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Movies You Love That Most People Have Never Heard Of
#50Movies You Love That Most People Have Never Heard Of
Posted: 7/31/12 at 9:32pm
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The Bird With the Crystal Plumage
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#51Movies You Love That Most People Have Never Heard Of
Posted: 7/31/12 at 10:05pm
I think nearly all of the films in the Wes Anderson canon are known, whether celebrated or despised (to me his weaker stuff is definitely working with Noah Baumbach).
I enjoyed The Upside of Anger. Probably one of the few times in recent memory where Kevin Costner's jock ethos is perfectly acceptable but the film belongs to Joan Allen.
In Bruges in one of my favorite films in recent memory.
Others that popped up in my mind the last couple of days:
Out of the Blue- Probably Dennis Hopper's best film as a director
Films by Kenji Mizoguchi such as Ugetsu and Sansho the Baliff. Classic foreign films in general are just not well-known but Mizoguchi should be more well-known.
The Miracle at Morgan's Creek- People know Preston Sturges films but for some reason this delightful film is not nearly talked about as it should.
Clean, Shaven- A film about a schizophrenic that has body horror that rivals just about anything Cronenberg has put out.
Withnail & I- Richard E. Grant's performance, much like Colin Farrell in In Bruges, is brilliant as both heartbreaking and hysterical.
Grave of the Fireflies- If you think Disney animated films get dark....
Updated On: 8/1/12 at 10:05 PM
#52Movies You Love That Most People Have Never Heard Of
Posted: 7/31/12 at 10:09pm
Here's a rather international selection of film that I love and I think are not well known.
To Live, dir. Zhang Yimou (China)
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAZUbjttUPc
Central Station, dir. Walter Salles (Brazil)
Trailer: http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi1924989209/
DarkBlueAlmostBlack, dir. Daniel Sanchez Arevalo (Spain)
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJmCUvkMnNc
Italian for Beginners, dir. Lone Scherfig (Denmark)
Trailer: http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi2291269913/
Afterlife, dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda (Japan)
Trailer: http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi1605697817/
Wilby Wonderful, dir. Daniel MacIvor (Canada)
Trailer: http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi3104348697/
Lone Star, dir. John Sayles (USA)
Trailer: http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi4153803033/
Raising Victor Vargas, dir. Peter Sollett (USA)
Trailer: http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi3129082137/
The Band's Visit, dir. Erin Kolirin (Israel)
Trailer: http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi3903914265/
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Updated On: 7/31/12 at 10:09 PM
#53Movies You Love That Most People Have Never Heard Of
Posted: 7/31/12 at 10:42pm
Gaveston, it's just a random link from googling the title, but it seems to be a popular poster as it came up on a number of poster shops' sites.
Well, 1980 was still the tail-end of the 1970s, culturally speaking, so maybe that logo was allowed in U.S. newspapers. I doubt it would today.
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Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#54Movies You Love That Most People Have Never Heard Of
Posted: 7/31/12 at 11:42pmFrank Ripploh's Taxi zum Klo.
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#55Movies You Love That Most People Have Never Heard Of
Posted: 8/1/12 at 12:04am
I only saw Taxi zum Klo this past month, after reading about it for a while. Terrific film and a nice change from the majority of gay themed films I seem to run across lately.
Nice to see Grave of the Fireflies mentioned. The Studio Ghibli animated films not done by Miyazaki tend to get forgotten over here (Grave's director, Takahata's amazing animated drama Only Yesterday isn't even available in Region 1 despite Disney owning the rights, probably due to them not knowing how to market an adult, non fantasy, non pornographic, anime). Oddly it's Grave, and another animated film, Plague Dogs that are the only two films to *always* cause me to cry at the ending, no matter how many times I've seen them.
#56Movies You Love That Most People Have Never Heard Of
Posted: 8/1/12 at 9:46am
LOVE Taxi zum Klo! Saw it when it came out, but not since.
Forgotten film that I adore is "Starstruck" (1982). 
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Updated On: 8/1/12 at 09:46 AM
"In Oz, the verb is douchifizzation." PRS
Roscoe
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#57Movies You Love That Most People Have Never Heard Of
Posted: 8/1/12 at 10:17am
I'll go ahead and bring up two films by the great Bill Forsyth--
LOCAL HERO and HOUSEKEEPING. Two marvelous little films that seem to have fallen off the map. LOCAL HERO centers on an oil man who is sent to a small Scottish village in order to buy it up for the huge oil company he works for. He finds himself, shall we say, changed by the experience. That sounds rather grim, doesn't it -- don't worry, the film is a comedy, very very low key and genuinely magical.
HOUSKEEPING only just got a DVD release from Warner Archive. It stars Christine Lahti as Sylvie, a woman who arrives in a small town in the Pacific Northwest to take care of her orphaned nieces. Sylvie, though, is a rather unconventional person, and her nieces are rather perplexed. Another of Forsyth's quiet masterworks, HOUSKEEPING is one of the most unfairly neglected films of the last 30 years, it deserves to be better known.
See these films. See them now. Drop everything.
"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers." Thomas Pynchon, GRAVITY'S RAINBOW
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." Philip K. Dick
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#58Movies You Love That Most People Have Never Heard Of
Posted: 8/1/12 at 10:35am
Oh, wow. I had completely forgotten about Housekeeping! I haven't seen it since I was a teenager, but I remember loving that film. I actually owned the beautifully intriguing movie poster as well.
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
Updated On: 8/1/12 at 10:35 AM
aaronb
Broadway Star Joined: 6/3/12
#59Movies You Love That Most People Have Never Heard Of
Posted: 8/1/12 at 10:41am
@Roscoe - You should check out Marilynne Robinson's novel. Gorgeous.
INSERTS is a fantastic movie that I never hear about.
#60Movies You Love That Most People Have Never Heard Of
Posted: 8/1/12 at 10:43amHousekeeping is an even better novel. Very good film, great novel. Lahti deserved an oscar nom.
"Carson has combined his passion for helping children with his love for one of Cincinnati's favorite past times - cornhole - to create a unique and exciting event perfect for a corporate outing, entertaining clients or family fun."
"In Oz, the verb is douchifizzation." PRS
"In Oz, the verb is douchifizzation." PRS
Roscoe
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#61Movies You Love That Most People Have Never Heard Of
Posted: 8/1/12 at 11:01am@aaron -- I read the novel after seeing the film all those years ago and like it very much indeed. I think the film does the book justice for the most part -- if Forsyth had gotten a professional actress for the role of Ruth he might have been able to go a bit deeper than he does. That said, the film gets more right than otherwise.
"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers." Thomas Pynchon, GRAVITY'S RAINBOW
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." Philip K. Dick
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JbaraFan1
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/14/04
#62Movies You Love That Most People Have Never Heard Of
Posted: 8/1/12 at 5:04pm
I'd never heard of either of these before coming across them recently on Netflix Instant. Thought both were very good:
PATTERNS, written by none other than Rod Serling
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049601/
THE SOUTHERNER (also on Netflix Instant)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038107/
#63Movies You Love That Most People Have Never Heard Of
Posted: 8/1/12 at 9:05pmI adore LOCAL HERO and I haven't seen it in ages!
"A coherent existance after so many years of muddle" - Desiree' Armfelt, A Little Night Music
"Life keeps happening everyday, Say Yes" - 70, Girls, 70
"Life is what you do while you're waiting to die" - Zorba
#64Movies You Love That Most People Have Never Heard Of
Posted: 8/1/12 at 9:36pmSlaves of New York, staring Bernadette Peters
It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story...
AGATHA CHRISTIE, Life magazine, May 14, 1956
#65Movies You Love That Most People Have Never Heard Of
Posted: 8/2/12 at 3:26amLess unknown than forgotten, but RACHEL GETTING MARRIED, WAITRESS, and AN EDUCATION.
"I saw Pavarotti play Rodolfo on stage and with his girth I thought he was about to eat the whole table at the Cafe Momus." - Dollypop
#66Movies You Love That Most People Have Never Heard Of
Posted: 8/2/12 at 10:11am
Has anyone seen "Sweepings"?
I caught it a few months ago via TCM and was bowled over that it's not a widely known American classic.
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Hank
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/16/03
#67Movies You Love That Most People Have Never Heard Of
Posted: 8/2/12 at 5:08pm
Three great summer movies:
A Summer Story
with the wonderful Imogen Stubbs, set in early 20th century England, one of the greatest tear jerkers of all time.
Summer Lovers
set on a Greak isle, early Daryl Hannah, but Valerie Quenneser and Peter Galagher steal the show.
Tempest
Also set on a Greek isle, and a take on the Shakspeare play. Early Molly Ringwald, also Susan Sarandon, John Casavetes, and Raul Julia who delivers the unforgetable line "and my charisma is growing like a mountain flower in springtime".
#68Movies You Love That Most People Have Never Heard Of
Posted: 8/3/12 at 7:21am
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#69Movies You Love That Most People Have Never Heard Of
Posted: 8/3/12 at 2:54pmThe Last Days of Disco
Roscoe
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#70Movies You Love That Most People Have Never Heard Of
Posted: 8/3/12 at 3:53pm
"I am asked if I have any message for the children. I do, indeed I do. I hope they will learn more successfully than you appear to have done how to address their elders with respect. I hope they will say their prayers before getting into bed, and sit up straight at the dinner table, and always keep their hands and faces spotlessly clean, and read sensible books in a light good enough not to damage their eyes, and yet not so harsh as entirely to remove the shadows from the corners of the room."
Coral Browne RULES.
"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers." Thomas Pynchon, GRAVITY'S RAINBOW
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." Philip K. Dick
My blog: http://www.roscoewrites.blogspot.com/
#71Movies You Love That Most People Have Never Heard Of
Posted: 8/3/12 at 4:14pm
Talk To Her (original Spanish title, Habla Con Ella)
It is Pedro Almodovar's finest work to date.
#FactsMatter...your feelings not so much.
#72Movies You Love That Most People Have Never Heard Of
Posted: 8/14/12 at 2:27am
I'll never forget the giant vagina...
Any other fans of The Go-Between? The third of Joseph Losey's collaborations with Harold Pinter, it still doesn't have a North American DVD release, and never seemed to get the attention of their earlier films The Servant and Accident. The original, kinda homoerotic novel by L P Hartley seems to have been slightly forgotten over time (despite Alan Hollinghurst championing it as a big influence on his writing--which is how I found out about it--and the famous opening line "The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there"). The film has a gorgeous Michel Legrand score, and great performances by Julie Christie and Alan Bates at the peak of their beauty.
#73Movies You Love That Most People Have Never Heard Of
Posted: 8/14/12 at 2:34amAnd just to be clear, because of how my post came out, the giant vagina was a reference to Talk to Her, not Julie Christie or The Go-Between... LOL
#74Movies You Love That Most People Have Never Heard Of
Posted: 8/14/12 at 4:26am
Haven't seen Dreamchild in years! An old friend and co-worker Ron Mueck (of the large ultra realistic sculptures) was sent to England to work on the Griifon. I believed he performed it also.
I do so love the pre CGI puppetry! There is something so much more real and eerie about it!
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