For the movie buffs.....Obscure films?- Page 2

[best12bars]

Posted: 1/26/07 at 8:33pm

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
The Phantom Tollbooth
Pecker
Vincent: The Life and Death of Vincent Van Gogh
The Tales of Hoffman
Invitation to the Dance
The Apple (1980) - in the "so bad it's good" genre
When the Legends Die
The Wild Child (L'Enfant sauvage)
Small Change (L'Argent de poche)
Marcelino Pan Y Vino - brilliant!

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 1/26/07 at 8:44pm

El Topo

[stagegrrrl]

Posted: 1/26/07 at 9:38pm

Zuckerbaby (sugarbaby) a weird, fantastic german film starring marianna sagebrecht from Baghdad Cafe (that's another good one actually)
Zentropa, a dark, creepy Lars Von Trier film

[broadway86]

Posted: 1/26/07 at 9:40pm

broadway86---Great list!

Thanks, best!

I love that you mentioned Carnival of Souls. My dad's best friend directed and starred in it.

Very interesting. I see from IMDb that he played "The Man". If that means he played the reappearing ghost, he haunted my dreams for quite some time.

I'd also like to add Shoot the Piano Player to my previous list.

[Cruel_Sandwich]

Posted: 1/26/07 at 9:41pm

Man With A Movie Camera. Extremely cool experimental film.

[shesamarshmallow]

Posted: 1/26/07 at 9:42pm

I LOVE THE APPLE!!! (Whoa, praise the apple!)

I never seem to hear much about Bachelor Mother (1939) or Out of the Past (1947), and they're fantastic.

[best12bars]

Posted: 1/26/07 at 9:42pm

Another obscure "so bad it's simply fantastic" film...

Father Frost (a Russian fairy tale musical!)

[Josephine2]

Posted: 1/26/07 at 9:54pm

best12bars, I loved "The Wild Child (L'Enfant sauvage)!" I watched it in a Social Psychology class.

Another great foreign film is Ponette.

[keen on kean]

Posted: 1/26/07 at 10:02pm

I can't remember the name of one of my favorites - it came out in the early 70's, satrred George C. Scott and Joanne Woodward - about a psychiatrist and a man who thought he was Sherlock Holmes. Something about Giants - "Here there are Giants"? HELP!

[broadway86]

Posted: 1/26/07 at 10:04pm

^^^^They Might Be Giants (1971)

[best12bars]

Posted: 1/26/07 at 10:06pm

Josephine2--I'm glad you love it too! That film has stayed with me since I first saw it as a "wild child" myself.

keen on kean --- It's "They Might Be Giants"

I would like to add another George C. Scott film that bombed but was GREAT... truly great...

Excorcist III

(no joke)

[keen on kean]

Posted: 1/26/07 at 10:08pm

Thanks, broadway86! Now if I could only get your help when I can't remember phone numbers!

Also add to my list "Tunes of Glory" with Alec Guinness and John Mills - fabulous story with amazing acting by both of them.

[best12bars]

Posted: 1/26/07 at 10:09pm

Oops! I guess I didn't post mine fast enough.

[keen on kean]

Posted: 1/26/07 at 10:22pm

b12b - thanks all the same. While we are on the subject of good/bad George C. Scott films, how about THE HOSPITAL?

[SeanMartin]

Posted: 1/26/07 at 11:31pm

Thanks to my friend Randy and his collection of over 1600 DVDs, I;ve seen some real fascinating films:

-- "The Happiness of the Katakuris", a Japanese musical that's like Sound of Music meets Dawn of the Dead. Seriously.

-- Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness?" I dont think there's any real way to describe this one.

-- "International Hotel", a convoluted 1930s comedy with just about every contract player in Hollywood.

-- "Dogville", a Nicole Kidman film, takes place in a small town, shot entirely in a studio on stylized sets. Weird.

-- "Red Garters", a Western musical, likewise shot on a sound stage with stylized sets. A howl and a half.

-- "Twice Upon a Time", an odd litlle animated film. Love the Fairy Godmother.

[LaVieHilary]

Posted: 1/26/07 at 11:37pm

I don't know how obscure it is but I do love "Dick" with Michelle Williams and Kirsten Dunst. Everyone I know has never heard of it.

[SeanMartin]

Posted: 1/26/07 at 11:42pm

Dick was one of those politcal satires that was already passe by the time it was released. Some good writing, but....

