Best Movie Rental Nobody's Heard Of?

I liked Arlington Road. Gimme a minute and I'll think of more.

Matt Dillon plays a High School Teacher Neve Campbell and Denise Richards ( who can actually act in this because she is playing an oversexed teenager) are 2 of his students Kevin Bacon plays a Cop.

Watch until the credits roll, ties up all of the loose ends - in the category of Body Heat and Double Indemnity

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It's the favorite movie of a lot of people.

here are a few more:

"curdled":
http://imdb.com/title/tt0115994/

"plutonium circus":
http://imdb.com/title/tt0114147/

and this one is a bit more mainstream, but if you haven't yet see it then rent it ASAP...."adaptation":
http://imdb.com/title/tt0268126/

oh...here's another great one...SLC punk":
http://imdb.com/title/tt0133189/

early Coen brothers

Did a painting based on the shot of G Byrne putting on his hat at the end.

"what's the rumpus?"

Kathy Bates, Rupert Everett, the actress from "Family Law", Lynn Redgrave, Dan Ackroyd, Emmas Samms, Jonathan Pryce, Barry Manilow, Sally Jessy Raphael...

A film that one needs to just sit and watch--I just loved it to death. Didn't change me world completely, but it sure brightened up a day.

As for Enchanted April--

Just get it-- happiness personified.

Josie Lawrence (From "Who's line is it anyway?") in a dramatic role
Miranda Richardson (in a sublimely subtle role)
Alfred Molina (as Josie's husband)
Jim Broadbent (as Miranda's husband)
Polly Walker (as a gorgeous heiress)
Joan Plowright

No action--just women on holiday in Italy right after WWI--

Somehow it just works-- they've tried a broadway play--but nothing beats the movie.

The Maria Sagerbrecht (sp?), Jack Palance, CCH Pounder film-- by Percy Adlon--

Great great film.

own the soundtrack. Bummed me out when 'Calling You' ended up as a phone company commercial.

It was actually a BBC made-for-TV movie, which is why it's not available in widescreen.

Even my husband (who hates chick flicks) loved this--very sweet, funny and romantic.

Enchanted April is a wonderful, wonderful feel good book. And movie.

it's lovely. (warning - nothing explodes, no violence or gratuitous nudity, so it might be considered something of a "chick flick")

How could you forget Alfred Molina and the bathtub scene? ;-)

Have seen it 3 times.

At least Netflix doesn't have it. Is it even out on DVD?

I caught it on the Independent Film Channel one day. Such a little nothing movie, looks like they spent 50 bucks making it, but so funny! I second your recommendation.

Never heard of The Telephone...will have to look for it. The Beautiful Thing is a GREAT MOVIE!!!! I LOVE IT!!!

... then you'll like The Telephone.

With Steve Buscemi.

I remember liking it, although I don't remember what it was about.

He wrote, directed & starred in it -- was basically just about an unemployed mechanic who spends all of his time in a local bar. Finally ends up driving an ice cream truck & having inappropriate relations with Chloe Sevigny.

Heartwarming story where Edward Furlong gets raped by Tom Arnold and gets help from Wilem Dafoe, the king of the prison.

Steve Buscemi's second feature as director. His brother, Michael, plays a teacher.

Funny as hell, too.

And Brain Dead / Dead Alive, Meet The Feebles, Heavenly Creatures and The Frighteners.

Of course, it was all downhill after that. Wonder what happened to him?

Dead Alive.



Sample: Hero is trapped in a room with 30 zombies and only has a lawn mower to defend himself with.

Kate Winslet is one of the most amazing actresses of our time. She just gets better and better.

how could it not end up as a movie?

btw -- I totally agree about Kate Winslet, especially in Heavenly Creatures.

Romantic...bittersweet...funny...Juliet Stevenson and Alan Rickman ..British but universal

Great leads, humor, and a story that pulls your heartstings.

Thank heaven for the British film section of my local independently owned video rental place.

Who else can make mumbling and half-closed eyes that sexy?

That the mumbly thing is the result of a jaw problem that doesn't allow him to open his mouth as far as it should.

When he brings all the boys back to the flat.....

The Coen Brothers' first movie. Excellent.

I think. :freak:

A great thriller.

It is, imho, their best, along with Millers Crossing.

with Dennis Hopper and Eric Bogosian.

I thought it was funny.

Alan Rudolph directs the lovely Genevieve Bujold

Wasn't Kieth Carradine in that one as well.....

Others are "Welcome To LA" & "Trouble In Mind."

Plus "The Moderns"--my favorite. Love, Art & Paris in the 20's. Alan Rudolph pulls off the impossible combination of arty pretension & humor. Plus atmospheric art direction & moody music.

Whalerider
The Eye (the Cantonese movie from 2001)

All were excellent.

and a gorgeous film to boot.

See it... now!

david

It's hilarious.

A true classic.

for a movie that didn't exist.

Or is that your point? ;)

Richard Linklater's animated course in philosophy.

alex jones even makes an appearance in it.

it's a great movie. And you can probably buy it at Target for little more than the price of a rental. (I got it for five bucks a couple of years back.)

I liked "Waydowntown" a lot.

Of course, all downtown Calgary is an office building.

Arye Gross stars as a gay man living in New York who goes to Montana to take care of his father. It's a lovely little movie...wonderfully drawn characters. It's a favorite of mine.

unrated soft porn - was able to rent it at twelve :evilgrin:

A John Waters movie.

I really enjoyed it, and I only rented it on a whim.

Help! I'm stuck in a k-hole.

I loved it.

you mean? Seriously great film.

it is a good movie. Joan Cusack, especially, is excellent in it.

you'd enjoy "Long Gone" an HBO movie which you can rent at more artsy video stores. Great little baseball movie.

Thanks

It was made by Mario Van Peebles, son of the director of Sweetback (and a kid actor in the film).

It is about Melvin and the experience of trying to get that film made, and it is really a good film (which is always a little surprising coming from Mario Van Peebles).

I haven't seen it in ages though.

Most people are put off by the title, but it has little to do with the train.

When I first saw this movie I knew I liked it and that it was something special. I had no idea it was written by my favorite director Kurosawa. Stunning work.

What Happened Was

Great flim with an incredible performance by Karen Sillas.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111689/maindetails

if you can locate a copy of "Amateur" by Hal Hartley (1994), you won't regret it.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109093/?fr=c2l0ZT1kZnxzZz0xfHR0PW9ufHBuPTB8cT1hbWF0ZXVyfG14PTIwfGxtPTIwMHxodG1sPTE_;fc=1;ft=74;fm=1

Re The Price of Milk, an agoraphobic dog... it's gotta be interesting.

Whale Rider
Iron Monkey
Bride with White Hair (1&2)
So Close
Pyromaniacs Love Story
Brotherhood of the Wolf
Amelie
Chocolat
Anything made by Jackie Chan in China or Australia
Fifth Element
Blade Runner
Wizards
Sorceror (aka Heart of Darkness remake)
Asoka
Ran
Run Lola Run
Battle Royal (1&2)
Road Home
Iron Ladies(only for the open minded)
Sky High
Bug
Big Lebowski
Samurai Fiction
Ichi The Killer
The Great Race
Dark Star
Dr Strangelove
Happiness of the Katikuras
Ju-Do (The original not the Buffy remake)
The Vanishing (original not the US remake)
Comfort of Strangers
Lagaan (if you have 4 hours to kill)
Ghost in the Shell
Akira
Spirited Away
Princess Mononokie
Kiki's Delivery Service
My Friend Totoro
Hero
Azumi
Pistol Opera (very very surreal)
Prospero's Books (very existential)
Trigun (Anime Series)
Cowboy Bebop (Anime Series)
FLCL aka Fooly Cooly (Anime Series)
Excell Saga (Anime Series)

wim wender (who also did "buena vista social club") did this film and i really enjoyed it:
http://imdb.com/title/tt0093191/

