I love Jim Jarmusch's movies. My favorite is Stranger Than Paradise, the first one of his I'd seen in a little arthouse-type theatre way back when. There was an old man sitting in the front row, with this really crazy guffaw...the movie was funny on its own, but with that guy providing the bonus laugh track, it was totally hilarious.

Argh - I seem to have lose the ability to insert links with my own wording..! Well, below is the Amazon link for the film I wanted to reference anyway.

It's called Blood on Satan's Claw, The Blood on Satan's Claw or Satan's Skin depending on which release you watch. I watched an early VHS recording from the television and it scared the life out of me (too young to watch it I think).

Recently I found it had been released in a box set DVD with other Tigon films (British horror studio in the 70s) and a commentary was offered by my heroes The League of Gentlemen. I had to buy it, and was amazed that it's even more creepy and atmospheric that I remembered, even if the real scares are few & far between.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/630...lance&n=404272

And I have seen Buckaroo Banzai and Eraserhead...

Anyone see Manon Des Sources? Cried til I retched over that.

Also Derek Jarman's Edward II? I saw those at The Penultimate Picture Palace in Oxford (England) which showed some really amazing films...

The Cook,The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover.

Some obnoxious drunk guy that knocked over a display and caused a scene at the movie store recommended this to us - and it was surprisingly good.

Another DVD laying around the house that I never actually watched.

Loved it. Beautiful use of colour and has been referenced in many films I've enjoyed since.

As we're on a French trip, how bout Delicatessan and The City of Lost Children? (cheating as most of my friends have seen both)

City of Lost Children, I've seen in bits and pieces. Don't remember much though.

Let's not forget Rockula.;)

And Blackula... which I was not very fond of.

Shoalin Soccer - very funny from the maker of kung fu hustle (also good)

I love that movie, but his last is my favorite, Coffee and Cigarettes.
My wife and I are still in an argument over whether it was a sexual relationship or not....

Oldboy. I enthused about this Korean film over in What DVDs are you watching.

See it. Please.

Doppelganger (old drew barrymore.)

Things to do in Denver when you are dead.

The Game (Michael Douglas)

Pass The Ammo.

Tim Curry as an evil televangelist -- whose chickens come home to roost when he bilks two bandits' grandma out of her life's savings and the bandits jack him.

The bandits have a taste for Moon Pies, one of them so much that he rather resembles a Moon Pie -- the blond variety.

There's wackiness with shotguns, infidelity, video editing, song & dance, and an 81mm mortar.

I was lucky enough to catch a prerelease showing of Wizards in college -- ran a bit longer, had more detail of Blackwolf's campaign of conquest, more of Peace losing his chickenhorse early in the film, and Avatar as the reluctant hero came through more clearly. They cut this for pacing, but for all of me they could have left it all in.

I was drawing elves all over my notebooks for weeks, and so was my best buddy. Been drawing elves since, really. And yeah, I read Elfquest, up to about 2000 anyway.

No one has watched Dreams?
Pass the Ammo is GREAT!!!!

Midnight Run, where DeNiros character says "I've got two words for you - shut the fuck up!"

COOLNESS.

uh. me too.

I don't know whether I am sad or thrilled that they never got the movie version off the ground, because I know it would probably be ruined.

There was supposed to be one done by one of the TV movie production companies (not HBO), I was in it... the producers split to Mex with all the jack early in production. So, I assume they still own the rights.

Putney Swope

There is supposed to be some half-assed version that is usually described as "cutouts pasted to popsicle sticks." I have avoided learning more.

Saw Harold and Maude last night. Really good and pretty weird.

I love that movie!! I quietly fear in the back of my mind that they'll try to remake it someday.

OH Shhhhhhhhhhhushhhhh!
Now you've done it.

brilliant movie.

I want an E-type hearse when I go

Do you own a copy? If not, you can have mine. I love all of his other films, esp. night on earth. coffee and cigs didn't turn my crank though.

Well, I looked up Ruth Gordon and she won 2 Golden Globes, 1 Emmy, and 1 Oscar, a Triple Crown. If she had done more stage, she probably would have ended up with a Tony.

If they do a remake, they had better pick someone good enough.

In 20 years, Meryl Streep and Glenn Close will be ready for the part. As for Bud Cort, I love the look on his face in the shot they used for the cover. I haven't seen a deer in headlights look like that since Dan Quayle.:p

It's too bad Angelina Jolies baby is a girl or you would have your "Harold".

Of course, there is no chance of switching the roles around to that of an 76-year-old man and his 20-year-old girlfriend. That's not a movie classic, that's real life.

