5 lesser known movies you want people to see.
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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
Dangerous Beauty,
UHF.
City of Lost Children.
A Little Princess (Liesel Matthews)
Hero (Geena Davis, Chevy Chase)
The Man Who Knew Too Little (Bill Murray)
Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed
When I went to rent movies nearly every time the WTF cover of City of Lost Children would catch my eye yet I never rented it. I was tempted many times.
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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
Dangerous Beauty,
UHF.
City of Lost Children.
A Little Princess (Liesel Matthews)
Hero (Geena Davis, Chevy Chase)
The Man Who Knew Too Little (Bill Murray)
Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed
When I went to rent movies nearly every time the WTF cover of City of Lost Children would catch my eye yet I never rented it. I was tempted many times.
I watched it in cinema. More than once, not sure how many. I found the cinematography visually breathtaking. For this reason, if HD is available, I'd say do that - otherwise if you don't have a big screen, ask a friend with a big screen to let you spend a couple hours with it. I'm not sure what the cover looks like. It was a bell-weather film for that year - those who had seen it rated it in the top ten of the year, and those who had not seen it had a sub-standard top ten list for that year.
The other film I found visually vivid and stunning was Dangerous Beauty, which I also recommend for the story.
I'm not going to give you spoilers for either of these. But for trivia, you could name or point out actors in Dangerous Beauty who were also in Braveheart.
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Dangerous Beauty,
UHF.
City of Lost Children.
A Little Princess (Liesel Matthews)
Hero (Geena Davis, Chevy Chase)
The Man Who Knew Too Little (Bill Murray)
Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed
Lone Star
Dangerous Beauty
Momento
Little Man Tate
Last Action Hero
Canadian Bacon
Entity
Awakenings
Lorenzo's Oil - the actual life-saving chemist plays himself in the film.
Galaxy Quest
Secret In Their Eyes (2009) subtitled
Pay It Forward
Color of Night
The Lover (Jane March)
Bank Job
Tim (Mel Gibson)
The Adventures of Ford Fairlane
The Sessions (2012)
Uncle Buck, if you can call it lesser known.
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Happy, Texas - A rom/com of a different sort. Ally Walker, a hilarious Steve Zahn, Illeanna Douglas, a lovelorn William H. Macy, and Ron Perlman as a rock
solid lawman. Quirky fun, good for a few laughs and a twist ending. A sort of heist movie that goes laughably wrong.
Going Places - Another off-beat rom/com/dramedy; French with subtitles.
Gerard Depardieu, Patrick Dewaere, Miou-Miou, Isabelle Huppert, Jeanne Moreau.
Two street crooks rob and steal their way across France, but they also meet
their sexual match in Marie Ange (Miou-Miou).
Inside Man - Denzel, Clive Owen, The Operative - Chiwetel Ejiofor, Jodie Foster. Bank heist movie, clever and entertaining.
The Lookout - Bank heist again, But a good movie. Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jeff Daniels, Isla Fisher, Carla Gugino.
Prisoners - a good taut thriller with Hugh Jackman at his best; he dominates
the movie. A parent pursues the only lead after his 6 y.o. daughter goes missing and takes matters into his own hands. Powerful stuff. I was pleasantly surprised how good it was.
Those are just some of my picks.
SGG
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Stinkingrose, I agree about Krzysztof Kieslowski's terrific Blue. It's been
a few years since I've seen the trio of films, but I do remember really getting into Blue. I think I'll go back and watch it again.
I also liked LA Story, it seemed so real, it reminds me of Grand Canyon, also with Steve Martin in the cast.
There are 2 films that 'Blue' reminded me of: Both by Atom Egoyan - Exotica and The Sweet Hereafter, both offbeat but interesting films, especially for me was Exotica.
SGG
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In no particular order:
Tempopo - Japanese food, um .. and fetish, film. Subtitled
Dark Star- Reeeaaallly bad old sci fi low budget that is so bad it's good. Watch the credits to see how far they've come since college.
