obscure MUST SEE movies

[econophile]

advice for future posts:

if a movie is listed here, especially towards the top, then it likely is not obscure.

[wdcbooks]

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advice for future posts:

if a movie is listed here, especially towards the top, then it likely is not obscure.

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I actually disagree. I believe Festen and M are both on that list and I would guess that far fewer than 1% of people on this board have seen either one.

[MicroBob]

1% might be a bit low but you have a point.
Although it should be noted that he said it LIKELY is not obscure.

FWIW - I've seen M.

It's mostly coming down to a semantics debate as to what qualifies as 'obscure'.

Take another movie on that list like Dog Day Afternoon (another one of my all-time faves, a young Al Pacino in a botched bank-robbery attempt).
I really don't think it should be counted as 'obscure' but I also suspect there are many people on this forum who have never seen or heard of it.

[RubberDucky]

Sol Goode

[DrSavage]

A couple of movies that I think not enough people have seen:

Le Grand Bleu, Luc Besson's early work before he started making total crap.

Buffalo Soldiers, a recent movie which didn't get a whole lot of commercial success but I would easily put it into my list of greatest ever if i had such a list.

[bobbyi]

Nine Queens

I love movies about con men, and this is a great one with lots of twists and turns.

[theblackkeys]

Does Strange Brew count?

Also, Tae Guk Gi is an awesome Korean War, foreign movie, you can pick it up at video stores as well.

[adoah]

i'd recommend "Baraka", by director Ron Fricke. in fact, anything by Fricke. this movie is pure cinematography, no plot, no characters, no dialogue. shot in 70mm all over the planet, it is easily one of the most beautiful films i've ever seen.

also, david cronenberg's "crash". i loved it, but others were walking out of the theater in disgust. no other movie i've seen has had this happen while i was there.

[whiskeytown]

Russian Ark

directed by an avant-garde Russian director - whatever the [censored] that is - Aleksandr Sokurov

The film is shot in the Hermitage in St. Petersburg - it uses the hallways of the Petersburg as the backdrop in a story that explores 200+ years of Russian history in a fictional dialogue between a diplomat and a Russian visitor.

The film is uniquely shot, with one continuous shot for the entire picture - the entire set/stage had to be timed perfectly - with one shot leaving the director/producer lunging to the floor during filming. A lighting situation in the ballroom almost put the whole filming on hold.

It's an incredible film - if you have even a passing interest in history as I do, it's cool - gotta read subtitles though [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

rb

[NajdorfDefense]

Aguirre, the Wrath of God is a famous classic.
The original 'The Vanishing' on Criterion Collection.