Film festival. Movie experts please recomend what to watch

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Im checking the "Movies you have recently watched" thread on a daily basis, so know there is a lot of movie knowledge here in The Lounge.

Today I found out that there is this film festival thing going on in my city, which basicly means the cinemas shows a lot of movies that otherwise never will be shown.

Thus I have this long list of movies to be shown in the next 9 days, but dont know which ones to choose.


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2:37
300
37 Uses for a Dead Sheep
Abominable
Alpha Dog
Amerikansk galskab
Among Adults
The Amphibian Man
Angosto
Apart From That
Arena: Pete Doherty
Armenia
Aviva My Love
The Balanda and the Bark Canoes
Bamako
A Battle of Wits
Beauty in Trouble
Den beskidte krig
Black Book
Black Butterfly
Bunny Chow
The Calamari Wrestler
Candy
Cocaine Cowboys
Cosmic Voyage
Crazy Stone
Curiosity Kills the Cat
D.O.A.P. (Death Of A President)
Danielson: A Family Movie, or Make a Joyful Noise Here
Daratt
Day Night Day Night
Dead in Three Days
Demented
Destricted
Dhoom:2
Dog Bite Dog
The Dog Pound
Dorm
Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs
Drama/Mex
Drengen fra bjergene
Driving with My Wife's Lover
Eternal Summer
Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka
Executive Koala
Exiled
Exterminating Angels
Fanaa
Fando and Lis
Fast Food Nation
Fay Grim
Fireworks Wednesday
First on the Moon
A Flock of Dodos: The Evolution-intelligent Design Circus
The Forest Ranger
Fortabt ungdom
The Fountain
Four Minutes
Free Floating
Free Jimmy
Frit vildt
Full or Empty
Funky Forest: The First Contact
Gardens in Autumn
Ghost Game
Glue
Gretchen
The Guatemalan Handshake
Half Moon
Half Nelson
Hell's Ground
Himmelskibet
The History Boys
Hit Men
The Hoax
Hole
The Holy Mountain
Home of the Brave
Honor of the Knights
The Host
How Much Further
Den hvide sport
I Don't Want to Sleep Alone
I'll Call You
I'm Reed Fish
Idlewild
Infernal Affairs
Inside Paris
The Island
It's Only Talk
Jens Jonsson Collection 1
Jens Jonsson Collection 2
Jindabyne
Kabul Express
Kenny
Khadak
Kunsten at græde i kor
Kurt Cobain: About a Son
Kærlighedens slør
The Last Dining Table
Life Actually
The Lost
loudQUIETloud: A Film About The Pixies
Love for Share
Love Story
Luxury Car
M
McLaren Cineclip
Meokgo and the Stickfighter
Milan Calibre 9
Mischief Night
Monks - The Transatlantic Feedback
My Brother is Getting Married
My Mother is a Belly Dancer
The Namesake
Never Say Goodbye
New Danish Screen
Nightmare Detective
Den ny verden
Offset
Old Joy
Omkara
On the Ropes
Opera Jawa
Out of the Blue
Outsourced
Paprika
Paraguayan Hammock
Pine Flat
Planet of Storms
Planet of the Vampires
Private Property
Queer Duck: The Movie
Rain Dogs
Red Road
Reprise
Retrieval
Running With Scissors
Salty Air
Scott Walker: 30 Century Man
Sheitan
Sherrybaby
The Shoe Fairy
A Short Film About the Indio Nacional (or the Prolonged Sorrow of Filipinos)
Shortbus
Silence Royale: Den sorte drøm
Sleeping Dogs Lie
Slumming
Den sorte madonna
Sound & Vision Galla
Stalker
Starter for Ten
Stealth
Still Life
Det store land
Street Thief
Suburban Mayhem
Sunshine
Swedish Auto
Sweet Mud
Syndromes and a Century
Sønner
Taxidermia
Tekkonkinkreet
Ten Canoes
Them
A Ticket to Outer Space
Time
To Sir, With Love
To the Stars by Hard Ways
El Topo
A Very Serious Person
The Victim
The Violin
Waiter
The Wedding Director
What Have You Done to Solange?
When the Road Bends... Tales of a Gypsy Caravan
While You Are Here
Wild Tigers I Have Known
Wipeout!
The World Sinks Except Japan
Wrestling Grounds
Zero City

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I hope this thread is ok, and who knows, maybe others will get some good advice on what to watch from it.

[pryor15]

bloody hell that's a long list

i didn't read all of it, but i wouldn't miss D.O.A.P. if i were you

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bloody hell that's a long list

i didn't read all of it, but i wouldn't miss D.O.A.P. if i were you

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Yeah, the list is pretty long, thing is that almost all of the movies is only showed once.

Its apperently a yearly thing, I've just missed it the other years, I guess
http://www.natfilm.dk/n/index.lasso?n=682&e=1

[rsigley]

cocaine cowboys was a good documentary

alpha dogs was surprisingly good, j timbalake held it down

destricted i didn't see but its basically a porn movie

dhoom 2 is an indian movie, i walked into dhoom 1 at the movie theater while waiting for my movie to start and it looked stupid

[Barcalounger]

I really enjoyed Street Thief. I went in not knowing much about it, and that's definitely the way to watch it. Spoiler free.

Don't wander into Taxidermia unless you have a very strong stomach. My wife may never go to a film festival with me again.

Roeper's review of The Host made it sound like something I'd check out.

Would love to be able to check out The Fountain on the big screen.

[diebitter]

M definitely.

Stalker I'd go and see, but it's slow Russian scifi, so not to everyone's taste.

Infernal Affairs
The Fountain
History Boys

fun + dumb: Dr Goldfoot

[samsdmf]

I havn't had time to look through the whole list but (of the ones I have seen) a few stand out:

Fireworks Wednesday is fantastic, and I think the only film made in Iran I have ever seen, I would highly reccomend seeing this.
M- If you havnt seen it you should, quite possibly the best film of the 30s
The Calamari Wrestler is fantastic and amazingly surreal, Executive Koala is from the same director but I havnt had the chance to see it yet.
Cocaine Cowboys is pretty fantastic
I saw 2:37 A week or so ago in London, it was pretty watchable but nothing special.
37 uses for a dead sheep was pretty impressive documentary.

[fyodor]

Interesting that they are showing 3 Jodorowsky films. No need to see them all but if you have never seen any, try one out. El Topo is a classic. The others I noticed in the list are Fando y Lis and The Holy Mountain

[rothko]

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dhoom 2 is an indian movie, i walked into dhoom 1 at the movie theater while waiting for my movie to start and it looked stupid

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there are no stupid indian films, sir.

[rothko]

cookie, that's so sick. i now loathe you and your kick-ass city.

one tip i would give is to see movies that you aren't likely to find in your video store.

however, even if you've seen five hundred copies of holy mountain for rent you should attend that screening. to watch it on the big screen with a bunch of random film goers would be a worthwhile experience.