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What's The Best Film Most People Have Never Seen?

kyser_soze said:
Fucking amazing film!! Randomly saw it last year on telly, was bowled over by it. Didn't it come out around the same time as Strange Days?
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yes around that period. I fucking loved strange days too. That film must have influenced Richard Morgans writing imo
 
DotCommunist said:
yes. It got critical love but no greater love.
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Girl from Neighbours who i'd fancied for ages takes kit off. I got love for the film if only for that.

However it is a really good film on top of that. Though some people will moan that the whole idea is a rip off of someone else's work, i forget who.
 
The Sergeant
A 1968 movie in which Rod Steiger is totally brilliant as a suppressed gay army man just after WW2.
I can't find it on DVD - want to see if it still has impact.
I gather that the edit cut loads though unfortunately - a bit to extreme for its time.
 
DaveCinzano said:
The Offence
Sean Connery as a troubled, nonce-bashing copper in grim 70s English commuterland new town hell.
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oh God I remember seeing that on telly when I was a kid, excellent film but very grim indeed.


I also remember a 70s film along a similar theme which had Joan Collins in it about a suspected child molester who gets locked up in a pub cellar by village vigilantes, but I don't recall what that one was called.
 
Perhaps one of my all time favourites:

The Adventures Of Picasso (Picassos Äventyr)

... Fantastic, satirical-surrealist swedish adventure film from the 1970's about Picasso and his epic adventures, where characters talk entirely in onomatopoetic pidgin-speak (with stern narrator-voice commenting on the story) and where the borders between fantasy and reality blur into a third reality where everything is possible...

This is just a classic, which deserves to be more widely known... The very beautiful, poetic scene of his death, where he walks directly into a white wall and disappears through it (it's obviously a white liquid like milk or something, but it's very moving and a homage to imagination innit)

Access said:
Rarely does a film do homage to a serious artist through the medium of a madcap farce, as this one does; however, Picasso was known for an irreverent and ribald sense of humor which is quite in line with this Swedish film, Picassos Aeventyr. In a skit recounting his birth, a woman's heavy breathing is demonstrated to have nothing to do with childbirth. Another skit features an appearance by Alice B. Toklas and Gertrude Stein, played by two very masculine men in dowdy drag. In one particularly irreverent scene, Dr. Albert Schweitzer operates on Picasso. Picasso (Goesta Ekman) himself escapes the excessive commercialization of his works through a kind of suicidal self-transcendance. Told in a stripped-down mixture of French, Spanish and English, most will have no difficulty understanding the film's humor.
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mattie said:
A mate has kept hold of my Belleville Rendezvous DVD for the past 12 months and the bugger hasn't even watched it.
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Hmm. That short, rather dull film was incredibly overexposed for what it was (an interesting foreign cartoon). So in fact the opposite, too many ppl have seen it.
 
  • B Monkey
    Asia Argento is a retired robber; Jared Harris is the jazz-loving teacher who falls in love with her.
  • London
    Chris Evans and Jessica Biel are ex-lovers who meet again at her leaving party; Jason Statham is an Englishman in New York with a big pile of coke and serious sexual hang-ups.
  • Obchod Na Korze
    A friendship slowly develops between a little old Jewish lady and the poor farmer given the opportunity to take over her haberdashery in wartime Nazi-controlled Slovakia.
  • Run Ronnie Run
    David Cross as a trailer trash redneck given his own reality TV show after impressing producers with his constant ability to get arrested.
  • The 5000 Fingers Of Dr T
    Dr Seuss-inspired fantasy, with a little boy forced to play the piano imagining his teacher Doctor Terwilliker to be evil genius Dr T, chaining 500 children to his monstrous keyboard.
  • CQ
    Young film maker Jeremy Davies in sixties Paris, with much hat doffing to the likes of Modesty Blaise, Barbarella, Danger Diabolik etc.
  • The Three Burials Of Melquiades Estrada
    Modern day cowboy Tommy Lee Jones takes his dead friend's body back to Mexico to fulfill a promise.
  • The Seven-Ups
    Roy Scheider is a tough New York cop on the tail of mobsters and trying to uncover who killed his partner.
  • Things To Come
    Pre-WW2 HG Wells adaptation, a science fiction fantasy warning of the nexus of techonology and bellicosity.
  • Talvisota
    A Finnish All Quiet On The Western Front, set in the Winter War with the Soviet Union which was eclipsed elsewhere by WW2.
  • Tales Of Terror
    A delightful Edgar Allan Poe-derived Vincent Price portmanteau horror, the best of which is 'The Black Cat', with VP as a wine taster who becomes involved with alcoholic wastrel Peter Lorre and his wife.
 
DotCommunist said:
yes around that period. I fucking loved strange days too. That film must have influenced Richard Morgans writing imo
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strange days is my joint favourite film of all time along with my contribution to this thread:

Subway (Luc Besson)

Yes i know they are not the best films of all time, but i'm suspicious of people who's favourites are considered stone cold classics because i think they should probably just watch more films til they find one which is their own. I may be blown away by Godftaher 2 but i'm not keen to see it right this second. Strange Days and Subway i could watch every night.
 
Turtles Can Fly by Kurdish director Bahman Ghobadi - almost nobody saw it and it's fecking fantastic - a surreal, bitter, sweet, blackly comic, often propagandistic, fizzingly lively portrayal of children scraping a living (literally) as mine clearers in Iraqi Kurdistan. Believe it or not, as well as being a tearjerker so unbearably sad that you flinch from some sequences, it is also a barrel of laughs and a sly satire on leadership.
 
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