The 'Recommend an obscure film' thread!
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Ms Ordinary said:
I was gonna mention that one!
I think we must have seen it at the same time! Really really wanna see it again and check - like you said - if its as good as I remember.
Really cool film (i think).
It really pisses me off when I ask people if they've seen it and they nod and smile and say "yeah - i love that film." And then say: "with the boy and the funny spaceship and he goes foward in time and has an adventure..."
Grrrr.
But yeah - the navigator. The director was vincent ward who was gonna make alien 3. Then made 'What Dreams May Come' - which (i dont care what anyone says) I really wanna see...
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
akirajoel said:I was gonna mention that one!
But yeah - the navigator. The director was vincent ward who was gonna make alien 3. Then made 'What Dreams May Come' - which (i dont care what anyone says) I really wanna see...
It's available on Amazon at the "low price" (Secondhand) of £125.81
CharlieAddict
nekomimi rocks!!!
Another 'human' film for Dubversion and Sunspots -
Bitter Moon (Dir: Roman Polanski, France 1992).
Love is for fools afterall. Great film, feels more real than Closer and more twisted too.
Bitter Moon (Dir: Roman Polanski, France 1992).
Love is for fools afterall. Great film, feels more real than Closer and more twisted too.
CharlieAddict said:
the Care Bears Movie feels more real than Closer, IMO
MysteryGuest
beyond boring and interesting
CharlieAddict said:
I utterly hated, despised and loathed that film. Nasty cruel unpleasant vile, YUK.
erm... sorry about that, but I found it repellent.
CharlieAddict
nekomimi rocks!!!
Dubversion said:
I thought Closer was okay.
okay, here's another-
Romeo is Bleeding (Peter Medak, USA 1992).
Ending makes me cry. Damn that Gary Oldman - he such a good performer.
four times that night - mario bava's take on rashomon, updated to the groovy swinging sixties... http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069141/
i drink your blood - satanic hippies come to town, spike a man with acid... in revenge, his son feeds them pies laced with rabies. much bloody fun ensues... http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067229/
"Let it be known, sons and daughters, that Satan was an acidhead. Drink from his cup, pledge yourselves, and together we'll all freak out!"
i drink your blood - satanic hippies come to town, spike a man with acid... in revenge, his son feeds them pies laced with rabies. much bloody fun ensues... http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067229/
"Let it be known, sons and daughters, that Satan was an acidhead. Drink from his cup, pledge yourselves, and together we'll all freak out!"
El Sueno
Dabbler
'Two Idiots In Hollywood' written and directed by Stephen Tobolowsky. Simply the strangest, low-budget comedy satire I've ever witnessed. Hired out by a coupla mates and me from Cockbuster back in the early 90s and we're still reeling.
Stephen Tobolowsky played Ferris Bueller's drawling teacher ("Anyone? Anyone?") which is about the most interesting fact I can think of right now.
There's quite detailed fan write-up here. I very much doubt anyone's seen it.
Bitter Moon is top, even though Hugh Grant is in it. Other good-ish films Grant is in:
Lair of the White Worm is a right laugh, Ken Russell filum based on a Bram Stoker story.
Rowing With The Wind is okay, set during the famous "Frankenstein" weekend with Byron, Shelley, Godwin et al, and has the beautiful Tallis Fantasia by R.V Williams in it too which is a bonus.
Lair of the White Worm is a right laugh, Ken Russell filum based on a Bram Stoker story.
Rowing With The Wind is okay, set during the famous "Frankenstein" weekend with Byron, Shelley, Godwin et al, and has the beautiful Tallis Fantasia by R.V Williams in it too which is a bonus.
Flashman said:
brilliantly awful, surely Amanda Donohoe's finest hour?
CharlieAddict
nekomimi rocks!!!
MysteryGuest said:
Yeah it was.
That wheelchair scene where he's forced to watch his lover shag the able bodied dancer.
The film is meant to be Nasty cruel unpleasant vile.
Could always check out happy love stories like Love Actually.
MysteryGuest
beyond boring and interesting
CharlieAddict said:
Sorry I didn't realise you're not able to handle people having different taste to you.
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
akirajoel said:flipping nora!
Too fucking right
Secondhand?!Flipping nora x 2
CharlieAddict
nekomimi rocks!!!
Flashman said:
AKA Gothic! good film this!
dunno how obscure Du rififi chez les hommes is, but it is utterly amazing. the finest heist movie i've ever seen...
aparently being remade with al pacino.
aparently being remade with al pacino.
goldenecitrone
post tenebras lux
GarfieldLeChat said:
Seconded, one of the best screenplays ever written. "if the chemicals don't get ya, then God will."
And Funny Games, by Michel Haneke.
Fuchs66
Ring a ding
Got to be (I keep plugging this I know but I like it) Angelus
http://www.culture.pl/en/culture/artykuly/dz_angelus_majewski
It's a great film and made even better IMO by the fact that to reflect on the fact that the characters speak Silesian dialect, the subtitles are all written in "Eee bah gum" type northern accent.
http://www.culture.pl/en/culture/artykuly/dz_angelus_majewski
It's a great film and made even better IMO by the fact that to reflect on the fact that the characters speak Silesian dialect, the subtitles are all written in "Eee bah gum" type northern accent.
Griff
Feeding the foxes
Reno
The In Kraut
The Rapture, in which Mimi Rodgers plays an aimless, unhappy woman who one night has a vision of a floating pearl and becomes a born again Christian. She starts to believe that the rapture or judgement day is about to take place soon, which is when all the believers get saved. When she decides to take her small daugther into the desert to wait for the end of the world, the film takes a few surprising and at times harrowing turns. Great performance by Rodger and far from being pro-christian this is one of the few films that deal with religion and faith in a truly comlex way, while being an utterly engrossing drama.
Two more underrated films about a possible apocalypse are Miracle Mile, where Anthony Edwards picks up a public phone that keeps ringing and finds out that the earth may or may not be destroeyd by a massive nuclear attack within the next twelve hours and Last Night which is about how a loosely connected group of characters and spend the last six hours on earth before it gets destroyed by an unspecified disaster.
Another vote for Bitter Moon by the way, which I think is a rather funny and elegant black comedy
Two more underrated films about a possible apocalypse are Miracle Mile, where Anthony Edwards picks up a public phone that keeps ringing and finds out that the earth may or may not be destroeyd by a massive nuclear attack within the next twelve hours and Last Night which is about how a loosely connected group of characters and spend the last six hours on earth before it gets destroyed by an unspecified disaster.
Another vote for Bitter Moon by the way, which I think is a rather funny and elegant black comedy
Nang Nak. Stunning, haunting Thai horror/ghost film.
MysteryGuest said:The Colour of Pomegrantes, dir Sergei Paradjanov
Based on medieval Armenian poetry or summat. Nothing really happens in it as such. It's just a series of eye-wateringly beautiful tableaux filmed on 60s soviet technicolour filmstock - the colours are luscious beyond belief. Deeply hypnotic and absolutely one of the most gorrrrgeous things I've ever seen. Used to have it on bfi video then lost it when I moved house.
OMG!!!! That's one of the most random films ever. My brother's ex gf is half Armenian, she brought it round once. It made the average arthouse film look like Jerry Bruckheimer!
belboid said:
I saw this as a kid at the Rio's Saturday Morning Picture club. Influenced by Dr Seuss wasn't it?
RenegadeDog said:
it's actually a Dr Seuss story.
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