What is your favorite film that is not common?

[LEONARD REMIX RROY]

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I can watch this movie over & over. James Caan (Frank) was not the one to F*^# with! It was filmed in Chicago, it is a Michael Mann joint and it's the bomb in my book.

If you liked James Caan as "Sonny" in The Godfather 1, Thief is a must see movie!

[Dolemite73]

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Watching Jimmie Wlaker try to fight is classic. Cosby and Poitier are some funny ass dudes, plus Denise Nicholas is fine as hell!!!

[jpsf]

la haine - absolutely brilliant

[Fletch]

Mississippi Masala

[Hippie]

Paulie 1998! This is a movie I think will become a classic over the years. Has one of the sweetist stories ever put on screen. smile.gif

[jpsf]

and twightlight of the cockroaches. half japanese animation and half real footage (the cockroaches are animated). basically, this cockroach civilization flurishes in some guy's apartment because the guy's girlfriend left him and he let the apartment go to hell. then he gets a new girlfriend and they try to clean up the apartment. it's an apacolyptic story only the japanese could do right.

[LEONARD REMIX RROY]

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I have been looking to buy this film. I saw it 20+ years ago.

[Fletch]

Originally posted by Hippie:
Paulie 1998! This is a movie I think will become a classic over the years. Has one of the sweetist stories ever put on screen. smile.gif Good choice. I dated this chick at the time who decided to bring her son along on one of our dates. So I had to change plans. Choose Paulie (it's a children's story about a bird). We all liked it. I thought Joe Pesci played the voice of Paulie, but it wasn't.

[Dolemite73]

Of Course you cant forget this timeless classic

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[LEONARD REMIX RROY]

Before there was Austin Powers
There was Derrick Flint
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[LEONARD REMIX RROY]

Don't Forget This Classic

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Let me tell it, this is where they got the idea for the movie Bones.

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[Querck]

All the Pedro Almodovar movies!

and please, everybody go see "Dirty Pretty Things"--a fantastic movie.

[DOTSmusic]

The Gift.
starring Perry Farrell and Casey Nicolli

[Dolemite73]

Let's not forget this one

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[Hk]

Sankofa!

[miss al boogie]

Originally posted by Dolemite73:
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Watching Jimmie Wlaker try to fight is classic. Cosby and Poitier are some funny ass dudes, plus Denise Nicholas is fine as hell!!! my faaaavortie part is when Biggie Smalls and Kansas City Mack meet up at the boxing practice session and have the dozens match of all time! graemlins/rofl.gif

[Ish]

Originally posted by jpsf:
la haine - absolutely brilliant "Hate" aka "La Haine" is a sick ass movie and what a SICK ending!

My vote though will have to go for a little different of a vibe:

"Yi Yi" by Edward Yang

or

"Away with words" by Peter Doyle

[AD]

Seven Samurai
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[lyot]

c'est arrivé près de chez vous ..

[Insert pseudonym here]

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Dancer in the dark

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Requiem for a Dream

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The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
(** My all time favorite **)

*****

I like dark movies that force you to examine the less valiant sides of humanity. In the end, they indirectly force you to examine your own character.

[ August 07, 2003, 02:59 AM: Message edited by: Insert pseudonym here ]

[Jacques de Doozu]

Originally posted by lyot:
c'est arrivé près de chez vous .. i love the part where bernard recites the poem on the pigon, and where he robs the old lady, and when bernard and the camera team start 'harrasing' (eufemism) people after a drunk night...classic movie! the crew gets more and more involved near the end of the movie, and the ending is superb too. belgium at its best... biggrinangel.gif

[Mah'chew]

Originally posted by Insert pseudonym here:
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Dancer in the dark

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Requiem for a Dream

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The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
(** My all time favorite **)

*****

I like dark movies that force you to examine the less valiant sides of humanity. In the end, they indirectly force you to examine your own character. The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover - wow, I love Peter Greenaway, Drowning by Numbers is also one of my favorites...

[socratez]

I was gonna mention LA HAINE to. Im still wondering about that part where the jewish old man comes out of the toilet and tells the 3 guys a story about jews deported to concentration camps.

The 3 guys acted brilliantely although they werent trained actors. ITs for real.

RACHE LA POLICE


Originally posted by jpsf:
la haine - absolutely brilliant

[socratez]

HOw did you get watch such an obscure Dutch film???
Although i live in the Netherlands, i still havent been able to see it after 20 years.
Its funny to see that it turns up here


Originally posted by LEONARD REMIX RROY:
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I have been looking to buy this film. I saw it 20+ years ago.

[imported_Kohtake]

Immortal Beloved starrng Gary Oldman (my favourite actor smile.gif )

The Royal Tannenbaums graemlins/thumbsup.gif

My new favourite >> City Of God graemlins/grinyes.gif

[Mah'chew]

Tina Goes Shopping ()
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This tale will tell you everything you need to know about living in the Ghetto in the UK - with the actors coming straight from the housing estate (projects) to play this reality drama - it's a piece of art...

Merci La Vie (1991)
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La Haine (1995)
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Ping Pong (2002)
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Man Bites Dog (1993)
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[Martin Red]

More recent
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LAva: http://www.moviemaker.com/issues/49/images/lava-tucker.jpg http://deephousepage.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=033552


older films:
Amazon Women on the moon graemlins/rofl.gif
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One armed Boxer (1 and 2)

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Mat hew http://64.95.118.51/images/opti/ac/1d/1042730-movie-resized200.jpg if you liked this hire Lava, dark comedy ,

[ August 07, 2003, 04:26 AM: Message edited by: Martin Red ]

[Wild i]

My Sister, My Love
Carol Kane and Lee Grant
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And not so obscure:
Aliens (2)
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[Ken1015]

http://aga.cinemamontreal.com/images/barfly.jpg Barfly. This movie is probably one of the greatest dark comedies ever made.

[mercado]

Holy Mountain by Alejandro Joderwosky
"4 Shorts" by Werner Herzog
Gunnam (Bollywood 60s)
Little Dieter Needs to Fly (Werner Herzog)
Blackboards by Samira Makmalbaf
Videodrome w debroah harry
only angels have wings
Apu Trilogy by Satyajit Ray
distant thunder -satyajit ray
high & low (akira kurosawa)
the long goodbye (robert altman)

['Magic' Juan]

There was a movie that came out quite a while back (early 80's??) about an Asian dude whose name was Bruce and everybody kept thinking he was Bruce Lee. It was a comedy and quite funny .. that one is my fave, but I have yet to find a decent copy. Anyone remember the name? If so, is this out on DVD?

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[djje87]

Quest For Fire
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Caligula (uncut version)

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[djje87]

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[djje87]

Originally posted by Magic Juan:
There was a movie that came out quite a while back (early 80's??) about an Asian dude whose name was Bruce and everybody kept thinking he was Bruce Lee. It was a comedy and quite funny .. that one is my fave, but I have yet to find a decent copy. Anyone remember the name? If so, is this out on DVD?

magic_juan graemlins/conf44.gif Here ya go!
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['Magic' Juan]

Originally posted by djje87:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Magic Juan:
There was a movie that came out quite a while back (early 80's??) about an Asian dude whose name was Bruce and everybody kept thinking he was Bruce Lee. It was a comedy and quite funny .. that one is my fave, but I have yet to find a decent copy. Anyone remember the name? If so, is this out on DVD?

magic_juan graemlins/conf44.gif Here ya go!
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magic_juan

[DJ Rated M]

Originally posted by einnod23:
Mississippi Masala that girl in that was all that!!!

[fred da warrior]

Originally posted by djje87:
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0000214F0.01.LZZZZZZZ.gif Good call. I still have this focking movie on Beta, I think.

