After The Sunset
and
The Three Fugitives
These are two of my favourites 🙂
Gattaca - No one seems to have watched it, but it's awesome!
I wasn't overly impressed by Gattaca, wasn't awful but wasn't *that* good.
Have got "after the sunset" waiting in the wings. Will make an effort to watch it sooner rather than later
Down By Law - one of my all time favourites but I've never met anyone who's heard of it let alone seen it
Gattaca- mmmm Uma Thurman
Avatar
Have not yet watched it get, but I'm expecting good things from The Thirteenth Floor.
Before anyone says "copying The Matrix", it preceded it and the screenplay was written from the book Simulacron-3 (1964)
Moon
"I scream, you scream, we ALL scream for ice cream."
+ 1 for Down By Law 😀
*admires phatstanley from afar... in a strictly manly way*
iDave, Down by law is excellent, as are most Jim Jarmusch films, have you seen Night on Earth?
Moon
I think given who Mr Jones' Dad is, Moon would, and got, a decent amount of publicity.
Agree with Gattaca - superb film.
I thought 'Narc' was excellent with Jason Patric and Ray Liota. I think the director was responsible for The Shield.
gattaca weren't bad, not spectacular tho.
Quite liked [url= http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0403358/ ]Nigh****ch[/url] (no not the one you think) not got round to seeing daywatch yet
I think given who Mr Jones' Dad is, Moon would, and got, a decent amount of publicity.
I only heard about it thanks to a forum, and it wasn't on in that many cinemas as I recall. Don't remember seeing any trailers or it being mentioned on the telly at all.. So I dunno.
I think given who Mr Jones' Dad is, Moon would, and got, a decent amount of publicity.
I think that's pretty harsh given how much he's downplayed it. He didn't have to go by 'Jones' for a start.
Moon got a moderate amount of publicity, but I'd like to think that this was largely because it was a damn good film.
Veering back on topic,
Plunkett and MacLeane, anyone?
Funny Games. Brilliant film but nobody I know has seen it.
The original German version is also very good
I think that's pretty harsh given how much he's downplayed it. He didn't have to go by 'Jones' for a start.
Well seeing as I never said anything about him using his dad to forward his career, I don't really know how to respond to that.
Breaking The Waves.
derek_starship - Member
Funny Games. Brilliant film but nobody I know has seen it.
The original German version is also very good
I've seen it and it's a bit on the dark side Derek.
The Edukators.
Donnie Darko is one of my favorites, the seen when the camera moves in through the school and introduces you to all the character's of the movie without a word spoken to the backdrop of Head over heals by Tears for Fears is simply brilliant.
the cube.loved it when i saw it (but neither heard nor seen it before or since)
😀
and this
brad douriff is excellent in this.fantastic film 😀
Rec and Rec2
nice bit of Spanish zombie
Boiler Room and The Boondock Saints
Well seeing as I never said anything about him using his dad to forward his career, I don't really know how to respond to that.
Well, you said "given who Mr Jones' Dad is, Moon would, and got, a decent amount of publicity." Am I missing something here, is promoting your film different from forwarding your career? Assuming your career is "film maker" anyway, I doubt that promoting your film would do much for your career if you were a plumber.
[i]The Station Agent[/i]
the cube.loved it when i saw it (but neither heard nor seen it before or since)
The Cube is ace, but do yourself a favour and avoid the numerous sequels and prequel, they're dreadful.
If you're interested, the recent Splice was written by the same guy who wrote The Cube. Entertaining little Species-a-like.
Hot Rod. Laughed myself stupid (except at the bit with Scrooge and the goose).
+1 for The Boondock Saints. 9/10 easy.
three burials of melquiades estrada
So I Married an Axe Murderer
Paycheck
Mallrats
Singles
Dark City (pre-Matrix altered reality story co-written by the co-writer of Inception).
Dogma.
The Big Blue (or Subway, or Nikita, or Leon - basically any of Luc Besson's earlier films).
Jarhead.
The City of Lost Children.
slainte 😀 rob
Some of these suggestions are kind of cult films. Does that count as below the radar?
Volver
Are we allowed old films?
was made to watch Harold and Maude a while back, should be compulsory.
Restless Natives. Epic film, epic soundtrack.
^^^ Absolutely +1, superb film and a stunning soundtrack.. I'm sure I have the film score somewhere on vinyl 😀
Dark City - was overshadowed by the Matrix
Recommended in another thread the other day, but I'll do so again on the basis that it's a very good film:
Un prophète.
