Great Movies It Seems Like Nobody Else Has Ever Heard Of
 

NOBODY I talk to has ever even heard of Detroit Rock City. And it's rather annoying.

Any of you ever had this? A great movie that not a damn soul has seen?

Heard of the name. Never saw it.

Buckaroo Banzai

Dark Star

If... (oh, OK, it *seemed* great at the time)

Silent Running (Brilliant demented performance from Bruce Dern)

I guess Rainbow Bridge isn't really a great film, but it goes well with drugs.

Powers of Ten won't take up much of your life, but it's well worth the time it occupies. If you don't have time for the movie, at least checkout the website

You don't have to see Ghost in the Shell first to enjoy the sequel, but it helps.

I've seen bits and pieces of Dark Star, years and years ago. My dad still has the VHS somewhere, I think.

Yes, it was a well-worn cult classic at the 1976 Worldcon...where they were showing preprduction art and costumes for this new film called "The Star Wars" by some unknown guy.

Dark Star is very immediately postVietnam in flavor. And was insanely cheaply made; it was essentially a student film. Nontheless there's some more timeless and really classic tropes and conceits in it. Beachball and The Elevator. The Smartbomb. The Frozen Captain.

You kids with hippie-envy (and the older nostalgia-stricken crowd) might suddenly find deep and/or rediscovered insight from a decade later in Riders of The Storm if you can find a copy.

Personally, I've kinda moved on from such...

Koyanisqaatsi.

I probably misspelled that.

Koyaanisqatsi, Life out of Balance. Got it. And Powaqqatsi, Life in Transformation. But I'm still seeking the third one, Naqoyaqatsi, Life as War.

Check it out.

Ah..well spotted. It's one of the first VHS dubs anybody ever gave me.

Black Cat White Cat

Let's see, kids running off to see Kiss, parents eating a pizza with 'special mushrooms'. That's all I really remember.

I saw Buckeroo, Dark Star, and Silent Running.

Silent Running is an all-time classic.

I would add Electra Glide in Blue and The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds. 'Marigolds' was directed by Paul Newman.

Summer of '42 was a great coming of age movie that came out 1-2 years before American Grafitti.

I would also put up The Incredible Mr. Limpet, but I think a lot of people have seen that one.

Follow Me, Boys! is an Disney comedy about a man who becomes a boy scout troop leader for generations of boys in his town. It's a very good movie, with some dark moments to make it a little more realistic. It's sort of a Norman Rockwell painting turned into a movie.

The Gods must be Crazy.....

the adventures of a South African bushman trying to return a coke-bottle that fell on him from an air-liner.......

(when was the last tiime you saw a Landrover winch itself up a tree?)

Speaking of Powers Of Ten, you can now watch it online

And then there's this. D'oh!

Heavy Traffic

Early 70's animated....I think it was rated R.

I saw that one. Emir Kosturica is one of my favorite directors.

Seen most of what you all have posted.
Flesh and Blood
Illuminata
The Storm Riders
Why Has Bodhi Dharma Left for the East?
The Tune
Dementia 13
Dreams
Imposters

Oh yeah...Cube is decent. Unfortunately Cube 2: Hypercube sucks.

King of Hearts - a good one. It ran at a theatre in Cambridge, MA for 20 years.

Near Dark, one of the more thought-provoking vampire movies I've ever seen.

1)'Bodymelt' awesome if strange Aussie horror. It has a scene where a pregnant woman is attacked by her own placenta.

2) The other 'Deadman Walking' .....futuristic dystopia ....actually it's a fucking awful film but it has Jeffrey combs in it and he gets buried up to the neck so that's pretty cool.

3) 'It's all Gone Pete Tong'.....excellent film, have any of you seen it?

4) 'From Beyond' ..... terrible terrible...but in a cool way.

5) 'The Bird with Crystal plumage' Dario Argento at his best.

6) 'In the Woods' The short film which led to Evil Dead.

