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06-06-2012, 09:23 PM
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Carpal \'Tunnel
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Las Vegas, NV
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Re: A film that you would recommend that most people would not have seen or heard of
Tsotsi...
follows a young Johannesburg gang leader as he is forced to confront from where he had come. Another great Homeless children movie.
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06-06-2012, 09:24 PM
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#77
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old hand
Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: West Philadelphia.. Born and Raised
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Re: A film that you would recommend that most people would not have seen or heard of
The Lookout http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0427470/. A indy heist movie starring Joseph Gordon Levitt before he broke out again and Jeff Daniels.
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06-06-2012, 11:27 PM
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grinder
Join Date: Dec 2011
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Re: A film that you would recommend that most people would not have seen or heard of
Listen, I'm the motherf*****g movie master, sho nuff. So pay attention to the movies I'm listing, why? Cause my watch cost more than your car, that's why.
1. GlenGary GlenRoss - have to start with this immediately. Insta classic. ABC.
2. Oldboy - Korean film that is flipping twisted. Awesome flic. If you don't speak Korean then get the translator app on your iPhone and keep up, or us the English subtitles. Do it.
3. I saw the devil. Another Korean movie. They're on a roll. Serial killer meets bad ass vigilante. Not for faint of heart.
4. Sin Nombre - awesome Latin American gang movie. Really good.
5. City of God. Just quality.
6. Boy in Striped Pajamas. Heart wrenching ending.
7. The Wanderers. 50's gang movie with great storyline.
8. The Warriors. Not much of a hidden gem, but a gem nonetheless.
9. Swimming with sharks. Kevin Spacey is the man.
10. Pathology - creepy thriller about a group of med school students playing a game of death with one another.
Thank me later.
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06-06-2012, 11:55 PM
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veteran
Join Date: Nov 2011
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Re: A film that you would recommend that most people would not have seen or heard of
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Originally Posted by its_just_me
i've posted this in one of those movie draft threads but in case someone missed it:
truly amazing (and bizarre) movie!
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just saw "memories of matsuko" , and all i have to say is WOW.
so unique, so counter themed to its story, so sad, so brilliant.
a hundred thanks for this suggestion.
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06-07-2012, 02:35 AM
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Grotesquely Handsome
Join Date: Mar 2005
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Re: A film that you would recommend that most people would not have seen or heard of
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Originally Posted by MSchu18
Tsotsi...
follows a young Johannesburg gang leader as he is forced to confront from where he had come. Another great Homeless children movie. |
Heh, I watched this movie last night. Good movie, beatiful music, lead performance and visuals.
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06-08-2012, 02:20 AM
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grinder
Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: NC
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Re: A film that you would recommend that most people would not have seen or heard of
If Only (2004)
Definitely Maybe (2008)
Serendipity
Time traveler's wife
Tristian and Isolde
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06-08-2012, 04:22 AM
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adept
Join Date: Nov 2011
Posts: 700
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Re: A film that you would recommend that most people would not have seen or heard of
Primer
Pretty good for a 7k budget
WTF, just saw that the entire movie is on youtube ?????
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06-08-2012, 05:22 AM
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#83
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Carpal \'Tunnel
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: marrying canadian skoolgurls
Posts: 10,284
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Re: A film that you would recommend that most people would not have seen or heard of
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Originally Posted by MyrnaFTW
just saw "memories of matsuko" , and all i have to say is WOW.
so unique, so counter themed to its story, so sad, so brilliant.
a hundred thanks for this suggestion.
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you're welcome!
fwiw, i watched two other movies from this director ('suicide girls' and 'paco and the magical book'), liked both but they didnt rly come close to matsuko.
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06-08-2012, 01:57 PM
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Carpal \'Tunnel
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Solitary,poor,nasty, brutish, short
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Re: A film that you would recommend that most people would not have seen or heard of
Living in Oblivion
Hollywood loves making movies about making movies, and this one of the best. Steve Buscemi is an indy film director just trying to get through the day while everything goes wrong.
Bonus: Peter Dinklage's first film role as a dwarf cast for a dream sequence ranting about casting a dwarf in a dream sequence.
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06-08-2012, 03:59 PM
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Pooh-Bah
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Chicago
Posts: 4,151
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Re: A film that you would recommend that most people would not have seen or heard of
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Originally Posted by The_Dude_Abides
Listen, I'm the motherf*****g movie master, sho nuff. So pay attention to the movies I'm listing, why? Cause my watch cost more than your car, that's why.
1. GlenGary GlenRoss - have to start with this immediately. Insta classic. ABC.
2. Oldboy - Korean film that is flipping twisted. Awesome flic. If you don't speak Korean then get the translator app on your iPhone and keep up, or us the English subtitles. Do it.
3. I saw the devil. Another Korean movie. They're on a roll. Serial killer meets bad ass vigilante. Not for faint of heart.
4. Sin Nombre - awesome Latin American gang movie. Really good.
5. City of God. Just quality.
6. Boy in Striped Pajamas. Heart wrenching ending.
7. The Wanderers. 50's gang movie with great storyline.
8. The Warriors. Not much of a hidden gem, but a gem nonetheless.
9. Swimming with sharks. Kevin Spacey is the man.
10. Pathology - creepy thriller about a group of med school students playing a game of death with one another.
Thank me later.
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Nice list, GlenGary GlenRoss has some great lines, lol!
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06-08-2012, 04:35 PM
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old hand
Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: BET RAISE FOLD
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Re: A film that you would recommend that most people would not have seen or heard of
Just skimmed the Instant Queue. Here are my contributions:
The Edge of Heaven
Fatih Akin is big deal in Germany. He makes good melodramas and hip human comedy-dramas (Soul Kitchen). Worth checking out most of his films.
Pulling John
Documentary about the greatest arm wrestler who ever lived and those who quest to knock him from the throne.
Sound and Fury
Documentary about a medical procedure which provides hearing to the deaf controversy it creates amongst the deaf community -- specifically amongst one family.
Sherman's March
Before the days of video blogging, a struggling, hand-to-mouth documentarian lugged his 16mm camera around the South recording his thoughts and semi-romantic encounters. It started off as a film about Sherman's March and became a sort of video (film) diary for the filmmaker.
After the Wedding
Totally heart-breaking tear-jerker. This one should have you crying by the end.
I like Killing Flies
A fly-on-the-wall portrait (no pun intended) of an eccentric New York restaurateur and his struggle to hold on to his decades-old corner cafe under growing financial pressure. LOL at 'deconstructionist pancakes'.
What Happened Was…
The Tom Noonan written/directed one act play/film about an pair of social delinquents meeting for a first date dinner. As the film unfolds, the truth about each character seems to get further and further away. This is now on Instant Watch which is a real treat, because it had no previous video distribution to my knowledge.
The Square
Australian noir-esque suspens thriller about an adulterous husband and the perfect crime that goes terrible wrong.
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06-08-2012, 07:36 PM
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centurion
Join Date: May 2011
Location: Granada
Posts: 100
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Re: A film that you would recommend that most people would not have seen or heard of
The Wave. German movie about a high school teacher who teaches his class about politics by forming a dictatorship among the class.
Martyrs. French horror movie with a nice twist on the kidnapping/torture genre.
Tropa de Elite. Brazilian movie about special ops taking on dealers and criminals in Rio.
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06-08-2012, 08:04 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: ♥☮☺°
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Re: A film that you would recommend that most people would not have seen or heard of
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Originally Posted by Jazaldo
The Wave. German movie about a high school teacher who teaches his class about politics by forming a dictatorship among the class.
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06-08-2012, 10:09 PM
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Grotesquely Handsome
Join Date: Mar 2005
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Jazaldo
The Wave. German movie about a high school teacher who teaches his class about politics by forming a dictatorship among the class.
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isnt this akin to a teacher teaching Spanish to Mexicans or drama to teenage girls?
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06-09-2012, 12:09 PM
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Carpal \'Tunnel
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Las Vegas, NV
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Re: A film that you would recommend that most people would not have seen or heard of
Guillermo Arriaga Jordáns Amores Perros
An interconnected storyline of hyper realistic life in Mexico City... just a superb Film!
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