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24 Feb 2008, 9:47 am

The Snow Walker (Barry Pepper), I guess this movie fits the criteria of not well-known movie and it's a great movie.

and maybe... The Secret Garden :?:

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24 Feb 2008, 8:19 pm

There are many
The ones that come to mind

Dogville - this is done more like a stage piece. The town is layed out with white marking. no walls only the suggestion of some. It is a bit hard to get through but a very well done movie. It encapulates society.

Tampopo - is a forgien film from Japan I think, in search of a perfect noodle

The Big Night - has the best dinner party scene - two brothers cook an amazing meal.

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01 Mar 2008, 12:20 am

rocklobster wrote:

One thing I hate about Hollywood is the fact that great movies often fall through the cracks. Are there any movies you like that few people know about? Here are some of mine (note: this time, I think plot descriptions should be permitted)
Singles (think Friends in Seattle)
The Spitfire Grill (a female criminal reforms and helps run a restuarant. Great redemption story)
The Watcher in the Woods (you won't believe this is a Disney movie when you watch this)
Cube (8 people are trapped in a booby-trap filled, cubic, maze-like building)
Evolver (a toy robot that was originally designed for the military creates havoc because it can't lose and "evolves" every time you play. I put evolves in quotes because it's more like the robot merely adapts. Jon DeLancie, who played Q on Star Trek: TNG, plays the robot's inventor.)

RETROACTIVE - Kyle Travis plays Karen, a woman who is hitch-hiking and is picked up by Jim Belushi as Frank, a violent redneck husband who eventually murders his family. She eventually escapes, wanders into a secret time travel experiment, and travels half an hour or so into the past, back to the side of the highway where she is again picked up by the same family. This cycle repeats a few times, with the catastrophe growing worse each time as Karen is unable to prevent the family from being murdered. Eventually Karen is about to be killed by Frank, only to be saved by Jesse, the youngest child, who informs
Karen that he has just been through the machine.

Kind of low-key, but a fun film.

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04 Mar 2008, 12:52 am

"Tim"

It's one of Mel Gibson's early movie appearances about a young (twenty something) ret*d man who falls in love with an older woman and they end up getting married.

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04 Mar 2008, 2:16 am

Metropolis
Forbidden Planet
the original 70s version of Wicker Man (ending was very disturbing)
Watershipdown (a cartoon based on the book)
Whale Rider
Empire of the Sun
Solaris
Finding Neverland
Nobody Knows (a Japanese film based on a true story that's extremely dpressing, but more real than any movie I've seen)
Best in Show (funniest of all the Christopher Guest films IMO)

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05 Mar 2008, 1:00 am

Wet Hot American Summer
It's a hilarious comedy, set at a summer camp in the 80s. Anyone remember the sketch comedy series The State? Those guys made it (Black, Showalter), but then there are a bunch of big-name actors in it too (Jeanine Garafalo, David Hyde Pierce, Chris Meloni). It is wrong on so many levels, yet so right. Highly recommend it.

Chris Guest's stuff. Best In Show is my favorite, and I also loved A Mighty Wind.

Frida was visually fantastic, and Stealing Beauty somehow felt very textural(?) to me. I watched it thinking about what all the stuff would feel like, to the main character touching it. It's sexy too.

This Is Spinal Tap. HA! Done entirely without a script.

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05 Mar 2008, 1:31 am

Enigmatic_Oddity wrote:

I was under the impression Serenity was a big studio production, at least everyone here keeps raving about it. I personally never found much appeal in it.

Did you watch the TV series Firefly(That unfortunately only ran for 14 episodes because Fox didn't know what the hell it was doing)? If not, go watch it. And then watch Serenity. Its just plain fantastic sci fi that not enough people have seen outside of its almost cult following online.

Also last years Sunshine is a great sci-fi flick that didn't get a very wide release but was really good.

Or if you want to get more obscure, A Boy and his Dog. 70's sci-fi cheese and just generally odd. One of Don Johnson's early movies.

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05 Mar 2008, 8:59 pm

The Party with Peter Sellers is one of my favorites :shrug: .

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05 Mar 2008, 9:55 pm

Art School Confidential. probably cause i go to art school and i related to it. we'll leave it at that.

but yea it's weird...outside of fellow art students i know, like FIVE PEOPLE have seen it...

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05 Mar 2008, 11:34 pm

I liked Art School Confidential too. I used to live 3 blocks from an indie theater that served craft brewed beer and sushi...I wish I could remember the titles of more of the films that I saw there!

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05 Mar 2008, 11:54 pm

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (with Jack Nicholson)

The Silence (an Ingmar Bergman movie)

Picnic on Hanging Rock (Australian mystery)

Amadeus (Motzart)

Charly(1968) Really good about a guy with retardation and well you just have to watch it.

The Piano (love Holly Hunter's performance)

The Red Violin (I love fiddles so that's why)

Dances with Wolves (You don't see it much anymore, still love it)

Ju-On (The Eye, Chinese ghost story)

An Angel at My Tabel (NZ film, reminds me of aspergers)

Muriel's Wedding (Australian comedy)

etc,etc,etc,etc. I love really good movies! :wink:

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06 Mar 2008, 12:08 am

Referring to the above post:
Is "Charley" the movie version of "Flowers for Algernon"? The man has surgery on his brain to make him smart, he becomes a genius, then slowly declines back to his former self. There's a mouse named Algernon who had the first surgery.

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06 Mar 2008, 10:24 pm

gypsyRN wrote:

Yes. I thought it sounded realistic to what they're trying to do now. I've often wondered what would happen if there was a cure for mental retardation and other quirks in the brain. If it would have any positive impacts or go down from there.

Another movie I like is The Awakening, similar only it was based on a true story. The meds stopped working for these ppl.

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06 Mar 2008, 11:34 pm

I recommend THE PEANUT BUTTER SOLUTION.

It was creepy at first, but for some reason when the memory came to me, the moments (no spoilers intended) gave me, in my head, a wild endearment.

FLIGHT OF THE NAVIGATOR

It was unbelievable to learn Pee-Wee was involved!

RAGGEDY ANN AND ANDY (A MUSICAL ADVENTURE)

One would immediately believe it's the anscestor of TOY STORY. It can be found in Google video.

BIG TOP PEE-WEE

It involves children (no spoilers intended) in a magical way. In fact, it inspired a movie to be the first devoting one since THE ENCHANTED DRAGON, something I first thought up in the summer of 1995.

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07 Mar 2008, 1:35 am

MissConstrue wrote:

gypsyRN wrote:

I really liked The Awakening. It was...Parkinson's patients maybe? I'm sure I could look it up. I found it very touching. I'm very moved by some of the CP kids I work with. Complete people whose souls are trapped in a body they have no control over.

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07 Mar 2008, 1:59 am

MissConstrue wrote:

No, wait. Juon was The Grudge, not the Eye. I saw both. And yes I agree the eye was very well done. I wonder if the American version will be as good.

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