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Old 08-10-2007, 12:20 PM
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Man bites dog
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Old 08-10-2007, 01:07 PM
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Oh I forgot:
Documentary team follows serial killer who slowly involves them in his "jobs"

I'd also be interested to hear if anyone has figured out "Mulholland Drive" it's just...strange
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Old 08-16-2007, 12:31 PM
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What do you get when you cross The Conversation with Memento?

You get a twisted controversial film from 1980 called BAD TIMING, directed by Nicholas Roeg, starring Art Garfunkle, Theresa Russell, and Harvey Kietel (steals every scene he's in obv.) As the story unwinds, you're never sure if you're watching a love story, a murder mystery, or something else entirely, but in the end it all comes together in a sort of inevitable conclusion that you never saw coming. It's a great example of a director and screenwriter using every tool of the craft to tell a story, without just relying on dialogue.
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Old 08-16-2007, 02:01 PM
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Art Garfunkel?
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Old 08-16-2007, 02:54 PM
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Art Garfunkel?

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Yeah, he was in Carnal Knowledge too, which would also qualify in this thread.
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Old 11-09-2007, 02:58 PM
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How come nobody's bumped this since my last post?

Werckmeister Harmonies

Very profound, slow-moving Hungarian art film. Gorgeous black and white photography and maybe my favorite scene ever in a film. Definitely not for everybody as it is very weird and the scenes are mostly done in one shot, rather than the typical edits.
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Old 11-09-2007, 11:45 PM
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I'm always surprised when I mention Paths of Glory and no one seems to have seen or heard of it. A 1957 Kubrick anti-war movie starring Kirk Douglas as a Colonel in WWI whose troops are in an impossible situation.
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Old 11-11-2007, 07:40 AM
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Art Garfunkel?

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Yeah, he was in Carnal Knowledge too, which would also qualify in this thread.

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Not to mention Catch 22

Thanks to whoever mentioned "come and see" interesting film
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Old 11-11-2007, 07:46 AM
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This thread is murdering the definition of obscure.

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Funny, though perhaps I'm among the most guilty.


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Val Kilmer's late career renaissance has been completely ignored, but each of The Salton Sea, Wonderland, and Spartan are easily worth a Netflixing.

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The Salton Sea is terrific. Besides Kilmer most of you would enjoy Vincent D'Onofrio playing a deranged dope dealer in perhaps his best performance playing someone deranged since his role as Gomer Pyle in "Full Metal Jacket".

Spartan got decent reviews on Rotten Tomatoes but Wonderland for the most part got trashed. But the way it was trashed makes me really want to see it. Some examples:

"More than a film flirting with unwatchable, the music video sexiness of Wonderland is dangerous."

"...real bottom of the barrel stuff, a scummy story about scummy people"

"Along with their tickets to Wonderland moviegoers should also be given a moist towelette. That way after the film they won't have to stand in line at the restroom to wash off the slime."


Netflix was made for movies like this. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

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Haven't seen wonderland, HATED Spartan, loved salton sea.
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Old 11-11-2007, 11:45 AM
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tell me why you hated Spartan?

do you like any other David Mamet movies?
written or directed?

The Edge, Glen Gary Glenross, Heist, The Spanish Prisoner?

i am curious about this one. ty. J.
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