Castle & Dish - same director - Castle a little darker humor, Dish a little more commercial (Sam Neill)

Chorus of Disapproval - rent this if you've ever had even the most peripheral involvement with community theater or amateur opera. Jeremy Irons is sucked into a wild group doing "Threepenny Opera", and Anthony Hopkins reverts back to his native Welsh and chews the hell out of the scenery as the crazy but ultimately sympathetic director. Prunella Scales is also really good as Hopkins' wife. Those involved in theater/opera love it, those who don't - not so much.

I especially loved The Castle...

sorting out our sordid lives?

Only ONJ fans and gay people know that movie. :-)

Leolo (french candadian), The Reflecting Skin, Prospero's Books, After Life (japanese), Baraka, Flushed, Living in Oblivion, and one of my current faves: The Station Agent (which, granted, a lot of people know about).

Someone else listed Prospero's books. Thought for sure I was the only one.

Saw that one about 10 years ago, and only rented it because the blurbs compared it to Blue Velvet.

One of the weirdest, darkest, funniest movies I have seen (Does your father ever touch you? Yes. Where? In the kitchen). Has a pre-LOTR Viggio Mortensen(sp?) in it.

Two others I liked that aren't well known are Very Bad Things and Trick.

Frances McDormand with a boy toy.

Run Lola Run- German
Meet the Feebles (Warning, Twisted)
City of Lost Children- French
Amelie-French
SLC Punk

White
Blue
Red by Krzysztof Kieslowki

Shower - Chinese

YiYi-Chinese

Familiarity with Hamlet helps a lot but is not necissary.

Sorry wrong thread

not on DVD yet.

written and directed by Sam Kass, a producer/writer for Seinfeld

Excellent suggestion. :toast: I don't know anybody who's seen that other than my wife and I, but it really is a funny movie.

I especially liked Samuel L. Jackson's character (Do you have a library card? / No / Then you're a moron!)

I also liked John Turturro as Disco Bean. Too bad neither of them had a big part. Fortunately, Steve Buscemi as Jimmy's brother had a bigger role.

Yeah, he was funny too. The movie really had quite a good cast. Jennifer Beals and Anne Meara were in it too, right?

It's been a long time since I've seen it. The rental store where I rented it closed down a few years ago. I might have to try to get my hands on a copy somehow.

"My girlfriend sucked thirty-seven dicks!"

"In a row?"

Hey don't accidently suck any dick on your way to the parking lot!

Excellent, excellent HBO movie with Emma Thompson (adapted from the play). It's difficult to watch, though--I made the mistake of watching it by myself, late one night, and ended up bawling for hours.

Disturbing, yet fascinating (and like Heavenly Creatures, a true story).

Woman (committed Communist) goes into coma before wall comes down in E. Germany. Later, son tries to keep illusion of Communist state alive when she wakes up after Germany is united.

Ausgezeichnet! :thumbsup:

On Edit: 'Anatomie' with Franka Potente is another good one if you like German films.

Laura Dern

It's a documentary about these Israeli kids who go play with a bunch of Palestinian kids in the occupied territories. It has interviews with all the kids. Some of them are on the cusp of developing that hate for each other that you can tell is just propogated from their parents, etc.

The filmmaker is Jewish but he offers a really objective look at the conflict.

It was wonderful...
Here's the website:
http://www.promisesproject.org/

P.S. On a lighter note, I'll mention The Office, a British sitcom...Season 1 and 2 are on DVD. Funny stuff!

Liked looking at her, that's fer shure.

with James Earl Jones and Robert Duval. I highly recommend it.

who finds out that the woman who raised him wasn't his biological mother. His father had had an affair with a black servant and produced Duval's character. Jones plays his half brother who lives in Chicago. It's a very touching and funny movie as Duval comes to grips with his situtation. Jones is splendid as usual.

