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+2 for office space.
My favourite film ever. Very funny, if you do or have worked in an office.
Plus, great soundtrack imo. (i like rap)
Bad Taste
Braindead
Fish Story - best "world is about to end plot" ever and I also loved the tune that the film is based around. The old guy in the record store had me in stitches as he berates the two youngsters. The film is pure indy art with no dialogue wasted, brilliant acting and vinyl...what more could you want?
Another Earth - tick to buy
Is Bad taste still available?? I saw that in the early 90's!
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Slightly offbeat
Delicatessen - Post-apocalyptic food weirdness - highly original.
Man bites dog - Serial killer documentary of sorts - dark and amusing.
Brazil - Future/retro weirdness - Terry Gilliam at his best.
The angels share - a good feel good ken loach movie.
I'm going to go with...
A scanner darkly
Moon
The fountain (Darren aronofsky one)
Dr. Strangelove
Yeah, for the reasons he gave above.
+1 for the Station Agent
+1 for Sightseer
Headhunter
City of God
Twin Town - very funny comedy about a family in Swansea
McCullin - moving and stark documentary of a war photojournalist
The Big Lebowski
If your into martial arts films watch Ong Bak, best fight film ever!
+3 for 12 Angry Men
Rear Window
Dead Man's Shoes
The Longest Day
Elling (subtitles)
Love, Honour and Obey
two side splittingly funny dark comedies that will help you to see things as they are instead of how you think they should be..
Oh, and plus 1 for La Haine for the same reason..
About to watch "The Imposter" on C4+1, which is apparently excellent.
Gattaca. A cracking film about a future predetermined by your genetics. Well worth watching.
Bad day at black rock . Great story well acted and well paced.
Intermission. Funny , unusual , well acted .
In Bruges . Great story , well acted , believable , black comedy genius .
Downfall. Superb German film about the last days in the furhebunker
utterly brilliant.
Good night and good luck. Recentish film shot in black and white and set in the era of McCarthy. Quite unusual.
If you ain't seen Apocalypto, then watch it.
Scott Pilgrim vs the World. VERY marmite, but never seen another film quite like it.
Dogma. Work of genius. Smart, funny, and best cinematic take on the nonsense of religion IMHO.
Valhalla Rising. Weird and violent. Bit of a mess in some ways but also beautiful and mesmerising.
Near Dark. Best vampire film ever.
+1 for Trollhunter.
Delicatessen. One of the best sex scenes in a film ever!
i still have bad taste on vhs, but nothing to play it on.
Great film.
[url= http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112817/ ]Dead Man.[/url]
Johnny Depp in B&W weirdness. Also features Iggy Pop as a cross-dressing erm, "pioneer".
Old Boy. Messes with your mind, and has one of the most interesting items of cuisine you are likely to see eaten on film!
So I watched Primer - enjoyed it, makes you think!
Keep the suggestions coming though, as I said seen about half of them, but the ones I've seen are good so I'm assuming the other suggestions are good too 🙂
Hopefully others are getting some good info from this thread too - STW is on form here I think.
Th two I forgot to post before
The life of David Gale. Involving and thought provoking.
The Reader. Naughty in places and with an interesting turn of events
+1 for Bubbah Ho Tep, great film, crazy and really well acted. Weekend at Bernies, because trying to make a dead man look alive is comedy gold. Merentau, great martial arts flick by the director of the raid and starring the same guy. The penitentiary series, insane blacksploitation version of rocky, set in a prison, with a bad ass funk soundtrack, Mr T in the second movie and a protagonist called two sweet gordone......and I haven't just made it up, it's actually real and insane 😛
The Longships
Scum. Brilliant UK film-making.
Have Downfall to watch (above recommendation) I really hope it doesn't disappoint.
Dog Soldiers - you've probably seen it though.
Serious film: Once were warriors
Comedy film: Hotrod
Both brilliant in there own way...
Diva - brilliant film about an opera obsessed bike messenger, corrupt cops, prostitution, Taiwanese music pirates, cute shoplifters, and odd philosophy.
City Of Lost Children - A scientist in a surrealist society kidnaps children to steal their dreams, hoping they'll slow his ageing process.
Koyaanisqatsi/Powaqqatsi - two of a three-film series, about human expansion and destruction of the environment.
There's no dialogue, both films are long sequences in slo-mo, normal speed, speeded up, over music by Philip Glass.
Mesmerising, and utterly wonderful.
Zat?ichi (2003 film) or the TV series ...
After the Rain by Akira Kurosawa.
+1 for Diva - total brilliance and off-the-wallness....also Betty Blue, by the same director.
3 Colours Blue/White/Red (3 films) by Polish director Kieslowski - musing on the interconnectedness of things with amazing cinematography and dreamy music - not to mention sharp story lines, set in France/Poland/Switzerland.
Just seen Easy Money (Swedish thriller involving drug gangs etc which seems very real and takes it to the max - description of 'Nordic Noir' underplays its impact), and Looking for Hortense, which is very sharply observed 'typical' screwed up French family drama/ subtle comedy which knocks all of what comes out of the US and most of what comes out of the UK back into 1975.
Sorry, not read all the thread but:
A Prophet - One of the best foreign films I have seen in the last few years, incredible.
Margin Call - A take on the 2008 crash, not sure how accurate it is but a great script and cast.
And of course Bubba Ho Tep, if you have not seen this you really haven't seen the best Elvis/Zombie mash up film ever!
Lars and the real girl,
Animal Kingdom,
Balibo.
Back to the Future 2...this old man steals a time machine from the doc who built it and uses it to make himself rich, marry the hero's mum and give her huge tits. So the hero and the doc have to go further back in time to stop him, brilliant film.
Another vote for Brazil, bizarre and hilarious at times, a somewhat disturbing view of how some version of the future may have been.
+1 for The Angels Share, and in case it hasn't already been mentioned before, [url= http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1540133/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 ]The Guard[/url].
Cheers, Rich
OnceA film about an irish busker / washing machine repair man.
Lots of good music. Great storyline
Vacuum repairs iirc
[url= http://www.amazon.co.uk/Freebird-DVD-Phil-Daniels/dp/B0013UO8MM/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1377243313&sr=8-2&keywords=freebird ]Freebird[/url] - probably the finest British film since Withnail and I... and in a very similar vein of humour too 🙂
I don't think it is on Netflix, but I suspended my account 6 months ago to give it time to refresh a little. Probably do the same with the other services now and go back to it for a bit! At least until The Vikings series 2 is released!
As a counterpoint to all the testosterone fueled stuff here how about Wendy and Lucy. Great film.
Surprised no-one's said Clerks yet. Kevin Smith's first film, and arguably his finest moment. Sharp and witty, if you can overlook the fact it's shot in black and white on a budget of about 40p.
Angel Heart
Anything with Will Hay !
why does it not surprise me to find the Dante-esk Cougar recommending Clerks. Pointed out to my old boss he was the spit, & he's became a fan overnight.
+1 To Princess bride, [french] Taxi, Zat?ichi, Grosse Point Blank, Moon, Trollhunter, District 9
My own recommendation (not mentioned) would be for Kung Fu Hustle... comedy send up of the everything kung fu, with hugely over the top fights - brilliant.
Off to search out Wasabi (if you like that, try 22 Bullets, no comedy, lots of killings)