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The best movies you never heard of

'Ladyhawke' was okay from what I remember. Rutger Hauer never disappoints me even though the movies he stars in might.

One of my favourite movies is ‘Blue River’ that was produced for television so I haven’t encountered a lot of people that have seen it and I’ve sadly missed every opportunity to tape it so I haven’t been able to pass the experience the others yet.

Otherwise I think that it’s a matter of interest in film for the most part but I can mention a few of my favourite movies that have been put in the shadows of the director’s other movies.

  • ‘Bennys Video’ by Michael Haneke
  • ‘La Carne’ by Marco Ferreri
  • ‘Welcome to the Dollhouse’ by Todd Solondz
 
CDA said:
Yes, but everyone's heard of them...:confused:
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Lord of... what?

Memento comes to mind, but you may have heard of it. And the movie Memento is pretty good, but you may have heard of it. There's a tattoo printed in reverse lettering on my chest that reads: OTNEMEM. I think it has something to do with a movie, but you may have heard of it. What's this Ring Lord you speak of?
 
I think the recent Birth was pretty under-rated.

I am Sam, not sure if that's heard of. I'd never heard of it before I watched it.

Memento was good, similar in a way to Butterfly Effect or Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
 
CDA said:
The Double Life of Veronique.
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I'd widen this out somewhat and recommend that people seek out the work of Krzysztof Kieślowski in general. This is a list of his work on DVD and of these I think I'd single out 'The Decalogue' as the best, even though it was actually made for televison; infact it's probably one of best things ever made for that medium.
For an insight into the thinking that went behind his work, Kieslowski on Kieslowski is an excellent place to start and reveals a depth of thought and respect for the audience that you suspect is not always present in more mainstream modern film-making.

Whilst I've wandered onto a favourite hobby-horse of mine, world cinema, I'll also put in a quick word for the Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami, and pick from his long list of excellent films a recent favourite '10' as a good place to start.

Regards,

K-S
 
One of my favorite movies is Medicine River, based on the book by Thomas King. It stars Grahame Greene, and is about a guy who leaves rez life and makes good as a photojournalist, but gets called home to settle his mom's estate. Instead of his younger brother, he's met by Harlan Big Bear, Medicine River's very own two-legged coyote. He's got his fingers in various pies all over town, and they all involve Grahame Greene's character, and they're all ultimately for everyone's good. But the journey is hysterical. The film is a great portrayal of modern Native American life without resorting to boring stereotypes-except amongst themselves as a joke..I highly recommend Medicine River.
 
manatherindrell said:
Anybody else have a great movie you watched that most people haven't heard of? Mines Ladyhawke.
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I remembered that I have seen twice that Ladyhawk, but I might be blind to see any excellency in that movie. I would like to be helped out there. Why did you guys think it was a really good one movie? I am really curious to know something in the movie that I might have missed.


Really good moives? Hmmm, kinda tough to give some satisfying answers. I thought many movies made by Akira Kurosawa were good, well, I liked them anyway, especially Rashômon (which has been my favorite for quite a long time).

Akira Kurosawa@http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000041/


There was a Russian movie that I really liked, a pre-soviet-union one, to be precise. Quiet Flows the Don. I was not sure if it was known to others, but I have loved it for almost ten years.
 
Crystal said:
Really good moives? Hmmm, kinda tough to give some satisfying answers. I thought many movies made by Akira Kurosawa were good, well, I liked them anyway, especially Rashômon (which has been my favorite for quite a long time).
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Now Kurosawa, that's a director. I'd choose as personnal favs Yojimbo and Dersu Uzala. Hopefully some time this year I'll get round to reading this biography of his work with Toshiro Mifune (in my opinion the greatest screen actor of all time).

K-S
 
Kenny Shovel said:
Now Kurosawa, that's a director. I'd choose as personnal favs Yojimbo and Dersu Uzala. Hopefully some time this year I'll get round to reading this biography of his work with Toshiro Mifune (in my opinion the greatest screen actor of all time).

K-S
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schiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii:) ,yeah, I heard a lot about that Yojimbo, but unluckily I couldn't get a DVD on it. I wondered what you guys think about Kitano Takeshi (his link @http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001429/

By the way, I've not heard about Mikhail Zoshchenko. Ermm, what do you think about his book, Scenes from the Bathhouse, that seemed to be your current reading?
 
Crystal said:
schiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii:) ,yeah, I heard a lot about that Yojimbo, but unluckily I couldn't get a DVD on it.
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Yojimbo is available on DVD now and is well worth a look, as indeed is the follow-up Sanjuro.

Crystal said:
I wondered what you guys think about Kitano Takeshi (his link @http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001429/
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'Beat' Takeshi is an interesting guy, bit of a renascence man, stuff like Zatoichi and Dolls are pretty deverse, let alone Takeshi's castle!

Crystal said:
By the way, I've not heard about Mikhail Zoshchenko. Ermm, what do you think about his book, Scenes from the Bathhouse, that seemed to be your current reading?
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Ha, I've had that as my current read setting for ages without actually reading it! I've probably got through about a dozen books since.
Fortunatly you've solved a problem by asking me that question, as after a few uninteresting reads over the Christmas and New Year I was wondering what to try next. Having glanced again at the back cover of that book I see that Zoshchenko was thrown out of the Union of Soviet Writers in 1946 for being a "literary tramp" and "a brainless and pornographic scribbler"...that'll do me!
 
CDA said:
I haven't seen Lost in Translation - it never appealed to me somehow. However, after reading your comment I may have to give it a go out of curiosity. Interesting.
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I'd say the similarity was mainly in the cinematography, in particular the way the night scenes are shot.
Lost in Translation is a good film, not as good as the hype but better than some of the slateing it got, just don't go in expecting the same subtly and depth you'd find with a Wong Kar-Wai film.
 
I loved Rutger Hauer in LadyHawke. Of course, his seminal role was in Bladerunner. It's too bad he was relegated to B-movie status later in his career. He was beautiful in Bladerunner, and could have gone toe-to-toe with Harrison Ford in acting if given the chance.

I like 28 Days Later and Shaun of the Dead, two in the living dead genre. Both easy to dismiss, but both great in their own way. Shaun especially is surprising, because it had a lot of depth and actually was a bit of a tearjerker. You wouldn't expect that if you saw the previews. On a completely different note, I saw a movie recently I'd never heard anything about, yet I thought was wonderful--A Touch of Pink. Kyle McLaughlin (is that his name?) is hilarious as the Carey Grant mentor.
 
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