[corwin]

Originally posted by socratez:
HOw did you get watch such an obscure Dutch film???
Although i live in the Netherlands, i still havent been able to see it after 20 years.
Its funny to see that it turns up here

</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by LEONARD REMIX RROY:
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I have been looking to buy this film. I saw it 20+ years ago. </font>[/QUOTE]As you may know, Paul Verhoeven was a BIG time player in the States. Obviously, Spetters wasn't a hit here, but it lead to better (I suppose "better" is arguable) things for Verhoeven and Rutger Hauer. I'm curious about this film too.

[lola desire]

Originally posted by Insert pseudonym here:
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Dancer in the dark

*****

I like dark movies that force you to examine the less valiant sides of humanity. In the end, they indirectly force you to examine your own character. i love bjork and my husband recently gave me "dancer in the dark"... omg, what a great movie. we decided after viewing it that most movies with violence/murder tend to numb, but this movie made you feel.

toward the middle and the end the movie holds you on this swaying on this thin thread of hope where you are feeling total euphoria, yet total dispair and devistation is all around you.

...breathtaking...

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[lola desire]

sex and lucia - passionate! brillant!

you can view clips here (http://www.sexandluciafilm.com/)

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lol@self-- i feel like one of those reviewers @ cannes

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[FranG]

Night of the Hunter.

[GROOVE VICTIM]

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Better off Dead

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Real Genius

[Mocambo]

Dude, that is the first movie to come to mind! I love that one. Still got it on videotape.


Originally posted by Albert Diaz:
Seven Samurai
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[Linedog]

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Akira Kurosawa’s Ran is that rare epic picture, at once enormous and intimate, simultaneously melodramatic and nuanced. The superlatives that seem permanently attached to its name (magnificent, grand, breathtaking) betray its very nature: this is a quietly pessimistic movie, one that peels back the layers of deceit in its characters to find a Godless universe. Weaving together momentum and stasis, Kurosawa fashions a nimble motif of juxtaposition. Visual formality masks emotional anarchy. Like so many of its characters, Ran seems to be one thing but soon proves itself infinitely complex. The title translates to ‘chaos’ and true to its name, Ran ultimately subverts the values it so deceptively inhabits.

On the occasion of its 15th anniversary, Winstar Cinema is re-releasing Ran in a brand new 35mm print. Struck from a well-preserved negative stored in producer Serge Silberman’s personal archive, Ran will tour the major U.S. cities before being widely released. This is a perfect opportunity for young filmgoers who’ve only seen the movie on video. Size does matter if we are to fully appreciate Kurosawa’s characters at play in the fields of the Lord. In a strange way, Ran is also the ideal millenial movie. It ties together such big concepts as God and family in a story that, while ostensibly lifted from King Lear, plunges deeper into time by borrowing heavily from ancient Japanese fables and legends.

Ran follows Shakespeare’s five act structure, but it feels more naturalistic than that. The first hour or so blows over us like a warm breeze. We meet Hidetora (Tatsuya Nakadai), an aging warlord, as he divides his kingdom among his three sons. The youngest, Saburo, rejects his inheritance and is banished. The elder two assume power in what Hidetora mistakenly believes to be a peaceful transition. Kurosawa composes these early scenes as a sequence of static shots, each of which are as detailed and inert as a painting. Setting these scenes amid vast mountains and the big sky reduces the characters to mere specks. All this fussing and quarrelling is inconsequential, Kurosawa suggests. What endures is the world around us.

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The movie then moves inside, introducing us to a painfully ritualistic society in which people move and talk in slow motion. The rooms are spartan and feel two-dimensional. Kurosawa is imitating theater, creating an artificial world of symmetry and visual order. But it’s the destruction of that outward perfection that interests Kurosawa and he wastes no time in introducing one of cinema’s great bitches, Lady Kaide (Mieko Harada), wife of Taro, the eldest son. In her oppressively layered costumes, which themselves suggest mounds of duplicity, she orchestrates the banishment of Hidetora from his kingdom and instigates a war between the brothers. Lady Kaide may have wandered in from the set of MacBeth (or Kurosawa’s own Throne of Blood) but she is a product of Japan’s Noh theater: her makeup represents the face of remorseless Vengeance. Mourning the death of her husband later in the movie, she impassively crushes a butterfly between her fingers.

Hidetora’s other daughter-in-law, Lady Sue, is a devout Buddhist and faithful subject, even though Hidetora once ravaged her home and blinded her brother. She has chosen forgiveness, which Hidetora can’t understand. She, like his sons, behaves contrary to what he expects. Interestingly, her face is never shown, nor that of her brother’s. They are spirit-like, floating somewhere above the political maneuverings. That Lady Sue and Lady Kaide should meet the same grisly fate points to a resigned atheism. Nothing is rewarded and everything is punished in a world devoid of divine intervention.

And yet God is everywhere in this movie. He’s certainly in the battle scenes, which Kurosawa has filmed with a kind of omniscient detachment. He’s also in the weather – gentle at first, then increasingly stormy as brother fights brother, and ultimately hurricane force as Hidetora goes insane and wanders the wilderness with his Fool. This is all punctuated by large, billowing clouds that Kurosawa frequently cuts to as if to emphasize the immateriality of it all. Clouds finally give way to a red sunset as the death toll mounts and we are left with complete destruction in the movie’s final scenes. But nowhere is God’s presence more apparent (and sorrowful) than in Hidetora’s wizened face. Reason having long since abandoned him, his skin becomes chalky white, his beard long and unkempt, his face completely slack. He has grown confused by his own creation run amok and has lost the ability, and desire, to control it.

Ran was not Kurosawa’s last film, but if feels like it. It’s a movie about an old man, made by an old man, both of whom were weary of the world. At one point, Hidetora remarks, "How hard it is to be old!" For Kurosawa, the difficulty was in reconciling the hypocrisies he saw around him. Of his movie Rashomon, he wrote in his autobiography, "human beings are unable to be honest with themselves about themselves… even the character who dies cannot give up his lies." This cynicism informs Ran’s ideology: who can endure a world where God is present but powerless, where family members betray each other, where insanity is the only means of survival? Enshrining the story in a sumptuous visual style, Kurosawa has perhaps created the ultimate social critique – a movie whose outward richness seduces us into thoroughly enjoying a tale of human damnation.

[Martin Red]

recent comedy
Kung Pow
Zoolander

also,
Killing Zoe
Romeo must die
Withnail & I
4 corners (i think it's called), 4 shorts set at 4 different time zones in the world, the short set in NY with the guy trying to get a taxi back to Brooklyn in the freezing cold and the only taxi driver that stops to pick him up is from Russia. Great short on cultural differences and how humans are humans wherever they are from.

[Linedog]

Originally posted by Silhouette:
Dude, that is the first movie to come to mind! I love that one. Still got it on videotape.

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Seven Samurai
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[D J 1 3 8]

http://www.teleport-city.com/images/screencaps/kungfu/oab6.jpg

I believe this picture is from "The Flying Guilloutine", not "One Armed Boxer".

as for myself, I submit this:

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[jsd540]

Mad monkey kung fu - late 70's

The stuff - a horror movie about killer yogurt

Forgot to add

A night on earth

Twenty bucks

Where the day takes you

Very Bad things...

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[MYOR]

The Lover... graemlins/thumbsup.gif

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[Tricia_S.I]

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When the New York child performer CC Bloom (Bette Midler) and San Fransisco rich kid Hillary (Barbara Hershey) meet in a holiday resort in Atlantic City, it marks the start of a lifetime friendship between them. The two keep in touch through letters for a number of years until Hillary, now a successful lawyer moves to New York to stay with struggling singer CC. The movie shows the various stages of their friendship and their romances including their love for the same man.

