All good too..

District B13 is Banlieue 13 - there's a new one that's just come out too.
Another decent semi arthouse is 'Clean' with Maggie Cheung

One of, if not my most favourite films is 'Youth without Youth' - truly a masterpiece this film

some more...

fellini's "Satyricon"

Musa

Black Robe

Mongol

I can't believe no one has mentioned this gem:

Kids (1995) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113540/

It's all about Telly and Caspar. This was the gorgeous Rosario Dawson's first movie. She was sitting on her front stoop and was asked if she wanted to be in a movie. The rest is history.

check out the Dreamers, pretty good

^ yes very good




nice thread :thumbsup

Yea, Das Experiment...I had mentioned that one too. Wasn't sure how it was going to be going into watching it but was pretty intense.

Intense for sure, I bought it for like $4 in a previously viewed bin and didn't expect much going in. Was a pretty dark flick.

Yeah, but you can't mention that one without including "Bully" and "Gummo" - other white trash mayhem epics

Old Boy was a great Korean movie. There are a bunch of others I can't think of off the top of my head. Their police/drama flicks are intense.

And Eva Green! Miam!

He's talking about lesser known movies :error

Ichi the killer for sure, along with Audition....basically take any of the Hollywood PG-13 "scary" movies (ie: The Ring) and see the Japanese original....believe me, so much better..they are not "softened" because they are trying to get teenagers to go see it...(not like teenagers wont see any rated r movie that they want)...Hollywood still cant make a movie that will freak me out...

Dirty Love & Eraserhead of course can be added along to Brazil as being over looked....yes i said Dirty Love with Jenny McCarthy.....was truely a surprise rental that had me laughin my ass off....http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0327643/

oh and cannot forget

FEED!!!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0445965/

Old Boy
Man Bites Dog
Necromantic

This one still gives me the willies even though I saw it years ago - regarded as a twisted classic treatise on fascism:

"Salo"

Both great movies.

What a FUCKED UP MOVIE. :thumbsup

I just finished watching it, it was like an hour and a half of pure WTF? Which ends in one massive WTF.

At first I felt totally screwed out of an hour and a half of my life, but the movie just leaves you with so many god damn questions floating around in your head I just can't hate on it. I mean, I understand what was happening, but not really. It leaves everything open.

Great movie for people who like really weird flicks for sure.

Wristcutters: A Love Story - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0477139/

Pretty cool wacky movie.

"A film set in a strange afterlife way station that has been reserved for people who have committed suicide."

Bow down to the master filmmaker!

Check out Primer - I can promise you you'll get something out of it :)
It's a little out there, but nowhere nearly as much as one One point O.

I've never had a film intrigue me as much as primer.

Let's talk about it more when you've seen it ;)

Like Water For Chocolate - a love story with a twist (foreign)
Great American Summer - a cult classic with a GROOVY soundtrack
The Last Emperor - an epic and amazing tale that is a true story about the end of the Chinese monarchy

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Just needed to be 200 more posts and that would have been a useful post Marina :P

Both great films.

Martyrs

Le Diner De Cons

Sonatine

Hana Bi

Kikijuro

Sadly I can't post links to them.

Next on the list.

OK, you want OBSCURE, I will GIVE you obscure:

"Wheels."

Cut the crap, you never heard of it, neither had I until I went to see it at a film festival. I think it screened ONCE in the U.S., at that film festival, and then the print went back to Serbia.

TOTALLY black comedy, set in a roadside diner in Serbo-Croatia. Guy walks in, people think he's the killer they heard about on the radio. He maintains his innocence, but people keep dying. HILARIOUSLY funny. Take my word for it.

If you want something you can pick up at your local Blockbuster, try "Midnight." Don Ameche, Claudette Colbert, John Barrymore. 1939. Hilarious comedy of mistaken identity. Screenplay by Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett ticks along like a Swiss watch. If black-and-white is a dealbreaker forget it, and you probably won't like "International House" either, a little pre-Code nasty with W.C. Fields set in China and featuring a host of radio comedians.

Both available now from Universal.

--t

A handful of lesser-known or underrated gems:


Talk to Her

In the Company of Men

Ghost World

Heist (David Mamet's script is one of the most quotable of all time)

Swimming Pool (Ludivine Sagnier's body is smokin' hot)

Paris, je t'aime

A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints
The Machinist
Bookdock Saints
The General
Pi
Donny Darko

Bully was great. :thumbsup

I forgot about Bully too - that was pretty solid.

Also, should mention Slither - if you like Tremors-ish B-movie flicks, Slither delivers...was damn funny!

All these were great.
I even did a private screening of Paris, Je T'aime in my cinema before I left AU.

I love film and love cinema. I don't so much love watching unbearable arthouse films, I just love the experience, the diversity, and the escapism.

I found an abandoned cinema in my home town [very 60s], moved in, and with a friend, restored power / water / lights / sound - and we used to screen 2 - 3 movies a night, 2 - 3 nights a week.

Was incredible - very fond memories :)

alright, i just finished watching this one. not gonna lie, i was pretty much totally fucking lost for what was happening, and wtf happened in the end, at all. i followed for a while, have a rough idea what sort of was going on, but all in all they were jumping around and i wasn't sure exactly who was who was them and where and when they were. definitely going to have to watch it again. that one just left me drawing a total blank, haha...

edit: seems the movie sparks alot of discussion. http://www.primermovie.com/phpBB2/viewforum.php?f=1

Polanski's "The Tenant"

Nicolas Roeg's "Performance" and "Don't Look Now"

"Battle of Algiers"

Idiocracy with Luke Wilson

War, Inc. with John Cusak (not a best movie, but wacky & worth watching.)

Quite the mind fuck hey?
I dig it for a few reasons, 1, because it managed to pull off something quite spectacular on a low budget [the out of focus shot at the party scene still annoys me though...] - and 2, they did away with all conventional stereotypes of 'devices' like this - what they had was something completely unique.

I picked up a lot more on the second run through :)

That movie is a trip haha

bloody thursday

I'm currently checking out all those French films that Stephane suggested,

as well as some of the spanish ones like Bad Education.

If you are doing French then make sure to include "Fat Girl" if you haven't already seen it.

Love this thread!