The 'Recommend an obscure film' thread!

[Flashman]

Quite a few of the classic oldies can pass people by. Kiss Me Ringpiece is one that certainly shouldn't. Wonderful noir, but ventures further than the usual private dic stuff and has one of the great endings. Haven't seen it for years and years, must find a copy.

 

[Dubversion]

Last Night [/I] 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.

there's already about 5 posts about this..

 

[Reno]

Quite a few of the classic oldies can pass people by. Kiss Me Deadly is one that certainly shouldn't. Wonderful noir, but ventures further than the usual private dic stuff and has one of the great endings. Haven't seen it for years and years, must find a copy.

Still it's a genuine classic rather than an obscure film. Great film, I agree.

 

[belboid]

Quite a few of the classic oldies can pass people by. Kiss Me Deadly is one that certainly shouldn't. Wonderful noir, but ventures further than the usual private dic stuff and has one of the great endings. Haven't seen it for years and years, must find a copy.

reminds me, I should mention The Big Sleep!

 

[Reno]

there's already about 5 posts about this..

Skip my recommendation of that one then and watch the other two films I recommended. When at work I don't always have the time to read every page from top to bottom.

 

[butchersapron]

Has anyone mentioned 'The Shout' by Jerzy Skolimowski and starring ralp bates yet? A very disturbing film.

http://imdb.com/title/tt0078259/

http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19780101/REVIEWS/801010310/1023

edit: or Death Line?

 

[Flashman]

Alright alright ya cunts

 

[Flashman]

Has anyone mentioned 'The Shout' by Jerzy Skolimowski and starring ralp bates yet? A very disturbing film.

http://imdb.com/title/tt0078259/

http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19780101/REVIEWS/801010310/1023

edit: or Death Line?

Saw about ten minutes of it when the Horror channel first stared, cricket was involved.

 

[butchersapron]

Saw about ten minutes of it when the Horror channel first stared, cricket was involved.

That's the one. That's where i saw it too and have waited with a baited video in case they ever repeated it - and they haven't. You should've stuck with it. Amazing film.

 

[jms]

Crime Wave

 

[Griff]

Themroc I do know some of you know this little gem.

 

[girasol]

Themroc I do know some of you know this little gem.

LoveFilm is a pile of shit. This is the umpteenth film I try to rent but they don't rent it!

 

[Sunspots]

Crime Wave

That was on telly on Saturday night. It's like watching a live-action Looney Tune.

 

[Reno]

LoveFilm is a pile of shit. This is the umpteenth film I try to rent but they don't rent it!

Maybe you should try to rent DVD's that actually have been released in the UK.

 

[Dask]

The Navigator (not the Ken Loach one)

"Plot Outline: Men seeking relief from the Black Death, guided by a boy's vision, dig a tunnel from 14th century England to 20th century New Zealand."

I saw this on telly about 12 years ago, never come across it since. I'd love to know if it was as good as I remember.

I could swear I've seen this film on TV in the last 6 months.

 

[butchersapron]

I could swear I've seen this film on TV in the last 6 months.

It was on BBC 3 or 4 not too long ago.

 

[Dask]

Wicked glad I'm not going completely mad then.

(It was a really good film from what I remember)

 

[Dubversion]

Props for Themroc and Crime Wave

 

[perplexis]

Liquid Sky Is ridiculous. It's a film about aliens arriving in New York amid an insane early-80s new-wave trendy-scene. They are in search of drugs so arrive on the roof of a dealer's block. They seem to make everyone want to have quite a lot of sex. Featuring some of the best[most ludicrous] make-up I have ever seen, some of the worst sex and worst acting, it's an awesomely skewed take on the early 80s fashion, culture and "scene". It's a bit of a psychedelic frenzy and makes roughly no sense but it's worth seeing just for the sheer oddness.

On an infinitely better note:
The Nine Lives of Tomas Katz is (IMHO) unmittigated genius. I've never managed to find a copy which is gutting, and I am therefore unable to remember the plot properly, but it does feature god as a security guard watching CCTV screens and the (now defunct) red Happy Eater logo makes an appearance as the only coloured thing in a film otherwise shot entirely in B&W. It's another slightly odd one, but I'm desperate to see it again which I think means it must be worth seeing...

 

[girasol]

Maybe you should try to rent DVD's that actually have been released in the UK.

You'd think that with the internet and postal service and airplanes such minor details wouldn't get in the way of renting obscure movies!

 

[Sigmund Fraud]

'Its all about love' - Thomas 'Festen' Vinterbergs English language debut. Claire Daines and Joquim 'Cuprinol' Pheonix struggle to agree divorce terms in New York in the year 2020 against a backdrop of Daines' managers trying to clone her to prolong their careers (she's an ice skater), people lying dead in the streets of NY after having died of broken hearts and gravity failing in Uganda resulting in Ugandans floating into the air never to return.

So completely barking Daines' lawyers got it withdrawn from circulation.

 

[CharlieAddict]

Kwaidan (Dir: Masaki Kobayashi, Japan 1965) - Old school Japanese ghost stories thats different to the usual Hammer stuff I grew up watching. Just good story telling.

Happiness (Dir: Todd Solondz, USA 1998) - I see Allen everyday, in every office block and on every train.

 

[Dubversion]

Happiness (Dir: Todd Solondz, USA 1998) - I see Allen everyday, in every office block and on every train.

that's never obscure

 

[girasol]

'Its all about love' - Thomas 'Festen' Vinterbergs English language debut. Claire Daines and Joquim 'Cuprinol' Pheonix struggle to agree divorce terms in New York in the year 2020 against a backdrop of Daines' managers trying to clone her to prolong their careers (she's an ice skater), people lying dead in the streets of NY after having died of broken hearts and gravity failing in Uganda resulting in Ugandans floating into the air never to return.

So completely barking Daines' lawyers got it withdrawn from circulation.

That one is rentable...

 

[starfish]

Themroc

Of Channel 4 red triangle fame?

 

[Dubversion]

Of Channel 4 red triangle fame?

yep!!

i watched it with my nan. till she excused herself alongside much stage-yawning

 

[Reno]

That one is rentable...

It is but I'm tempted to say, don't bother. I really wanted to like this, floating Ugandans and all, but it was one of the most tedious films I ever sat through.

 

[starfish]

yep!!

i watched it with my nan. till she excused herself alongside much stage-yawning

Oh your poor nan. Saw it with my dad, very weird film.

I remember Griff looking for this film a few years ago.

 

[Griff]

I remember Griff looking for this film a few years ago.

Cheers for the PM about it a few years back too. Never got around to buying it, as I'm not sure it's summat I could sit through comfortably again.

 

[girasol]

It is but I'm tempted to say, don't bother. I really wanted to like this, floating Ugandans and all, but it was one of the most tedious films I ever sat through.

Can't be worse than 'Closer', surely! We watched that last week and we just couldn't stop laughing cause it was so bad.