I loved “Koyaanisqatsi.” You have to be able to watch it from start to finish without interruption to really appreciate it - and I’m not even talking about putting it on pause to go to the bathroom.
I agree that “Powaqqatsi” is not as good. There’s a third entry to the series called “Nagoyqatsi” but I haven’t seen it.
I stopped reading at Post #95 when I realized it was a zombie, but have read all the most recent posts. First, the films I’m pretty sure very few people have seen:
Second, responses to recent posts only (I hope)
Perhaps the only example of a film where audio, video, or both can be run backwards as well as forward.
Schickele and Glass having been classmates at Julliard. As I’m sure you already know. I’m just telling everyone else.
You’ve met one now! I saw Kenny two years ago and have been preaching about it ever since. Yes, absolute genius. A friend forced me to watch it. I grudgingly expected a low-budget mockumentary with caca-poopoo jokes, did not expect it to be a wonderful little character study with a heart of gold. And insanely funny. Can’t recommend this one strongly enough.
I saw “Down and Dirty Duck.” My wife and I liked the Dirty Duck underground comics and thought it was based on that. We were wrong. So … wrong … We walked out, it was brain-damaged swill from the get-go. I believe it was made by two former members of “The Turtles” musical group. They shoulda stuck to music. And stayed away from acid.
When we first got cable in KY, it seemed the movie channels were showing just two films: The Apple and Times Square. My cousins pretty much memorized both films that first summer, while I memorized all 452 videos Mtv had at the time. (Youngsters may not know this - the M stood for music, and they showed music videos 24/7).
The Simpsons parody Koyaanisqatsi. “Koyaanis-Scratchy: Death out of Balance.”
Seen A Boy and His Dog (in college), The Atomic Kid (when I was maybe six or seven), and Song of the South (rereleased around 1984, believe it or not).
Some other good ones I’ve caught over the years:
The Lighthouse, a low-budget European flick about a convict sentenced to man a lighthouse on a Godforsaken shore of the Mediterranean. He nearly goes mad from the solitude and boredom.
The King of Hearts with the great Alan Bates. Antiwar movie set in a village in WWI France; the inmates of an asylum take over when the regular civilian population flees.
Paprika. Italian flick about a hot young babe who joins a brothel. Follows her career until she snags a rich old fart.
Malèna. Italian flick about a boy infatuated with a beautiful war widow.
Blast of Silence. Follows a Mafia hit man as he stalks his target over the holidays.
Another good one:
Malcolm. Australian movie about a socially retarded mechanical genius who builds his own streetcar.
My candidate is an American film I’d never heard of that I just happened to see on French TV just last night: Liberty Stands Still (2002), with Wesley Snipes, Linda Fiorentino, and Oliver Platt.
The basic plot is very similar to that of Phonebooth, released the same year: a person (Fiorentino, playing the wife of Platt’s weapons-company executive) is held hostage in a public setting by a hidden, apparent maniac with a sniper rifle (yes, Snipes plays a sniper), with the maniac’s motives (revenge concerning an incident in all three character’s pasts) gradually revealed over time.
While the leads are pretty good in their roles and the film builds a certain degree of tension in the early going, somewhere on the way any larger point, except for a rather ham-handed subtheme on the merits of gun control gets lost. CIA hitmen show up trying to assassinate Fiorentino for no discernable reason; there’s a subplot invilving a bomb in a nearby theater that ends up having no particular importance to the main story; when the cops finally turn up they seemingly take a half-hour to ask Fiorentino what the heck is going on, continually make idiotic tactical decisions that do littlr to move the story along, and so on. With the vastly superior Phonebooth out at roughly the same time, it’s no wonder this one went direct to video in the US.
Curdled. Angela Jones (Esmarelda Villa Lobos in Pulp Fiction) works for a company that specializes in murder-scene cleanup.
Killing Zoe. Eric Stoltz (Lance in Pulp Fiction) and confederates rob a bank in Paris. Julie Delpy is luscious!
I agree! I’ve had a thing for Julie Delpy ever since I saw that movie. (Written and directed by Roger Avery. Executive Producers: Quentin Tarentino and Lawrence Bender.) Lots Reservoir Dogs/Pulp Fiction crossover. 
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Seen it. And there’s a cameo by Ron Jeremy, of all people.
Through the Ashes of the Empire (*Prin cenusa imperiului *). Romanian-made, 1976: saw it a couple of years after its release – prompted to do so, chiefly by its featuring a particular subject of interest to me. Set in 1917, in the situation of Romania – briefly a belligerent on the Allied side in WWI – being under harsh German / Austrian occupation. Although made under the Ceausescu regime, was IMO a thoroughly OK bit of cinema: reflecting on the folly of war, with a mixture of the grim / heartrending, and picaresque comedy. For sure, the only Romanian film I’ve ever seen.
This was actually on heavy rotation on Cinemax roughly two years after it came out. I was in a “Vietnam War movie comparison” jag at the time and I had read about this one before I saw it. A good early acting effort by Law & Order’s Richard Brooks.
I channel-surfed onto a movie once that was so awful I couldn’t stop watching it. I forget the name but it was Canadian and was about a kid who’s best friend died and was haunting him (or something.) The kid would see his friend’s corpse all over the place and they’d interact. I think the kid lived with his alcoholic (maybe abusive?) father. The movie was so bad I’ve forgotten just about everything about it, except the surreal “WTF am I watching” feeling.
Some friends had a contest to see who could find the worst movie. We voted The Terror of Tiny Town the winner!
Back in the days of VCR’s I rented a movie that someone decided to alter. He recorded over the original movie with a shot of himself masturbating. Pretty sure I’m the only one that saw that movie since I let the rental store know!
And similarly to Soylent Juicy I stumbled across Play-Mate of the Apes and laughed myself silly.
I once saw Jesse James meets Dracula and Jesse James and Frankenstein’s Daughter at a local drive-in. In a weird way, they were actually pretty good.
Are you sure it wasn’t Billy the Kid vs. Dracula? John Carradine as the Bat Man, Virginia Christine (aka “Mrs Olsen”) as Eva, the lovable immigrant woman?
EVA: (Faux Swedish accent) What’s the matter, child?
BETTY [Billy’s girlfriend]: Oh, it’s Billy. Lately he’s been asking me to do the strangest things…
EVA: What does he want you to do, child?
BETTY: Well, just this morning he asked me to get my uncle to stand in front of a mirror!
EVA: (Gasps) The vampire test!
BETTY: What?
EVA: Oh, nothing…
I have a niece name Zoe. One time, I was at my brother’s house and he saw it on the TV listing, and said, “Let’s not watch that.” 
My sister replied that she had seen it and it wasn’t very good.
I was in a film club for a while, and we screened a low-budget Czech movie from the 1960s called “Intimate Lighting”. I don’t think it’s available on video or DVD; all I remember is that it was about some cellists and was very short - just over an hour in length.
Just as an aside, Schickele and Glass have remained good friends to this day. Professor Pete told Glass that he was doing a parody of Koyaanisqatsi and Glass asked to hear it before he made it public. So, Schickele played it for him, there was a moment of silence and then Glass said “Yeah, that sounds about right!”
No Man Is an Island. Jeffrey Hunter is a US serviceman (Navy) forced to hide out in the Philippines during the Japanese occupation in WWII. Saw it once when I was nine or so (which would place it in 1964), and have never heard of it since. Good movie!
The Cuckoo. Russian movie (2002) in which a Finnish SS conscript is “taken prisoner” by an older Soviet soldier at the end of WWII, and they shack up with a hot Lapp chick. Also good.