Blue - French language with subtitles. A beautiful movie.(I was not as fond of Red and White in the series)
Muppet Treasure Island- 'Nuff said.
LA Story- Steve Martin, SarahJessicaParkerbeforeshegotfamous, and more!
That's my first off the top of my head 5.
Thank you whoever pitched The Red Violin. I looved that movie! I wept.
Waking Ned Devine (if it hasn't been mentioned yet. Thunderheart (I think..it had Val Kilmer in it.) Last of the Mohicans. Calendar Girls. Dangerous Beauty. Cousin Bette. My Cousin Vinnie. Mrs. (somebody or other) Presents. DeLovely. Chocolate. Being John Malkovich. Hoodwinked. To Wong Foo. Priscilla: Queen of the Desert. Wilde. Elizabethtown (well *I* liked it!).
I just keep thinking of more good movies!
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Exotica
Mute Witness
Suspect Zero
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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
Dangerous Beauty,
UHF.
City of Lost Children.
A Little Princess (Liesel Matthews)
Hero (Geena Davis, Chevy Chase)
The Man Who Knew Too Little (Bill Murray)
Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed
Lone Star
Dangerous Beauty
Momento
Little Man Tate
Last Action Hero
Canadian Bacon
Entity
Awakenings
Lorenzo's Oil - the actual life-saving chemist plays himself in the film.
Galaxy Quest
Secret In Their Eyes (2009) subtitled
Pay It Forward
Color of Night
The Lover (Jane March)
Bank Job
Tim (Mel Gibson)
The Adventures of Ford Fairlane
The Sessions (2012)
Uncle Buck, if you can call it lesser known.
Exotica
Mute Witness
Suspect Zero - particularly the extra DVD feature of Demonstration for the director to understand the material, but this will spoil much of the film's mystery.
The Skin I Live In (2011)
Sling Blade
Mom and Dad Save the World
Silkwood
Eddie & The Cruisers
The Rookie
Man on a Ledge
Gorky Park
Mulholland Falls
A History of Violence
Hot Fuzz
Enchanted - with Amy Adams
The Commitments - my favorite of the Doylestown trilogy (w/ The Van, The Snapper)
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Mrs. (somebody or other) Presents.
I assume that would be Mrs. Henderson Presents.
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2. Harrison Burgeron- This was a made for cable tv movie based on the short story by Kurt Vonnegut, another futuristic tale of government gone wrong.
5. SFW - from imdb-- 5 people are being held hostage in a convenience store for 36 days. One of the demands of the hostage takers is that all TV-stations should broadcast the entire situation live. Cliff and Wendy are the only survivors, and when the are released, they are heroes. Especially Cliff is a national hero, and his apathetic ideology "so fucking what" turns into a national movement. Cliff himself is not that happy about all the fuzz.
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The Conversation
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1. The City Of Lost Children (La Cité Des Enfants Perdus) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112682/
One of the most amazng films I've ever seen. Visually stunning, amazing acting, gripping (and ever-so-slightly creepy) story, great action sequences. Make sure you see the french version with subtitles, NOT the dubbed english version, and you will not be disappointed. Anyone who's seen a Jean-Pierre Jeunet film will know what to expect
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3) Goddess Remembered - Documentary on Goddess Culture by Canadian Donna Read - lot os interviews and again loved the scenery, music and quite interesting account of history (herstory?) rewritten for the winner.
4) The Burning Times - Another Donna Read documentary following up Goddess Remembered with Matthew Fox, Starhawk and others recounting the inquisition as told from another perspective. Grim and moving. Donna does a great job incorporating historical imagines, interviews and again - the music is incredible.
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1) Triggermen- 2002, I could not stop laughing in this movie. Just a heap of fun to watch. Gangster, luv interests, and boobs and everybody confused.
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Good call with Equilibrium.
Primer-I don't own this...yet. It is kind of a puzzle movie about time travel of sorts. I still haven't figured it out but I've only seen it once. I really respect that it was made for like $7,000 and it's better than a lot of crap that costs $40 mil.
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