[jeremy]

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Kinda strange, this one tickled me.


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The only Hugh Grant film that I would admit to liking...

[MYOR]

Originally posted by Tricia_S.I:
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When the New York child performer CC Bloom (Bette Midler) and San Fransisco rich kid Hillary (Barbara Hershey) meet in a holiday resort in Atlantic City, it marks the start of a lifetime friendship between them. The two keep in touch through letters for a number of years until Hillary, now a successful lawyer moves to New York to stay with struggling singer CC. The movie shows the various stages of their friendship and their romances including their love for the same man. No matter how many times I see this move, I graemlins/mecry.gif ...

[Ken1015]

Originally posted by Martin Red:
4 corners (i think it's called), 4 shorts set at 4 different time zones in the world, the short set in NY with the guy trying to get a taxi back to Brooklyn in the freezing cold and the only taxi driver that stops to pick him up is from Russia. Great short on cultural differences and how humans are humans wherever they are from. This movie is Night On Earth by Jim Jarmusch. The cabbie was German. Review (http://www.suntimes.com/ebert/ebert_reviews/1992/05/755225.html)

[socratez]

AAAAH Herr Helmut,,, lol thats funny shit man.
Also the part with that nigro cabdriver from Kammeroen is cool. i love that film,, i also like lots of other Jarmush films theyre hard to get though

[LEONARD REMIX RROY]

Originally posted by socratez:
HOw did you get watch such an obscure Dutch film???
Although i live in the Netherlands, i still havent been able to see it after 20 years.
Its funny to see that it turns up here

</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by LEONARD REMIX RROY:
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I have been looking to buy this film. I saw it 20+ years ago. </font>[/QUOTE]I saw it at home in Chicago on a movie service we had in the 80's called "ON TV". ON TV was simular to Cable / Dish, when Cable TV was finally available in Chicago, ON TV became a thing of the past. The service was better than Cable TV because they showed a wide variety of films during their "Non Prime Time" viewing block - unlike cable.

[Bold Soul]

Originally posted by LEONARD REMIX RROY:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by socratez:
HOw did you get watch such an obscure Dutch film???
Although i live in the Netherlands, i still havent been able to see it after 20 years.
Its funny to see that it turns up here

</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by LEONARD REMIX RROY:
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I have been looking to buy this film. I saw it 20+ years ago. </font>[/QUOTE]I saw it at home in Chicago on a movie service we had in the 80's called "ON TV". ON TV was simular to Cable / Dish, when Cable TV was finally available in Chicago, ON TV became a thing of the past. The service was better than Cable TV because they showed a wide variety of films during their "Non Prime Time" viewing block - unlike cable. </font>[/QUOTE]Remember AOs on ON TV - those Adult Only hardcore porn edits they ran. Totally blew my mind (I was only 9-11 at the time). We had a system - Rom would sit by the door in case someone came in the room, Wally would keep his hand on the ONTV switch and I would hold the television dial to change from Channel 3 to channel 7 (because if it was just Channel 2, the gig was up).

Classic porn mildly edited. LOL! graemlins/rofl.gif

[i.be.me]

Originally posted by Insert pseudonym here:

The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
(** My all time favorite **)

graemlins/scared.gif OMG!

That movie had me spinning for days. I'm with you, I like dark movies that really make you examine the $#%&^ we try to keep locked up inside. Definitely on my favorites list.

[Bold Soul]

I've always found John Tutturro to be an amazing writer/director. Yea - he's one of the top 3 character actors working today, but "MAC" and "ILLUMINATA" are wonderful films.

"Mac" is sidesplitting ish! I have two brothers (all with a bit of Italian in us) so the parallels are ridiculous. Ellen Barkin and Michael Balluducco's sub-plot was way too funny. My favorite bit in "Illuminata" is Christopher Walken's totally fu-fu acid-tongued, acid-penned theater critic who would give a better review if he could just have some of that gorgeous lead actor.

Different, mildly obscure but great IMO.

[LEONARD REMIX RROY]

Classic Martial Arts http://images.rottentomatoes.com/images/movie/coverv/19/158219.jpg

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No words required ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

[simon b]

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[LEONARD REMIX RROY]

Originally posted by Bold Soul:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by LEONARD REMIX RROY:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by socratez:
HOw did you get watch such an obscure Dutch film???
Although i live in the Netherlands, i still havent been able to see it after 20 years.
Its funny to see that it turns up here

</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by LEONARD REMIX RROY:
http://images.rottentomatoes.com/images/movie/coverv/27/199827.jpg
I have been looking to buy this film. I saw it 20+ years ago. </font>[/QUOTE]I saw it at home in Chicago on a movie service we had in the 80's called "ON TV". ON TV was simular to Cable / Dish, when Cable TV was finally available in Chicago, ON TV became a thing of the past. The service was better than Cable TV because they showed a wide variety of films during their "Non Prime Time" viewing block - unlike cable. </font>[/QUOTE]Remember AOs on ON TV - those Adult Only hardcore porn edits they ran. Totally blew my mind (I was only 9-11 at the time). We had a system - Rom would sit by the door in case someone came in the room, Wally would keep his hand on the ONTV switch and I would hold the television dial to change from Channel 3 to channel 7 (because if it was just Channel 2, the gig was up).

Classic porn mildly edited. LOL! graemlins/rofl.gif </font>[/QUOTE]Us Po Folk graemlins/rofl.gif had old TV's with knobs to adjust the Vertical, Horizontal & Diagonal hold. I could get a clear picture by adjusting the solid picture scramble line all the way to the right or left of the TV graemlins/grinyes.gif The only problem I had was...the TV had a mind of its own as of the volume and if the match book cover was not jammed in it just right, the TV would go full blast on it's own.
graemlins/scared.gif

[LEONARD REMIX RROY]

This movie is Reality, not the Hollywood version of what really happened in the 60's / 70's that people have come to believe.
http://images.rottentomatoes.com/images/movie/coverv/99/109099.jpg

The foul part is, the same thing is still going on today - just in another way.


http://www.derechos.net/paulwolf/cointelpro/cointel.htm

[simon b]

http://www.musicman.com/00/san.gif

[D J 1 3 8]

Originally posted by simon b:
http://www.musicman.com/00/san.gif This is one bugged out movie, for sure. I haven't seen too many of his other flicks. Maybe "Holy Mountain" or something.

Did you know that Jodorovsky was originally hired to direct "Dune". Apparently he spent a year building sets and casting and then the producers decided to give it David Lynch instead. Rumor has it that Jodorovsky went to the premiere and sat in the back row, cracking up the entire time, cuz he knew it was gonna flop.

[Ken1015]

Bad Lieutenant blew me away when I first saw it. Abel Ferrara has put out some cult classics over the years. I could sit and watch King Of New York anytime. If you haven't seen his remake of Invasion Of The Body Snatchers simply titled Body Snatchers then you should check it out. I noticed he has a new straight-to-video movie out titled Menace. It looks kind of cheesy, like he's trying to recapture the spirit of King Of New York but I'll check it out anyway because I've seen all of his movies and hopefully I'll be pleasantly surprised.

http://www.dvdworldonline.com/images/Bad_Lieutenant_DVD.jpg http://www.bii.a-star.edu.sg/~lailf/movies/BodySnatchers.jpg http://www.dvdworldonline.com/images2/King_Of_New_York_DVD.jpg http://hallmovie.com/images/ms_45.jpg

*edit* I almost forgot about Ms. 45. The classic revenge tale given the Ferrara treatment.

