Posted on 06/26/2011 2:32:31 PM PDT by Yorlik803
What movie do you love that most people never heard of or seen? Mine is a movie called "Evenhand". I first saw it on IFC, then ordered a copy from Amazon. It is about two policemen in a small Texas town. One is meek and kind while the other is hard. They form a unlikley friendship. It is more plot driven, with little violence. The writing is pretty good.
I WILL see that one, but first I'm reading (audio-reading) all the Aubrey/Maturin books. I'm now on book #16 of the series, so only a few more to go.
Semi-Tough... great send up of the theraputic culture of the 70’s.
Later, I gotta go get “Pelfed”.
My all time favorite Sean Connery movie. Brian Keith was the best Teddy Roosevelt ever filmed.
Great pick
Two very funny foreign films of some years ago. One is called THE GODS MUST BE CRAZY, and it begins with a pilot dropping a coke bottle from a plane and it lands in the midst of an isolated African tribe who then use this “gift from the Gods” (bottle) as a rolling pin, the top as a stamp to decorate fabric, etc. Great fights ensue over who gets the bottle, so the chief decides to go to civilization and throw the bottle off the end of the world and give it back, and his encounters along the way. The other comedy, starring Maggie Smith, had two different titles, but the one I recall was THE CATERED AFFAIR. Maggie Smith is a blue collar social climber during WWII who wants an invite to attend the Mayor’s congratulatory dinner dance to commemorate the engagement of Princess Elizabeth, with no chance of being invited, so to wangle an invitation she steals a piglet then raises it at home on the sly (food being rationed in those days, and severe penalties for hoarding) to donate it for the dinner in exchange for invitations.
“The Serial” came from a 1977 novel by Cyra McFadden. Published in a spiral binder. Relevant today.
Anyway, “Ring of Fire” (1960) with David Jannsen and Joyce Taylor. Local sheriff versus two bit punks. The forest fire with the old locomotive & cars evacuating the townspeople. After everyone is saved, the loco, the cars and the entire trestle crash into a huge ravine.
Both good ones, but I don't consider them lesser known. "O Brother" is *almost* as funny as "The Big Lebowski" (both made by the same guys).
The Last of the Dogmen
Trailer available here:
http://video.barnesandnoble.com/DVD/Last-of-the-Dogmen/Tom-Berenger/e/026359120220
Dodsworth
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krwywj_gIjk
Maybe it was because of who and where I was, but I have it on DVD now (hehehehehe..legally purchased) and can watch that movie at the mere mention of the title.
Excellent movie. I've caught it within the last year on TCM. The movie I like that's never played is Murder in Coweta County. Someone loaded it up on YouTube and I watched it the other day.
Northwest Passage, with Spencer Tracy, Robert Young, and Walter Brennen. Great movie!
The comedy The Flim-Flam Man starring George C. Scott (Mordecai C. Jones, M.B.S., C.S., D.D. - Master of Back-Stabbing, Cork-Screwing, and Double-Dealing) with a stellar cameo by Slim Pickens. Truly one of the funniest movies I’ve ever seen. I damned near busted my gut - I was literally rolling on the floor.
Detour (1945)
A piano player, Al (Neal), sets off hitchhiking his way to California to be with his girl. Along the way, a stranger in a convertible gives him a ride. While driving, Al stops to put the top up during a rainstorm. He discovers that the owner of the car has died in his sleep.
Impact (1949)
Tags: Crime, Drama, Favorites, Film Noir,
Hard bitten San Francisco industrialist Walter Williams’s two-timing wife and her lover plot to do her husband in, but instead the boyfriend gets killed and mistaken for . Half-dazed, Williams stumbles into a moving van that takes him to Mayberry RFD, where newspaper stories of his “death” jog his memory.
Well worth the time to watch watch them free Public Domain.
http://retrovision.tv/freevideo/movies/film-noir/page/2
Paths of Glory
Undercover Brother
The Guru
The Hill
Drop Dead Fred
Atlas Shrugged - A classic adaptation of a classic (and prescient) book.
Koyaanisqatsi - 1982, truly a visual feast with not a spoken word in the entire film & a score by Phillip Glass to boot.
Heaven and Earth or “Ten to Chi to” in Japanese, (not to be confused with other films of the same title) this is a Samurai epic from 1990 that, according to Wikipedia “was the number one Japanese film on the domestic market in 1990” It features some of the best historical battle recreations short of Gettysburg (another must see, now out in Blu-ray). The battle scenes were filmed in Alberta Canada. According to IMBD the film “Set a world record for the most number of saddled horses ever used in one sequence for a motion picture... It took four months to film all the battle scenes for the film, each day using 500 crew, 80 wranglers, 95 Assistant Directors, seven full camera crews (two Japanese and five American), 40 tons of wardrobe, 3000 extras, 800 horses with riders.
Dark Star - 1974, a very low budget first film from John Carpenter and Dan O’Bannon that is proof you don't need to spend millions of dollars on special effects when hundreds will do. Lots ‘o laughs.
‘The Man Who Would Be King’
Directed by John Huston. With Sean Connery, Michael Caine, Christopher Plummer, Saeed Jaffrey. Adapted from a Kipling story.
Everybody loves it, it’s that good.
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