Thanks, Maggie. Ordered it this evening from Amazon. Can't wait to see it again.

Fritz...that reminds me.

I remember years ago, when I was about ten, our kid got a video out which was awesome. It was a cartoon, and set in some fantasy land during a ww2 style conflict. The only thing I really remember about it was that the war was between fairies and some other group and a character shouting "Fritz! fritz! those goddamn fairies ...they killed fritz!"

Oh...yeah and I think there was a giant dickshaped ballon in it too.....
I remember it being funny and very rude and quite dark....but that's about all. Anyone have even the vaguest notion as to which film that was? That wasn't fritz the cat right?

Ha! It's ok.....I just had a flash of inspiration and googled my vague notion.....Film was called Wizards (1977) if you can see it , see it, it's funny as fuck....but I may have imagined the giant dick balloon.

(Was called 'War Wizards' in the US)

Reading through it now, I remember how chilling it was in places too.

http://www.ralphbakshi.com/films.php?film=wizards

What about Batteries Not Included? Anyone seen that?
Or what about the movie with a black cat that could talk and move stuff by telekensis? That's all I remember. Good stuff though.

Film was called Wizards (1977)

I was woundering when that flick was going to come up , GOOOD Movie to sit and Nurse a Bong to . ;)

Derivative...kind of a cutrate "Cheech Wizard"/"Sunpot". Most Bakshi is somewhere between "kinda disappointing" and "very disappointing".

"Fairies bad, not good, go around."

I've seen it several times, probably have a copy on VHS somewhere. It was just called "Wizards" here. Cool animation, heavy-handed message.

Bakshi's LOTR was cool-ish, but I hate LOTR, so object to it on that basis, much as I like Bakshi.

Morgan! (A Suitable Case for Treatment)
The Slender Thread
Dark City (has been on power rotation on Encore this month, reminding me of how cool this movie is)

Poseidon and Just like Heaven!

"the magic christian" -peter sellers and ringo starr
"steppenwolf" (I was a pretty high teenager, but I think it was great)
"baraka" by the cinematographer for koyanasqtsi (sp?) his rebuttal to reggio's premise that life is out of balance, fricke asserts that life is constantly seeking balance. IMO, an extremely beautiful movie with an exceptional soundtrack. (anything other than glass)

Hedwig and the Angry Inch.

Best musical film ever (well, ok not best but up there with The Wall)

Dreary. When we got it from Netflix we didn't even finish watching it.

I wanna see it, but Velvet Goldmine is higher on my list.

Pity we dont have a copy and my mother won't netflix it for me ("It's not appropriate", etc... I hate responsible parenting...)

they have netflix in Thailand? Isn't that where you are?

I wish I had bought stock in netflix at the beginning.

Taiwan, actually.

Well, I dont think Netflix actually ships here, BUT, the embas--... er, American Institute in Taiwan has an address you can send stuff to in Virginia, and when it arrived there it's promptly sent to the AIT office here where it's distributed to the rightful recipients. Quite a nice system.

"Velvet Goldmine "

Enjoyable film. Eddie Izzard rocks

Mystery Train

Aww....Bill Hicks, what a guy. I went to see him when he played the beer tent in Manchester. Was awesome. My ex and I were in Manchester just hangin around and we bumped into his dad who just happened to be a Guardian critic at the time. He told us he was reviewing Bill Hicks and invited us to join him. We'd never heard of him but we leapt at the chance of free entry to a comedian's show and free half time drinks to boot.

Two years later he was dead and well on the way to hero status. ( Bill that is.....Ex's dad is still going strong)

Sorry, I knew there was a tai invloved somewhere. Sounds like a good system, except when it comes to things like ice cream.:D

what about liquid sky? did that suck?

Who has not heard of Eraserhead?

Oh wow, I almost remember seeing that. It was the early 80s, which is why I only almost remember.

It was bizarre.

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.