[ August 07, 2003, 01:27 PM: Message edited by: Ken1015 ]

[Tricia_S.I]

Originally posted by MYOR:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Tricia_S.I:
http://ia.imdb.com/media/imdb/01/I/00/57/70m.jpg
No matter how many times I see this move, I graemlins/mecry.gif ... </font>[/QUOTE]I must agree with you - the soundtrack is also very good...Glory of Love and Wind Beneath My Wings graemlins/thumbsup.gif

[lyot]

Originally posted by lola desire:
sex and lucia - passionate! brillant!

you can view clips here (http://www.sexandluciafilm.com/)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0000844I6.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

lol@self-- i feel like one of those reviewers @ cannes smile.gif ..Hey Lola .. I love this movie..I do not know if you are aware of the other movies, Julio Medem has made before.. ? El Circulo Polar, Vacas Locas, Tierra, L'Ardilla Roja.. If you love his dreamlike style, you gotta watch them.. Especially El Circulo Polar is breathtaking I reckon..In fact, Medem has to be my most favorite director..

[ August 07, 2003, 01:26 PM: Message edited by: lyot ]

[lyot]

http://64.95.118.51/images/opti/ac/1d/1042730-movie-resized200.jpg

man bites dog = c'est arrivé près de chez vous

[Hello Kitty]

"HONEY FOR OSHUN" Brilliant!

graemlins/thumbsup.gif

[D J 1 3 8]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Ken1015:
[QB] Bad Lieutenant blew me away when I first saw it. Abel Ferrara has put out some cult classics over the years. I could sit and watch King Of New York anytime. QUOTE]

I love King Of New York. I know this kid who has done alot of editing for him over the years. From everything I've heard, Abel's totally fvcking crazy and a HUGE drug fiend. While I admire some of his work, alot of it is really half-assed IMO. My friend has worked on alot of his films where Abel basically just went and shot some scenes that he was excited about, then told the editor to put it all together and have it make sense. For "The Funeral", he told the editor to make up an ending cuz he didn't care what happened. That movie "New Rose Hotel" is made up of about 45 minutes worth of footage, re-played over and over again, intercut with some 15-year old location scouting footage he bought from the production company that shot that Michael Douglass movie "Black Rain". He's nuts. But "king Of New York" is the shit, no doubt.

I had a converstaion with Victor Argo (the older cop in KONY) recently and he had alot of funny shit to say about Abel. He also said Abel was one of the few true geniuses(sp?) he had ever met.

[Ken1015]

Originally posted by DJ 138:
[QUOTE]Originally posted by Ken1015:
[QB] Bad Lieutenant blew me away when I first saw it. Abel Ferrara has put out some cult classics over the years. I could sit and watch King Of New York anytime. QUOTE]

I love King Of New York. I know this kid who has done alot of editing for him over the years. From everything I've heard, Abel's totally fvcking crazy and a HUGE drug fiend. While I admire some of his work, alot of it is really half-assed IMO. My friend has worked on alot of his films where Abel basically just went and shot some scenes that he was excited about, then told the editor to put it all together and have it make sense. For "The Funeral", he told the editor to make up an ending cuz he didn't care what happened. That movie "New Rose Hotel" is made up of about 45 minutes worth of footage, re-played over and over again, intercut with some 15-year old location scouting footage he bought from the production company that shot that Michael Douglass movie "Black Rain". He's nuts. But "king Of New York" is the shit, no doubt.

I had a converstaion with Victor Argo (the older cop in KONY) recently and he had alot of funny shit to say about Abel. He also said Abel was one of the few true geniuses(sp?) he had ever met. Brilliant! graemlins/rofl.gif

[Mike Barnes]

Some of the movies that i felt did not get the publicity that they should have, But were good movies are.
1.The Idolmaker-Ray Sharkey(Rip)At his best.
2.Less Than zero-Robert Downey playing the role.
3.Midnight run-Robert De Niro
4.Three days of the Condor-Robert Redford
5.Fresh-Giancarlo Espisito,Sam(When cats called him Sam)Jackson.
6.Down in the Delta-Wesley Snipes,Al Freeman,Alfie Woodard
7.Grand Canyon-Alfie Woodard,Danny Glover,Kevin Kline
8.The Cincinnati Kid-Steve McQueen, Edward G. Robinson.
9.White Heat-Old School joint with James Cagney.
10.Back to School-Rodney Dangerfield.

Later
Mike Barnes

P.S. Some of the Weakest movies that i've ever seen, That were just comedy to watch were:
1.Fly by night-Just to watch Jeffrey Sams rhyme was crazy funny.
2.Lady on the Bus-This movie was wack, But just to see Sonia Braga back then(1978)was enough for me, Sonia Braga still looks very good for her age today.
3.Def By Temptation-Kadeem Hardison,Bill Nunn(Radio Raheem from 'Do the right thing'), Freddy Jackson had a few lines in this joint(LOL).

[mercado]

Originally posted by DJ 138:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by simon b:
http://www.musicman.com/00/san.gif This is one bugged out movie, for sure. I haven't seen too many of his other flicks. Maybe "Holy Mountain" or something.

Did you know that Jodorovsky was originally hired to direct "Dune". Apparently he spent a year building sets and casting and then the producers decided to give it David Lynch instead. Rumor has it that Jodorovsky went to the premiere and sat in the back row, cracking up the entire time, cuz he knew it was gonna flop. </font>[/QUOTE]Definitely see "Holy Mountain" . it's a mind blower.
(john lennnon apparently produced this!!) w soundtrack by don cherry! the art direction truly creates another strange dimension..

[MusicFilter]

TRAINSPOTTING

LOCK, STOCK AND TWO SMOKING BARRELS

SECRETARY

A MAN CALLED ADAM

ANOTHER GIRL ON THE I.R.T.

LIKE WATER FOR CHOCOLATE

Can anyone relate????

[E-Phi]

Originally posted by Hk:
Sankofa! I saw this at the movies in Chi and bought a copy as soon as the store had them graemlins/thumbsup.gif
DJ 138: I have my copy of "Shaolin Soccer" on DVD graemlins/OLA.gif

[And]

Life is sweet
Jamon, Jamon
Santa Sangre
Tokyo Decadence
The Funeral - Juzo Itami (I believe)
Tampopo

[eileen]

iron giant

[Dj Pat]

A clock work orange!
My all time best!
Good cinema!!!!!
Dj Pat
Physical Heat.

[jillbee]

Shanghai Triad
Dead Man
and of course
the JERK!

[SHEIK YERBOUTI]

Delicatessen
City of Lost Children
Long Kiss Goodnight

Hey jillbee, can't catch me! :D

[djmarbll]

I'm kind of a Blaxploitation/Soul Cinema buff, so several films from that era come to mind (The Mack, Petey Wheatstraw, Spook Who Sat by the Door, Black Godfather, Truck Turner, Cornbread, Earl, and Me, etc.) However, Willie Dynamite is one the best films I've ever seen from that era. Not as popular as The Mack, but a better pimp film to me.
There's a film done in the 90's with Bernie Casey and two other brothers in a restaurant talking about the plight of black people in America. I think it's called The Restaurant, but it's one of the best films I've ever seen.
There's another film called the Chicago 8 that's based on the 8 people tried in court in Chicago after causing a disruption during the 1968 Democratic Convention. That's my all-time favorite. That film just sucks you in immediately.

[jillbee]

Originally posted by djmarbll:
Petey WheatstrawThe devil's son in law?!!!!

[jillbee]

Originally posted by toomuchtv:
Delicatessen
City of Lost Children
Long Kiss Goodnight

Hey jillbee, can't catch me! :D those are all good one's... what about Romeo is Bleeding?

[DOTSmusic]

am i the only one waho has noticed that a good majority of these movies had big mainstream theatre and dvd/video releases? hence, they are COMMON.

