Your Favorite Little Known Movie

[mbw]

sweet.  i don't think i've ever seen any of these.  going on the queue.

[mistercharlie]

Gummo

I hated that movie, it made me feel sick all over.  :shakehead:

[birdman]

Gummo

I hated that movie, it made me feel sick all over.  :shakehead:

Thats why I like it. Pretty disturbing.

On a side note, this movie was filmed in East Nashville while I was living down there. The black midget lived nearby and used to hang out and pound beers with us while we rode our halfpipe. Also, the director and Cloe Soveigny visited our place and bought a bag off my roommate. I remember "Kids" had just come out, we thought we has bonafied stars at our pad :roll:

[G. Augusto]

"I'd shoot up and then go for a ten mile run.  Sure I was a junkie, but I was an L.A. junkie and had to stay in shape."

Wheat grass....wheat grass...

[Mr Minor]

"I'd shoot up and then go for a ten mile run.  Sure I was a junkie, but I was an L.A. junkie and had to stay in shape."

Wheat grass....wheat grass...

Great flick.  I have the memior, too.  Scary and interesting.  And Alf.  WTF?

[mattstick]

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096098/

[mehead]

Gummo

I hated that movie, it made me feel sick all over.  :shakehead:

the picture itself is disturbing

[westcider]

Fantastic Planet aka La Planete Sauvage

[justjezmund]

its known but not by many i know.  worth a watch if youve never seen it.

[runawaytimj]

Fantastic Planet aka La Planete Sauvage

Nice!!  This one is awesome and also kind of terrifying!  I bought my friend a blue shirt with red "Om" eyes for his birthday.

[Igbo]

Fantastic Planet aka La Planete Sauvage

Great soundtrack by Alain Gorageur!!!

[fauxpaxfauxreal]

Wicked awesome movie.

That movie is completely awesome.  "Now we do heroin".

[cactusfan]

i coud write for days on this topic.
if anyone wants recommendations of specific genres or eras or directors, just let me know.

a random assortment that come to mind:

Seconds, John Frankenheimer's extremely weird and disturbing follow-up to the also brilliant Manchurian Candidate, both from the '60s. if you like the Twilight Zone, you will very much dig Seconds.

House of Games, the first movie written and directed by David Mamet, and i think his best. a sneaky little story of con men and a woman they con.

After Hours, from '85. after Martin Scorsese's life and career went in the toilet, he went back to basics with this low-budget flick set in NYC. very weird and funny.

The Apartment, '60. Billy Wilder's masterpiece, about a lowly guy, Jack Lemmon, who lets people use his apartment for romantic trysts. see where jim carrey stole his entire bag of comedy tricks.

you've all seen Being There by director Hal Ashby, i hope, what with its inspring use of deodata's 2001. you should also check out Ashby's other brilliant movies: Shampoo, Harold & Maude, and The Last Detail.

The Holy Mountain, by Jodorowsky. this is one insanely weird film. brilliantly insanely weird. in part funded by John Lennon, who was amazed by Jodorsky's previous and also weird and great movie El Topo.

Gallipoli, by Peter Weir, starring a very young and unknown Mel Gibson (from '81). about two aussies who eventually make their way into the army in WWI. this and The Road Warrior are Mel's best movies. though also of note from this same era and also directed by Weir is The Year of Living Dangerously.

i also love American Movie. speaking of documentaries, check out from the '80s Sherman's March, which is hilarious. about a guy ostensibly making a doc about General Sherman's march to the sea, but really about the filmmaker's equally scorched earth love life.

another doc, The Thin Blue Line, Errol Morris' early masterpiece. this changed the way docs were made. about a man wrongly put on death row. the movie caused the case to be re-opened and the man set free. with a great soundtrack by Philip Glass.

The Sweet Smell of Success, with Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis. funny and sleazy with biting dialogue, a really twisted movie from the '50s, deeply evil. i guarantee you will need a shower and a big glass of whiskey after watching it.

Touch of Evil, Orson Welles' evil sleazy noir from the '50s. you'll also want whiskey to go with this one. opens with one of the most famous continuous single shots in film history. and features, rather improbably, Charleton Heston playing a mexican cop.

Andy Kaufman: I'm From Hollywood. Kaufman at one point in his career decided to give up comedy and be a pro wrestler. or maybe it was all an act. maybe his whole life was an act. nobody ever figured that out. no matter, this movie is insane and funny as fuck.

A Boy And His Dog, twisted sci-fi from '75 starring Don Johnson well before his miami vice days. based on a Harlan Ellison novella.

[Hicks]

Is that how you talk in Memphis Tennessee?

[DeviousGelatin]

...what?? You know awesome when you see it.   :rawk: