I'm out of movies

I’ve seen a lot of them; TCM runs them pretty frequently.

True with the MGM ones (that’s how I’m familiar with them), but I don’t believe that either his Fox or Paramount shorts are in their library.

Their library doesn’t consist only of the titles they own the rights to; it’s pretty comprehensive.

Here’s five more from the list of my 100 favorites which you might conceivably not have seen:

Carrie (1976, U.S., dir. Brian De Palma)
Diner (1982, U.S., dir. Barry Levinson)
Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994, U.K., dir. Mike Newell)
My Brilliant Career (1979, Australia, dir. Gillian Armstrong)
Play it Again, Sam (1972, U.S., dir. Herbert Ross)

Here’s twenty which I like reasonably well which you might not have seen:

The Adventures of Mark Twain (a.k.a. Mark Twain) (1985, U.S., dir. Will Vinton)
Altered States (1980, U.S., dir. Ken Russell)
Angel Heart (1987, U.S., dir. Alan Parker)
Army of Shadows (a.k.a. The Shadow Army, Army in the Shadows) (1969, France/Italy, dir. Jean-Pierre Melville)
Atlantic City (1980, Canada/France, dir. Louis Malle)
Badlands (1973, U.S., dir. Terrence Malick)
Bananas (1971, U.S., dir. Woody Allen)
The Battle of Algiers (1965, France, dir. Gillo Pontecorvo)
Brain Donors (1992, U.S., dir. Dennis Dugan)
Chilly Scenes of Winter (a.k.a. Head Over Heels) (1979, U.S., dir. Joan Micklin Silver)
Code of Silence (1985, U.S., dir. Andrew Davis)
Cold Fever (1994, Iceland, dir. Fridrik Thor Fridriksson)
Crumb (1994, U.S., dir. Terry Zwigoff)
Cutter’s Way (a.k.a. Cutter and Bone) (1981, U.S., dir. Ivan Passer)
Dark Star (1974, U.S., dir. John Carpenter)
Days of Heaven (1978, U.S., dir. Terrence Malick)
De Düva: The Dove (a.k.a. The Dove) (1968, U.S., dir. George Coe, Anthony Lover)
Dead Man (a.k.a. Jim Jarmusch’s Dead Man) (1995, U.S./Germany/Japan, dir. Jim Jarmusch)
Deconstructing Harry (1997, U.S., dir. Woody Allen)
Diabolique (a.k.a. The Fiends, The Devils) (1955, France, dir. Henri-Georges Clouzot)

More later.

Note that I haven’t actually seen either (yeesh, I don’t have time for all those movies…although apparently I have time to waste on SDMB every day…go figure), but if you like Offside, check out an Israeli film called Cup Final.

You may want to check out Stalker and The White Sun of the Desert. They’re the best Russian movies I’ve seen.

Also, The King and the Clown is pretty good if you don’t mind some homosexual themes.

A couple of light Australian comedies you might not have seen are The Dish and The Castle, both of which I really enjoyed.
For meatier fare, which you have perhaps seen, try Burden of Dreams which is absolutely fantastic, and El Topo which is bizarre and unforgettable.
Pretty hard to guess what you haven’t seen, but all of these are worth a look.
A movie which I detested but which is worth seeing, and well liked among many cinephiles I respect, is Putney Swope. Hope some of these have slipped past your filter :slight_smile: .

One of my favorite DePalma.

NOT a Levinson fan; maudlin sentimental cliché predictable complacent pap.

Better than I expected. Pretty good overall.

Pretty good.

Cute, entertaining.

Trippy, a weird little movie which I mostly like.

Was a top favorite for years, especially the soundtrack. Ken Russell is a favorite.

Enjoyable, but ultimately more cheese than meat, I thought.

Brilliant; one of my favorite WWII movies.

Pretty good, what I remember. Should maybe see again.

For a long time, in my lifetime topten.

NOT a Woody Allen fan. At all.

Masterpiece.

I pretty much avoid Dennis Dugan movies on principal . . .

Haven’t seen. Will check out.

I. Love. Andrew. Davis. He’s the best action director working, fyask me.

Don’t know it. Will check it out.

Pretty brilliant. And creepy.

Pretty good, as I remember.

Classic, cheesy AND cheeky. Better than Star Wars!

Masterpiece.

Lifetime top ten.

Pretty annoying, even for Allen

Masterpiece.

Thanks for the suggestions! Added to the list.

Iliked The Dish. Will check out The Castle. I loved Burden of Dreams. El Topo is an experience I’m glad to’ve undergone, but I don’t see myself undergoing it again anytime soon. Putney Swope is funny, but Greaser’s Palace is . . . awesomer.

Probably the most obscure art film I’ve seen recently: The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes [2005], by the Quay brothers. It would make a good double feature with Jan Svankmajer’s Alice, which was better executed and more accessible, although I was more intrigued by them both in theory than in reality.

