POST # 2500! Obscure Movies You LOVE!

[MarianJack]

Is there an obscure movie that you just LOVE?

I mean, one that you will NEVER miss or may possibly wear out the DVD, but when you mention it to anyone else, they say "HUH?"

Here are 2 for me, if I recall, both from the 1967ish era.

Fitzwilly. A Dick Van Dyke Christmas movie where he plays a butler to a VERY broke lady who thinks she's loaded. He and the domestic staff rob NYC blind to maintain her lifestyle. Barbara Feldon is the temp secretary who smells a rat. Of course, they fall in love.
It was also one of Sam Waterston's first movies.

The President's Analyst. James Coburn is the president's shrink. The "CEA" director is paranoid about him and the "FBR" is out to protect him. The foreign governments are also trying to get him and the villain of the movie is the "phone company". Godfrey Cambridge is the FBR agent who protects Coburn and Severn Darden is the Russian agent who tries to capture him. They team up to rescue Coburn from the phone company.

Anyway, those are 2 of mine. How about you? FESS UP!

[Hugin]

1. Currently...

"Tank Girl" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114614/ It's obscure for a
reason. It could have been so much better without the focus groups
insisted on by the suits.

And, as always... "Silent Running" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067756/
I can't get enough of Huey and Dewey.

[MarianJack]

3. Silent Running!

A great movie!

[Hugin]

10. Congrats on the 2500... BTW.

:thumbsup:

[MarianJack]

19. Thanx. I Never Thought I'd Get There.

This place is addicting!

[Radio_Lady]

109. I loved the 1974 Stanley Donen movie of "The Little Prince" with

Richard Kiley, Bob Fosse, and Gene Wilder -- and a beautiful little blond English boy who played the little prince. We bought the VHS tape a few years ago.

In 1974, my husband dubbed the music on a cassette tape for me and I wore out that tape.

http://www.angelfire.com/hi/littleprince/

The movie:

http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0071762/combined

[robbedvoter]

123. Me too. Taped and my little girl is crazy about it. read the book, seen

the opera, but the movie is still the favorite.
gene Wilder and his fox song gets me all the time!

[Strong Atheist]

2. The Stunt Man, The Gods must beCrazyI & II,

Alegro non-tropo.

[MarianJack]

4. The Stunt Man is a movie...

...where you can't believe what you see. Good movie!

I love the "Gods" movies, too. I don't know if I'd consider them to be obscure, though. At least not the first one.

Good chioces!

[Strong Atheist]

8. Thank you!

I had not heard of Gods till seeing it at a college film; nor has anyone I have introduced it to ever heard of it...

[ElsewheresDaughter]

61. great choice!....one of my favs...the anti-christ hah! i have one!....

i love this movie!

[benny05]

5. Being John Malkovich

It was the first movie I saw Cameron Diaz in that she wasn't a cutie...she took a risk on this one. Interesting, artful movie. I also liked John Cusack in it.

[MarianJack]

6. I Haven't Seen It,...

...but it's one that I'll grab from the shelf some time.

Thanx.

[begin_within]

7. Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!

[MarianJack]

14. Is That One Of Those...

...Russ Meyer soft cores from the 70's?

[begin_within]

16. Yes, it has a strong cult following. It has no nudity, just violence.

[MarianJack]

20. Russ Meyer & No Nudity?

Unusual! Kind of like dubbya & no stupidity!

[begin_within]

24. There are 3 big-breasted women in it, but no nudity or sex. Oddly then

that it's his most popular film.

[benny05]

68. Off topic

But I like your avatar. Too bad it's not what we had hoped for..

[ghostsofgiants]

31. Great film.

:thumbsup:

[conflictgirl]

66. That movie was amazing

Plus a couple of my airhead acquaintances have in the past said it was the worst movie they ever saw, so even if it's unfair that movie is now a bit of a barometer for how I determine whether or not I can really be in synch with someone. If they absolutely don't get the movie, but they like happy Sandra Bullock movies, we probably won't have much else in common either.

[peekaloo]

9. 'Matinee 'starring John Goodman.

He's a huckster film maker traveling around the country promoting his new film 'Mant' (half man/ half ant). Takes place in South Florida during the Cuban Missile crisis.

[BigMcLargehuge]

11. almost biopic of William Castle

good flick :)

[CanuckAmok]

26. William Castle rules!

Thirteen Ghosts and House on Haunted Hill (originals)

Mr. Sardonicus

The Dream Killer


Fucking great movies. And he was such a character. Wasn't he the guy who had a "nurse" on duty selling insurance policies in case you were frightened to death at one of his shows?

