Winter’s Bone is bleak and depressing but very well done and worth seeing.
Winnebago Man. Type that title into YouTube for a taste, then prepare to wet your pants laughing.
Fermat’s Room. A horror film about math. Yeah, another one of those.
Lo was recommended for me by Netflix and I quite enjoyed it.
Mary and Max, an Australian Claymation movie about a pen pal relationship between a lonely Aussie girl and an adult New Yorker with Asperger’s Syndrome. It’s very touching and funny.
My favourite movie of all time (other than Star Wars, of course) is “Slaves of New York.”
I figure it must be obscure because only one person I’ve told that to has ever heard of it.
Eyes Beyond Seeing. I am one of the three people I know who has seen it, so like Soylent Juicy I figure it must be obscure
I’m not sure what was the “last” obscure movie that I saw and loved, but this one is among my all time faves. Saw it at the 1986 Santa Barbara Film Festival. I caught the first showing of it mid-week with about a half-full house, and the word got out about it, so they brought it back for a second showing over the weekend and they had a line around the block to get in.
Isn’t it great? Subtle, eponymously quiet, yet powerful. IMO the best of the
only person/people left on earth
genre.
I discovered Dreams With Sharp Teeth last night on Amazon streaming. As a long time fan of Harlan Ellison I really got a kick out of it.
It’s a little old by now, but I don’t see very many movies. I caught this at FLIFF (Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival) five or six years ago. I laughed. Often.
-D/a
I’m going to watch that tonight.
Patrick (1978). Don’t know how obscure it is but I love the fact that Tarantino referenced Patrick in Kill Bill; “watch out, she’s a spitter!”. Lord I love an understated horror flick.
Just saw Out of Time with Denzel Washington and Eva Mendes, which didn’t get too much attention when it came out in 2003. A clever, engaging South Florida noir thriller with some good twists and turns. Some similarities in plot to No Way Out, but different in many other ways.
Yes! I got the DVD for that. It’s nicely done as a 1920s silent movie, which let them do it on an ultralow budget and yet have it look authentic for the period of its setting.
Wow, a film with Galois as a character!
Thanks for this!
Tucker and Dale and Chthulu look good.
Tucker and Dale vs. Evil was enjoyable and clever. I think it would definitely have been more fun to see in a theater with an enthusiastic crowd, though.
Can we at least specify that movies that receive academy award nominations for best picture are not ‘obscure’.
Agreed.