I’ll echo Primer, the time travel movie; Memento, early Christopher Nolan flick; The Lobster, with Collin Ferrell who brings his brother the dog; and I’ll add Tusk, which hasn’t been named, the Kevin Smith movie about animal husbandry.
I was in line to buy tickets to see Penn and Teller’s Vegas show. The guy ahead of me in line made a wise-ass remark, and I came up with a very witty rejoinder which made us both laugh. Thing is, I swear the guy was Teller, who would obviously have no need to wait in line at all for Penn and Teller tickets.
Only similar experience was when, riding an escalator in a Toronto department store, a man who climbed next to me made some bizarre remark. He looked an awful lot like one of the Kids In The Hall which was popular then. Either I’m mediocre at recognizing celebrities (probably true) or this is one way of coming up with new material.
But as for the list:
Heaven
Delicatessen
Repo Man
Roger Rabbit
Isle of Dogs
Nightmare Before Christmas
Harvey
Tampoco
Life of Brian
The Wrong Trousers (before its sequels)
Paprika
I’ll second Brazil.
Pan’s Labyrinth was good and interesting but I’m not sure it got past being only a little unusual.
Unique - 8 1/2
They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?
(entire movie is FREE on YouTube)
I haven’t seen most of these. Some, not sure I wanna. (Might be paywalled?)
Did you mean the Japanese film Tampopo?
I did. Been a long time. Should use my noodle.
I love “Taste of Cherry” and think “Dogtooth” is decent, but “El castillo de la pureza” was made almost 40 years before.
I noticed that site only concentrating on new movies…
Yeah.
I find it easy to mix up Tampopo and Pom Poko in my head if I’m just thinking about the names, since they are very different films.
I’m amused by how many non-US films are mentioned, especially since I came in to mention Dangan Runner(aka Non-Stop), since the movie is mostly filmed with the main cast running almost the entire film, with very Sabu cuts to other scenes and characters.
Well, my nominee, Tales from the Gimli Hospital, is Canadian, and we all know how wild those Canadians get.
Experiencing “The Mark of Zoro” at the Fox theater in San Francisco with Gaylord Carter at the mighty Wurlitzer was unique (1960)
I saw “Parasite” a few days ago. What a trip.
Also one of the crappiest I’ve ever seen…
Ah, I see Colibri beat me to it on that one.
Basically most stuff from Jodorowski, Madden, Lynch, and Karemone tries to go for the outer fringes. The last one’s kinda poo-like, though - no fan.
An excellent design prof at our school uses Paprika to teach color theory. Each character has a color scheme (not just their outfits, that’d be too easy; but scenery, background characters, weather, et al), and flashbacks use different palettes as well…
A real work of art. I’m not going to say it was the best movie I’ve ever seen, but I think it had the largest artistic to entertaining ratio of any movie I’ve seen. Like, I think Inception overall is my favorite film and has quite a lot of artistic merit to it, but a lot more effort went into making the movie entertaining. This movie was only interesting after having watched it, and having digested all that was presented.