Quick note that most of this thread is older than my fourth-grader, and some folks aren’t around to respond anymore.
The movie Quills has Michael Caine, Kate Winslet, and Joaquin Phoenix. The setting is a French insane asylum where Geoffrey Rush plays the Marquis de Sade.
Despite the subject matter, it’s an excellent movie. But don’t mention it on a first date, lest it be your last.
As you said in post #172.
heres one I put in the unknown xmas movie thread
the most unusual xmas movie I have ever seen was on Netflix and its a comedy about a working class somewhat socially offensive schmo putting up with his obnoxiously pretentious brother and sister in law the night before xmas
what makes is weird is there’s a running history of the Cleveland Indians baseball team and the sub plot of the protagonist trying not to have an inappropriate relationship with his hot down to earth niece who thinks almost everything and one is “fulla sh–”… (although its sorta implied that neither would mind the arrangement)
I never did find the name of it when I seen most of it last year ……
Quoted comments from IMDB:
Alucarda (1977)
“Satanic imagery abounds in this late 70’s Mexican production; rituals, orgies, gypsies, nuns on fire, crosses, lots of screaming, flagellation, a nude lady in a blood-filled coffin; it’s got a bit of everything.”
Bed of Roses (1933)
“Lorry and Minnie are ex-hookers who leave prison, determined to find the good life with rich men.”
The Black Book, a.k.a. Reign of Terror (1949)
French Revolution film noir. Richard Basehart plays Maximillian (“Don’t call me Max!”) Robespierre sans flying sub.
Crime Spree (2003)
Ensemble comedy of French crooks set up in Chicago.
Intacto (2001)
“An enigmatic tale of four incredibly lucky people… as they gamble with the highest stakes possible in a deadly game.”
Karel Zeman movies - Enjoy the wonders of Mystimation!
Fabulous World of Jules Verne (1958),* The Fabulous Baron Munchhausen* (1962), The Stolen Airship (1967)
Kongo (1932)
Possibly the most politically incorrect film ever released by a major studio.
The President Vanishes (1934)
A crypto-fascist cabal conspires to get the U.S. into another world war because it will be good for business… but then the Prez vanishes! Awesome and prescient flick.
The Sign of the Cross (1932)
Stodgy doings in Rome until the incredible last half-hour showing “The Games” in all their bizarre brutality.
State Secret, a.k.a. The Great Manhunt (1950)
Surgeon in “Vosnia” goes on the lam after his patient, the country’s dictator, dies.
Two Seconds (1932)
“A condemned murderer, in the process of being executed, relives the events that led to his being sentenced to die in the electric chair.”
Outlandish and Reasonably Obscure Hong Kong Movies:
Dragon Chronicles (1994), Legend of Liquid Sword (1993), The Magic Crane (1993), Riki-Oh: Story of Riki (1991)
Reminds me of “Harry and Tonto”, which kinda reminds me of “Umberto D”
Jour de Fete [The Big Day] – French-language original; directed by, and starring, Jacques Tati; 1949.
A gentle comedy, set in the rural depths of central France – a bit north of the point where the scenery starts to get mountainous. The action revolves around the annual visit to the village, of the travelling funfair; and various charming nonsense arising therefrom. I find some poignancy in the circumstance that at the time when the film was being made, things in France were in many ways ugly, in the messy aftermath of the recent World War II; civil war between Right and Left was seen as a distinct possibility – which mercifully, did not in fact come about. However, from the point of view of the countryfolk in the film, and their concerns – all that crap might as well be happening on Alpha Centauri, for all it impinges on them and their world.
This is the movie I came to mention. The title comes from the Book of Revelations, Chapter 6:
"And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.
And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth."
Not for the faint of heart, but a great movie.