OT: The best movies most have never heard of...

[BryanE]

Thursday
Get Low

[martl]

Originally Posted by Dana Kilalps

Luc Moullet, a later day director associated with the French New Wave, made Up and Down (aka Parpaillon) an entertaining bicycle tour up a French mountain.

+1 - here is the full movie, btw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlFZ0jJYyNQ

French films have many hiiden gems...

Cycling content:
"Une affaire des hommes" - Brasseur, Trintignant, Huppert in a crime story where the duels are done on Peugeot PX10s


Tchao Pantin - Claude Berri, a film noir with comedian Coluche in an unexpected (and excellently played) main role

Police Python 357 - Georges Delrue, Montand, Signoret - Loner Cop who's daily breakfast routine involves making eggs, fresh ammo, then a visit to the shooting grounds finds himself hunting himself in a murder case which actually his own boss did. Dirty Harry french style (Also the blueprint for "no way out")

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuLg6juHOWE

Poussiere d'ange - thoroughly broken copper falls in love with an underage delinquent. very 80ies, think "subway"

Classe tous risques - Claude Sautet, Lino Ventura as tired career criminal and Belmondo as the young fella helping him excel in a story about friendship.
Written by Jose Giovanni who knew his criminals, having done time for murder etc. himself. Any movie he was involved in is as authentic as they come.

and of course anything Melville did. Lets metion "Le Cercle Rouge" as his absolute masterpiece.

[paredown]

I thought of this thread--my Facebook feed popped up with a movie recommendation that I had posted a few years back--and I was delighted to be reminded of it.

It is from 2003, and called 'Kitchen Stories':
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0323872/

What I wrote at the time:
"Watched one of the most spare, but entertaining movies the other night called Kitchen Stories. For the first third of the movie there is virtually no dialog. Not sure who to recommend it to, but if you are interested in Swedish design, Norwegian snow, post WWII Europe, old Volvos and bittersweet tales about grumpy old men, this movie is for you! (Subtitles)"

[PQJ]

I really enjoyed this French comedy: Bienvenue chez les Ch`tis (Welcome to the Sticks) (https://youtu.be/_6Mx3HZ4_tI). I'm guessing I'm not the only Francophile here and this little gem of a film offered an interesting insight into another country's cultural quirks (that are not all that dissimilar to our own).

[redir]

Maybe someone already mentioned this one but I just heard about the movie called 'Kedi' and I'd really like to see it.

[fiamme red]

Jacques Becker's final film, Le Trou, is the best prison escape drama that I've ever seen. Amazingly realistic and suspenseful. Jean-Pierre Melville, who made some classics himself, called it "the greatest French film of all time."

[seanile]

Brick

Moon

[Dana Kilalps]

Our Little Sister is an interesting Japanese film taking a look at a complicated sort of family in contemporary setting. Compelling script and photography from Hirokazu Koreeda.

[Saint Vitus]

"Drunken Angel" 1948, Kurosawa.

Brilliant film, a must see for anyone interested in Kurosawa or Mifune. It was their first collaboration and a sublime work of art.

[fiamme red]

I saw the restored 170-minute original version of Kon Ichikawa's Tokyo Olympiad today on the big screen. It's a brilliant documentary on the 1964 Olympics.

George Plimpton's review: https://www.criterion.com/current/po...tokyo-olympiad.

[Scuzzer]

The other films but for some reason the Russian version of Solaris speaks to me. Not high art but art from a time and place that needs to be recognized.

Edit: you have to read it. The George Clooney version doesn't work.

[colker]

Originally Posted by David Kirk

I have to put my 2 cents in for Repoman. It's so good on so many levels and the more times you see it the more there is to see.

Dave

Wow. Repoman! I am a big fan of that movie. All the 80s post punk attitude is in this one.

[yinzerniner]

Unfortunately work has decimated the free time once used for attending indie and foreign theaters in the area, but the movies that I most remember sampling and loving on a hunch were:

Mysterious Skin
Devil's Backbone
Tangerine
Station Agent
Sugar
The Descent
Layer Cake
Talk To Her
Weekend
Rififi
Sex and Lucia

[velobaba]

The Big Blue (WUI.. Watchit Under Influence... much more fun and interesting)

Jacques: A story? Do you now how it is- do you know what you're supposed to do, to meet a mermaid?

Johanna: No.

Jacques: You go down to the bottom of the sea, where the water isn't even blue anymore, where the sky is only a memory, and you float there, in the silence. And you stay there, and you decide, that you'll die for them. Only then do they start coming out. They come, and they greet you, and they judge the love you have for them. If it's sincere, if it's pure, they'll be with you, and take you away forever.

[speedevil]

I haven't seen these mentioned:

1. "Go Now". Possibly the best Robert Carlyle performance. Superb.

2. Another Robert Carlyle film is "Marilyn Hotchkiss Ballroom Dancing and Charm School". Also has John Goodman, Marisa Tomei, and Mary Steenbergen.

Both are well worth tracking down.