The Warriors - and if anybody knows where the Extended Cut can be found on DVD or even to download (at decent quality), please tell me.
I’ve heard the mermaids singing - Sheila McCarthy as a naive secretary with a secret artistic life.
Salute of the Jugger - Rutger Hauer post-apocalypse movie.
The Small Back Room - the film of Nigel Balchin’s book about an alcoholic WW2 bomb disposal expert.
It happened here - amazing low-budget alternate-history story in which the Germans temporarily invaded the UK in WW2.
Mr Vampire - Hong Kong martial arts / mythology movie with those hopping vampires.
Cannibal - the musical - comedy musical, from the South Park crowd, about Alfred Packer, ‘the Colorado Cannibal’, including among other strangenesses a tribe of a Japanese Indians.
Aria - a compilation of operatic arias given clever video treatment (e.g. “Nessun dorma” from Turandot interpreted by Ken Russell as a dream sequence in which a road traffic accident victim sees the medical team as tribal priests).
Second * The Red Violin*. I loved that movie.
I’m also partial to Eddie and the Cruisers. It was one of the first things we got on DVD.
Orlando is another of my favories. It’s lush, beautiful, and a little odd.
Pandaemonium.
it’s a british movie about samuel taylor colderidge and (to a lesser and not-very-accurate extent) william wordsworth (and opium, of course). but historical fact aside, linus roache and john hannah are both excellent in it–especially roache–and it’s a really beautiful creation with the immortal poetry worked in really wonderfully.
Hey, pretty cool - it’s not everyday I find someone else who enjoys (or has even heard of) that movie! 
Vide another thread today–the In Laws.
Serpentine! Serpentine!
I had to laugh, my boyfriend and I went to see “Cemetary Man” for our first date!
One of my favorite smaller movies is “Grace of My Heart” with Illeana Douglas.
Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead- Gary Oldman and Tim Roth in Tom Stoppard’s play about two minor characters in [/]Hamlet*. I’m not sure why I like this movie; when you peel off the layers of overdone Beckett-worship, it’s just a buddy comedy.
Gummo Bizarre, disturbing, and largely plot-less movie by Harmony Korine. Again, no idea why I like it.
To Wong Foo- Thanks For Everything, Julie Newmar Kind of the American version of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, another movie I love.
The Kingdom Creepy Dutch horror flick about a haunted hospital. It’s incredibly well-done in terms of storyline and acting.
The Reflecting Skin Wacked-out story of a young boy and the incredibly disturbing people who surround him. Features a young Viggo Mortensen, along with plenty of disturbing imagery.
The Prophecy cheesy Biblical drama/angst/cop movie involving angels and the war in heaven. But who could resist a film which features Viggo Mortensen, Christopher Walken, Eric Stoltz, and Elias Koteas?
Appetite Strange movie about several unrelated characters staying at a small British hotel, and the plot developments that draw them together.
The Item Icredibly strange low-budget horror/sci-fi flick about thieves who steal an alien in a box, and the havoc it wrecks on them. Ending features stomach-turning sex scene with said alien. Horrible, horrible film, but compelling in the manner of traffic accidents- you just can’t look away.
No Such Thing A woman travels to Iceland in search of her murdered boyfriend, survives a plane crash, and befriends a lonely and suicidal monster. Gorgeous scenery.
The Kingdom is awsome, ratty, but it’s a TV series, not a movie. And Danish, not Dutch. (Everything Lars Von Trier does rocks my world. Breaking the Waves is the best.)
Mwaha-- I think I’ll dust off my Kingdom tape tonight.
Kafka? Huge fan. Even wrote a script for a short film based on Penal Colony that I planned to make for a college filmmaking course, but it never happened.
And I will second Holy Mountain. I’ve read that there are plans for a Region 1 DVD release soon, which would butter my bread…I have the Region 2 DVD, but it’s not of great quality.
Definately not a film for everyone…watching it is more akin to participating in a ritual than just viewing entertainment.