- Caligula? come on, who does not know of this movie.
- A Clock Work Orange? man, this is classic cinema, far from uncommon.
- Zoolander? zoolander? how could anyone categorize this as a not so common movie. i thought it was hillarious but...
- The Royal Tenenbaums? One of my favorite movies and screenplays ever but come on yall this is far from uncommon.

there are so many others i have seen listed too.
maybe it has to do with regional differences, i don't know.
maybe movies that were above ground here in the states, were art house flicks over seas.

[simon b]

These were some of the most popular "art-house" & rep films that I can remember from when I worked at the Rialto theatre here in Montreal (1990-92):

Brazil
Stranger Than Paradise
Down By Law
Mystery Train
Night On Earth
Simple Men
The Unbelievable Truth
Trust
Matador
The Cook, The Their, His Wife & Her Lover
A Zed & Two Noughts
The Draftman's Contract
Belly Of An Architect
Prospero's Books
Mediterrano
37.2 Le Matin
One False Move
The Hot Spot
Leolo
Europa
City Of Hope
She's Gotta Have It
Do The Right Thing
Blue Velvet
Wild At Heart
Raging Bull
Taxi Driver
Withnail & I
Santa Sangre
A Brief History Of Time
The Decline Of American Civilization Parts 1 & 2

Among others I can't recall....

[ August 07, 2003, 10:53 PM: Message edited by: simon b ]

[DOTSmusic]

Originally posted by simon b:
The Decline Of American Civilization Parts 1 & 2
i think you mean The Decline of WESTERN Civilzation parts 1 & 2. driected by Penelope Spheeris.

[simon b]

Originally posted by aLie:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by simon b:
The Decline Of American Civilization Parts 1 & 2
i think you mean The Decline of WESTERN Civilzation parts 1 & 2. driected by Penelope Spheeris. </font>[/QUOTE]My baaad. Confused it with "The Decline of the American Empire" (Denys Arcand).

[illiciumverum]

older:
last year in marienbad
the extermintaing angel
stranger than paradise
suspiria (even though it terrifies me)

recent:
in the mood for love

[illiciumverum]

hav plenty - which i only recently caught on video.

[simon b]

Bagdad Cafe
Paris Texas
Rumble Fish
Eraserhead
The White Room
The Thin Blue Line
Felini's Cassanova
A bout de souffle
The Tenenant
Rosemary's Baby
Wings Of Desire
El Topo
The Shinning
Wild Strawberries

[ngeso]

some good recent ones:

In the mood for Love
Amores Perros
Spirited Away
Blue Spring [by Toshiaki Toyoda]
The City of Lost Souls, &
Audition [both by Takashi Miike]
El crimen del Padre Amaro
Sidewalk Stories [actually this is from 1989]

[ngeso]

Originally posted by 6 23:
...
Jamon, Jamon
...
Tokyo Decadence
...
Tampopo nice graemlins/thumbsup.gif

[Martin Red]

Originally posted by DJ 138:
http://www.teleport-city.com/images/screencaps/kungfu/oab6.jpg

I believe this picture is from "The Flying Guilloutine", not "One Armed Boxer".
Flying Guillotine, thanks.

Great film also graemlins/thumbsup.gif , head in a basket anyone :D

[Martin Red]

What is common and uncommon can also depend on location.

a made in hong kong movie, are they common in Hong Kong ?


Also, to add
Monty Pythons
Holy Grail
Life of Brian
Meaning of Life
graemlins/thumbsup.gif

[Mike Barnes]

Say DjMarbil, Wasn't Bobby Seale Down with the Chicago 8 in Lincoln Park in Chicago(I think in 1968), Also wasn't 1968 the year that Fred Hampton(Former Leader of the Black Panthers Chicago Chapter/And a true Soldier), And Mark Clark were cancelled(Killed)by the Fedtime(Cops), Also, Are you up on Scholar/Historian Dr.Benn my man.
Later
Mike Barnes

[Jamie 3:26]

Originally posted by Mike Barnes:
Say DjMarbil, Wasn't Bobby Seale Down with the Chicago 8 in Lincoln Park in Chicago(I think in 1968), Also wasn't 1968 the year that Fred Hampton(Former Leader of the Black Panthers Chicago Chapter/And a true Soldier), And Mark Clark were cancelled(Killed)by the Fedtime(Cops), Also, Are you up on Scholar/Historian Dr.Benn my man.
Later
Mike Barnes Mike,you hit it on the head about the 8.I know Abbie Hoffman was also included..I also thought Fred Hampton was killed in 69.His son finally got released from prison.

[And]

Originally posted by DJ 138:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by simon b:
http://www.musicman.com/00/san.gif This is one bugged out movie, for sure. I haven't seen too many of his other flicks. Maybe "Holy Mountain" or something.

Did you know that Jodorovsky was originally hired to direct "Dune". Apparently he spent a year building sets and casting and then the producers decided to give it David Lynch instead. Rumor has it that Jodorovsky went to the premiere and sat in the back row, cracking up the entire time, cuz he knew it was gonna flop. </font>[/QUOTE]I'll have to check out more movies by this director. I saw this ages ago and still always list it as one of my favourites. The music in the film so perfectly captures the eerieness of the whole story ...

[E-Phi]

"The Serpent and the Rainbow" which is definitely one of my favs.

"I want to hear you scream..."

[ August 08, 2003, 11:28 AM: Message edited by: E-Phi ]

[MIKE_ MUNNI]

SCANNERS
LAIR OF THE WHITE WORM
COMA
METROPOLIS
THE INCREDIBLE MELTING MAN
graemlins/cool_shades.gif

[DISKOQUEEN99]

HAV PLENTY

[jpsf]

Originally posted by mercado:
Holy Mountain by Alejandro Joderwosky
"4 Shorts" by Werner Herzog
Gunnam (Bollywood 60s)
Little Dieter Needs to Fly (Werner Herzog)
Blackboards by Samira Makmalbaf
Videodrome w debroah harry
only angels have wings
Apu Trilogy by Satyajit Ray
distant thunder -satyajit ray
high & low (akira kurosawa)
the long goodbye (robert altman) my roomate has a copy of holy mountain and every time i try to watch it somebody stoppes over, sits down to watch it with us and then gets up and leaves after 10 min. as they're leaving they give us a look like we just did something wrong and that they never want to talk to me again.

i think it is because that movie is racially messed up. i really don't kow if the director knew what he was doing in this movie. both the holy mountain and el topo directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky were odd flicks, but the scenes from the holy mountain are really just racially messed up.

[LEONARD REMIX RROY]

http://images.rottentomatoes.com/images/movie/coverv/76/118676.jpg

Heavy Metal was cool but this one is a classic in my book.

[D J 1 3 8]

Originally posted by LEONARD REMIX RROY:
http://images.rottentomatoes.com/images/movie/coverv/76/118676.jpg

Heavy Metal was cool but this one is a classic in my book. I was sooooo into that movie when I was a kid. It was way cooler than Heavy Metal, IMO. Reminds me of "The Wall".

[LEONARD REMIX RROY]

Originally posted by DJ 138:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by LEONARD REMIX RROY:
http://images.rottentomatoes.com/images/movie/coverv/76/118676.jpg

Heavy Metal was cool but this one is a classic in my book. I was sooooo into that movie when I was a kid. It was way cooler than Heavy Metal, IMO. Reminds me of "The Wall". </font>[/QUOTE]What was the coldest line spoke in this movie - - - in your opion?

