Ok, I know we’ve already heard the death rattle from this thread but I had to post one more thing then I will quietly slip out the door.
I remembered the oedipal/electra movie I mentioned in my previous post. It was called Careful. Ok so obviously my recollection of it was a bit fractured but once I read the description on IMDB it all came back and it really was a grand and unique movie.
Both brilliantly acted Aussie crime movies based on true stories.
The Boys is very intense - the violence is implicit and psychological - not explicit, which makes it more powerful. I can understand how Blue Murder would only attract 138 votes - it is an excellent flick though internationally obscure, but The Boys with only 327 votes is a surprise. Must see movies IMHO.
I love Strictly Ballroom. For a span of about 3 months there, I’d watch it daily. Great movie.
I’m here to post about Ravenous, a Guy Pierce/Robert Carlyle vehicle that explores cannibalism in a very entertaining way. It’s got nearly 8K votes on IMDB, so I guess it doesn’t qualify, but none of my friends have heard of it. It’s gory, but I enjoyed it, lots. Recently rented it again to re-enjoy it.
“That…was really…sneaky.”
A Walk In The Clouds. I love it.
IIRC, This movie has the single best use of music as punctuation
Right after Michael Caine very quietly and very gently convinces the lead that she needs to perform, he leaves her in her dressing room. The second he closes the door, he reacts and the music hits, and silly though it may be, it was pure elation. I rewound it and watched 3 or 4 times. :wally
When I showed up at my friend’s bachelor party way back in 1987, I was recovering from a motorcycle accident and was walking with a cane, he asked me "have you ever seen “The Killer Elie”? I answered seen it? I’ve based my LIFE on it!
20 years later he still cracks up remembering that line.
My nonmination: The Fabulous World of Jules Verne. by Karel Zeman.
For the Rutger Hauer fans: Wanted Dead or Alive.
Leaving Normal 487 votes. Meg Tilly & Christine Lahti. It was Thelma and Louise for grownups
Mister Frost 589 votes. Jeff Goldblum one of the scariest movies I’ve ever seen.
I’ve heard good things about that one.
I’ll also second Ravenous.
Brazil and 12 Monkeys (both directed by Terry Gilliam) are also good.
I just caught Three O’Clock High on cable recently. Great movie about a quiet nerdy kid who accidently pisses off the school bully (played by the guy from Kindergarden Cop)
Good call. I saw that when it first hit cable back in the 80s, and loved it. Then it disappeared for 15 years. Every time Twelve O’Clock High was on, I’d think “hey, that’s that cool student film” but it never was. Finally, a couple years ago it resurfaced on late night cable.
Note that when I say “student film”, that’s not a reference to the plot so much as a commentary on the production values. I don’t care, though; I still dig it. It doesn’t hurt a bit that it reminds me a lot of the black & white student film by Kevin Bacon’s character in that obscure movie where he gets his dream project greenlit and then has to sell out his soul when it gets Hollywoodized. I forget the name of that movie, but if you’ve seen both it and Three O’Clock High, you know the striking similarity I’m talking about.
This is my Father - with Aidan Quinn, James Caan and John Cusak - excellently heart-wrenching
Love Field - with Michelle Pfeiffer - excellently quirky
In the Company of Men - with Aaron Eckhart - excellently disturbing (This one won an award at the Sundance Film festival some years back, but still no one I’ve asked knows about it. Then again I’ve only asked one person…BUT I’d bet ya five bucks if I asked another they wouldn’t know either) :dubious:
Ok. So it has a ton of votes but still, it’s not what I’d call “mainstream” but I also nominate The City of Lost Children
What Pochacco said. I’ve still got the hots for Paige after all these years!
I’m currently acting in an independant movie. I showed WOSAT to the director and he nearly died laughing at some of the scenes, because they had encountered similar situations.
If that’s the Keanu Reeves one - mate, what do you love about it?
My friend and I saw it in London after having back packed around the world. We thought it was a comedy with Operatic scenes - laughed and laughed at the end when the crops and house went up in flames and the people were all placed carefully around the place smeared in black, looking like they were in Les Miserables.
And God Spoke A wonderful mockumentary about two guys making the greatest bible film of all time. Not as good as Spinal Tap, but a close second.
Glad to see someone mentioning *My Favorite Year * (the crazy comic is Sid Caesar)–his writers included Woody Allen and Larry Gelbart, who later produced the TV Show MASH–the only PRODUCER to whom I have ever written a fan letter.
Vincent Price’s two classics of Horror-Comedy *Dr. Phibes * and Dr. Phibes Rises Again, which contain the most ingenious, stylish, revolting horror-movie deaths. Really, the scene with the explorer who sits down in the giant scorpion-shaped chair is unbeatable.
And if you’ve got a couple of hours to kill–this is a film that moves with deliberate speed: Alan Arkin in The Magician of Lublin, based on an Isaac Bashevis Singer story. A character study about the things men will say or do to keep women loving them, which turns on a dime at the end and makes you reconsider everything you’ve just seen. But get comfortable, it’s no thrill ride
I had the overnight control room job at Channel 7 in New York for a while, and got to see a lot of REALLY bad movies between 2 and 7 A.M. Sorry about that, New York! I didn’t pick 'em.
Sorry Homebrew, been off for a few days. That’s the one. It’s a lightning-quick scene, but it’s chilling. Emma Thompson’s character opens her eyes at the very, very last second and slams her hand down on the scissors that are zooming across the floor at her face. It’s thrilling!
It Happened Here. Alternate history movie about Nazi occupied England. Featuring some real British Nazis, in a chilling touch. (Not a “pro-Nazi” movie, by any length, FYI)
La Lectrice (The Reader) Brilliant french film about reading, and stories within stories, and more. Miou-Miou is mmm-mmm
L’ Étudiante (The Student) Early Sophie Marceau. 'nuff said