Very quiet, moves at a slow pace, produced on a low budget. I love it.

"My cat can eat a whole watermelon" -- Rubin

With Crispin Glover and Howard Hesseman. I think it's a hilarious movie, but it is very weird and definitely not for everybody :)

Hard to find too. At least around Detroit. I've only seen it at Thomas Video in Clawson.

and enjoyed it even :D

I wouldn't have any idea where to find it now that all my favorite local stores have been pushed out by chains. We used to have a great little video store that had all kinds of obscure movies like that. I know they don't have it at any of our blockbusters. (sigh)

:hippie:

but sort of hard to watch. I loved it but at the same time I hated it.

Gary Oldman, Sean Penn, Ed Harris in an Irish mob flick

i think the name is "the mask" not sure. it is chinese and won the international film award. i'm sure someone here knows the correct name but it is spellbinding. it is the story of an orphan and a master of masks. edit to add "mon uncle" and "mon uncle hulos" two classic wonderful films if you can find them they are french but no titles are required, made in the 50's i think

An elderly street performer who has outlived his wife and only child decides to buy a little boy slave as a "grandson" in order to have someone to teach his art to. After some time, he learns that the "grandson" is actually a girl, and his formerly affectionate attitude turns harsh and cold. When the girl's misguided attempt to win the old man's favor backfires, she is forced to use her ingenuity to resolve the situation.

Excellent film!

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1. Z: Not out on DVD yet (but out on VHS), this film has a mostly French cast, the script is in French, and the setting is generic European, but at the time the film was made, everyone knew that it was a thinly disguised account of how a rightwing junta destroyed democracy in Greece in the 1960s.

2. Hamsun I don't know if this is out on video or DVD, but I saw it at a film festival. Max von Sydow plays Norwegian Nobel Prize winning author Knut Hamsun, a highly-regarded writer and an absolutely despicable human being, who treated his family abominably and collaborated with the Nazis.

3. The Fringe Dwellers Also only on VHS, I think. The situations in this film about Aborigines living in a small town in Australia will seem uncomfortably familiar to anyone acquainted with either African-American or Native American issues. A teen-age girl is equally angry at the local white community and at her own family, for their internalization of the stereotypes about Aborigines.

4. The Bank When a young Australian computer genius demonstrates that his newest program can predict the stock market, a bank (run by the most heartless bunch of greedheads you ever saw) hires him. He and everyone else are making millions, a pretty young woman practically throws herself at him, and he proves that he is willing to do absolutely anything to retain his position. But the young woman becomes suspicious...

5. Dadetown: I saw this on IFC or Sundance, so I don't know whether it's out on video. This is a mock documentary about a small town, and although it initially engages the viewer with humor, it turns very serious at the end.

6. The Other Side of Sunday It's the early 1960s, and Maria is growing up in a family that's part of the fundamentalist wing of the Norwegian state Lutheran church. As she approaches the day of her confirmation, she struggles with the question of whether she wants to become like the adults in her congregation or try a different path.

7. Clockwise I don't know why this 1980s Britcom feature never made it big in the U.S., because it stars John Cleese, who would already have been famliar to U.S. audiences, thanks to Monty Python and Fawlty Towers. Cleese plays a (surprise!) pompous ass of a school headmaster whose whole life falls apart when he takes a wrong turn in a train station.

8. Peking Opera BluesThis Hong Kong film is a slapstick comedy about a traveling Peking Opera troupe, but it's full of wonderful gags that you've never seen before. There's one regrettable scene with S&M overtones, but otherwise, it's a delightful romp that had audiences at one Portland Film Festival a few years ago laughing themselves silly, not only at the gags but also at the charmingly awkward subtitles.

