Not a must see, but worth seeing - Videodrome with James Woods

The happiness of the katakuris falls into the obscure bracket in more than one way. Not everyone will have heard of it but should def watch it. One of the most innovative films you'll ever see, a very bizarre mix of comedy, horror and in some parts musical.

just rented this based on these posts, and i just want to say thanks for the heads up. i really, really enjoyed this movie.

there was a video store in south florida when I was living there called 'Groovy Movies a Go-Go' and they had all kinds of obscure and foreign films.
And then they had one section with some really awful, old horror-type movies. I believe one of them was called, "Invasion of the Double-D Martian Women" or something like that.

84 Charlie MoPic is an incredible movie. it's a fake vietnam documentary that follows a recon team behind enemy lines, shot in blair witch style (it precedes blair witch, though). incredible performances by the actors, and it will leave you shocked and troubled. it's shot on a very low budget--$10k I heard--and hit me way harder than any other war movie.

I watched it last night, actually. It was very good, trippy. The animation reminded me very much of "Waking Life," which is one of my all-time favorite movies. If you're into weird/sci-fi/paranoia-filled movies, you should definitely look into it.

A scanner darkly is awesome! I just watched it and was blown away by it.

I also finished Mike Judge's newest movie Idiocracy and though it was absolutely hilarious.

Thirded - below is the timeline BTW - I can't believe someone figured this out. This movie was made for $7,000!


http://neuwanstein.freeweb.hu/primer_timeline.html

Repo Man
Vanishing Point
Dark Star
Valdez is Coming

Lots of great movies here. Some of my favorites that have fallen into obscurity are:



The Runner

Putney Swope

Eating Raoul

This is actually my all-time favorite movie. Don't read too much about it, just see it.

Ghost Dog & City of Lost Children are phenomenal. Christiane F.(German version), Last Orders, and Screwed are also must sees.

Thumping techno soundtrack. Explores the non-linearity of life.

I watch this often. Obscure?

Easily a top ten SciFi movie. 60 pages of Harlan Ellison's text fully fills a 90 minute movie.

He's not playing Bukowski either, but one the characters from his novels (although that character is similar to Bukowski).

Bottle Rocket was awesome

Romeo is Bleeding with tour de forces by Gary Oldman and Lena Olin. A 4-star script with all the stuff the kids today like: dirty cops, the mob, hit women, adultery, Anabella Sciorra and Juliette Lewis.

Bad Lieutenant with Harvey Keitel is a good flick. I'm not sure how obscure it would be considered though. Definitely worth checking out either way.

Obscure-YES,Revelvant-YES,Shown on TV-NEVER
Alice's Restaurant-Arlo Guthrie
I don't know why this is not shown every Thanksgiving. Hard to find in video stores.
Johnny Got his Gun- book written in 1938
Very powerful soldier story

Wayne Wang's "Smoke" with William Hurt, Harvey Keitel, Forest Whitaker, Stockard Channing

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114478/

and the "sequel" - "Blue in the Face"

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112541/

What that horrid excuse for a movie Coffee and Cigarettes wanted to be....

Age-Old Friends, also titled A Month of Sundays
http://imdb.com/title/tt0096774/

A great movie starring Hume Crowyn and Vincent Gardenia as two old men in a nursing home, clinging to thier independence and sanity.

While it did win some awards, I believe it to be fairly obscure, being that I'm the only one of my friends whose ever heard of it.

Gacy.

Jesus of Montreal

French Canadian (French Language film) that I saw this when it hit the theaters in limited release here in Canada in 1989, still one of my favorite movies of all time. Denys Arcand is an excellent director and I recommend all his movies, more or less.

It was subtitled in the theater which wasn't even noticable after a couple of minutes. Saw it later on video where it was dubbed and it lost a lot of the original performances. Get the subtitled version if possible.

Basic plot is that a group of actors stage a passion play and there lives start of mesh with the story....this sounds pretty hollow, its a very well written movie and a superbly acted and directed film.

Regards,
Woodguy

edit: just saw that crazy canuck recommended two other Arcand films, Barbarian Invasions, and Decline of the American Empire....I second these choices...very good stuff there.

can't believe nobody mentioned this, but Batman: The Movie starring the one and only Adam West. ridiculously funny. literally cried during some scenes.

somebody else mentioned "Afterlife" and i second that opnion, though i was totally depressed after watching it.

really?

really?

really??? i rented it based on these recommendations, and i thought it was really bad, but i kept trying to give it a chance. finally i just had to turn it off after maybe 45 minutes or so. i didn't find this movie funny at all.