No DVD release of the extended cut as of yet. It was rumored that the Region 2 release would have the extra footage, but no go. I’ve only seen the VHS tape, which is letterboxed and of fairly decent quality.
:smack: That wasn’t phrased very clearly, was it? I meant to ask if you have ever read any Edogawa Rampo?
I can’t wait to upgrade my Jodorowsky. For the longest time I’ve had a 2nd generation VHS copy of a Japanese laserdisc. Distracting blue masks over any exposed naughty bits, because of the source.
Oops! No, I don’t believe I have…in fact, I wasn’t aware that the movie was based on a actual author. Interesting.
The Region 2 DVD of *Holy Mountain * is for the most part free of digital censoring, but it pops up in a couple of places…I’m assuming that they were working with a incomplete print and had to lift the missing portions from the Japanese version. It’s pretty annoying in any case. Allen Klein was the main obstacle to any legitimate release for decades, and now that he’s dead and the rights have passed to his daugther, the chances are looking good that we’ll see excellent-quality releases of this and El Topo pretty soon. About time, if you ask me.
It *should * have been Ferarra’s debut. Would have made for a commendable starting point. His first film was actually the rather grimy *Driller Killer *.
Damn! This is so embarassing. :o Thanks for the heads-up, Larry. BTW, do you know where I can maybe get a copy of The Kingdom on DVD? Last time I checked, it wasn’t on amazon.com.
I especially liked a 1977 film called Sixth And Main, which starred Beverly Garland as a writer who “discovers” a burned-out novelist (Leslie Nielsen) on skid row in L.A. and tries to re-start his career. It’s a gritty and intense drama, fleshed out with strong characterizations by Roddy McDowell and Leo Penn. I saw it on cable TV, and I’m not sure it was released to theatres.
A more current film (1998) that didn’t get a lot of build-up is the excellent drama The Spanish Prisoner, which casts Steve Martin in a straight (and hugely interesting) dramatic role. It is a highly complex story of a confidence scheme, written (I think) and directed by David Mamet. I know it’s on video, and well worth a look.
List me as another person who loves Hudson Hawk.
Others…
UHF
Buffalo '66
Monkeybone
An odd little orphans running away from the orphanage flick called Bad Manners. (Also released as Growing Pains, IIRC.)
I think I’ve run across two other posters to the boards that’ve seen this one. It’s really got to be seen to be appreciated. A skewed sense of humor helps, too, o’course.
[sub]Tally ho, tally ho, motorcycle midget hit the road…[/sub]
I have to agree with Larry Mudd.
(John Paizs’s) Crime Wave is amazing. Almost completely unknown. Yet–it’s actually good. And I mean GOOD. Completely original (for 1985); unpredictable; hilarious. I have to rank it as one of the best Canadian movies ever made, and one of the very few that ANYONE will be interested to look at 20, 30, 50 years hence.
Otherwise, I love The Red House, an obscure Freudian psychological mystery thriller from the late 40s, starring Edward G. Robinson, and a ravishing young Julie London.
As a big fan of comedies I’ve enjoyed these two harder to find movies.
The Wrong Guy. Dave Foley himself came to the HIFF for what was at the time the largest screening the movie had gotten. Probably still was the largest screening it got. Anyway I even got to ask him a question and he riffed off me. Anyway it’s a silly little movie that just makes me laugh really hard. It never got a theatrical release due to a variety of reasons which he mentioned but I can’t recall at the time. Probably they didn’t think either him or Jennifer Tilly would be able to pull in enough to make it worth their while. Shame.
A Midwinter’s Tale (titled in the UK “In the Bleak Midwinter”) played at the little Marina twins for 2 weeks before disappearing. I really enjoyed following this lweird ittle troup who are going to put on Hamlet as their Christmas play. Plus it was nice to see Julia Sawalha play someone cute and fun the dour Saffy from “Absolutely Fabulous” which I never liked nor watched but did notice in that she was cute. Although it may be only hard to find in the US having been written and directed by Branaugh.