[Pete Nice]

house of yes-twisted humor

fantastic planet-great cartoon

bush mama-i have no idea if this has seen any commercial release, but it was great. saw it at the l.a. library. if anyone has any info that would be cool to hear...

supernatural b city-anime around the time of akira i think

salton sea

[And]

Originally posted by jpsf:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by mercado:
Holy Mountain by Alejandro Joderwosky
"4 Shorts" by Werner Herzog
Gunnam (Bollywood 60s)
Little Dieter Needs to Fly (Werner Herzog)
Blackboards by Samira Makmalbaf
Videodrome w debroah harry
only angels have wings
Apu Trilogy by Satyajit Ray
distant thunder -satyajit ray
high & low (akira kurosawa)
the long goodbye (robert altman) my roomate has a copy of holy mountain and every time i try to watch it somebody stoppes over, sits down to watch it with us and then gets up and leaves after 10 min. as they're leaving they give us a look like we just did something wrong and that they never want to talk to me again.

i think it is because that movie is racially messed up. i really don't kow if the director knew what he was doing in this movie. both the holy mountain and el topo directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky were odd flicks, but the scenes from the holy mountain are really just racially messed up. </font>[/QUOTE]How so .. I'm curious.

[jpsf]

Alejandro Jodorowsky has a thing for cramming shockin' footage into his movies, but the black slaves in the movie being abused by the fat rich white women was too much. i think it's important to have movies that deal with racism and slavery but this movie just seemed to show it the way some tv shows show car crashes...without any sensitivity. but that's Jodorowsky's pretentious gimmick...disturbingly intriguing. or just plain wrong...your call.

[And]

Originally posted by LEONARD REMIX RROY:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by DJ 138:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by LEONARD REMIX RROY:
http://images.rottentomatoes.com/images/movie/coverv/76/118676.jpg

Heavy Metal was cool but this one is a classic in my book. I was sooooo into that movie when I was a kid. It was way cooler than Heavy Metal, IMO. Reminds me of "The Wall". </font>[/QUOTE]What was the coldest line spoke in this movie - - - in your opion? </font>[/QUOTE]*

[ August 08, 2003, 07:47 PM: Message edited by: 6 23 ]

[And]

Originally posted by jpsf:
Alejandro Jodorowsky has a thing for cramming shockin' footage into his movies, but the black slaves in the movie being abused by the fat rich white women was too much. i think it's important to have movies that deal with racism and slavery but this movie just seemed to show it the way some tv shows show car crashes...without any sensitivity. but that's Jodorowsky's pretentious gimmick...disturbingly intriguing. or just plain wrong...your call. I read you ... Now to see the movie too. ;)

[ August 08, 2003, 07:48 PM: Message edited by: 6 23 ]

[prussell]

just a few I really like (hope they are 'uncommon' enough)-

suspiria
house of yes
danger diabolik
alphaville
gummo
umbrellas of cherbourg
perfect blue
baraka

[prussell]

oh yeah, without losing scope of the first post...

thief.

definitely.
i think i've seen this like 15 times.

[SHEIK YERBOUTI]

Originally posted by jillbee:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by toomuchtv:
Delicatessen
City of Lost Children
Long Kiss Goodnight

Hey jillbee, can't catch me! :D those are all good one's... what about Romeo is Bleeding? </font>[/QUOTE]R.I.B. w/Gary Oldman and Lena Olin, right? Man, Lena Olin's character was hard as F**K! It's been a while since I've seen that one, but I dug it.

John Carpenter's "The Thing" was pretty raw.

[roki]

I don't know anyone else who has seen this one. It's an excellent low-budget reggae movie filmed in Jamaica with real reggae artists and performances throughout.

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B00004TIZ7.02.MZZZZZZZ.jpg

This one's on a Clockwork Orange tip but Belgian (if I remember correctly)

http://www.deep-focus.com/flicker/dvd/funnygamessleeve.jpg

And I don't know if this was big in the States, but it has to be my all-time fave.

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0783227361.01._PE10_SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg

Oh, and respect to others suggestions too. I'll be saving this post for research ;)

peace, roki

[djezmike]

" Bagdad Cafe "

[LEONARD REMIX RROY]

Originally posted by toomuchtv:

John Carpenter's "The Thing" was pretty raw.Yes it was :eek: and I would love to know what dog trainner they used. The dogs had emotion to the point that they seemed to be making facial expressions.

They went from "we about to attcak" to "WTF / let us the hell outta here" to Jumping on and past the big guy with the shotgun "Get yo ass outta the way jack we gone!!!!!!"

Damn good movie.

[djmarbll]

Originally posted by jillbee:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by djmarbll:
Petey WheatstrawThe devil's son in law?!!!! </font>[/QUOTE]Of course!!! Very funny film adapted from an old theme in the South. And Rudy Ray Moore's genius (imo) is that he's funnier when he's not trying to be.

[djmarbll]

Originally posted by JAMIE 3:26:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Mike Barnes:
Say DjMarbil, Wasn't Bobby Seale Down with the Chicago 8 in Lincoln Park in Chicago(I think in 1968), Also wasn't 1968 the year that Fred Hampton(Former Leader of the Black Panthers Chicago Chapter/And a true Soldier), And Mark Clark were cancelled(Killed)by the Fedtime(Cops), Also, Are you up on Scholar/Historian Dr.Benn my man.
Later
Mike Barnes Mike,you hit it on the head about the 8.I know Abbie Hoffman was also included..I also thought Fred Hampton was killed in 69.His son finally got released from prison. </font>[/QUOTE]What up Mike, Jamie. Yeah, Bobby Seale was down with the Chicago 8, as was Abbie Hoffman. Oe of the many things that make that film so great is that Abbie Hoffman, Bobby Seale, and other are actually explaining their positions and viewpoints as actors play them in a courtroom. Powerful stuff.
I don't know Dr. Ben personally, but I have met him in Oak Park, IL. He said he was moving to Africa because he was disgusted with how America treats blacks and African history, and even more disgusted with how blacks treat themselves. I've also read excerpts from his book "Black Men of the Nile" and "We, the Black Jews". But I had an audiotape of Dr. Ben, the late great John Henrik Clarke, and the late great John G. Jackson (author of Christianity before Christ) all on a panel at an African history conference. I learned so much from that tape!!!
I didn't know they finally freed Fred Hampton Jr. That's great to hear Jamie!!!

[djmarbll]

Across a 110th Street and Trick Baby were good obscure films too. Well, they're obscure now.

[Ron la Rock]

Originally posted by LEONARD REMIX RROY:
Classic Martial Arts http://images.rottentomatoes.com/images/movie/coverv/19/158219.jpg

http://www.quadrophenia.net/thefilm/images/quadfilmposter.jpg
No words required ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ now ya talkin my langauge
graemlins/cool_shades.gif

5 deadly
& MODS vs THE Rockers
(you see sting gettin his dance on?)
rofl:

[JoeB]

you either love him or hate him but eric schaeffer is one of my favorites and i absolutely love his work.


here are two films that he's in and that he directed. i think he even wrote both of them. i'll have to say that "fall" is actually one of my favorites but "wirey spindell" is still pretty damn good.


http://fp.blockbuster.com/is/amg/video/cov120/drv700/v755/v755322kwu6.jpg?cell=200,200&cvt=jpeg

http://fp.blockbuster.com/is/amg/dvd/cov150/drt000/t078/t07876eti8u.jpg?cell=200,200&cvt=jpeg

i don't know how popular "blood in blood out" is outside of the mexican-american community but it's also another favorite.

http://fp.blockbuster.com/is/amg/dvd/cov150/drt000/t070/t070001ncym.jpg?cell=200,200&cvt=jpeg

[prussell]

The Wanderers

[illiciumverum]

final cut

[Mah'chew]

Originally posted by 6 23:
Life is sweet
Yep, classic!!!

