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good movies not many people have seen
The Boy In The Striped Pajamashttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbL9PN...
wow. i never hear anyone talking about this movie. it is moving and important
That's a good film, Kevin, but I don't think it's as good as the novel. One film that I've always wondered why more people haven't seen, or don't even talk about, is The Hospital, starring George C. Scott, screenplay by Paddy Chayefsky (who later wrote Network). It's one of my favorite films, and as relevant as it was in 1971, it's still shockingly relevant today.
I'll have to read Leonard Maltin's book. He's one of my favorite film critics.
THE HOSPITAL always feels like a dress rehearsal for NETWORK to me.I'd add WONDER BOYS to the mix.
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Wonder Boys is a good movie, nice add.
Wonder Boys is a good movie, nice add.
I loved Wonder Boys. What a movie. Great soundtrack too.
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Also, there was a movie we studied that had three overlaying plots, involving a journalist in London covering the wars in Bosnia/Herzegovina and ... a third plot.
I thought the title was The Ring, the Circle, something like that...but IMDB isn't finding it. Does anyone remember it? Probably came out mid to early 90s?
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I would never have expected anyone else to bring it up. ;)
i also like Defiance with Daniel Craig. i had not even heard about the movie until getting it at our local library. based on a true story it was very good
Has time forgotten Wings of Desire? 'Cause I still love it, despite its horrible shouldn't-exist remake.
Kevin "El Liso Grande" wrote: "i also like Defiance with Daniel Craig. i had not even heard about the movie until getting it at our local library. based on a true story it was very good"I have that on my shelf to watch at some point. My father recommended it really highly. I'm glad to hear you do as well.
Jackie, I ADORED Tampopo. Funny and bizarre and hunger-inducing. Wonderful.Sarah, Wings of Desire is one of my 15 favorite films ever. The Criterion Collection just released their remastered version with bonus features, which I'm keen on picking up.
I liked Abre Los Ojos/Open Your Eyes. Never got around to Vanilla Sky.
I liked Vanilla Sky for its weird SF vibe. Tom Cruise made a good "rich guy who's full of himself," too. :)
Speaking of weird SF vibes, how about The City of Lost Children?
Finally available on DVD. Interplanetary space slugs from the past re-emerge in the present, inhabit the bodies of projectile-vomiting frat boys, and turn them into zombies, leaving a handful of survivors to sort it all out. The best line belongs to the great Tom Atkins who, as Detective Ray Cameron, gives a houseful of anxious co-eds a heads-up: “Girls, the good news is your dates are here. The bad news is they’re dead.”
I love 70s horrors like "Let's Scare Jessica to Death".
Misha wrote: "I have seen Night of the Creeps many times."
Well, that makes two of us.
Might I also recommend the splatter comedy "Dead Alive," from a pre-"Rings" trilogy Peter Jackson. It's a keeper.
Well, that makes two of us.
Might I also recommend the splatter comedy "Dead Alive," from a pre-"Rings" trilogy Peter Jackson. It's a keeper.
Gretchen wrote: "I love 70s horrors like "Let's Scare Jessica to Death"."Oh! Gretchen I loved that one! It, and "The Night Stalker" were big influences on my childhood. Vampires! Woo!
Oh! I've never heard of "The Night Stalker". I'm going to check it out.
Gretchen, it was a made-for-tv movie for the tv show Kolchak: The Night Stalker, starring Darren McGavin. Actually, I'm not sure if it was even a movie, or just a two-part episode:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067490/
gotcha. I found one that is a double feature. The Night Stalker/The Night Strangler on Netflix. I think it's the same.
night stalker was very good/creepy/fun. plus it is ralphie's dad so that makes it cool
One of my favorite horror films is Horror Express, starring Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, and Telly Savalas as a Cossack (!!!). It's delightfully cheesy, yet it brings the scare. 
I scored a DVD copy recently; kinda shoddy packaging, but that's to be expected considering the film belongs to the public domain now.
Heck, yeah! I love that one, too, Gus. It's one of those movies that's over the top in just the perfect way. I laughed out loud in delight at Telly Savalas' Cossack character. :)
Oh, yeah, completely over the top, yet genuinely scary and compelling. Even if Telly Savalas is, shall we say, overacting in a completely insane way.