It is my personal bias but Streep doesn't/won't have the chops for that part. Ms. Gordon played it right up to the edge and stayed believable, Streep would overplay her hand.

Although I think we diverge a bit in our esteem of screen goddesses, I have to agree with you about streep. There is something almost desperate about her acting. In the early days I thought of it as just intensity, these days it seems that she's overcompensating for not being flavor of the month anymore.

I've seen most of those listed.
Hows about -
1. Eat The Rich
2. Brain Smasher - A Love Story
3. Orgy Of The Dead
4. Carnival Of Souls
5. Dementia 13
6. Suspiria
7. Rock And Rule
8. They Saved Hitler's Brain
9. The Audition
10. Hated - GG Allin and the Murder Junkies

GG Allin?

Wow.

I think Glen Close might be able to pull it off.

4. Carnival Of Souls
5. Dementia 13
7. Rock And Rule

Well, I've seen three of them ... I would like to see They Saved Hitler's Brain. Sounds classically bad, so I'm not sure about the "great" aspect of it.

SLC Punks...
"We didn't sell out, son. We bought in."

And I remember loving "Pi", althought I can't remember it now. Need to watch it again.

"When I was a kid, my mother always told me not to stare into the sun. So when I was six, I did."

I remember appreciating it, but also distinctly thinking that I would never need to see it again. Kinda like the movie "Kids".

Right, Dad.

I AM THE FUTURE OF THIS GREAT NATION!!!

Hmmm....

The Cellar: We are the future of this great nation.

Carnival of souls was one of the first movies I remember seeing. It was years before I could drive in the car at night without being in constant terror. I must have been about six or seven. My folks weren't always on ball when it came to censorship.

I couldn't remember anything about the movie except a few creepy nighttime driving scenes. Based uopn that description my sister deduced the movie was Carnival of souls and she gave it to me for my birthday.

I love Dementia and Carnival... awesome. I have the new tinned Carnival, great documentary with it.

Friendship's Death - I don't think I've ever met anyone else who's ever seen this, and I've been trying to buy it for years.

The City of Lost Children is also one of my favourites, and rkzenrage:
nah, I don't think it was sexual. Neither of them had any real sexuality - One wasn't even that interested in the floozy in the bar - but they were definitely in love. I love the bit where One's pretending to be a heater.

Breaking the Waves tore me apart, but the very last bit with the bells seemed so unnecessary and a bit too twee.

Bad Boy Bubby - fantastic!

The Big Lebowski is one of my favourite comedies. I like most stuff from the Coen brothers.

Didier - particularly great if you like dogs (me) and soccer (husband). I saw it once on TV subtitled, but have only been able to buy it in French only.

Themroc - outstanding French movie with no real dialogue, just noises that sound like language (in this case French) but could just as easily be English.

By the way, since there's so many film fans in this thread: do any of you know of a good film forum, something like Booksleuth but for movies.

(I was trying to find a particular anthology for decades - asking in speciality shops, blablabla - and then one bookseller suggested I try Booksleuth and I had a response (the correct one) within 24 hours! I've been trying to identify a few movies I saw long ago, but the only movie forums I've found have been pretty mainstream.

Oh, but in case you think I'm getting uppity... I'll confess my alter ego movie passion for Bollywood. I have a DVD collection of about 700, but about 50 of them are Bollywood. Don't suppose there are any other Bollywood fans in here? (clanging silence!)

Mrs Elspode and I have enjoyed a few Bollywood efforts, but most of them have sucked...and we've tried.

Should have added that the only men I've ever met that enjoy Bollywood are either gay or Indian (or both). Also, they're best viewed in an altered state of one sort of another.

I don't watch them as I watch other movies, just as you can't drink Indian chai and compare it to tea. It's the complete entertainment package I love about them:

- the absolute disregard to continuity - hair length, bosom size and location can change ten times in just one song sequence

- their depictions of western people, with cliches much like western movie cliches of Indians. In one favourite, the foreigners just drive around madly in open top cars, all standing up and waving their arms in the air shouting "yeah! yeah!"

- the scenes filmed in Europe are a scream. In my favourite movie, they can't find a room in a Swiss town, so they sleep in a farmer's big wooden barn, and... light a fire in the middle of it (between the hay bales) to keep warm. Alas, a hole in the roof lets in snow, which puts out the fire, so they get drunk, rush into town (where it is still day time) buy a cocktail dress and boots, and dance on a snowy mountain, beside a fire built right on top of the snow, before collapsing back into bed (and it's still the same night)

Bollywood likes to "re-make" Hollywood film plots and even complete dialogue, just like Hollywood likes to "re-make" foreign movies and call it their own, which results in stuff like an all singing and dancing Reservoir Dogs. Brilliant!