Rare movies you have stumbled upon....

I remember watching loaRAB of films when I was younger....most of them were on Channel 4, on a Sunday afternoon after The Tube and the Waltons, etc. I stumbled on them by chance and because I was so young I just watched them without really knowing why...

To name but a few...

On Golden Pond
Silent Running (on a space ship with plants growing???)
When the Wind Blows
Tarka the Otter
Some weird dubbed film about the journey of a "message in a bottle"

Also, a few years ago, the wife chose to watch "Amelie" in the cinema during a bumper "cinema saturday". I'd never heard of it and was told it was a French film with subtitles....."hear we go!" I thought.....how wrong I was....what a great film!!!! Much better than A.I. which was one of the other films we saw that same day...
 
Brick
its a high school film with a twist...its a neo-noir, hardboiled detective story set in high school.
its got a bunch of semi-well known teen actors from shows like Heroes, 3rd Rock from the sun, Lost, Roswell, etc.

Entertainment Weekly voted it as its 37th best high school film, even though its only been out a year.
its influenced by The Maltese Falcon a bit, and has many references to it
 
Went into the locan indian and asked for a tarka ............

the guy behing the counter said " do you mean a

tikka"..................................

I said " no it's like a tikka

but .........................................................................................

................................................................................................

. a little otter" !!

:D
 
Rare?
It's a very well known film!:p

Another Day In Paradise starring James WooRAB is a classic low-life crime film, written by a guy who used to hang around with real life gangsters.

Versus - excellently funny & stylish Japanese gangster-zombie-samurai film.
& 3 excellent horrors:
They
Dead End
The Eye
 
Two I'd never heard of, but stumbled upon completely by chance flicking channels on the Tv when I couldn't sleep and really enjoyed, The Boondock Saints (again) and Cube (a group of strangers wake up trapped in a maze with no idea of how they got there or why they're there)
 
Has anyone else seen a made for TV movie from the mid 90s of 'Harrison Bergeron', the Kurt Vonnegut short story? It had Sean Astn in the title role. I saw it on TV about 10 yeras ago and never again. I managed to get an NTSC American copy of it on VHS, but I'd love the DVD.
 
Cube was a good one. The 2 sequels (sequel and prequel actually) were good as well - a bit gruesome in places.
I can recommend Cypher (have I mentioned that already - I've mentioned it somewhere on RAB!) It's a good conspiracy nothing-is-what-it-seems thriller with a great atmosphere.
What was that other one called about a guy who was so paranoid about being convicted for a crime he didn't commit that he filmed himself continuously and kept a libraray of archive videos as alibis? - that's a great one.
 
Malpertuis with Orson Welles

The Colour of Pommegranates
Legend of the Suram Fortress Paradjanov

Why Has Bodhidharma Left for the East?

Orphee
Beauty and the Beast - Cocteau - VERY worthwhile movies, his ideas have been nicked by many film makers.

Nosferatu - both the original and the beautiful remake by Werner Herzog.

Koyaanisqatsi (sp?) and the others, can't remember the dir. but they are stunning films.

The Haunting (original 1963 version not the pitiful remake) - scariest film I ever saw.

The Haunted - a made for tv movie, really scary.
 
A few of my favorite less popular films that ive stumbled across in recent years are

The devils backbone - superb Spanish Ghost story.

Shadow of the vampire - you have to watch this just for Willem Dafoe Amazing acting, very surreal and a real diamond of a film.

American Psycho - Christian Bale will blow you away as Patrick Bateman, surprisingly as an american psycho.

The man who wasnt there - Billy bob Thornton is great in this.

Love and sex - My god a romantic comedy i actually like!!!:eek: I had never heard of this until a female friend insisted i watch it:mad: ( i had no choice), and to my horror it was good.
 
I saw titanic on my 2 disc special edition, and the ending with that sad music by james horner is so depressing and nearly makes me cry and i go awwwwwwwww because i dont want to make a scene.
 
A film I'd never heard of popped up late at night on one of the channels. It's a TV movie starring Emma Thompson called 'Wit'. It's about a literary professor coming to terms with her life after she's diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer. Had it been a full blown movie I'm pretty sure she'd have got the Oscar for it. Quite an amazing piece of acting, and a little gem of a movie.

RegarRAB

Mark
 
One of my favourite films that I stumbled upon was a french one called La Haine. Having lived in Paris, I could see where the film was coming from. Good film.
 
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