A few more offbeat, and frankly much more enjoyable, titles:

The Advocate [U.K. title: The Hour of the Pig] [1993] – stars Colin Firth as a medieval French lawyer who defends a Gypsy-owned pig charged with murder. An unusual crime/courtroom drama, to be sure, if admittedly of greater interest to Ren Faire types and Firth’s estrogen brigade. [grin]

Stealing Heaven [1988] – stars Kim Thomson and Derek de Lint as star-crossed medieval lovers Heloise and Abelard in a romantic melodrama pitting enlightenment values against the prevailing Dark Ages mentality, to say nothing of Heloise’s protective uncle (Denholm Elliot). [Hint: these two were culturally several hundred years ahead of their time.] One of the first movies I ever saw featuring full-frontal male nudity (of de Lint, before his character was mutilated), yowza.

Liberty Heights [1999] – a worthy if oft-overlooked entry in Barry Levinson’s series of period-Baltimore comedy-dramas, with Ben Foster, Adrien Brody, Joe Mantegna and Bebe Neuwirth as a Jewish family which defies “white flight” to remain in their urban Baltimore enclave, circa 1954. As the father falls into trouble with the law, both of the boys fall for goyische girls, and how!

Stalker is brilliant, a masterpiece. Will look for White Sun. Will look for King and Clown. Thanks!

OK. I also asked coworkers for recommendations, and a couple of new titles came in. So here’s the last couple days worth of catching up:

Zoo
Cool, but not anywhere near as original as the filmmakers think. On the commentary track, the director said he wanted to do something “no one else had ever done.” Well, yeah, I guess no one else has made an Errol Morris film about bestiality. But someone–say, Errol Morris–might have got around to it eventually. The soundtrack even, I can imagine the meeting with the composer: “Um, yeah, we can’t afford Phillip Glass, so can you just do some fake Phillip Glass? Thanks.” It treads too lightly; the only sources in the film are the guys who seem to be least interested in being honest about the story. So, like Iraq in Fragments, pretty but not much of a documentary. (We’ll call this approach the Seattle School.)
The Boss of It All
Pretty brilliant. I’ll take odds on how quickly it’s dumbed down as a vehicle for Will Farrell or Queen Latifah. It will just be a feature-length near-ripoff of The Office, with none of the political or cinematic subtext. See it before that happens.
***Vacancy ***
Better than the current glut of torture porn, but the ending sucked really bad.
Super Troopers
It’s no Hot Fuzz. And leaves me not really needing to see any more of their movies. Still, funny in isolated spots.
Hitchhiker’s Guide . . .
A big mess, with some good bits. Best parts: Alan Rickman and Bill Nighy. Worst part: I love, love, love Sam Rockwell, but he couldn’t decide if he was Gary Oldman in The Fifth Element or Michael Keaton in Beetlejuice.

Twenty more films:

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004, U.S., dir. Michel Gondry)
Everyone Says I Love You (1996, U.S., dir. Woody Allen)
Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Sex * But Were Afraid to Ask) (a.k.a. Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Sex) (1972, U.S., dir. Woody Allen)
Festival of Claymation (1987, U.S., dir. Will Vinton)
The Three Musketeers (a.k.a. The Three Musketeers: The Queen’s Diamonds) (1973, U.S./U.K., dir. Richard Lester)
The Four Musketeers (a.k.a. The Return of the Three Musketeers, The Four Musketeers: Milady’s Revenge, The Revenge of Milady) (1974, U.K./U.S., dir. Richard Lester)
Greetings (1968, U.S., dir. Brian De Palma)
Hi, Mom! (a.k.a. Confessions of a Peeping Tom, Blue Manhattan) (1970, U.S., dir. Brian De Palma)
High Fidelity (2000, U.K./U.S., dir. Stephen Frears)
Invaders from Mars (1953, U.S., dir. William Cameron Menzies)
Kicking and Screaming (1995, U.S., dir. Noah Baumbach)
The Last Dragon (a.k.a. Berry Gordon’s The Last Dragon) (1985, U.S., dir. Michael Schultz)
Last Year at Marienbad (a.k.a. Last Year in Marienbad) (1961, France/Italy, dir. Alain Resnais)
Living in Oblivion (1995, U.S., dir. Tom DiCillo)
Love and Death (1975, U.S., dir. Woody Allen)
The Magus (1968, U.K., dir. Guy Green)
The Man Who Would Be King (1975, U.S., dir. John Huston)
Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993, U.S., dir. Woody Allen)
Miracle Mile (1989, U.S., dir. Steve DeJarnatt)
Mountains of the Moon (1990, U.S., dir. Bob Rafelson)

Thanks, WW. I’ve seen all but three; will look for those.

I saw “Once” last night. It’s the best movie I’ve seen this year. Probably not playing at a theater near you but it should be out on DVD by the end of the year.

I have absolutely nothing to add to this thread but I finished reading the first sentence in the OP and I have to ask, why not write/make your own movie?

(I assure you that I am not being snarky.)

Then I have to ask a follow-up question: Do they all revolve aroundincestor was that unique to Oldboy?

If you enjoy rock and roll at all, you should see Air Guitar Nation.

I’m late to the dance, so my suggestion may have been mentioned, if so, I’m sorry for being redundant.
My offerings are Leaving Normal and Mr Frost.

Try the original Zaitoichi movies.