I didnt know name so looked him up and realized I had seen 4 of them


Kill List - really liked
High Rise - fun
Sightseers - weird , unique premise and kinda funny
Free Fire - okay,could have been better

I really like Red Rock West & The Last Seduction (1994) by same director is also great, although I reckon you've probably seen it already JT Walsh also pops up in it as a wonderfully sleazy lawyer

I gotta say I just can't take to Ben Wheatley & find him way overrated personally. I found Kill List muddled & pretty incomprehensible as well as boring. I thought High Rise was horribly pretentious and dull (although I've read it's actually a pretty faithful adaptation of the novel) & found Sightseers merely so-so although much better than his other films. I haven't seen A Field in England yet & am in no hurry to, tbh. Only offering of his I have liked so far was his ABC's of Death Short.

@Eleanor60 great call on Inside absolutely savage & relentlessly tense horror. It was a complete blind view for me after it popped up on my Amazon rec list & I bought it purely on impulse. I knew nothing about it beforehand & had never heard of it, was blown away by it, definitely second your rec.

Whoa, Inside sounds brutally awesome. Thx!

Highly recommended

Just a message to let everyone who signed up know that they can pick any remaining picks whenever

totally fine if you want to stop at 10 or fill the board.

After 24 hours people who didn't sign up can weigh in with their choices

My highly recommend and little known crime/thriller is Johnnie To's Mad Detective. The mad detective in question has the ability to see the inner personalities of suspects and co-workers, sometimes as many as seven distinct personalities. It's a brilliantly edited film.

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Yeah, maybe don't watch with a significant other though...

I love this forum. It's the only place I know where people know who Johnnie To is.

I've seen Mad Detective once and need to see it again. I couldn't really follow what was going on. As with a lot of Honk Kong films, I become so engrossed in the visuals I forget to read the subtitles. This one is particularly weird, and for me, that's saying something.

24 hours are up so i'll submit a couple of picks in spoilers.

the other pick is

I really like both mentioned films.

I will drag out a silent film made in 1929:

A Fistful Of Yen is a superb spoof movie.

One of my favourite heist movies is
Killing Zoe https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110265/



One of the most uplifting movies that I never tire of watching is the brilliant
Inside I'm Dancing https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0417791/

One I would have posted earlier, if I had more than one slot for dramas:



Old Joy is a really meditative, mellow, and beautiful film. It has a great soundtrack by Yo La Tengo, and some beautiful scenery of the forests and mountains in and around Portland OR.

The plot, what little there is, centers on 2 male friends who reunite for a road trip after what appears to be some time apart. The sense is that they were extremely close when younger... they were both idealistic liberals, maybe even radicals. One of the friends has settled into a more standard life... he has a pregnant wife, a good job, and a nice house in Portland. He still listens to NPR and maintains the surface liberal trappings, but is no longer the idealist he once was. The other friend is more lost and troubled... he is a drifter who appears to be pretty much penniless and homeless, and he still clings to the more radical leftist ideas they both had when young. So they have moved in different directions, and have drifted apart.

In a sense this is a love story between 2 grown male friends, which is refreshing to see. It is quiet, contemplative, and gentle. Not much happens. Many of the feelings remain unspoken. It's about aging, friendship, regret, and choices made. Old Joy is not for everyone, but if you are in the right mellow frame of mind it is a great film.

It's directed by Kelly Reichardt, who also directed Wendy and Lucy, another small-scale gem about people on the margins.

Tokyo Story has less than 50k ratings...

another movie i've always enjoyed that qualifies is

i was born in California but moved to Oklahoma when i was 8 and lived there until i was 18 and could make my own decisions.
Susan Eloise Hinton was the preeminent author of teen novels when i was in my formative years, and the fact she was from Oklahoma added to the appeal.

another movie that qualifies:

Here's a drama with slightly over 2,000 IMDB ratings. Moonlighting stars Jeremy Irons as the foreman of a Polish construction crew that travels to England to refurbish the home of some government official. While in England, Irons especially misses his wife and his home. This is a thoroughly engaging film and one of Irons' best performances.



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The Hottest State

Drama (I thought it was a comedy. It's truly funny)

Ratings: 2515

Directed by Ethan Hawke, some actor moves to New York and falls in love with a beautiful singer / songwriter.

It's probably not a good film for modern day kids. While this was done in 2006, Ethan Hawke deliberatly made sure that real land lines were used for this film, throwing back to all the silly subplots that come along with coming of age in those years.

It's warm, it's funny, and the film is brutally honest about the young spirit and how it affects young love, along with our relationships with our parents.

Living in Oblivion

Comedy

Ratings: 14,122

Staring Steve Buschemi, Catherine Keener, and probably a bunch of other great actors that I'm ignorant of.

Steve Buschemi is an independent director making a great black & white film. To put it lightly, everything that could go wrong goes wrong. Apparently some stories in that are poking at more well-known actors...

I will say this though. I've met a few indy film makers and this movie has every story I've heard.

Shutter (2004)

Horror

Ratings: 35,273

Not to be confused by the stupid American film... the Thai knows how to do horror. If you say you don't like horror and you never seen a Thai horror film, then you have not been exposed to the good stuff. It makes you think, is often well-written, and has unique plot twists.

This is probably the single most horrifying film I've seen. There are no real jump scenes, just a bunch of wtf is happening.

Tales of Terror: Haunted Apartment

Horror

Ratings: 334

A father and daughter move into an apartment and are faced with a lot of rules. They aren't allowed to move out until it's their turn, they have to be in before midnight, and so on.

You get what you pay for.

You can just find it on YouTube. Not sure why it isn't more well-known.

Interesting call on Rumble Fish. S. E. Hinton was assigned reading in school. Even kids who hated reading enjoyed The Outsiders.

Directed by Herbert Ross, and written by Anthony Perkins and Stephen Sondheim, The Last of Sheila seems to be lightly regarded with barely over 4,000 IMDB ratings. It shouldn't be: it has a terrific cast, a great closing tune that ironically comments on what has gone one in the film, Raquel Welch, fabulous wordplay, and a great mystery.



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