obscure MUST SEE movies

[cwsiggy]

Wayne Wang's "Smoke" with William Hurt, Harvey Keitel, Forest Whitaker, Stockard Channing

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114478/

and the "sequel" - "Blue in the Face"

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112541/

What that horrid excuse for a movie Coffee and Cigarettes wanted to be....

[Runkmud]

Age-Old Friends, also titled A Month of Sundays
http://imdb.com/title/tt0096774/

A great movie starring Hume Crowyn and Vincent Gardenia as two old men in a nursing home, clinging to thier independence and sanity.

While it did win some awards, I believe it to be fairly obscure, being that I'm the only one of my friends whose ever heard of it.

[tarheeljks]

idk if this is really obscure, but i'm a huge fan of Brick

[pokerbobo]

Where the day takes you.

Cast: Will Smith, alyssa milano, dermot mulroney, sean astin, lara flynn boyle.

Havent seen it in a long time, but I'm pretty sure I got the cast right. (lots of cameos)

About runaways living out on the streets.

[relaxwithtrudy]

Gacy.

[woodguy]

Jesus of Montreal

French Canadian (French Language film) that I saw this when it hit the theaters in limited release here in Canada in 1989, still one of my favorite movies of all time. Denys Arcand is an excellent director and I recommend all his movies, more or less.

It was subtitled in the theater which wasn't even noticable after a couple of minutes. Saw it later on video where it was dubbed and it lost a lot of the original performances. Get the subtitled version if possible.

Basic plot is that a group of actors stage a passion play and there lives start of mesh with the story....this sounds pretty hollow, its a very well written movie and a superbly acted and directed film.

Regards,
Woodguy

edit: just saw that crazy canuck recommended two other Arcand films, Barbarian Invasions, and Decline of the American Empire....I second these choices...very good stuff there.

[Chris Daddy Cool]

can't believe nobody mentioned this, but Batman: The Movie starring the one and only Adam West. ridiculously funny. literally cried during some scenes.

somebody else mentioned "Afterlife" and i second that opnion, though i was totally depressed after watching it.

[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.

[Rick Nebiolo]

I don't think any of these favorite's of mine were mentioned so far. Perhaps "The Last Seduction" and "Ulee's Gold" aren't that obscure but for some reason most of these movies didn't do all that well in theaters.

One False Move

A Simple Plan

Red Rock West

The Last Seduction

Trees Lounge

Ulee's Gold

A few people mentioned Lone Star. That's one I'd give that one at least five stars.

~ Rick

[FoldEqu1ty]

If Zoolander and other such "wacky" humour tickles your side, then "Protégé de la Rose Noire" will definitely have you cracking up.