You’ve found a fellow viewer here! I should probably re-watch this movie. At the time, I wasn’t sophisticated enough to really get it. Or maybe most movies about religion just leave me cold. I thought this movie was well done, but it confused me. Doesn’t the troupe’s Passion Walk not conform to the events recorded in the Bible? I didn’t see it so much as being “offensive” as being annoying to the Church that they took liberties with long-standing tradition. Maybe that’s the point, and I missed it?
I know the “foreign films” section of Hollywood Video here has it.
So here I go.
I forgot to mention The Sidewalks of New York. I love all of Ed Burns’ films, but this is one in particular I don’t think got the attention it deserved.
I also liked Immortality with Jude Law, which I believe was originally titled The Wisdom of Crocodiles.
I also need to re-watch it. It’s been about 8 years since I’ve seen it, so I don’t remember, exactly, what the circumstances are for the church’s ire. I just remember that I loved it and have been trying, desperately, to see it again. I’ll have to look into renting it next weekend, if someone else hasn’t taken it out of the Hollywood Video!
It’s a Dogme 95 film shot in a psuedo-documentary style about a young Argentinian man who goes to The Falkland Islands on a mission. He feels that the best chance Argentina has to reclaim the Falkland Islands is for Argentinian men to impregnate as many of the English women who live there as possible. So he visits on a “scouting” mission. It’s a funny film that makes some great political points.
I would condemn Warner Bros. for their atrocious non-marketing and non-promotion of this masterpiece, except they also support Paul dini and Bruce Timm’s wonderul animated TV super-hero work. Curse their hides!
Fresh. This has to be the best “ghetto” movie ever made: it’s absolulty grim, wihtout a hint of romanticism, yet managesto end on a hopeful note. Sean Nelson does about the best job I have ever seen from a child actor, and the dialogue is just fantastic.
Defending Your Life, with Albert Brooks and Meryl Streep. It describes an afterlife where you are put on trial to defend how you have lived your life, and see if you are fit to move on to a higher existance. I thought it was very funny and thought provoking at the same time. I saw it on cable a couple of years ago, and didn’t even know what it was, then I looked it up, and had STILL never heard of it!
In reference to the OP, it baffles me that Waking Life wasn’t even nominated for Best Animated Feature at the Oscars. (They just created that little ghetto to avoid the possibility of an animated movie getting Best Movie.)
Knightriders, a 1980 George Romero movie. I can’t really say it’s a good movie, but it has a strange fascination for me and was one of my first DVD’s. It has an interesting early performance by a yound Ed Harris. This one is probably pretty well known among people in the SCA.
Night Moves, 1975. Gene Hackman in a really good private eye story, with a killer ending. Has a nekkid swimmin’ scene by a young Melanie Griffith.
TruePisces, you’ve picked 2 excellent Canadian movies here:
If you liked The Red Violin be sure to look for 32 Short Films About Glenn Gould. It was made by the same production company and involved many of the same people that were involved with The Red Violin. It’s an impessionistic look at several incidents in the life of famous Canadian pianist Glenn Gould. It’s not a traditional biography but rather, as the name would imply, several loosely connected small films. Similar in structure to The Red Violin. Highly recommended, especially for classical music fans.:
I also loved this flick. I’m not sure but I think it was nominated for best Foreign film at the Academy awards in 1989. I admire its sheer audaciousness in satirizing corporate and religious hypocrisy while at the same time being a geniunely spiritual movie. Particularly appropriate for this time of year.
For years I thought I was the only one who saw **Shawshank Redemption **. Outstanding and brilliant.
**Clay Pigeons ** is a nicely done indy film starring Joquim Phoenix and Vince Vaughan.
I’ve seen **Blood of Heroes ** and liked it . Haven’t seen it in years.
**Zero Effect ** I saw and expected to hate it ( based on the person who recommened it to me) and really enjoyed it.
***Haardvark! *** Yooo HOOOOO! I’ve seen **Nate and Hayes ** is one of my all time favorite films. You mean I am not alone in loving this film? It is in the top five films of Shirley Ujest Films on a Desert Island. I love it so much that when I found a copy of it I bought it right away. Best decision too, since it is very hard to find.
**East is East ** Nice little brit film. No one I know has seen this and I haven’t found it on video since coming home from a Brit vacation.
**High Spirits ** Peter O’toole is the star in this fluff ghost movie. It is one of Liam Neeson’s first flicks. Own it for laughs.
and the movie that no one has ever seen (except **Wring ** is **Lion in the Winter ** Peter O’Toole and Katherine Hepburn. My number uno film of all time.
Hodge: Thanks for the correction. Darn…now what Dogme 95 film did von Trier direct? Time to wait for my ultra-slow computer to search the movie databases.
A second vote here for Jesus of Montreal. A powerful film indeed.
I probably did, at some point…MAD LOVE (1935) is one of my all-time favorite Grand Guignol-style films. (Incidentally, the heroine is actually an actress in the Grand Guignol Theater of Paris, not an opera singer.)
Lorre gives a stunning perf, and the flick also features Colin (Twittery Dr. Frankenstein) Clive, and the really really really really REALLY gorgeous Frances Drake.
See, Dr. Gogol is this famous Parisian surgeon who likes to attend executions, and Stephen Orlac is this incredibly famous pianist with this really really really really REALLY gorgeous actress for a wife and Orlac is in a train crash and his hands are horribly mangled, and because Gogol has such a crush on the wife he decides to chop the hands off a recently-executed murderer and graft them onto Orlac’s stumps, and suddenly Orlac can’t play the pinao any more but is really really REALLY good with knives…
Ultra-cool film from John Sayles starring Joe Morton as a “three toe”, a slave from an alien world. He can’t speak, but he can fix a mean toaster. Highly recommended.
The Adventures of Mark Twain – Will Vinton (who did the Dancin’ Raisins, among a great many other things) does a wonderful Claymation take on several Twain stories, including “Captain Stormfield’s Visit to Heaven”, “The Mysterious Stranger”, “The Diary of Adam and Eve”, and “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County”, among others. James Whitmore does the voice of Twain. Well worth seeing.
Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence Not a Christmas movie! David Bowie is a British soldier in a Japanese POW camp. A war movie for folks who don’t like war movies as well those who do. Mind games, history, redemption … this has it all. And one of the best soundtracks EVER. http://us.imdb.com/Title?0085933
Nate and Hayes is a great flick! Its funny what movies no one has ever seen. I love The Princess Bride but until I got to grad school I only knew one person who had seen it.
Nobody seems to have ever seen(or will admit to having seen) UHF before either, absolutely hilarious.
What bothers me is the absolute lack of people I run into that have seen any of Akira Kurosawa’s samurai flicks. Whats wrong with you people?!
