I’m the other one!
Didn’t understand it at all, but I’ve seen it. >_>
The number of people I know who haven’t seen that one is pretty small. Even my parents (who haven’t played a video game that wasn’t a card game or Bejeweled in 30 years) have seen it!
I saw that. It’s been a few years but I remember it being pretty good.
Another film with a kind of similar theme is The Hoax starring Richard Gere.
That’s it!! Thank you! I see the film doesn’t qualify as obscure: it won the 1965 Best Foreign Film Oscar. I found two complete-movie renditions on YouTube. Unfortunately one has Greek(?) subtitles, the other no subtitles at all.
The opening scene, with a German war train passing, wasn’t as I remembered – I thought the long row of tanks and guns was much longer. But any doubt was dispelled, using YouTube’s nice scroll-bar function, by hearing the woman say “Pogrom” at the 1:49:00 mark. (I know neither Yiddish nor Slovak but one or both has a close cognate for this word.)
Yep. My movie literacy, or whatever you’d call it, is quite low compared to others here, but that one I did somehow see in the theatre, no less. (Which makes it one of only about thirty or forty films I’ve seen on the big screen.)
I do not recall the title, but once I ended up watching a flick about how two of the Devil’s sons leave Hell and basically leave the door open. This causes the Devil to literally go to pieces, and his third son has to convince them to return to restore universal balance.
Memorable only for the Devil asking his secretary about his schedule for the afternoon and being told “You have a three o’clock to shove a pineapple up Hitler’s butt.” Ended with Hitler - in a dirndl - being forced to select a pineapple; “Larger!”
Any number of low budget Blaxploitation and karate films from the 1970s. Most haven’t been shown in decades and many aren’t even available on DVD.
These include:
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[li]Black Klansman - A light skinned brother goes undercover to revenge on the Klan[/li][li]The Candy Tangerine Man - Easily rivals any Tarantino film for the use of the word “fuck.”[/li][li]Speeding Up Time - A revenge film that was very filmed but really very dull[/li][li]Blade Spears None - One of the first roles for martial arts star Sammo Hung. I remember it being hard to watch because the dubbing was so poor.[/li][li]Evil Karate - One of the worst martial arts films I have ever seen.[/li][/ol]
As I was an enthusiast of both genres, I saw more than my share of both types of films. However, knowing that many haven’t been shown on TV in decades and that many were only on VHS (if that) I’m pretty certain that few people anywhere have seen them.
I saw The Manster as a little kid in the 60s, and for years after that I regularly checked my shoulders for emerging eyeballs.
Little Nicky, which wasn’t entirely terrible.
I’ve seen it many times, mostly as a kid. It showed up in the 90s on TNT’s “MonsterVision”, with Penn and Teller hosting – they also did the “Manster” thing, with Teller as the head on Penn Gillette’s shoulder. The movie was also featured a lot in the 60s in the magazine Famous Monsters of Filmland, the bible of “monster culture”. It’s also hard for me to not believe that this film didn’t influence the makers of the satiric film How to Get Ahead in Advertising
(Look at this after 55 seconds and compare to The Manster): http://www.videodetective.com/movies/how-to-get-ahead-in-advertising/543671
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The-manster-eye.jpg
The Manster was the result of a weird US/Japanese collaboration (kinda like the one that gave us King Kong vs. Godzilla), but it apparently didn’t really take off, because I don’t know of any other films they made.
You’re probably not the only one to have seen this one. It’s not the most famous French movie, but it’s not unheard of over here, either. And it’s generally considered a masterpiece. Trivia : one of the (amateur) actors had participated in the escape depicted in the movie.
Referenced on page five, I believe…
I have seen The Other Wise Man. Made for TV, about 1985, starred Martin Sheen as the oft-delayed Magus. Produced by Father Ellwood “Bud” Kieser’s Paulist Productions, which gave us the long-running TV show INSIGHT (in which a young Martin Sheen occasionally appeared.)
Also, The Judas Project- I missed it in theatres (I think it showed in areas where churches rented out a theatre for a showing). Some friends who saw it loved it. Another family, who were rather dense holier-than-thou people (sounds condenscending, but you had to know them), totally missed the point of the ads, which told you what it was about, and thought the Jesus character would end up being the AntiChrist.
Now, I have not seen this, but has anyone seen The Passover Plot, with Zalman King as Jesus, Donald Pleasance as Pilate, and as Jesus’ brother James… Dan Hedaya?
I have seen Jacques Brel Is Alive & Well & Living In Paris!
That was obviously it - but I didn’t recall a lot of the details in the summary. :o
Still think the appointment with Hitler was the most memorable part - since I remembered it. 
I saw this in the theater when it opened and even though I was stoned in a very teenage way, I remember it as being an ok movie. I’ve never seen it since–never even seen it mentioned anywhere until very recently. No one I know has heard of the film. That has always struck me as odd, since Roy Scheider is in it, and it was directed by William Friedkin (The Exorcist, The French Connection–I think–etc.). This was a year after Scheider did Jaws, so his star was riding about as high as it could go at that point. Has anyone else seen Sorceror? Did it actually suck really bad and I was too wasted on dirt weed to understand that? What’s the explanation here?
I agree that Sorcerer is very good. It’s a remake of the French film The Wages of Fear, which is quite well known. I actually think that Sorcerer is better:
Sorcerer is well-known among film critics and the only reason that it wasn’t wider seen is that it came in the same year as another lesser known film called Star Wars. I have seen it several times (also seen Wages of Fear) and I think that it is an underrated classic.
You are the only other person I’ve “met” who saw this movie. I mentioned it in post 220. I actually rather liked it, or at least the way different events were portrayed, like the feeding of the 5000. No bread and fish, but bread and cheese for the sandwiches that were going to be made. And one of the disciples quipped, when “Jesse” sent Peter(a rather heavy actor) for the picnic material “I don’t think I’d send Pete for the food!” and the rest kind of snickered.
I saw it! The only reason I did was because at the time I was a fan of James Franciscus, who voiced JLS himself. I almost left the theater it was so bad.
Yep, got it on DVD, and no, it doesn’t suck at all.
Agree. I’ve seen it many times. In fact, I recall seeing the trailer a LOT when it was first released. The trailer didn’t explain why it had that name. The South American locale and the Tangerine Dream music kinda suggested some connection with the works of Carlos Castaneda, and I was pleasantly surprised when I saw no connection there at all*.
I never did see the French original, Wages of Fear. I saw that it was briefly in a video store, but never rented it, and now it’s gone.
*I STILL didn’t understand the meaning of the title for many years, until I joined this Board, where it was explained that “Sorceror” was the name of one of the trucks. The movie doesn’t make that clear at all.
It’s a very good film for its time, and Sorcerer hews pretty closely to its plot, but the earlier film takes about an hour longer to tell essentially the same story, so I give the nod to Friedkin’s version.