My wife has just told me that Muriel's Wedding is such a film. I hope she's right as we're watching at 8:40 on Arte.
Payback - Mel Gibsons best film.
Jan Svankmeyer's Alice:
Well worth getting the DVD. Brilliant, probbly the best film adaptation of the book ever made.
I always liked the french film 'city of lost children'
bit bizarre, but I really liked it.
The Big Blue (or Subway, or Nikita, or Leon - basically any of Luc Besson's earlier films).
Just reminded me how brilliant The Big Blue is. Compulsory student viewing for me in the nineties.
A French film called 'Micmacs'. Weird but entertaining.
Bullshot and Plunkett and MacLeane +1
Mesrine parts 1 and 2
french film with subtitles, but easily one the best films ive ever seen of any genre...
A French film called 'Micmacs'. Weird but entertaining.
One of my favourites too.
If we're not stuck on Hollywood films, I highly recommend Diva, a very stylish thriller by Jean-Luc Godard.
[i]Diva[/i]! Bingo, someone else has heard of it. Huzza. Love that film, bought the book recently, and there's not much the same really. Prefer the film, really. [i]Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid[/i] is another I really love, quite possibly the only Steve Martin film I've ever found funny.
The Fall - a decent story, but the visuals are what make the film as they are superb.
I've seen Down By Law, I even remembered the icecream quote before reading down the thread. Can't remember anything else about it though except that it's got Tom Waits in it, so -1 for me.
From round about the same period (my college days) how about The Element of Crime, come on, bet no one else has seen that?
Delicatessen - Classic film noir way before Amilie had the ironic last laugh!
CountZero - MemberDiva! Bingo, someone else has heard of it.
Me too, have it on VHS & DVD one of those films that just stays with you IMO
Well Muriel's Wedding was a delightful film in a colourful, black humour sort of way.
dont you mean mariel ;o) very funny movie
Did Primer have much publicity?
some more to add to the lovefilm list 🙂
Dark City - Saw it on TCM a few nights. Amazing visuals.
Delicatessen
Eraserhead
Tin Drum
I liked Gattaca the first time I saw it but it lays it on a bit thick with the downside of genetic tailoring.
D0NK sed:
Quite liked Nigh****ch (no not the one you think) not got round to seeing daywatch yet
+1 and do try and see Daywatch (was on Film4 a few months ago) - it continues Anton's story with his son, Yegor, and explores the whole Light One / Dark One universe a lot further. The effects are a lot better too - without ruining the grimy feel of the film.
[b]Lebanon[/b]
Haunting stuff.
I'd say Dark City was overshadowed by the Matrix because it's really clunky compared to the Matrix.
Kiefer Sutherland is awful in it, in fact none are the performances are very good!
Inland Empire is a stunning film. It's David Lynch, so probably not right to say it was under the radar, but I get the impression Lynch is less appreciated these days than in his prime. Think he struggled to get it funded from what I recall.
I always liked the french film 'city of lost children'
Bizzarely, I think I was watching that as you posted. Agreed, a very interesting film. I think "The world according to Garp" is a film that I'd like to watch again and is quite unsung.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Timecrimes
Primer
Was just about to post with Primer and Timecrimes; two very good films.
Some others:
Session 9.
Fear me not.
Into the wild.
Grosse Point Blank.
Interstate 60.
Sole Survivor - Shatner at his best
Paris, Texas
Ghost in the Shell - my personal fave
22 bullets, french subtitled
Girl with the dragon tattoo, what the original before Hollywood ruins it.
Aussie file "The Castle"
The Dish
Repo Man
District 13 for some great parkour
The Beast
City of God, athough not sure how 'below the radar' it is
+1 on Payback, one of my all time bestest films
Amores Perros
Y Tu Mama Tambien
An old film but Killing Zoe starts off slow but gets better also an oldie The Beast Of War about a T-62 tank crew in Afghanistan.
+1 for Repoman
+1 The Tin Drum
Look out for "My Life as a Dog". Good low key film to make you smile.
*admires phatstanley from afar... in a strictly manly way*
awwwww, thanks.
jim jarmusch is well good, enjoyed night on earth, too.
how about [i]dead man[/i] with j.depp and the neil young instrumental soundtrack and the awesome campfire scene with iggy pop in drag?
A few oldies:
The Conversation
The Offence
Southern Comfort
And a slightly more modern one:
A Simple Plan