obscure MUST SEE movies

[jkgunter]

Bottle Rocket was awesome

[NajdorfDefense]

Romeo is Bleeding with tour de forces by Gary Oldman and Lena Olin. A 4-star script with all the stuff the kids today like: dirty cops, the mob, hit women, adultery, Anabella Sciorra and Juliette Lewis.

[wet work]

Bad Lieutenant with Harvey Keitel is a good flick. I'm not sure how obscure it would be considered though. Definitely worth checking out either way.

[Mama Poker]

Obscure-YES,Revelvant-YES,Shown on TV-NEVER
Alice's Restaurant-Arlo Guthrie
I don't know why this is not shown every Thanksgiving. Hard to find in video stores.
Johnny Got his Gun- book written in 1938
Very powerful soldier story

[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.

[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.

[ryanj247]

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Wet Hot American Summer : This is about a Jewish summer camp in the early 80s. This has all the people from The State, Amy Poehler, Janine Garofalo, and Paul Rudd and Christopher Meloni in their greatest roles ever. I love this movie.

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really?

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... but an awesome movie nonetheless

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really?

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Wet Hot American Summer - Hilarious random comedy , Niles from Frasier is in it, as are a fair amount of people you mightr recognize, Miachael Ian Black, ect.


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really??? i rented it based on these recommendations, and i thought it was really bad, but i kept trying to give it a chance. finally i just had to turn it off after maybe 45 minutes or so. i didn't find this movie funny at all.