[roki]

Originally posted by JoeB:
i don't know how popular "blood in blood out" is outside of the mexican-american community but it's also another favorite.

http://fp.blockbuster.com/is/amg/dvd/cov150/drt000/t070/t070001ncym.jpg?cell=200,200&cvt=jpeg Wow - totally forgot about that one. I've only seen it once over here but it blew me away.

respect, JoeB

roki

[Mah'chew]

I also watch a lot of films that are made in my old home county (state) and UK in general..

Strictly Yorkshire, UK:

* When Saturday Comes - Sheffield.
* The Full Monty - Sheffield.
* Secret Society - Castleford.
* Brassed Off - Barnsley.
* Little Voice - Scarborough.
* Kes - Barnsley.

UK in general:

* The Firm - by Alan Clarke's exploration of Soccer Violence with Garry Oldman as the Top Boy.
* Sexy Beast - When Gandhi turns Essex & nasty.
* Final Cut - Comic Genius.
* Made in Britain - Alan Clarke gives Tim Roth (Mr Orange) his first film dubut as Skin Head nutter Trevor.
* Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960)
* Get Carter (1971)
* The Long Good Friday (1980)
* The Crying Game (1992)
* Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979)
* Withnail & I (1987)
* Gregory's Girl (1980)
* Alfie (1966)
* The Italian Job (1969)
* Local Hero (1983)
* The Commitments (1991)
* Secrets & Lies (1995)
* The Madness of King George - special note, the original name was change from, George IV, because some of the American backers thought it would confuse the the U.S. public, their reason being, they might not go and see George IV if they had not seen George, I, II and III (funny as!!!)(1994)
* Performance (1970)
* My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)
* Brazil (1985)
* A Taste of Honey (1961)
* The Loneliness of The Long Distance Runner (1962)
* Mona Lisa (1986)
* Elizabeth (1998)
* The Day of Jackal (1973)
* Billy Liar (1963)
* Peeping Tom (1960)
* My Name is Joe (1998)
* Caravaggo (1986)
* The Wicker Man (1973)
* Nil By Mouth (1997)
* Small Faces (1995)
* The Killing Fields (1984)

[erd]

Donnie Darko.

Peace.

Gerd

[illiciumverum]

after hours

[prussell]

Originally posted by Mah'chew:

* Sexy Beast - When Gandhi turns Essex & nasty.
* Get Carter (1971)
* Performance (1970)
* Brazil (1985)
* The Wicker Man (1973)
* Nil By Mouth (1997)
agreed!

[And]

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[corwin]

Eve's Bayou
Belle Dujour
Brother from Another Planet
Opposite of Sex
The Krays
Citizen Ruth

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[mdpm99]

King of Hearts

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[jurren]

wow, there's some weird choices so far.

"c'est arrivé prês de chez vous" ... the first time i saw it, i could laugh about it, because it was so absurd, but after that it was just plain sick! a friend of mine knows the entire movie by heart, and often recites the poem about the pigeon. the part where the main character triomphantly explains how clever he was by just shouting at the old woman, and not wasting a bullet on her is hillarious.

"spetters" ??? there was a documentary about this movie on dutch television a couple of months ago. dutch movies in general a the worst things you'll ever see. the worst acting ever! dunno if that's the actors to blame or the directors being not perfectionist enough, but 9 out of 10 times i can't even watch 10 minutes of a dutch movie.

my personal favorites would be the allready mentioned "la haine"; i love this movie, haven't watched it in a couple of years though, and kassovitz's first movie "metisse" is nice too.

i liked "nil by mouth" too.

"rouge" by krysztof kyzslowski, and a couple other of his movies "blue" in that same trilogy was excellent aswell.

"lola rennt" very nice, and the director that made this movie is now working on what was supposed to be kyzslowski's next movie, before he died.

"ghost in the shell" the update manga version of "blade runner".

"vertigo" ok, not very obscure, but one of my favorite movies of all time.

"the billabong challenge" :D surfvideo, ten of the best surfers travel to the west of australia for a small contest, one of the last waves kelly slater catches in the semi-final is the s#!t!!!!!

jurren

[Jolyon]

Hana-Bi

[jcapeverde]

Originally posted by JAMIE 3:26:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Mike Barnes:
Say DjMarbil, Wasn't Bobby Seale Down with the Chicago 8 in Lincoln Park in Chicago(I think in 1968), Also wasn't 1968 the year that Fred Hampton(Former Leader of the Black Panthers Chicago Chapter/And a true Soldier), And Mark Clark were cancelled(Killed)by the Fedtime(Cops), Also, Are you up on Scholar/Historian Dr.Benn my man.
Later
Mike Barnes Mike,you hit it on the head about the 8.I know Abbie Hoffman was also included..I also thought Fred Hampton was killed in 69.His son finally got released from prison. </font>[/QUOTE]Yeah Mike; you know your stuff. Remember Little Bobby Hutton was killed in foul way too. Here's my list of little known faves
1. Tank (Black version of The Informer; 1969)
2. Short Eyes by the late playwright Miguel Pinero who had actually been in the "Tombs" prison, starred in the film & IMO "Oz" is based on!
3. Dolemite starring Rudy Ray Moore
4. The Killer starring Chow Yun Fat
5. Hard Boiled also starring the above
6. Cooley High accurately depicted High School
7. Enter the Dragon after seeing that movie, everybody made Nun Chukka's in shop class!
8. Up The Down Staircase starred Sandy Dennis
9. The Pawnbroker Rod Steiger
10. The Learning Tree Gordon Parks film
11. Salsa recorded live at the original Cheetah starring the Fania All Stars and Symphony Sid!
12. Report To The Commissioner

[ August 11, 2003, 01:26 AM: Message edited by: jcapeverde ]

[JMNYC]

okay, who's to say what's "common"? That's a subjective statement depending on where you are, how old you are, etc. etc. etc.

I would include the following as-yet-unmentioned films on my list (plus some of the aforementioned). My inclusion of a movie does not indicate that I thought it was a good movie, per se. I love really, really bad movies almost as much as I love good ones... they're still "favorites":

Bitter Moon
Mala Voodoo
Looking for Langston
My Own Private Idaho
Tongues Untied
Reform School Girls
Torch Song Trilogy
The Boys in the Band
The Crazies
Jackie's Back
Midnight in the Garden of Good & Evil
The Cockettes
...

[ August 11, 2003, 02:09 AM: Message edited by: JMNYC ]

[mercado]

Originally posted by Jolyon:
Hana-Bi one of my favorite directors, Takeshi Kitano, challenging and rewarding.

Dolls was absolutely brilliant

[And]

Originally posted by JMNYC:

Midnight in the Garden of Good & Evil
I remember reading the book first then seeing the movie. One of the rare instances where I've liked the movie version better than the book. Well ... I liked it better then ..

[mercado]

Originally posted by 6 23:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by jpsf:
Alejandro Jodorowsky has a thing for cramming shockin' footage into his movies, but the black slaves in the movie being abused by the fat rich white women was too much. i think it's important to have movies that deal with racism and slavery but this movie just seemed to show it the way some tv shows show car crashes...without any sensitivity. but that's Jodorowsky's pretentious gimmick...disturbingly intriguing. or just plain wrong...your call. I read you ... Now to see the movie too. ;) </font>[/QUOTE]i agree in the shock-aesthetic of his style.
but i think jodorowsky's take is more absurdist than racially motivated. he's an exiled chilean from the Pinochet era. he's more of a samuel beckett...just mo.

