DrRingDing
'anti-human wanker'
Reccomend a good film or two, which most other people are unlikely to of seen.
The 'Recommend an obscure film' thread!
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DrRingDing
'anti-human wanker'
Maybe reccomend a film that you are familiar from a foreign land that people outside may not have exposure to...
Toto les Heros (Toto The Hero)
my favourite film ever.
according to IMDB:
which doesn't do it justice. by turns heartbreaking, hysterical, whimsical and thoughtful. entirely happy to switch between harsh realism and almost-fantasy (primarily for the childhood elements). Left me in bits every time i watched it.
best use of a Charles Trenet song ever as well.
i just can't recommend this film enough
my favourite film ever.
according to IMDB:
which doesn't do it justice. by turns heartbreaking, hysterical, whimsical and thoughtful. entirely happy to switch between harsh realism and almost-fantasy (primarily for the childhood elements). Left me in bits every time i watched it.
best use of a Charles Trenet song ever as well.
i just can't recommend this film enough
shoddysolutions
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Solas
A young woman with a bit of a drink problem and estranged from her family is reunited with her mother as a result of the death of her father. Their frosty relationship provides one source of dramatic tension, the other is provided by the lead actress's internal struggles. Ana Fernandez is magnificent in the lead as the fiery Maria.
A young woman with a bit of a drink problem and estranged from her family is reunited with her mother as a result of the death of her father. Their frosty relationship provides one source of dramatic tension, the other is provided by the lead actress's internal struggles. Ana Fernandez is magnificent in the lead as the fiery Maria.
miss_pamela
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hardly obscure though
it was cover-mounted on at least one Sunday the back end of last year
`Dubversion said:my favourite film ever.
according to IMDB:
which doesn't do it justice. by turns heartbreaking, hysterical, whimsical and thoughtful. entirely happy to switch between harsh realism and almost-fantasy (primarily for the childhood elements). Left me in bits every time i watched it.
best use of a Charles Trenet song ever as well.
i just can't recommend this film enough
it was cover-mounted on at least one Sunday the back end of last year
miss_pamela said:
you're kidding?
oh fuck it, i never knew that. was damned obscure at the time, i've only met 4 people who've ever seen it.
Donna Ferentes
jubliado
I think it's one of those films that everybody's heard of but nobody's seen!
Is Le Boucher obscure? It's hard to tell with foreign films.
Is Le Boucher obscure? It's hard to tell with foreign films.
MysteryGuest
beyond boring and interesting
The Colour of Pomegrantes, dir Sergei Paradjanov
Based on medieval Armenian poetry or summat. Nothing really happens in it as such. It's just a series of eye-wateringly beautiful tableaux filmed on 60s soviet technicolour filmstock - the colours are luscious beyond belief. Deeply hypnotic and absolutely one of the most gorrrrgeous things I've ever seen. Used to have it on bfi video then lost it when I moved house.
Based on medieval Armenian poetry or summat. Nothing really happens in it as such. It's just a series of eye-wateringly beautiful tableaux filmed on 60s soviet technicolour filmstock - the colours are luscious beyond belief. Deeply hypnotic and absolutely one of the most gorrrrgeous things I've ever seen. Used to have it on bfi video then lost it when I moved house.
Not sure how obscure these are really but hey.
The Loved One is in my top ten, and revolves around the odd world of the LA funeral business. Based on the Evelyn Waugh novel.
Mitt liv som hund is a nice little tale about a young lad in '50s Sweden.
Well. I like them anyway.
The Loved One is in my top ten, and revolves around the odd world of the LA funeral business. Based on the Evelyn Waugh novel.
Mitt liv som hund is a nice little tale about a young lad in '50s Sweden.
Well. I like them anyway.
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
Killdozer - stone cold classic dumbass sci-fi from wehence the band took their name
The 5000 Fingers of Dr T - pure madness. And Jello Biafra's favourite film apparently.
The 5000 Fingers of Dr T - pure madness. And Jello Biafra's favourite film apparently.
Donna Ferentes
jubliado
Did they take it from the film or from the short story?belboid said:
girasol
Addicted to handstands!
A movie will only be obscure if you've never heard of it, surely... 
anyways: Pixote is a good one, although I think it was quite famous all over the world when it came out, I'm not sure. I was a bit young then. Might be hard to get a hold of anyways...
Amores Perros I love too, but probably not obscure enough...
anyways: Pixote is a good one, although I think it was quite famous all over the world when it came out, I'm not sure. I was a bit young then. Might be hard to get a hold of anyways...
Amores Perros I love too, but probably not obscure enough...
