El Topo. The director is quite well known in some circles but I'm still yet to meet anyone who's watched any of his films.
Alejandro Jodorowsky?
If you're a fan, watch this:
Fear Of A Black Hat.
Rap mockumentary starring characters Tasty Taste and Tone Def to name but two.
Do yourself a favour and watch it.
No one I know has even heard of Big Wednesday. A fave of mine.
I've even got it on DVD.
Shawshank Redemption.
I was the only one in the cinema when I went to see it.
Although it depends on the circles you frequent. Chatting to a lass (s****) today who'd never heard of Danny Macaskill. What's that about!
Satantango. - considered by some as one of the greatest films ever made but I wonder how many have watched it right through?
It is a black and white Hungarian film over 7 hours long with only about 150 shots set in some desolate spot with a cast of unlovable characters where virtually nothing happens.
I loved it!
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strange film. centred around a scrap yard, hobos drinking 'viper' which makes them melt, cutting off someones penis and playing american football with it around the yard......
dont bother watching it if you havent seen it yet.
Timecode by Mike Figgis
Limbo by John Sayles
Dogtooth recent film by Greek director
Rhythm Thief.
My Science Project
Seen Wraith
One wild and crazy summer (I think, the bloke from police academy with the scratchy voice and some cute and fluffy bunny cartoons.....the radio shack at the end of the film gets taken out by an RPG and the police academy bloke runs towards it screaming about cooking marshmallows)
Currently watching Time Bandits
Montenegro.
I saw it as a red triangle film on Channel 4 when it kicked off.
Can't remember that much about it now except for the stopping for a photo (guy with a knife sticking out his forehead on way to 'A&E) and, err, a remote controlled tank scene....
Purely Belter.
It is superb.
Taxi. The subtitled French film about a cop who can't drive and a racing mad taxi driver.
If Only. Douglas Henshaw and Lena Heady on a bitter sweet romantic story about magic bin men.
Also, many years ago, I saw a short film about cupid/eros and some others living in a bed sit in modern London. Pretty sure HBC turns up in it as well but I've no idea what it was called. I can't find it anywhere.
Banraku
Twilight samurai
Master with cracked fingers (one of Jackie Chan's first)
Ming the Merciless - MemberOne wild and crazy summer (I think, the bloke from police academy with the scratchy voice and some cute and fluffy bunny cartoons.....the radio shack at the end of the film gets taken out by an RPG and the police academy bloke runs towards it screaming about cooking marshmallows)
Is that the one where at the end they set off in their boat and the back panel drops away to show the back end of some guy's ferrari powering it?
The Revenge of Billy the Kid. Horror comedy filmed partly at a farm just down the road. Very funny if you like your jokes to be of the very bad taste version 🙂
The Gods must be Crazy. Another very funny film.
Anything my Michael Hannecke (have the complete collection here).
Seen most of the French and German films already mentioned above as we had a phase of going to the art-house cinema when I lived in Stuttgart.
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Fear Of A Black Hat.
Rap mockumentary starring characters Tasty Taste and Tone Def to name but two.
Do yourself a favour and watch it]
How does it compare to CB4? (another potential film for this thread).
Tzameti 13. Tense French film about a russian roulette competition
Delicatessen is one of my favourite movies, and a regular Uni movie
My most obscure was Genghis Blues about a blind depressed American guitarist who teaches himself Mongolian throat singing and travels out to Mongolia by plane and then Donkey to the Throat Singing Conference!!
Brilliant movie
Delicatessen, Jean De Florette, Manon Des Sources. All yeses. Good French films are very good. How about "The Hairdresser's Husband"?
Or a bit of Spanish - any of the crazy Pedro Almodovar films.
A couple of excellent Japanese "art" films - "Tampopo" and "In the Realm of the Senses".
Oh and "Eat Drink Man Woman".
I bought a vampire motorcycle.
Low, looooow budget horror with the cast of Boon.
Come&See-a Russian or maybe Belarusian WW2 film.
Amazing film.
Two Seconds
Fired from her racing team, a mountain biker (Charlotte Laurier) in midlife crisis moves in with her brother and befriends an older Italian (Dino Tavarone).