I saw Mr. Brooks on DVD recently. I bought it at the library for 25 cents. I'm not a Kevin Costner fan (outside of The Untouchables anyway), but I still have a thing for William Hurt so I thought, what the hell.It was EXCELLENT. As soon as it was over I watched it again, and then the next day I watched it with the director's commentary.
I've been raving about it but no one I know saw it.
Gus wrote: "One of my favorite horror films is Horror Express, starring Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, and Telly Savalas as a Cossack (!!!). It's delightfully cheesy, yet it brings the scare. I scored a D..."
Gus, I want to see that. That's my thing.
Aynge wrote: "I saw Mr. Brooks on DVD recently. I bought it at the library for 25 cents. I'm not a Kevin Costner fan (outside of The Untouchables anyway), but I still have a thing for William Hurt so I thought, ..."it is somewhere on my imaginary to-watch list.
Rebecca, I'm pretty sure you can find Horror Express on Netflix, or you can get a cheap copy from Amazon or wherever; it belongs in the public domain now, since no one owns the rights to the film, so there's bound to be several editions of the film floating around, but any version will do.
"Dead Ringers" with Jeremy Irons directed by David Cronenberg. Great movie that not a lot of people seem to be aware of.
Thanks, Gus, I'll look on Amazon. On Netflix you can save it.
Gatorman wrote: ""Dead Ringers" with Jeremy Irons directed by David Cronenberg. Great movie that not a lot of people seem to be aware of."I saw that! Loved it.
Misha wrote: "I have not seen City of Lost Children but would like to. And I think there was a Guillermo del Toro flick that I missed between Pan's Labyrinth and Hellboy 2 - something that was more along the lines of Pan's Labyrinth? I'll have to check imdb."The Devil's Backbone? another excellent movie.
and i do recommend City of Lost children. not quite as good as Delicatessen, perhaps, but good nontheless
Paul wrote: "The Devil's Backbone? another excellent movie."I agree. That was a really good movie.
I do love City of Lost Children, and Defiance. I purposefully have never seen The Boy in the Striped Pajamas. I normally avoid straight up drama or anything I know has a sad ending. Enough in every day life sucks, I don't like it in my fiction. I'll watch WWII documentaries all day long if you like, but that's educational, not entertainment. There is a difference for me.Having said that:
Little Man Tate
Shadowlands (The one with Anthony Hopkins)
I also recently watch on Netflix streaming and really liked:
Twice Upon a Yesterday
Marilyn Hotchkiss's Ballroom Dancing
And I loved, Loved, LOVED A Wedding for Bella with Scott Baio...I know, but it was very sweet and I cried. It was a far cry from the Charles in Charge days, he's grown up, people. Give the guy a chance.
Riki-oh: The Story of Ricky(Caution for graphic content in the clip)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vxd08S...
Wonder Boys is wonderful. You'll laugh when - well, when several things happen. Mr. Brooks is interesting.
The movie I'd recommend is The Station Agent. Life seen through three or four (or more) different perspectives. Hope you'll give it a try.
Sarah Pi wrote: "Has time forgotten Wings of Desire? 'Cause I still love it, despite its horrible shouldn't-exist remake. "The fact that it was all in colour meant that you lost a lot of the meaning from quite a lot of scenes e.g. when he awakes as human and realises blood is red...
Near Dark (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093605/) - fantastic film but suffered by being overshadowed by The Lost Boys which was released at the same time.Outland (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082869/) - High Noon in space. Criminally under-rated, and hurt a bit by looking dated but otherwise a fantastic piece of cinematic sci-fi.
The Lord of the Rings (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077869/) - Ralph Bakshi's fantastic but 'unfinished' animated masterpiece. I know this is highly controversial but in some respects does a better job than the newer trilogy.
The most fluorescent, chain-smoking, facepainted, cross-dressing, boop-beep-boop alien invasion in cinematic history.
Miniature alien spaceship descends on Noo Yawk - the pilot of which is drawn to areas with a great deal of heroin use - and kills junkies with a crystal shard to the skull as they climax and soon thereafter becomes addicted to the brain fluid it drains at that precise moment.
And you thought I was fucked up...
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/st...
What do you think? Any movies of which you know that never got quite popular but are still pretty good, and you wish more people had seen them?