Buddy Bradley
Pantheistic solipsist
Les Visiteurs - wacky French time-travelling comedy with Jean Reno
Meet the Feebles - Peter 'Lord of the Rings' Jackson's sophomore effort is kind of a Muppets-on-crack musical...
Meet the Feebles - Peter 'Lord of the Rings' Jackson's sophomore effort is kind of a Muppets-on-crack musical...
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
film i believe, and their wiki article would agree with me.Donna Ferentes said:
Admittedly, I just wrote that bit.
The Quiet Earth, Australian Sci Fi film about a guy who wakes up to find everyone has disappeared.
g force
Affects Shatner's Basoon
Into the Mirror
Starts off a your usual cop movie, alebit set in Seoul, about a cop who's gone off the rails after getting his partner killed in a hostage negotaition and become a security guard in a new mall. It then turns into a more supernatural horro movie - okay so there's been loads from Asia, but this one really stands out due to some great acting by Yoo Ji-Tae (who you'll recognise from other Korean films) where you really feel his slide into paranoia.
Plus the final tracking shot is just 
Starts off a your usual cop movie, alebit set in Seoul, about a cop who's gone off the rails after getting his partner killed in a hostage negotaition and become a security guard in a new mall. It then turns into a more supernatural horro movie - okay so there's been loads from Asia, but this one really stands out due to some great acting by Yoo Ji-Tae (who you'll recognise from other Korean films) where you really feel his slide into paranoia.
Plus the final tracking shot is just
CharlieAddict
nekomimi rocks!!!
Ichi the Killer (Dir:Takashi Miike, Japan 1999)
When acid and S&M meets a murdering Yakuza serial killer.
Last Night (Dir: Don Mckellar, USA 1999).
Film capturing the final hours of 6 strangers before the world ends.
When acid and S&M meets a murdering Yakuza serial killer.
Last Night (Dir: Don Mckellar, USA 1999).
Film capturing the final hours of 6 strangers before the world ends.
DrRingDing
'anti-human wanker'
For a fantastically ridiculous 'funny cos it's bad' film try 'Stone'.
It's an ozzie biker (or bikey) film from the seventies. Take that sentance and and exaggerate the image it creates in your head x10.
Bad ass satanic bikers sleeping in coffins, gratuitously unashamed shots of buxom bare breasts and other top notch nonsense.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072209/
It's an ozzie biker (or bikey) film from the seventies. Take that sentance and and exaggerate the image it creates in your head x10.
Bad ass satanic bikers sleeping in coffins, gratuitously unashamed shots of buxom bare breasts and other top notch nonsense.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072209/
CharlieAddict said:
a wonderful film. i love the way there's no attempt to explain why the world is ending so you can just get on with watching how the different characters cope. the Cronenberg cameo (or is it more than that, i can never decide) is brilliant
LDR
kiwitanga
It's a New Zealand film not an Aussie one.Dask said:
So is this one - In my Father's Den, which I thoroughly recommend.
A disillusioned war photographer rediscovers hope in a surprising friendship with a teenage girl who mysteriously disappears.
Synopsis.
Ms Ordinary
randompointlesschemistry
The Navigator (not the Ken Loach one)
"Plot Outline: Men seeking relief from the Black Death, guided by a boy's vision, dig a tunnel from 14th century England to 20th century New Zealand."
I saw this on telly about 12 years ago, never come across it since. I'd love to know if it was as good as I remember.
"Plot Outline: Men seeking relief from the Black Death, guided by a boy's vision, dig a tunnel from 14th century England to 20th century New Zealand."
I saw this on telly about 12 years ago, never come across it since. I'd love to know if it was as good as I remember.
Donna Ferentes
jubliado
I liked it very much when I saw it - probably on Moviedrome.Ms Ordinary said:
GarfieldLeChat
fucking awesome but wrong
bad boy bubby...
dark at the beginning dark at the end dark in the middle too, thogh most people think it ends upbeat, it doesn't it's just a different dark to the begining dark...
great film...
dark at the beginning dark at the end dark in the middle too, thogh most people think it ends upbeat, it doesn't it's just a different dark to the begining dark...
great film...
CharlieAddict
nekomimi rocks!!!
Dubversion said:
You seen huh?
I love Mckellar's portrayal of kindness and the fear of dying alone...
CharlieAddict said:
it's unlike anything i've seen, any other 'end of the world' movie or story is wrapped up in the whys and wherefores, like i said, whereas McKellar is only interested in the characters. he almost strays into a slight mawkishness / sentimentality (particularly the relationship between Cronenberg and his assistant) but gets away with it.
heartbreaking
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