The BEST Movies Nobody Has Heard Of? - Page 16

I watched this... didn't do anything for me, YMMV.

Nice. Coming to blu-ray through them on April 27th as well, will definitely be picking that up.

Loved this movie.... I use to watch it all the time on HBO back in the day.

Here is my contribution:

Foxes

I always liked "Foxes" a lot, too. But it is a pretty damned depressing movie, I have to say.

Just caught The missing Person on ppv. Modern Noir, really enjoyed it.

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1001...issing_person/

Trailer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHQ9h3v30Ag

The Exiles. Excellent film

http://milestonefilms.com/movie.php/exiles/

I just put The Missing Person in my NF streaming queue, primarily because of its stars, Michael Shannon and Amy Ryan. Both are Oscar nominees. Shannon gave a memorable performance in Revolutionary Road,as did Ryan in Gone Baby Gone. I am looking forward to seeing the film. Thanks for the tip.

I watched The Missing Person this afternoon and liked it a lot. Both Michael Shannon and Amy Ryan were terrific in this old fashioned noir story, which was a lot more about the characters than it was the plot. Had I squinted my eyes, I think I would have seen Raymond Chandler or Dashiell Hammett. More seriously, the movie is such a mannered homage to old style film noir, I am not sure that those who are not already sold on the genre will like it as much as I did. Still, I thought that it was a smart, well made film with an outstanding cast.

I agree. The ending always gets me... Always!

Lymelife

Alec Baldwin, Jill Hennessy, Timothy Hutton, Keiran Culkin, Rory Culkin, and Emma Roberts.

Based on the true childhood experiences of director Derick Martini, Lymelife is the coming of age story of 15-year old Scott growing up in suburban Long Island. While caught up in his first love, Scott watches the relationships of his parents and their neighbors slowly crumble as they try to keep up with the changing times and expectations of the 1970s.

Funny. Depressing. Rough. And an interesting ending.

Aliens -- Thanks for the tip. Lymelife is available for viewing on Netflix streaming and I have added it to my queue. Although the film was controversial, a solid majority of the top critics liked it and I am looking forward to seeing it. To digress for a moment, I have been finding quite a few undiscovered jewels in the NF streaming catalog.

Dark Star - 1974. John Carpenter's directorial debut.

TRIANGLE. Nuff said.

The Silent Partner. It's a pseudo heist movie with Elliot Gould, Susannah York, and Christopher Plummer, who makes a very good, very scary thief.

Very enjoyable in a quirky sort of way.

SMK

Thanks so much for the heads up on this one. I got Hedwig in the mail yesterday and was thoroughly absorbed into it. This is Hedwig telling her story to YOU.

John Cameron Mitchell was a fantastic star, screenwriter, and director of this
film. Engrossing tale with some great rock music. The campy back story puts this in the same league as Rocky Horror.

I'm adding this to my must-buy list as it will be great to show to others and will bear repeated viewings by me.

Here's a thumbs up for a documentary called "Helvetica", which is about the history of the incredibly ubiquitous typeface of the same name. People don't really realize how much of everything they see out there in terms of publically displayed text is in Helvetica typeface. This is a very well done documentary about its history and speaking to graphic designers of various eras about how they fell about it and how attitudes have changed back and forth about it.

BTW, the music used in this documentary is also quite interesting. There's a lot of ambient slash shoe gazy slash indie type music, a lot of which is from a band called El Ten Eleven. It's very quirky and interesting.

Anyway, a good documentary for folks who are into learning about such things.

Speaking of documentaries, Ill throw out two more:

"Bigger, Stronger, Faster*" - investigates the seemingly hypocritical "criminalization" of steroids in America, and goes into the origins of it's varied uses in our culture and how that affects young ones growing up

"The Film Is Not Yet Rated" - investigates the secret MPAA's board of raters who single-handedly determine the G thru NC-17 ratings for our films, and the influences they seem to cater to as well as the unspoken influence they seem to have on everything from ticket sales to marketing

Moon

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1182345/

Not really an unknown movie here at AVS, but as far as the general public goes, I'd say you're right.

True. The movie nerds in this forum, yours truly included, have just about beat Moon to death, both pro and con.

^ Truly one of the rare movies these days that deserves such treatment.

KAFKA

Starring Jeremy Irons as Franz Kafka, and other notable stars.

European, hard to find in North America, except via EBAY now and then.

One of the most absurd films ever, probably. Many AVS movie geeks have surely heard of/seen it - but I have exposed many of the uninitiated to Alex Cox's REPO MAN. In most cases (esp if the watcher is a fan of something like The Big Lebowski), I end up w/ a new convert.

A really good one that a lot of people I know have never heard of... is "Better Luck Tomorrow" or "Cashback"... Love these movie.

Off the top of my head I'd say:
Triangle
Pontypool
Quick Change

The Seven-Ups with Roy Scheider. Very similar to The French Connection. Has one of the best car chases ever filmed and nobody seems to know about it.

Although it was filmed in Europe, 'Kafka' was actually an American production directed by Steven Soderbergh. It was his second film, after 'Sex, Lies and Videotape'.

Night Moves - a gritty detective story with Gene Hackman as compelling as ever - one of the great film actors of all time. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073453/

Payday - Rip Torn as a self destructive country singer - one of the best portraits of life on the road that I have seen. Hard to believe that he did this and the Larry Sanders show - talk about range. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069067/

Shade - Surprizingly good low rent thriller with Stallone as part of an effective ensemble http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0323939/

Loved Night Moves. Captures the feel of the Florida keys before development. It was also very young Melanie Griffitth's first movie and she's naked.

Since I'm here I'll add:

The Long Goodbye directed by Altman

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeNyD9UFXHs

Most might have heard of The Sorcerer (Wages of Fear remake) but worth mentioning anyway.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMof5PuQF7w

+1 BTW, Tangerine Dream does the soundtrack for "The Sorcerer"!!