NFT: Continuing the movie theme - your favorite little known film

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A little New Zealand film starring Sam Neil
Directed by Taika Waititi

by the same guy that did Napoleon Dynamite.

It doesn't get good reviews at all, but I thought it was entertaining.

Lake Eden

if this is well known or not, but I never hear anyone talk about it.... The Way, Way Back...


BTW, I agree with you on A Midnight Clear... the snowball scene alone makes that movie, but that is one sad affair.

In comment 13563664 Vin R said:

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The Power Glove!

Fall (1997).

I think Eric Schaeffer needs a bankroll.

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Ed Burns, Andy Garcia, Dustin Hoffman. Great cast and even better ending.

In comment 13563684 Eric from BBI said:

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if this is well known or not, but I never hear anyone talk about it.... The Way, Way Back... BTW, I agree with you on A Midnight Clear... the snowball scene alone makes that movie, but that is one sad affair.

Great call Eric.
I was going to say The way, way back.

I really enjoyed that movie. Have watched a few times. One of the best I have seen in a while.

Another movie that was very good was Moonrise Kingdom.

Great little comedy with the likes of Sam Rockwell, Steve Zahn, Mark Ruffalo, and Paul Giamatti.

I love Moonrise Kingdom, and Grand Budapest Hotel (same people made both).

with disaster - great mid 90s black comedy starring ben stiller, patricia arquette, alan alda and tea leoni, didn't get a lot of promotion.

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without much thought are Something Wild and Runaway Train. Probably are others.

Starring a very young Costner and Judd Nelson.

A goofy comedy about graduating college with the Vietnam War going on. Some absolutely hilarious parts.

Two that were pretty touted at the time but didn't do a lot of business:

"A Simple Plan"
"Martha Marcy May Marlene"

An obscure tongue-in-cheek Horror-Action picture from the 70s: "Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter". A "name" director you've heard of wants to remake it.

Little known fact - Howard Stern's wife plays one of the blonde beach volleyball players that Ben Stiller briefly thinks are his sisters.

Charlize Theron & Patton Oswalt.

Queens Logic
Dan In Real Life

That Dreaded Sundown that came out in the late '70s.

Moon, Matchstick Men to name a few...

I'm always surprised at High Fidelity when folks haven't seen it. Probably my favorite film of all time.

In comment 13563749 ryanmkeane said:

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Moon, Matchstick Men to name a few... I'm always surprised at High Fidelity when folks haven't seen it. Probably my favorite film of all time.

High Fidelity**

An obscure and excellent western, second only to "Tombstone" (IMHO) in the western genre.

Sam Shepard (Wild Bill Hickock)

My dad and I saw it at the Thalia as part of a double feature with Yojimbo, about thirty years ago. We went in knowing almost nothing about it. We both cried so hard we just sat there in silence at the end, holding hands.

Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates.

Laugh out loud funny in some spots. Anna Kendrick is good in this, but the real hottie was Aubrey Plaza.

Stay with it til the outtakes at the end.

I went to middle school with the director, Keith Gordon. He has also done some excellent TV work, especially for HBO.

Starring James Gandolfini, Tom Hardy, & Naomi Rapaci (sp.). Great movie, with an unbelievable performance by Hardy, & Gandolfini. Based on the Lehane, novel of the same name. One of the few movies I can watch again, & again.

Not sure have to ponder other genre's

In comment 13563773 Big Blue Blogger said:

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I went to middle school with the director, Keith Gordon. He has also done some excellent TV work, especially for HBO.

You grew up with Jason Melon! Sweet.....

by American author Harlan Coben. The story is a pretty good and reasonably inventive mystery, of the James Patterson genre, and the 2006 French movie version turned out to be well acted and directed.

They've been planning an American version of the film for years, not sure why they haven't yet, but of course Hollywood's been very busy making shitty remakes of 1980s B movie cult classics

Greg from LI said:

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You grew up with Jason Melon! Sweet.....

Yeah, but he never came "back to school" after Jaws II - not with us, anyway.

It's is a 1982 American experimental film directed by Godfrey Reggio with music composed by Philip Glass. The film consists primarily of slow motion and time-lapse footage of cities and many natural landscapes across the United States. It's spell-binding.

but I liked:

Amongst Friends (drama)
Up the Creek (Comedy)
Talihina Sky (documentary), and I don't really like Kings of Leon but this was very well done

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Football movie where the entire Bills starting offence gets sick just as the playoffs start, so the second string steps in and takes them to the Superbowl.

In comment 13563764 Big Blue Blogger said:

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My dad and I saw it at the Thalia as part of a double feature with Yojimbo, about thirty years ago. We went in knowing almost nothing about it. We both cried so hard we just sat there in silence at the end, holding hands.

Yep. The greatest 'unknown' great film.

the Way Way Back is a great call, I know like 3 people who have seen it but it's excellent.