9. Where the Spirit Lives A Canadian film about two Blackfoot children who are kidnapped by white authorities and sent to a harsh boarding school far from home. After school officials lie and tell them that their parents are dead, they decide that they have no option but to conform, and the girl, in particular, excels in her studies. But then...

10. Strangers in Good Compay Another Canadian film, this one about a group of elderly women who are stranded at an abandoned farmhouse when their excursion bus breaks down. As they figure out how to get along until help arrives, they begin talking about their past and present lives. The stories are based on the real lives of the diverse group of actresses and are illustrated with photographs of them at various stages of their lives. A small, low-budget, but very touching film for anyone interested in women's studies or aging issues.

11. Supermarket Woman The last film by Juzo Itami, director of Tampopo. A small mom-and-pop grocery store is threatened by the arrival of a large chain supermarket in the neighborhood, and a local resident (played by Itami's wife Nobuko Miyamoto) volunteers to advise them using "housewife's wisdom." Like Tampopo, this is a comedy with serious and surreal moments and is probably the most internationally accessible of Itami's other films.

12. Peppermint Candy After a South Korean man commits suicide at his twentieth high school reunion, we see his life over the past twenty years in reverse (in much longer sequences than Memento), until we finally uncover the reasons for his despair.

13. Honey for Oshun All the people who argue about Cuba on this board should see this film. It's about a Cuban-American man who returns to the island to find his mother. He joins forces with a cousin, and they follow slim leads from one part of Cuba to another, in the process providing a panoramic view of the island and of contemporary life, both the good and the bad.

14. The Holy Innocents At first you can't figure out when this film takes place--the Middle Ages maybe, or perhaps the 1930s? Gradually it becomes clear that this story of tenant farmers in Spain actually takes place in the 1960s, when the Franco regime still allowed the wealthy to treat the peasants as virtual slaves.

15. The Thief In postwar Russia, a sociopath moves in with a young widow and her son. He charms all the neighbors while stealing them blind, and even starts training the boy in thievery. As I thought about this film later, it seemed like a parable of what the Soviet Union went through with Stalin.

16. The Cranes Are Flying After Khrushchev denounced Stalin in 1956, Soviet cinema entered a brief golden age, when directors felt free to experiment and tell stories that focused on people instead of propaganda. A young engaged couple is separated when the man is drafted to fight in World War II. After the woman's parents are killed in a bombing raid, she moves in with her fiance's family, and they are eventually forced to flee to Siberia. This absorbing story, beautifully filmed in black and white, avoids the typical Hollywood ending but still manages to conclude on an upbeat note.

17. Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors My candidate for "movie most in need of digital restoration," this 1964 film (in its original, undeteriorated form) lets you feast your eyes on the brilliantly colored folk culture and splendid scenery of the Carpathian mountain region of the Ukraine. The story is a magical realistic account of a young man's struggles to come to terms with the death of his first love.

18. Priest A young seminary graduate goes to serve a working class Catholic parish in an industrial city in England. He is appalled by the "laxity" he finds there, including the fact that the senior priest sleeps with the housekeeper. But he himself is not exactly following the rules, because after dark, he dresses up in civvies and cruises gay bars. At the same time, he learns through hearing confessions that one of the students in the parochial school is being sexually abused by her father. Although this film aroused the ire of people who had never seen it, most of the liberal religious people I know who saw it thought it was a thoughtful examination of the conflict between "the rules" and real life.

19. Les Miserables NOT based on the musical or the Victor Hugo novel, this is a World War II-era story about a French truck driver who helps a Jewish family escape the Nazis. Fate splits the family up, and several parallel plots follow the mother, the father, the daughter, and the truck driver, as they cope with the difficulties of living under a harsh occupation. A richly textured film with moments of horror and humor.

20. The Offiical Story The wife of an Argentine government official has never questioned her luxurious lifestyle or paid much attention to politics. Then she learns that her adopted daughter is actually the child of murdered dissidents, and that her husband was complicit in the repression of anti-government activists in the 1970s.

21. Letter to Brezhnev With both Brezhnev and Margaret Thatcher off the political scene, this film is no longer current, but it's worth viewing as a period piece and as an example of British filmmakers' willingness to tackle social and political topics that Americans won't touch. A working class woman in Liverpool has a fling with a Russian sailor, falls madly in love with him, and petitions to be allowed to join him in the Soviet Union. There's an undercurrent of satire as government officials and media types try to convince her that she's making a mistake.

Well, twenty-one films is enough. I agree with a lot of the picks in other posts, but I don't think anyone has mentioned these in particular.

i will rent some of your other suggestions

All funny, lesser-known flicks.

I couldn't especially get into Lost in America, but parts of Flirting with Disaster (like the line above) and the Day Trippers (Liev Schrieber describing his novel) still pop into mind occasionally and make me laugh even though I haven't seen either in several years. :D

and crack me up.

In Lost in America when she loses their nest egg--her husband is so mad he forbides her to say "nest" or "egg"---"when you go into the woods you see a bird's round stick. For breakfast you have 'things' with ham."

maybe i'll have to give lost in america another shot.

An Eric Stoltz trilogy, but all good movies.

I love Philip Ridley's movies.


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100469/?fr=c2l0ZT1kZnxteD0... ;fc=1;ft=6


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114099/?fr=c2l0ZT1kZnxzZz0... ;fc=1;ft=4

Mike Leigh directed it and David Thewlis starred in it as Johnny the fucked up homeless genius philosopher guy.

Megan is an all-American girl. She's a cheerleader, she has a boyfriend, etc. But she doesn't like kissing her boyfriend very much. And she's pretty touchy with her cheerleader friends. And she only has pictures of girls up in her locker. Her parents and friends conclude that she *must* be gay and send her off to "sexual redirection" school, full of admittedly homosexual misfits, where she can learn to how to be straight. Will Megan be turned around to successful heterosexuality, or will she succumb to her love for the beautiful Graham?

But I'm a cheerleader. I can't be gay!

Another great movie in this genre is Saved! It is a hysterical (and probably somewhat accurate) look at fundamentalist "christians".

Old School Spanish film by Luis Bunuel. Masterpiece.

It was one of his Mexican films. It has the absolute MOST chilling dream sequence ever put on film, and with no whiz-bang special effects, just utterly brilliant imagery.

:toast:

A Movie set to different aria's with Italian opera in the background. Beautifully crafted.

Veteran director Zhang Yimou this time trains his camera on a love story between a Chinese boy and girl that endures for 40 years. Starring Zhang Ziyi (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon), The Road Home tells the tale of Zhao Di (Ziyi) and how she met the love of her life, Luo Changyu -- a new schoolteacher assigned to teach the children in her small village.

Wonderful. Very sweet.

Also:
The Dish
The Castle
Saving Grace

Roberto Bengini - 'nuff said.

It's fantastic. Plus (!) it's got Audrey Tautou:)

eom

Korean flick. Wow.... um .... just Wow. Go rent it. Now

it was a little weird (something lost in translation), but quite enjoyable.

84 Charlie Mopic

A movie about the Viet-Nam conflict. It's complete fiction, but filmed as a documentary-style film. Compelling as hell.

Love's Labour's Lost (Brannagh production). Standard Shakespearean comedic fare, but it's set in France in the late '30's with the shadow of WWII looming and if that ain't enough, Branagh turned it into a Cole Porter musical! Brilliant stuff!

which might be the funniest movie ever made, and is similar to Amazon Women on the Moon in tone and structure.

but you reminded me of another movie from 1974, The Groove Tube. It featured a young (and unknown) Chevy Chase and Richard Belzer. The first time I saw this movie I laughed so hard I could hardly breathe!

but I've never gotten my hands on it to actually see it. I'll have to look for it again though :)

ultra-gloomy post-apocolypse tale that has more atmosphere than a dozen Lynch films, plus a quiet environmental consciousness. Australian flick. Love it.

And, yes, it kicks ass!

Stars Nicholas Cage...

good choice.

LIke Water for Chocolate

definitely

:wtf:

by Mexican author, Laura Esquivel

the title comes from a statement in the book that the passion of love must be boiling, and rolling.. like water for the making of chocolate.

In Mexico, their drinking chocolate startes with boiling water and the chocolate.

The book is about food, family, love, old customs. Each chapter is built around a specific dish, and includes the recipe.

If you rent it, get the Spanish version with subtitles. The dubbed version is OK, but listening to the Spanish is lovely.

Read the book!

I remember browsing past the listing on Dish Network

Forgot about that one...

Two completely different movies, but I love them both. :-)


"The Dream Team" (description from Amazon.com)

Michael Keaton heads an all-star cast in this wild and crazy comedy about four mental patients who get separated from their therapist on the way to a baseball game.

Billy (Keaton), a pathological liar with a violent streak, finds himself on loose in New York City with his fellow group therapy patients: Henry (Christopher Lloyd), a neat freak; Jack (Peter Boyle), a former advertising executive who thinks he's Christ; and Albert (Stephen Furst), a near catatonic couch potato. Faced with the task of rescuing their missing doctor from a pair of crooked cops, the group finds themselves sharing a series of hilarious misadventures in this farce "The Washington Post" calls an "irresistibly nutty buddy movie."

(Ok ... the plot isn't very PC, but the movie is funny.)



"Morlang" (description from Amazon.com)

Starring Paul Freeman (best known as the villain, Rene Belloq, in "Raiders of the Lost Ark")

Based on a true story, Morlang is a chilling, psychological drama about jealousy, betrayal and revenge. Successful artist Julius Morlang (Paul Freeman) has reached a crossroad in his career. So when his wife Ellen becomes involved with an upcoming new artist, the limits of their love are strained. Julius seeks refuge in Ann, a sexy new admirer. But when Ellen unexpectedly falls ill, the two of them must reform the trust they had lost before. But once betrayed, can you trust the one you love?


:-)

Christina Ricci in a wonderfully sardonic movie....

The Thing Called Love..... About the Bluebird Cafe in Nashville TN...

My First Mister with Albert Brooks and LeeLee Sobieski....

Ghost World, with Thora Bird and Steve Buscemi

Starring Stacy Keach and a practically uncredited Gene Hackman. You probably won't find it at a rental store, but it can be ordered via the web.

Many big name stars appear in the flick. Directed by William Peter Blatty, who directed The Exorcist, among other powerhouse films.

Cast overview, first billed only:
Stacy Keach .... Col. Vincent Kane
Scott Wilson .... Capt. Billy Cutshaw
Jason Miller .... Lt. Frankie Reno
Ed Flanders .... Col. Richard Fell
Neville Brand .... Maj. Marvin Groper
George DiCenzo .... Capt. Fairbanks
Moses Gunn .... Maj. Nammack
Robert Loggia .... Lt. Bennish
Joe Spinell .... Spinell
Alejandro Rey .... Lt. Gomez
Tom Atkins .... Sgt. Krebs
Steve Sandor .... 1st Cyclist (Stanley)
Richard Lynch .... 2nd Cyclist (Richard)
William Lucking .... Highway Patrolman
Stephen Powers .... Sgt. Christian

A scientist awakes fron an attempted suicide attempt to find he is the only person left on earth. The further he travels, the more he is convinced everyone else has just ceased to exist. Everywhere, the wreckage of planes and cars, and small fires burn from the aborted breakfasts people had been cooking as they dispaaeared.

He enjoys the solitude for a while, but soon begins to suffer the effects of isolation...

and then a very stange phenomenon occurs...

I saw it at a friend's house once, and have never been able to find it again. It was on a DVD.

We watched over Christmas holidays. Good but kind of heart-rendering. I still think Bobby should have run the other way (for his own good - he was so sweet!) That family was way beyond dysfunctional. Shudder.

I just figured out how to use "My Posts". I can't use NetFlix, if I can't find it in a rental store, I don't get to watch it. I thought the Mom was really freaky at first, then I realized she was the one pushing to get the family together, and her husband and April's sister were acting like they wanted to go, but really they didn't.

And that guy upstairs who stole the leg off her turkey! I have got to find that movie again.

Someone also mentioned the Fifth Elelment, but that one is on the Tube a lot........

last 15 minutes hits you so hard in the guts it stuns you.

God how I love that movie.

And it's totally not cool that Guy Pearce makes a prettier woman than I am.

You know when you're stomping your feet and trying to catch your breath that it's funny.

and any other movie Audrey Tatou stars in.

Albert Brooks and Debbie Reynolds.

Funny!

with Jamie Lee Curtis in the Heidi role. I hadn't heard of it until I saw it in the video store and rented it. I liked all of the Women's Liberation Movement stuff from the '60s and '70s in it.

It's got Eric Stoltz, Tim Roth, Bridget Fonda, Phoebe Cates, AND a cameo by the hottest girl alive, Alicia Witt.

I remeber loving that movie, but it's been an awfully long time since I've seen it. The guys thinks he's dead and in Hell, right?

Der Hauptmann von Koepenick (The Captain from Koepenick). A tough one to find but does have English subtitles. A German film from mid-1950's. Spoofs Prussian militarism and glorification of all things martial. Heinz Ruhmann is excellent in the role of a poor shoemaker who is led by events to impersonate a Prussian captain of the Guards with hilarious (and very educational) results.

Wonderful movie with Geraldine Page as an elderly women who just wants to go back to her childhood home in Bountiful. Her son won't take her so she hides her social security check from her heartless daughter-in-law and 'escapes' one day and finds a bus going to Bountiful. It's a real tear-jerker so grab the tissues.

Anyone else seen it?

whenever I see elderly women sleeping in bus stations, I think of that movie.:)

great movie about alcoholism - set on a reservation (native American) First movie i ever saw that i when i walked out, i immediately bought a ticket and went back in.

if you can stand anime - grave of the fireflies

very good film adapted from the short story "The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven".

I didn't think of it as a movie about alcoholism, though. Interesting perspective.

great cast, great story - part mystic, part real, great editing...it moves well... a story about two native American's interpretations of what it means to be a warrior

by David Seals. The book is much better, in my opinion (and David Seals hated the movie version) but I really liked the movie (part of which--the part where they buy the radio and bust up a radio shack was filmed in my hometown).

That movie is a masterpiece.

Fantastic movie! Stars Danny Aiello. If you like cooking, restaurants, etc. it's a must see.

DARK DARK DARK and funny! Espcecially when he's stuffing the whole raw chicken in the garbage disposal.

It has Harvey Keitel and William Hurt in it.

is when Keitel shares his photo album with the William Hurt character. That was pretty beautiful stuff.

Funny, clever and beautiful

I recommend that to anyone.

and Guildestern are Dead, to name a few...

Avanti, with Jack Lemmon (and I'm adding The Great Race)
Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation, with Jimmy Stewart

American Dreamer is not a "great" film...it's just cute fun.
I like that periodically.
Young Jobeth Williams and Tom Conti

25th Hour, The Fireman's Ball

Great spoof of several Hitchcock movies by the Zany Mel Brooks

Add these to your wish list:

8 Heads In A Duffle Bag
200 Cigarettes

Edited to add this:

Requiem for a Dream
This is a must see flick for anyone dealing with addiction

I loved Shallow Grave.

reminded me a lot of Blood Simple

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.....Andy Garcia...Treat Williams...Christopher Walken....EXCELLENT MOVIE!! :thumbsup: :thumbsup: