Also, Lindsay Anderson's films featuring "Mick Travis" - "If..." I suppose is fairly well known, but "O Lucky Man", and "Brittania Hospital" aren't. I think they're fxkng great. Supposedly the actor (whose name escapes me @ present, I keep thinking of david warner for some reason) only appeared in that rubbish star trek film where he blew up kaptin kurk to raise $$$ for the fourth film in the sequence, which Anderson never got started on, because he dies. Lindsay Anderson=HERO
Thinking of David Warner, there's "Morgan - A Suitable Case For Treatment". GRATE, cheers, cheers, etc
Silent movies don't get much press anywhere these days, and last time I tried to get some on video, all I could get was "Steamboat Bill Jr." which is one of the most awesome films I've ever seen.... gimme "Perils of Pauline", "Fantomas" movies, "Sparrows", "Broken Blossoms", "Safety Last", "Easy Street" etc etc. x0x0
― Norman Fay, Thursday, 5 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
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― AP, Thursday, 5 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Hey, was this a 60s mod style film about a crazed artist who was trying to win back his ex-wife? I saw it once, ages ago, and have never been able to figure out what it was called.
― masonic boom, Thursday, 5 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
xoxo
There's also very very brief double dildo action which might've been cut down, some vomiting and tiny bits of violence, but I didn't see anything extreme. Astounding movie though.
― chris, Thursday, 5 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
I've only seen it once, but I remember thinking it was very good. It's about a young man who takes a job at an office (late 60's London - scenes of him strolling along a walkway near the Shell Centre stick in my mind), but then slowly goes to pieces.
― David, Thursday, 5 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 5 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Gas Food Lodging is nice. A mellow, character-driven film. Chris Mulkey, who is in it, was in another interesting film called Patti Rocks about a VERY foul-mouthed guy going to see his ex-girlfriend (wife?) with a weird, moody friend in tow.
Fucking Amal came out in America under the title Show Me Love, named after the Robyn song. Good film; I liked the use of Foreigner in the soundtrack too. Also weird how it seemed to have virtually no locations, all the outdoor shots being in tight spaces or at night.
Slacker probably suffered as a result of Linklater's next film, Dazed and Confused, being an utter piece of timewasting dung.
My favorite science fiction film is Dark Star since, unlike the other space films where everyone is a hero or some crap, the crew of the Dark Star are just as screwed-up, lazy, and useless as you'd expect. First movie by John Carpenter? I believe so, don't make me go look it up.
I love Koyyanisqatsi, but while it is out of print everybody probably knows it...
Brewster McCloud is a nice extremely-weird 70s trip, probably Robert Altman's best film.
The film about Trekkies, which I believe Denise Crosby had a hand in making, is fun even if you don't like Star Trek.
I loved Rushmore when it came out. I guess I like it a little less now, but it's still one of the only truly creative, individual movies I can think of form the last few years.
The Slums of Beverly Hills is good. Bit slow of a script but great performances: Natasha Lyonne, Alan Arkin, Marisa Tomei, Kevin Corrigan. Corrigan was also in Buffalo 66, quite an interesting film from (perhaps overly) tough-guy Vince Gallo and nice work from Christina Ricci...who was good in The Ice Storm, probably my favorite film of the 1990s. Good stuff from Tobey McGuire and Adam Hann-Byrd.
So my video checkout recommendations? Fun- Rushmore. Bizarre- Brewster McCloud. Serious- The Ice Storm. Psychologically disturbing- Buffalo 66.
― Chris, Thursday, 5 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
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― Arthur, Thursday, 5 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Hah.
― JM, Friday, 6 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
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― Tracer Hand, Friday, 6 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
I think it's underrated relative to how "The Red Shoes" is slightly overrated.
― put in a basket bound with skin, Saturday, 7 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
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― ethan, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― anthony, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Last Days of Disco = yea.
For some reason I dislike Fucking Amal without even having seen it (must be that "if the art-crowd love it, it must suck arse." thing)
― Omar, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Sam, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― dave q, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Can anyone reccommend 60s Brit gangster films? I'm curious.
― Dave M., Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
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― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Girls board subway train with placards proclaiming something like 'We will take our lives in protest at the indifference of the world', and swallow a bunch of pills. No-one takes a blind bit of notice, they fall unconscious, the placard slips down out-of-view, the train pulls into its destination and the crew (who've just heard that their union have voted for immediate industrial action) leave the girls in their deserted carriage. To die, presumably.
To call it a screwball comedy would be a mistake.
― Michael Jones, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― dave q, Friday, 3 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
'Sonatine' - mid-80s French-Canadian flick about isolated, depressive schoolgirls. Shall I spoil it for everyone by revealing the final scene? Girls board subway train with placards proclaiming something like 'We will take our lives in protest at the indifference of the world', and swallow a bunch of pills. No-one takes a blind bit of notice, they fall unconscious, the placard slips down out-of-view, the train pulls into its destination and the crew (who've just heard that their union have voted for immediate industrial action) leave the girls in their deserted carriage. To die, presumably.
― Martin, Friday, 3 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
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― jess, Sunday, 17 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
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― ethan, Saturday, 23 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Are you counting the legendary 'live recording by nonsingers' musical flop At Long Last Love? Always wanted to see that to see if it really is that bad (and I'm sure it is).
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 23 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
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― Jan Geerinck (jahsonic), Monday, 9 June 2003 21:45 (twenty-one years ago) link
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― Sommermute (Wintermute), Monday, 9 June 2003 21:59 (twenty-one years ago) link
The Big Chill
Colonel Redl
Fierce Creatures
Gods And Monsters
Paperhouse
The Pillow Book
The Servant
Sisters
― Ben Mott (Ben Mott), Monday, 9 June 2003 21:59 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 9 June 2003 22:27 (twenty-one years ago) link
Long Weekend. Low budget Aussie movie about a couple with marital problems holidaying on a beach where strange things may or may not be happening, all of which are symbolic of their crumbling relationship in some way - moaning, beached animal = their aborted child, for one. Low budget, no name cast, and I couldn't tell you the director or when it was made. Interesting though.
Anyone seen teh film of the Chocolate War? I heard it was supposed to be good.
― Jamie Conway (Jamie Conway), Monday, 9 June 2003 22:42 (twenty-one years ago) link
snapped - gaby hoffman almost all growed up. bad boy steals NYC tough guy money and tries to rescue old g.f. from long island summerjob hell. fails. opens with gaby stopping her bike, laying down in the road next to a dead dog and taking it's picture. i fell in love instantly. she also builds funeral rafts for other assorted roadkill and sets them on fire in the river.
driver 23 / the atlas moth - dan cleveland and his metal band, Dark Horse, struggle to record their debut album. dan also struggles with some mild mental illness. this guy is seriously weird, but i admire his tenacity and attitude. the daytrippers - woohoo parker posey and hope davis but everyone's really great, especailly anne meara
i'm not rappaport - i rented this because of martha plimpton but her part is tiny. the treat is to see ossie davis and walter matthau work off each other. warning: adapted from play = slow and dialog-heavy
dogfight - this is so cute. i love the part where lili t. is listening to 'don't think twice it's allright' also woohoo river phoenix
drunks - super great amanda plummer character
― ron (ron), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 00:31 (twenty-one years ago) link
Also maybe someone can help me out here. When I was a kid, I swear to god I recall seeing an animated Jack and the Beanstalk movie at the cinema. Possibly Disney. But there was a very strange scene in it where this witchy woman made these paper cutout men and populated a church (or somesuch) with them, made them come to life, there was spooky operatic singing involved... I could be mixing up two films but for the life of me I DONT REMEMBER WHAT IT WAS, and no one else does when I mention this. Someone put me out of my misery!
― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 00:47 (twenty-one years ago) link
They have bikers, kung fu, & hippies all taking on "The Man".
What else does one need in cinema?
― earlnash, Tuesday, 10 June 2003 01:46 (twenty-one years ago) link
Valmont, directed by M. Forman, I actually like better than Dangerous Liaisons (and no, not because the latter has Keanu, but that is a black mark). DL is much more close to the original text thanks to the mediation of the stage play, to be sure, but Valmont is no less cynical and is laden with some brilliant performances and exquisite sets. I think it got lost a bit in part because Forman was already seen to have 'done' the period via Amadeus, but when I saw it on DVD at that Wherehouse clearance I made sure to grab it.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 02:15 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Matt (Matt), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 02:25 (twenty-one years ago) link
Wow. Has anyone else seen this film? I've never met anyone who knows what the hell I'm on when I describe it.
― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 02:34 (twenty-one years ago) link
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― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 04:30 (twenty-one years ago) link
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― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 19:25 (twenty-one years ago) link
Huge inspiration for Tarantino according to a documentary he did sometime ago.
― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 20:08 (twenty-one years ago) link
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― Chris P (Chris P), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 17:39 (twenty-one years ago) link
TampopoA Taxing WomanThe Funeral
― Baked Bean Teeth (Baked Bean Teeth), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 17:52 (twenty-one years ago) link