Dope, Blue Ruin, Dredd (remake), and Mudd are a few from the last 5 years or so.

It's a Christmas movie with Steve Martin, Liev Shreiber, Adam Sandler, funny as hell

1) THE SACRIFICE - OK, this one is not as fun to watch as some of the others, but it is a profound take on what it means to be alive and the meaning of life. Made by Russian master Tarkovsky, profound and brilliant. 1986.

2) KILLER OF SHEEP – Filmed for practically nothing (less than 10K I understand), it proves that great art does not have to cost much. Some may not like the plotless structure, but the look at life at it's most desperate is both at once horrifying and life-affirming. 1978.

3) WOMAN IN THE DUNES – I guess I'm picking films that are about who we are, why we are here, what is life, you know, little stuff like that. A Japanese film about a woman in a pit of sand that can't get out. That's it. 1964.

4) MIRACLE MILE – “You just found out that you have 24 hours to live. What are YOU going to do?” That's the tagline from IMDB. Not only that the world only has 24 hours to live. An unexpected masterpiece without a happy ending to boot. 1988.

5) THE FLOWERS OF ST. FRANCIS – Italian director Roberto Rossellini took non-actors is more about coming to peace with all that is life. Stunning, sad and full of humanity. 1950.

6) LAST EXIT TO BROOKLYN – A companion piece to the film above it is about life in Brooklyn in 1952. Great score, wonderful characters, terrific film. 1989.

7) MOONLIGHTING – No, not that one. This is Polish Director Jerzy Skolimowski's film about 4 polish workers in England that are working with papers. This story can be transformed to almost any culture or people. It's about desperation and wanting to live in freedom. The human condition at its most basic level. 1982.

8) WINGS OF DESIRE – William Wenders film about everything, sometimes criticized for being about too much, but an amazing piece of filmmaking. 1987.

9) BAD TIMING/A SENSUAL OBSESSION – This wild, over the top film deals with, well, just look at the title. Nicholas Roeg's masterpiece. 1980.

10) EL TOPO – Now I know nobody's ever seen this one. Kinna like David Lynch on steroids. Mexican director Alex Jodorowsky throws every symbol but the kitchen sink (maybe that too) into this over the top visual fest. Still don't know what it's about, but I think it's something important. 1971.

'The Gods Must Be Crazy' comedy based in Africa. Had me laughing out loud. I would pay for a recording of it, but I can't find it anywhere.

Spike13, 'The Drop' I also really liked. Could watch it again and again. Great tension.

Goood call on Fandango. Great little movie. Another one that was surprisingly funny was Sex Drive.

Horse racing movie starring Richard Dreyfuss. It's hilarious.

An incredibly entertaining documentary (and exercise in Schadenfreude) about the absolute asshole who directed The Boondock Saints.

-The Matador. Pierce Brosnan just kills it in that movie. I think my enjoyment of it was colored by the fact that I confused it for another Brosnan movie and kept expecting an unwelcome twist that thankfully never came.

-it's not little known, but still, You Can Count on Me should show up more often in best movie lists.

In comment 13563875 bceagle05 said:

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Horse racing movie starring Richard Dreyfuss. It's hilarious.

+1 Love this movie and watch it whenever it is on.

Thought it was going to be an action film turned out to be a Horror

Western: "Purgatory" as mentioned above. If you love westerns, give this movie a try. Entertaining as all get out.

Comedy: "The Dream Team" four mental patients are taken to NYC for a ball game. But their therapist gets mugged and the whack jobs don't know what to do so they take off in NYC. Michael Keaton, Christopher Lloyd, Peter Boyle ("Frank" from "Everybody Loves Raymond"), Lorraine Bracco (of "Godfather", "Sopranos" and "Goodfellas" fame, and most recently, Angela Rizzoli of "Rizzoli and Isles" TV show)

Romantic Drama"Phenomenon" John Travolta and Kyra Sedgewick

Romantic Comedy: "Return to Me" David Duchovny, Minnie Driver, Carroll O'Connor. Wife dies, but is an organ donor. Woman who gets heart by sheer coincidence ends up in love with the man who lost his wife, but neither know she is carrying his wife's heart.


Keaton in the "Dream Team" - ( New Window )

Hard to think of people not knowing these, but they stand out in my mind: Othello (Orson Welles 1951); The Third Man (Welles again 1941); Rashomon (Kurosawa 1950); The Magician (Bergman 1958). Yes, that was a long time ago.

In comment 13563684 Eric from BBI said:

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if this is well known or not, but I never hear anyone talk about it.... The Way, Way Back... BTW, I agree with you on A Midnight Clear... the snowball scene alone makes that movie, but that is one sad affair.

Yes, The Way, Way Back is very good. Midnight Clear as well.