Your Favorite Movies Not Well Known with the Public

[millie_dillmount]

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

[TheQuibbler]

Posted: 8/7/04 at 3:18pm

Punch-Drunk Love
Adaptation.

[Matt_G]

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.

[Gothampc]

Posted: 8/7/04 at 3:22pm

Wings of Desire
Faraway, So Close
Waking Ned Devine
Blue
White
Red

[Matt_G]

Posted: 8/7/04 at 3:24pm

WINGS OF DESIRE is a fantastic film!

[judy_in_disguise]

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).

[TheQuibbler]

Posted: 8/7/04 at 3:40pm

Ah, Waking Life is quite a trip. Great movie.

[NuggetMonkeys]

Posted: 8/7/04 at 3:42pm

Harold and Maude, although pretty popular underground.
-d.b.j-

[dry2olives]

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.

[MyNameInLights]

Posted: 8/7/04 at 4:42pm

True Romance

[saddle shoe side kick]

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.

Updated On: 8/7/04 at 05:20 PM

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 8/7/04 at 5:26pm

Is 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]

Posted: 8/7/04 at 5:32pm

Oh! I just saw True Romance last night, I LOVE Quentin Tarantino movies. It was fantastic.

[Plum]

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.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 8/7/04 at 6:18pm

WAITING FOR GUFFMAN

Most of us know it, the the general public? I doubt it.

[broadwayguy2]

Posted: 8/7/04 at 6:19pm

yes!

[Broadwayboobs]

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

[ForTheLoveOfLea]

Posted: 8/7/04 at 6:26pm

I 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.

[Unknown User]

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.

[Broadwayboobs]

Posted: 8/7/04 at 6:41pm

Jose', 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.

[Unknown User]

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.

[son_of_a_gunn_25]

Posted: 8/7/04 at 6:53pm

La Vite est Belle (Life is Beautiful) Probably mispelled it.

[kjklo]

Posted: 8/7/04 at 6:56pm

Speaking 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.

[Broadwayboobs]

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.

[kec]

Posted: 8/7/04 at 7:12pm

Somewhere in Time... with Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour.