discokermit
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blue collar.
watched it again last night. great stuff.
watched it again last night. great stuff.
Underrated Classic Films
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Or when he realises he needs to get inside the animals.
Chester Copperpot
Triple stones
The last supper
Heathers
Heathers
the button
out on the kocker
Good choice.
My favourite film of all time is The Conversation (Coppola directing Gene Hackman), which he made inbetween the first two Godfathers. (And was somewhat overshadowed by them, wrongly IMO).
the button
out on the kocker
That cheese sandwich scene is genius.
And the "proud" scene where his parents give him the car.
I quite liked Stay Faraway So Close too.
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
the people under the stairs
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
Long Riders
Reno
The In Kraut
This year I rewatched the 1978 Canadian thriller The Silent Partner and I think it’s one of the most underrated films of the 70s. Elliot Gould plays a bank teller at a Toronto shopping mall. When he gets wind that a bank robber dressed as Santa (Christopher Plummer) is planning to rob his bank, he hatches a plan to cream off a substantial amount of money for himself. Unfortunately the robber figures out he’s been had and turns out to be a homicidal psychopath.
Too many thrillers get undeservedly compared to Hitchcock, but this one would be worthy of the master. Hitchcock has made several films about cat and mouse games between a slightly unsympathetic "hero“ and a more charismatic villain. Even minor characters here are interesting and complex and the movie is really gripping. Like many a Hitchcock villain, Plummer‘s character is subtly coded as queer, which by modern standards is problematic, but it’s also interesting. I don’t believe that was in the screenplay, it’s something which Plummer added in his performance and make up. He is a very memorable villain but the movie is also a good reminder what a fantastic leading man Elliot Gould was. He gives the more understated performance but he’s just as good as a seemingly average guy with a deviant streak.
The movie also features a rare and excellent score by Oscar Peterson.
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Idris2002
Stay Alive in '25
Odd Man Out.
Carol Reed. Often seen as a "dry run" for the Third Man, but actually a very different film - James Mason's IRA man far more sympathetic than Orson Welle's character.
The characters Mason meets as he stumbles around Belfast are far more like Dublin types than they are like the sort of people you'd meet in Beal Feirste, though.
Carol Reed. Often seen as a "dry run" for the Third Man, but actually a very different film - James Mason's IRA man far more sympathetic than Orson Welle's character.
The characters Mason meets as he stumbles around Belfast are far more like Dublin types than they are like the sort of people you'd meet in Beal Feirste, though.
Fez909
toilet expert
I thought about this film as soon as I saw the thread title. But it's not exactly underrated...it was nominated for Best Picture Oscar and won the Palm d'Or at Cannes.
However, I never hear it mentioned, or recommended, or talked about.
So maybe it has moved into 'forgotten gem' territory?
trabuquera
Modesty Bag
Not exactly unknown (favourite of Kubrick nerds and film spotters for decades now) but I just saw Paths of Glory (1957) on telly at the weekend and realised neither Kubrick nor Kirk Douglas ever did much better. I've never got on with Dr Strangelove and think the PoG approach to the bitter farce or war and the mindbending paradoxes of death, patriotism, sacrifice, loyalty etc much much more entertaining and thought-provoking than Strangelove. So there.
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