Little Known Movies- Page 2

[broadway86]

Posted: 7/15/06 at 9:18pm

Session 9
Shock Corridor
Raising Victor Vargas
All the Real Girls
The Secret Lives of Dentists
May
Peeping Tom
The Horse's Mouth
Goodbye, Lenin!
The Assassination of the Richard Nixon
November
3 Women
The Remains of the Day
The Seventh Seal
Separate Tables
The Lady Eve
Diabolique
Picnic at Hanging Rock
The Life of Emile Zola
Sisters
The Most Dangerous Game
George Washington
Pickup on South St.
Tokyo Story
The Business of Strangers
Trouble in Paradise
Johnny Belinda
The Honeymoon Killers
Murmur of the Heart
The Devil's Backbone
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
Tully
Jules and Jim
Life with Father
My Man Godfrey
Shattered Glass
Better Luck Tomorrow
The Safety of Objects Updated On: 7/15/06 at 09:18 PM

[Cruel_Sandwich]

Posted: 7/15/06 at 11:13pm

SONGS FROM THE SECOND FLOOR - A surrealist masterpiece from Swedish director Roy Andersson. It's hilarious and satirical while still retaining an aura of tragedy and sadness. And equally cool is how each scene lasts for a full shot as the camera just rests on a tripod, unmoving, viewing all of the oddness that unfurls before it.

There's not really a plot. Just a series of surreal and bizarre goings-on in a civilization that is on the edge of collapse. Every single character has pasty white skin and generally looks like a zombie.
Updated On: 7/15/06 at 11:13 PM

[MrMidwest]

Posted: 7/15/06 at 11:29pm

White of the Eye w/ Cathy Moriarty as the wife of a man (David Keith) who may be responsible for a series of ritualistic murders.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 7/15/06 at 11:36pm

Hey pab, if you're going to mention the cameos in King of Comedy, let us not forget the members of The Clash who do a little heckling during a street scene. They were in the midst of their summer residency (which wasn't planned that way but ended up that way due to fire regulations) at the Bond's Club in Times Square when Scorsese was filming KoC. THAT was quite a summer.

[Craig]

Posted: 7/15/06 at 11:48pm

I must admit - some of the movies in this thread I would never consider "little known" but I guess that's subjective

[erikaamato]

Posted: 7/16/06 at 12:40am

Craig, I am right there with you, (quite a few of the movies on broadway86's list are considered classics, and are studied in film school), but what can you do? :-P

Anyone remember Toto Le Heros? French film... It came out here in 1991, I think... I remember loving it.

[cturtle]

Posted: 7/16/06 at 1:29am

i dare say MARTY is little know ... but it won the oscar.

[Rose_MacShane]

Posted: 7/16/06 at 1:43am

I'm always surprised how few people have heard of "The Ice Storm." It's a quiet, very realistic portrayal of family dysfunction in 1970s Connecticut. And it has an all-star cast (Kevin Kline, Joan Allen, Sigourney Weaver, Elijah Wood, Tobey Maguire, Katie Holmes, Alison Janney), which makes its cult status all the more baffling. One of my all-time favorites.

[jimnysf]

Posted: 7/16/06 at 2:03am

"The Girl Most Likely To" was written by Joan Rivers.

"Dear Frankie" starring Gerard Butler ("The Phantom"). I cried for an hour after it was over.

"You Can Count on Me". Mark Ruffalo, Laura Linney and Matthew Broderick.

"Beyond the Door" an "Exorcist" type film starring Juliet Mills ("Passions")

"The Real Blonde". Matthew Modine, Max Caufield, Elizabeth Berkley, Kathleen Turner, Daryl Hannah, Catherine Keener.

[YouWantitWhen????]

Posted: 7/16/06 at 2:22am

I would add "Strictly Ballroom" but I think about half of the members on this Board have seen it . . .

[erikaamato]

Posted: 7/16/06 at 12:05pm

YWIW, I love that movie! I saw it in the movie theater when it came out.

I must say, onw of the perks of living in LA (or NY, of course), is that we actually get to see small films, foreign films, weird little indies...basically all the cool movies that don't get national releases. =)

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 7/16/06 at 12:08pm

To Blue Roses

29 is on FOX MOVIE STATION @ 4:15 AM 7/16 - It is Channel 257 on Cable

[erikaamato]

Posted: 7/16/06 at 1:00pm

LOL... I saw that movie in the movie theater, as well! I'm a huge Gabriel Byrne fan, so I basically go out and see anything he's in. I remember, I filled out an audience-comment card when I saw it...so maybe I saw a pre-screening? Anyway, it is a pretty bad flick, but it was a great concept.

[Taryn]

Posted: 7/16/06 at 1:03pm

I'm not sure how little-known it really is, but I never heard of Big Night until I saw it on TV. Gem of a movie with Stanley Tucci, Tony Shalhoub, Minnie Driver, Ian Holm, Allison Janney... I absolutely loved it. Quiet little movie about cuisine, family, and the balance between integrity and surviving. Stanley Tucci and Tony Shalhoub play two Italian brothers in America who own a failing Italian restaurant who go all out in one last feast to try and save their business.

[Lamc16]

Posted: 7/16/06 at 10:51pm

I recently watched The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada. That was a terrific, realtively little known film. Also, John Sayles' Lone Star. Both great movies.

[Cruel_Sandwich]

Posted: 7/16/06 at 11:25pm

ERIKA - According to Bakshi himself, he originally envisioned it as an R-rated horror film but the studio added more and more writers until it was eventually a PG-13 rated comedy. He calls it the worst filmmaking experience he ever had.

[zzannahk]

Posted: 7/16/06 at 11:45pm

I wouldn't say little know but not well known The Boondock Saints A new special edition recently came out, and there are rumors of a sequel

[JohnBoy2]

Posted: 7/17/06 at 12:01am

Many of the films mentioned in this thread are hardly "little known". Not sure why they're listed? My choice would be HOME SWEET HOMICIDE. Mostly, little known, because it seems to have disappeared.

[MasterLcZ]

Posted: 7/17/06 at 4:18am

I love HOME SWEET HOMICIDE! It's a very droll little murder mystery - but I haven't seen it in many, many years. And how can any film with both Peggy Ann Garner and Lynn Bari be bad?

One of my favorite little-known films is LORD LOVE A DUCK, featuring the greatest performances of Roddy McDowell, Tuesday Weld, and the fabulous Lola Albright.

[bythesword84]

Posted: 7/17/06 at 4:31am

I, for one, bow down to my boondock saints movie poster in my room before bed every night. Though its hardly a little known movie, everyone I know has seen it at least twice. The sequel was supposed to be filming, it used to be up on the official site but who knows what actually happened there. I'd love to see it though. LOVE to.

[zzannahk]

Posted: 7/17/06 at 6:02am

maybe it's a regional thing with boondock. i went to best buy to get the special edition and no one knew what i was talking about. ofcourse this is the best buy that got shot up a year and a half ago, so i dont have much faith in them or their security

[JohnBoy2]

Posted: 7/17/06 at 8:21am

LORD LOVE A DUCK is a great, quirky, little film, with a wonderful performance from McDowall.

[dirty rotten guy]

Posted: 7/17/06 at 9:47am

Ed Wood is an amazing movie that most people dont know about. Also another great one is A Mighty Wind.

[best12bars]

Posted: 7/17/06 at 9:53am

I agree that FAR too many films on these lists could hardly be called "little known."

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 7/17/06 at 9:55am

Ed Wood was great & really captured the guy & his stock gang of charactors