Your Favorite Movies Not Well Known with the Public
Your Favorite Movies Not Well Known with the Public
millie_dillmount
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/22/04
#0Your Favorite Movies Not Well Known with the Public
Posted: 8/7/04 at 3:12pm
What are some of your favorite movies that are not popular/well known with the public?
Kate & Leopold
"We like to snark around here. Sometimes we actually talk about theater...but we try not to let that get in our way." - dramamama611
#1re: Your Favorite Movies Not Well Known with the Public
Posted: 8/7/04 at 3:18pm
Punch-Drunk Love
Adaptation.
Matt_G
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/1/04
#2re: Your Favorite Movies Not Well Known with the Public
Posted: 8/7/04 at 3:22pm
HYSTERICAL BLINDNESS
Uma Thurman gives one of the most honest and heartbreaking performances ever captured on film. At times it's almost painful to watch her in this.
She was properly awarded the Golden Globe for best actress for this film.
"Noah, someday we'll talk again. But there's things we'll never say. That sorrow deep inside you. It inside me, too. And it never go away. You be okay. You'll learn how to lose things..."
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#3re: Your Favorite Movies Not Well Known with the Public
Posted: 8/7/04 at 3:22pm
Wings of Desire
Faraway, So Close
Waking Ned Devine
Blue
White
Red
If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.
Matt_G
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/1/04
#4re: Your Favorite Movies Not Well Known with the Public
Posted: 8/7/04 at 3:24pmWINGS OF DESIRE is a fantastic film!
"Noah, someday we'll talk again. But there's things we'll never say. That sorrow deep inside you. It inside me, too. And it never go away. You be okay. You'll learn how to lose things..."
judy_in_disguise
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/31/04
#5re: Your Favorite Movies Not Well Known with the Public
Posted: 8/7/04 at 3:38pm
Waking Life
Playing By Heart (don't know if that one ever caught on with the public or not).
#6re: Your Favorite Movies Not Well Known with the Public
Posted: 8/7/04 at 3:40pmAh, Waking Life is quite a trip. Great movie.
#7re: Your Favorite Movies Not Well Known with the Public
Posted: 8/7/04 at 3:42pm
Harold and Maude, although pretty popular underground.
-d.b.j-
Vary My Days.
#8re: Your Favorite Movies Not Well Known with the Public
Posted: 8/7/04 at 4:01pm
"Garbo Talks", which I think would make a wonderful musical.
Anne Bancroft plays a dying mother who wants to meet Greta Garbo before she dies. Ron Silver plays her corporate cog of a son who finds himself taking crazy risks for once in his life in order to fulfill her wish.
The film has wonderful cameo scenes with Harvey Fierstein, Dorothy Louden, Howard da Silva and Roderick Cook. Betty Comden (face unseen) plays Garbo. Cy Coleman wrote the film score.
#9re: Your Favorite Movies Not Well Known with the Public
Posted: 8/7/04 at 4:42pmTrue Romance
"The stage is where I live and come alive and act out all the things that go on in my life. It's not just what I do for a living, it's my shrink and my love affair. No one in my life has ever or ever will kiss me on the mouth like this lover called my relationship with my performance."
saddle shoe side kick
Broadway Star Joined: 6/24/04
#10re: Your Favorite Movies Not Well Known with the Public
Posted: 8/7/04 at 5:20pm
A French movie named À la folie... pas du tout (He Loves Me... He Loves Me Not (2002) (International: English title)... Nobody knows about it around here except me and it was really a very good movie. It was a concept I'd never seen before and Audrey Tautou is amazing. -Penny
PS- My favorite movie ever that is more ell known then a lot is Moulin Rouge What a beautiful film! Sorry, off topic.
"I'm a pretty girl, mama." -Penny Lou Pingleton, Hairspray
"You like football, Ed?" "Yeah..." "Good. Me too." -Chad & 'Ed', All Shook Up
Updated On: 8/7/04 at 05:20 PM
"You like football, Ed?" "Yeah..." "Good. Me too." -Chad & 'Ed', All Shook Up
#11re: Your Favorite Movies Not Well Known with the Public
Posted: 8/7/04 at 5:26pmIs HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH well known with the public? I dunno... I've just recently become obsessed... I guess it's more of a cult thing....
insomniak
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/7/04
#12re: Your Favorite Movies Not Well Known with the Public
Posted: 8/7/04 at 5:32pmOh! I just saw True Romance last night, I LOVE Quentin Tarantino movies. It was fantastic.
Plum
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/4/04
#13re: Your Favorite Movies Not Well Known with the Public
Posted: 8/7/04 at 6:11pm
Hedwig is just great. Same with Adaptation.
Let's see...Adam's Rib? I think it's old enough to have fallen out of the public conciousness. Same with Roman Holiday. But the obscure movies I see tend to be the godawful things some channels show at 2 in the morning.
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#14re: Your Favorite Movies Not Well Known with the Public
Posted: 8/7/04 at 6:18pm
WAITING FOR GUFFMAN
Most of us know it, the the general public? I doubt it.
broadwayguy2
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/18/03
#16re: Your Favorite Movies Not Well Known with the Public
Posted: 8/7/04 at 6:25pm
The Ritz..one of the funniest movies ever...I wish I had seen the stage production. Has an amazing cast too:
Written by: Terrence McNally
Cast :
Jack Weston .... Gaetano Proclo
Rita Moreno .... Googie Gomez
Jerry Stiller .... Carmine Vespucci
Kaye Ballard .... Vivian Proclo
F. Murray Abraham .... Chris
Paul B. Price .... Claude Perkins
Treat Williams .... Michael Brick
John Everson .... Tiger
Christopher J. Brown .... Duff
Dave King .... Abe Lefkowitz
Bessie Love .... Maurine
Tony De Santis .... Balloon Man
Ben Aris .... Patron With Bicycle
Peter Butterworth .... Patron In Chaps
Ronnie Brody .... Small Patron
John Ratzenberger .... Patron
Hal Galili .... Patron With Cigar
Chris Harris .... Patron
George Coulouris .... Old Man Vespucci
Leon Greene .... Muscle Bound Patron
Freddie Earlle .... Disgruntled Patron
Hugh Fraser .... Disc Jockey
Bart Allison .... Old Priest
Samantha Weysom .... Gilda Proclo
Richard Holmes .... Pianist
"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#17re: Your Favorite Movies Not Well Known with the Public
Posted: 8/7/04 at 6:26pmI love The Jerk with Steve Martin and Bernadette Peters but I'm not sure if lots of people know it or not. My friends don't know it so I guess its obscure to people my age.
Thou giveth fever.
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#18re: Your Favorite Movies Not Well Known with the Public
Posted: 8/7/04 at 6:31pm
THE RITZ was hystrically funny on stage. Moreno was priceless as Googie. I was able to see it numerous times. After seeing the film however it's my opinion that the film was not as good as the stage version.
Farce on film is very to accomplish. That plus general movie audiences weren't ready 25 years ago for mainstream films set in a gay bathhouse, in my opinion.
#19re: Your Favorite Movies Not Well Known with the Public
Posted: 8/7/04 at 6:41pmJose', I'm sure I would feel the same way as you do if I had seen "The Ritz" on stage...but only seeing the movie I think it is hysterical and I own it on VHS...waiting for the day it comes out on DVD. Maybe someday you'll give the movie a second chance.
"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#20re: Your Favorite Movies Not Well Known with the Public
Posted: 8/7/04 at 6:44pm
BB, I wouldn't mind seeing it again. I'm sure I'd find it funny as I remember very little of the plot, etc.
I do recall that when it opened it was a bombola, and opend on 2nd Avenue in the 60s, not a first run house.
Someone can always suggest a Ritz party. 
#21re: Your Favorite Movies Not Well Known with the Public
Posted: 8/7/04 at 6:53pmLa Vite est Belle (Life is Beautiful) Probably mispelled it.
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kjklo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/29/03
#22re: Your Favorite Movies Not Well Known with the Public
Posted: 8/7/04 at 6:56pmSpeaking of farce, Stanley Tucci's "The Impostors" was laugh-out-loud funny and had a fabulous cast. It's one of my favorite comedies, but it got very mixed reviews, and few people seem to have seen it. It's set in a theatrical milieu, which makes it even more interesting.
#23re: Your Favorite Movies Not Well Known with the Public
Posted: 8/7/04 at 6:57pm
Ok Jose' one day I'll throw a "Ritz" party. The big question is ..will people travel to Jersey? Also,should I only serve Ritz crackers? This could be fun.
"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#24re: Your Favorite Movies Not Well Known with the Public
Posted: 8/7/04 at 7:12pmSomewhere in Time... with Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour.
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