Horseman on the Roof - epic-style French drama set in time of cholera plague and war - holds the attention well despite the subtitles

Maybe...but October Sky didn't.

See? That's what I'm talkin about.

Show of hands, please?

I've seen it laying around, but havent actually watched the movie

Same here ... just never managed to see it. And I love films by David Lynch.

Just like regular chickens...

Ahhh, Eraserhead. A classic, no doubt!

Did you get the shorts?... very cool.

The Black Cat, 1981

My favorite movie that no one has ever heard of? The L-shaped Room, starring Leslie Caron and Tom Bell. This movie I happened to catch on TV some years ago, and it made me fall in love with the independent film genre.

Has anyone else seen it?

If you like L-shaped room - try three other British films starring Carol White from around the same time: 'Poor cow', 'Cathy come home' and 'I'll never forget what's 'isname' - first two very much of the style of L-shaped Room, last one a bit glossier. less believeable but still good for its day (also starred a young looking Oliver Reed)

Courtesy of one of our national dailies (Daily Mail) I've just acquired a set of DVDs of some of the great British Ealing Studios classics - includes 'Kind Hearts and Coronets', 'The Man in the White Suit', the original 'The Ladykillers'
'Passport to Pimlico' and a good few others...

Anyone heard of Half Baked? It's not too obscure, and with this crowd, im sure someone's seen it.

Thanks for the recommendations. I will put them on my list of movies I need to see!:)

That was a tremedously funny movie.

Alec Guinness made a lot of comedies in the 50's and 60's

I also remember seeing part of "The Captains Paradise", about a ferry captain who is a bigamist with wives on both shores.

In Barnacle Bill, Alec Guiness is a seasick captain from a long line of naval heroes who inherits an amusement pier.

Our Man in Havana is about a British Intelligence contractor who invents stories in order to make ends meet. It's like The Tailor of Panama, but it's a comedy and was done decades before leCarre wrote the novel that became that movie.

Guinness is fine as a serious actor, but he is brilliant in comedies.