[feinstein9]

Posted: 1/27/07 at 1:39am

recently turned on to:
Blow-Up w/ Vanessa Redgrave
Repulsion dir. by Roman Polanski
Performance w/ Mick Jagger
The Cabinet of Dr. Calagari

very... interesting films. they're "obscure" to me but maybe not to you all. to whoever said "peeping tom," i agree that is a very good/creepy movie you don't hear much about. i also really enjoyed tadpole, and i was disapointed dogville didn't get much attention, because i think it's really affective. out of the past is in warner's film noir vol. 1 set, so hopefully it will be seen more.

[DG]

Posted: 1/27/07 at 1:52am

EDWARD II, directed by Derek Jarman.
STRANGERS IN GOOD COMPANY
ORLANDO
STILL BREATHING
ROSE OF WASHINGTON SQUARE
WHO AM I THIS TIME?
A MAN OF NO IMPORTANCE
MEETING VENUS

[BwayLover]

Posted: 1/27/07 at 4:44am

I'm so glad to see someome mentioned BLACK NARCISSUS, one of my all-time favorite movies! I also second TADPOLE, which I loved.

A few more:
RIO GRANDE (John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara) - a forgotten gem, part of John Ford's Cavarly trilogy.

THE GO-BETWEEN (Julie Christie, Alan Bates) - also forgotten, wonderfully tragic love story.

HAMMERS OVER THE ANVIL (Charlotte Rampling, Russell Crowe) - a lovely Aussie film, with a very young Crowe romancing Rampling.

[Roscoe]

Posted: 1/27/07 at 8:09am

A little film called HOUSEKEEPING with Christine Lahti, a gorgeous and moving little film that just seems to have vanished.

LOCAL HERO, another film from the same director as HOUSEKEEPING, with Peter Riegert and Burt Lancaster. Great lowkey comedy.

[LucilleAndLeoFrank]

Posted: 1/27/07 at 8:13am

The Adventures of Sebastian Cole. It was made in the lates 90s and starred a pre-Entourage Adrian Grenier. He played a kid growing up in the early 80s whose stepfather is in the process of sexual reassignment surgery. It's a really funny and genuine film.

The stepfather was played wonderfully by an unrecognizable Clark Gregg.
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[best12bars]

Posted: 1/27/07 at 9:12am

shesamarshmallow---Bachelor Mother is a favorite of mine. I love many of the Ginger Rogers (non-musical) comedies, but this one, and Vivacious Lady are the best!

broadway86---Yes, "The Man" is Herk Harvey. Most of that film was made in Lawrence, Kansas, where I grew up. My dad and Herk worked together at Centron Films, which was an educational and industrial film company responsible for many of those "safety," "hygiene" and "social" films some of us saw in grade school when we were growing up. I actually appeared in 40 educational films by the time I was just 10 years old! If you went to school anywhere from the late '60s through the late '70s, you probably saw me "looking both ways before I crossed the street," etc. Anyway Dad wrote and directed many of them, and Herk produced them. A few years later, they broke away and formed their own educational film company with Herk producing all of them, and Dad writing and directing again. I was in those films as well. Herk was like an uncle to me, and I miss him very much, as does my father. His legacy will always be the feature film "Carnival of Souls," and it's so great to see this movie pop up from time to time on people's "best" lists. Herk always got a kick out of that. He would have loved the Criterion DVD release of it as well. They gave him the royal treatment!

There is a crazy DVD box set out called "The Educational Archives" as well as a book called "Mental Hygiene," and they celebrate and feature some of the educational films produced by Centron (which was located in Lawrence, Kansas), Coronet (located in Chicago), and a couple of others. Unfortunately, you can't see me in any of them, since they focused mainly on the films of the '40s, '50s and '60s. I didn't start making them until around '69, and I stopped around '73... the tail end of its "golden age," if you will. Still, you can see several of Herk's films, and a lot of people I used to know, in that set, plus they put three or four of them on the Criterion release of "Carnival of Souls," as well.

Updated On: 1/27/07 at 09:12 AM

[best12bars]

Posted: 1/27/07 at 9:18am

Updated On: 1/27/07 at 09:18 AM

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 1/27/07 at 10:32am

I still have an LP of Mercy Humppe. Stage this one on Broadway
for a laugh

Back on point re obscure films

Horrors of the Black Museum . The opening sequence is a doozy