[Mike Barnes]

Good lookin with the information Jaime326,JCapeverde,Dj Marbil, Say JCapeverde, You mentioned the movie, 'Up the downstaircase', With Sandy Dennis, Do you remember a movie in the early 70's(I think 1970/71)called 'The Out of Towners', With Sandy Dennis and Jack Lemon, Very funny movie and shows you what could happen if your visiting New York for the first time(LOL).
Later
Mike Barnes

[jpsf]

Originally posted by mercado:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by 6 23:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by jpsf:
Alejandro Jodorowsky has a thing for cramming shockin' footage into his movies, but the black slaves in the movie being abused by the fat rich white women was too much. i think it's important to have movies that deal with racism and slavery but this movie just seemed to show it the way some tv shows show car crashes...without any sensitivity. but that's Jodorowsky's pretentious gimmick...disturbingly intriguing. or just plain wrong...your call. I read you ... Now to see the movie too. ;) </font>[/QUOTE]i agree in the shock-aesthetic of his style.
but i think jodorowsky's take is more absurdist than racially motivated. he's an exiled chilean from the Pinochet era. he's more of a samuel beckett...just mo. </font>[/QUOTE]i think you are right. i think jodorowsky is more absurdist than racially motivated, however i think the scene goes further than his intention. i don't think he realized the statement he was making. mind you, i think i am a little biased because of all the people who have been offended by seeing that movie played at my house. jodorowsky definately and purposely lacks sensitivity...and in this case he may have went too far.

[mercado]

i agree the movie is not for everyone. (as a person of colour i did not find it offensive)jodorowsky's other films esp el topo is completely uncouth,unwatchable, and blunt without a message.there's gotta be some limits to absurdism.

[ August 11, 2003, 06:19 PM: Message edited by: mercado ]

[jcapeverde]

Originally posted by Mike Barnes:
Good lookin with the information Jaime326,JCapeverde,Dj Marbil, Say JCapeverde, You mentioned the movie, 'Up the downstaircase', With Sandy Dennis, Do you remember a movie in the early 70's(I think 1970/71)called 'The Out of Towners', With Sandy Dennis and Jack Lemon, Very funny movie and shows you what could happen if your visiting New York for the first time(LOL).
Later
Mike Barnes Yeah, that movie was hilarious. I should have put in Black Caesar, just because it shows Fred Williamson wearing a pair of original Playboys! I like movies that show New York of the past. BTW, I got DVD's of the old "Naked City" TV shows from the early 60's at Deep Discount DVD http://www.deepdiscountdvd.com/

[SPG]

Originally posted by simon b:
Bagdad Cafe
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SPG

[cateyed1]

loved the Blind Samurai, Much Ado About Nothing and Mercy (the book was better, but the movie did it's best considering how graphic it could have been for a female killer)

[Mike Barnes]

Say jcapeverde, I forgot about Fred Williamson wearing the original Playboys in 'Black Caesar', Money(LOL), If i remember correctly, Gene Hackman had on a pair of Hush Puppies(Remember those joints)in the 'French Connection',(Alltime classic to me from 1971), And, I think the cat who played the character named Lee(I think he was down with the New York City Breakers) in 'Beat Street', Was sporting a Mock(Mock Neck Shirt), But, The movie for cats sporting old school gear is the 'Idolmaker', Ray Sharkey is actually sporting a Al Packer(Knit Sweater), I remember Miguel Pinero from the Miami Vice days in the Mid 80's when he(Miguel Pinero)played the part of Carldorone(Extra large Drug Dealer with National Juice), Very Talented cat. I have to watch 'Wild Style', again, I definitely remember a cat sporting a pair of 'British Walker's', in that joint, It's very nice to see cats like Flash(Grandmaster Flash)Still sporting the original Kango's from way back, I wonder if Flash has any plastic in his hat like cats used to do back in the 70's(LOL).
Later
Mike Barnes

[Brenda]

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[Brenda]

http://images.allposters.com/images/21/THWARRS

[Molsten]

City of God... hail.gif

[Molsten]

& Amelie graemlins/thumbsup.gif

[ August 12, 2003, 10:43 AM: Message edited by: Molsten ]

[Austin/Dallas]

1."The Addiction" By Russell Simons
2."The Evil Dead" Collection
3.Watership Down
4.Cornbread Earl and me

[Brenda]

Warriors NYC....

[LEONARD REMIX RROY]

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The Dead Zone is one of my - I can watch over & over movies. Fade To Black was rather strange, I gotta see that one again because I dont remember much of it. Blow Out, John Travolta did a hella edit job in this one. He matched / spliced a sound recording to a movie recording and......I know it's an old movie but, I don't tell plots. There might be someone on DHP that never saw this movie smile.gif

[frique]

once upon a time in america w/ robert deniro and james woods. just released on dvd recently. saw it in seventh grade (1986). 6 hours long; a classic, best story of the new york underworld i've seen.

[frique]

DANCING IN THE DARK w/ bjork, best ending ever
SANKOFA, hyde park screening back in the day: DOPE
PARIS IS BURNING, gotta love it

[jcapeverde]

Originally posted by Mike Barnes:
Say jcapeverde, I forgot about Fred Williamson wearing the original Playboys in 'Black Caesar', Money(LOL), If i remember correctly, Gene Hackman had on a pair of Hush Puppies(Remember those joints)in the 'French Connection',(Alltime classic to me from 1971), And, I think the cat who played the character named Lee(I think he was down with the New York City Breakers) in 'Beat Street', Was sporting a Mock(Mock Neck Shirt), But, The movie for cats sporting old school gear is the 'Idolmaker', Ray Sharkey is actually sporting a Al Packer(Knit Sweater), I remember Miguel Pinero from the Miami Vice days in the Mid 80's when he(Miguel Pinero)played the part of Carldorone(Extra large Drug Dealer with National Juice), Very Talented cat. I have to watch 'Wild Style', again, I definitely remember a cat sporting a pair of 'British Walker's', in that joint, It's very nice to see cats like Flash(Grandmaster Flash)Still sporting the original Kango's from way back, I wonder if Flash has any plastic in his hat like cats used to do back in the 70's(LOL).
Later
Mike Barnes Yo Mike! I must take exception to your spelling. It's Alpaca(wool) and Kangol! In "A Bronx Tale", you can see the young Italian guys wearing Italian knits that we also used to wear. Blye was the best brand of them all. They were wool and had suede and/or leather geometric patterns on them & very expensive. As for "back in the '70's", I STILL put a rolled up cleaners bag in them and I've been wearing Kangol's since '69. It kills me to see these so-called cool Hip Hop types like Biggie Smalls & even Sam Jackson, wear them flat, with no tissue paper or plastic in them. It gives the cap body and contour. I knew brothers back in the day put a crease down the middle. I really shouldn't be giving away these sartorial secrets, but since this is DHP, it's OK, LOL. Hell, they're paying Sam to wear them wrong, I'll wear them RIGHT for half the loot! I don't even want to start talkin bout corduroys, Playboys, Borsalino's and silk & wools, cause it brings tears to my eyes and memories of Orchard Street deep in the day before designer stores came. That's another post anyway. Hmm, maybe I'll start one and call it Cortefiel, Kangols and Cashmere: '68-'73! Mike, check out the link. graemlins/beerchug.gif http://www.skonaren.se/sida.asp?id=3

[ August 13, 2003, 01:17 AM: Message edited by: jcapeverde ]

[Rodney Ransom]

no questions asked SPOOOK WHO SAT BY THE DOOR.
Herbie Hancock puts together one of the Illest
soundtracks ever.I think if more ''black people''
saw this movie , it would change there view on a
lot of issues.

[jpsf]

KIKO MASK

[chihouse]

Heres a few good ones................

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[niceangelbaby]

just been browsing and came across www.watchesshopping.net (http://watchesshopping.net/) there prices seem to be way lower that standard. All of the wristwatches (http://watchesshopping.net/) seem to be priced around $200 to $300. Are they fakes? The site seems to look quite legit.