obscure MUST SEE movies

[Kharnage]

Dark City is a great movie. Not really obscure, but well under the bar set in this thread. Was far from a box office hit. I know Ebert praised the movie, as he appears on a commentary track on the dvd.

[ZeeJustin]

Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... And Spring

Very slow paced w/ very little dialog. But it's a beautiful heartwarming view into a culture that deserves more attention. It's not for everyone, but it will amaze you if this description didn't turn you off (read: not for action junkies).

[KDawg]

New York Stories. It's a collection of three shorts(all between 35-50 minutes) done in the 80s with Scorsese, Allen, and Coppola doing them. The Scorsese one, Life Lessons, is worth the DVD alone. The Coppola one is alright, and the allen one is very good. Life Lessons though is the one that really needs to be seen

[Redd]

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PRIMER - An indie sci-fi film from just two years ago that I loved and that seems perfectly suited for 2p2ers, imo. Smart young guys have a small business in their garage as an addition to their engineer day jobs. One day they accidentally create what turns out to be a kind of time machine, and unlike every movie ever, they actually think about what they're doing and try to use it in rational ways. But that still doesn't mean everything goes smoothly. I can't say much more without spoiling, just that I give it my highest possible recommendation, to a thinking audience.

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Thirded - below is the timeline BTW - I can't believe someone figured this out. This movie was made for $7,000!


http://neuwanstein.freeweb.hu/primer_timeline.html

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I saw this movie based entirely off of this thread and it's very good. I think I still have a couple more viewings left before I can understand all of it.

[elwoodblues]

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I'm not sure how obscure films need to be to qualify, but "Lone Star" (link) should definitely be seen

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Lone Star, like most John Sayles films, is excellent. My personal favorite by Sayles is Limbo. Sayles likes to take his time telling his story, though his movies are more about the who than the what.

[suppasonic]

Tapeheads

Duets

The First One Million

[Terry Tidy]

Already mentioned and seconded...

Aguirre Wrath of God
Christine F

Not yet mentioned...
Tin Drum

The Witchfinder General

Leolo

I've seen most of those on normal UK TV (I think), so probably not very obscure.

[MicroBob]

That kid's screaming in Tin Drum qualifies as perhaps the most annoying moment/s in film history.

I remember watching this in college in a German Film Studies class and every time the kid would scream the whole class would get have a kind of annoyed-jesus-here-he-goes-again type laugh.

I remember it being a somewhat interesting film though and there was probably a lot that was going over my head at the time. Should probably give it another try if I happen past it on cable sometime.
But that screaming is REALLY obnoxious.

[55555]

Battle Royale

Battle Royale wikipedia

[lasmoody]

KOYAANISQATSI
Presented by Francis Ford Coppola
Godfrey Reggio's debut as a film director and producer, is the first film of the QATSI trilogy. The title is a Hopi Indian word meaning "life out of balance." Created between 1975 and 1982, the film is an apocalyptic vision of the collision of two different worlds -- urban life and technology versus the environment. The musical score was composed by Philip Glass.
KOYAANISQATSI attempts to reveal the beauty of the beast! We usually perceive our world, our way of living, as beautiful because there is nothing else to perceive. If one lives in this world, the globalized world of high technology, all one can see is one layer of commodity piled upon another. In our world the "original" is the proliferation of the standardized. Copies are copies of copies. There seems to be no ability to see beyond, to see that we have encased ourselves in an artificial environment that has remarkably replaced the original, nature itself. We do not live with nature any longer; we live above it, off of it as it were. Nature has become the resource to keep this artificial or new nature alive.