Funny as heck
The Long Weekend (the original version). Low budget Australian flick about a troubled couple going camping in a remote location, only to encounter weird goings on. First watched it on C4 in the early hours and tracked it down years later.
They did a remake a few years back.
Thrashin'.
80s skateboard romance feat. most of the Bones Brigade. Really awful but watched it a couple of times a week as a 14yo, can still quote most of the dialogue 😕
Antonias Line. my favourite film of all time.
All this thread is teaching me is that I have seen too many films
Man Bites Dog
Brain dead, possibly the lowest budget film I've seen.
Brain dead, possibly the lowest budget film I've seen.
That was a Peter Jackson film, pre Lord of the Rings! Bad Taste too.
Thrashin'
Fantastic film! "Hey look! Hook, and the Daggers"
Miami Blues...
and Debbie Does Dallas.
nobody yet has mentioned
Happiness
great film but you need to have a very dark sense of humour
God of Gamblers - great Hong Kong Cinema film but the only person I know who's seen it is my uni housemate.
The Slammin' Salmon - watched it at work and the people I watched it with don't remember doing so.
The Finest Hour.
I've seen God of Gamblers, and Braindead, and Man Bites Dog. 🙂
Thanks to whoever suggested the Dune Jodorowsky thing - keep meaning to check that out.
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I went to see this in 1983 with my girlfriend (now wife) @ the Arnolfini in Bristol there were a lot of blokes in long beige coats!
In New York, a small flying saucer lands on the roof of a penthouse seeking for heroin. In the apartment, the cocaine addicted model Margaret is a promiscuous bisexual androgynous woman that lives with her lover, the drug dealer Adrian. Margaret has sex with many partners asking for cocaine in return. The aliens discover that the sensation of the orgasm is equivalent to the heroin and they suck the brains of Margaret's lovers, killing them first and then making their bodies disappear. Meanwhile, a German scientist is chasing the extraterrestrial beings and arrives in a building in front of Margaret's apartment to observe the creatures.
Citizen X
Based on the true story of Andrei Chikatilo, a horrendously prolific serial killer in Soviet era Russia.
Stephen Rea plays the detective hunting him and battling with the authorities who don't want to acknowledge that serial killers aren't a problem confined to decedent Western societies.
Also features brilliant turns from Joss Ackland and Donald Sutherland.
I've seen Miami blues two or three times.
Really good film that I'd totally forgotten.
And man bites dog, and brain dead.
'Life is cheap but toilet paper is expensive'
Saw it at the Cornerhouse in pre-classification screening - i.e. before it had been classified by the BBFC. Came out fairly sure it was never going to get any sort of classification (although apparently it did manage to get an 18 cert without deleting scenes which is surprising) don't think it ever got a general release.
Other than that....pretty much all the films with my name in the credits are films that seemingly no one else has seen (except one that at least Footflaps has seen even if no one else has).
The exception is the most recent film I worked on which even I'm not going to go and watch - not even for the free booze at the cast and crew screening.
Not seen CB4.
Will have to check that out.
Fear Of A Black Hat is Spinal Tap for the NWA generation.
The Slammin' Salmon
Watched this after a few beers and enjoyed it!
Stephen Rea plays the detective hunting him and battling with the authorities who don't want to acknowledge that serial killers aren't a problem confined to decedent Western societies.
Sounds like child44
Snakeskin. A New Zealand road trip film. Seen it when i was in NZ never seen it on UK TV
Mon Oncle
Nigh****ch
Everything on Channel 4 when it was good including Red Balloon and some Danish Film about a Prince? who gets his Penis cut off by his wife/lover? That no one has ever heard of. If it rings a bell please tell me.
Eraserhead
Cherry 2000
Artemis 81
Dark Star?
Vampire Circus (mmmm, Lalla Ward topless, but otherwise dreadful)
This thread reminds me how much I miss the film seasons that used to be on the BBC over Christmas and other holiday seasons in the 80s, because you had so little choice - you would give everything a chance and find some real gems - now the temptation is just to go for a banker. I like one menu restaurants too.
Revanche or Revenge, or Rache... Not sie exactly on the title but an Austrian film about some ex -con and a coppers wife.
Moody.
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