the story. Very obscure, very cool, IMHO.

Six-String Samurai

Near Dark - best vampire movie ever made

 

[Hand of Evil]

All the above but some more current movies I find very good:

The Man Who Knew Too Little - Spy Spoof and very well done.
Secondhand Lions - Fun, enjoyable.

 

[Rackhir]

All the above but some more current movies I find very good:
Secondhand Loins - Fun, enjoyable.

Are you talking about the movie with Michael Caine and Robert Duvall or a Porno Movie I was previously unfamiliar with?

 

[Nellisir]

I always liked Slipstream, but I'm pulling total blank on who's in it.

Cheers
Nell.

 

[Hand of Evil]

Are you talking about the movie with Michael Caine and Robert Duvall or a Porno Movie I was previously unfamiliar with?

Damn spelling issues...I am a secondhand loon

 

[Dagger75]

Man Bites Dog.

Its a french flick about a seriel killer who lets a camara crew follow him as he does his thing. Very dark humor and violent and other "stuff".

 

[mmadsen]

Boondock Saints: If you liked Pulp Fiction, you'll like this movie.

Not true, by a long shot, in my case. I loved Pulp Fiction and hated Boondock Saints.

The Wind and the Lion: A throwback to the epics of the 1950s and 1960s, featuring great performances by Brian Keith (who plays Teddy Roosevelt) and Sean Connery (who plays a Berber shiek who draws the attention of the United States after kidnapping an American woman in North Africa).

I heartily second this recommendation.

 

[mmadsen]

I've found that those who have seen Wizards either love it or hate it, there's no in-between.

Just to be contrarian, I'm somewhere in between on Wizards. There's a kernel of something fascinating in there, but I wouldn't call it a good movie.

 

[mmadsen]

The Duelists Riddley Scott directing, Harvey Keitel and Keith Carradine as Napoleonic soldiers carrying a grudge against each other.

The Duelists is Ridley Scott's first movie. It's excellent. I still haven't read the Conrad story it's based on though. Anyway, excellent non-swashbuckly sword-fighting scenes.