[BigMcLargehuge]

34. Indeed he was

he also made patrons sign wavers that if they died of fright they couldn't sue the theater. William Castle is the father of "The Tingler" and "Emergo", two film gimmics that will live on in history-

The Tinger - randomly placed seat vibrators that went off at specific times to make the audience member feel like The Tinger was latching onto their spine.

Emergo - A plastic skeleton that floated over the audience on wires in one specific scene of House on Haunted Hill.

[CanuckAmok]

70. William Castle lives on! Have you seen this?

http://www.devilducky.com/media/27970/

[MarianJack]

15. Sounds Good, &...

...John Goodman is always fun to watch.

[StaggerLee]

12. Ed Wood

I guess it's not that obscure but most people I know haven't seen it or just plain hate it.

Martin Landau is amazing in this film.

[MarianJack]

17. I've Liked Landau...

...since "Mission Impossible" in the 60's.

Didn't he win an Oscar for "Ed Wood"?

[StaggerLee]

29. Best Supporting Actor

Yup!
:hi:

[benny05]

127. I like this film too

And Landau was great...

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

13. Pervirella

Queen Victoria has gone bonkers and closed off England whilst going after the perverts. They form an underground cult and their leader gives birth to "Pervirella" - a potential saviour, who beomes a deadly nymphomaniac when her magic necklace is removed. For reasons not worth getting into here, she joins a merry band of men on an adventure that takes them round the world. It's mad as fuck, but very funny if you can get into it. Plus I adore Emily Booth who plays Pervirella.

Chuck and Buck - Written by & starring Mike White (also wrote The Good Girl & School of Rock), this is a fantastic black comedy of sorts, about a lonely, obsessive guy trying to reconnect with his (now successful) childhood friend after they meet again at a funeral.

Dougal and the Blue Cat - I don't know if "The Magic Roundabout" (a CGI film of it came out about 2 years ago) has ever aired in America, but this is the incredibly surreal early 70's feature film. It's crying out for a DVD release (especially as my video copy is 2nd gen and getting shoddier). Basically, a blue cat arrives on the scene and sets about turning everything blue (after successfully identifying several different shades of blue, each giving him a title ending in "King". Dougal is suspicious and ultimately ends up having to save his friends by going undercover (painting himself blue, that is), which even takes him at one point up to the moon.

(sample dialogue from IMDB:

Buxton: (singing) My friend and I are BLUE! BLUE! OH!
Dougal: We're blue. We're blue. We're blue. We're blue. We're blue. We're blue. We're blue. We're blue. We're blue. We're BLUE!
Buxton: My friend and I. My friend and I are one and only tr-r-ru-u-u-ue!
Dougal: We're true. We're true. We're true.
Buxton: We have an erren to be EVIL.
Dougal: We maybe bad. We maybe bad. But most of all, WE'RE EVIL! )

Bad Boy Bubby - Hmm. How to describe this. It's Australian. It's about a guy called Bubby, who has never left his dingy home he shares with his mother because she has convinced him the outside world is full of poison gas. She also has sex with him every night. Bubby pretty much only ever repeats things he's heard. His playfulness with his pet cat is basically nothing short of torture. But one day (for reasons I won't spoil) he sets out into the world and the world has to find a way to cope with him.

Body Melt - (I'd say Peter Jackson's early films "Bad Taste" or "Braindead" aka "Dead Alive", but they're not that obscure. This early 90's splatstick is lesser known though. It's about an experimental drug gone wrong, which is best summed up by the tagline:

"The first phase is hallucinogenic... the second phase is glandular... and the third phase is... BODY MELT"

There's also a Texas Chainsaw / House of 5000 Corpses style crazy family and (if you know the Aussie soap "Neighbours") a wicked performance from Ian Smith (Harold). It's not as funny or gory as Jackson's work, but it's definately a good one to pop in for a simple laugh.

[MarianJack]

18. Some Sound Like Fun,...

...but I can honestly say that I haven't heard of any of them.

Of course, thats sort of the point of the thread!

[Tyrone Slothrop]

21. The Daytrippers

One of my favorite fairly obscure little indie movies from 1996.

A bittersweet comedy featuring Stanley Tucci, Hope Davis, Parkey Posey, Anne Meara, Campbell Scott, etc. about a Long Island family who takes a trip into NYC to try to save the daughter's marriage.

[MarianJack]

22. Sounds Good,...

...with a great cast, too!

[Left Is Write]

23. The Girl Most Likely To...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070112/

Oh, how I wish this movie were on DVD! I'd even take VHS!

[MarianJack]

27. I LOVE Stockard Channing!

Lovely, Talented & smart as a whip!

I love intelligent women. For me, brains are a turn on! chicaAzul is not only the most beautiful woman in the world, but the smartest woman I know. WAY smarter than I am, and in all modesty, I'm no slouch in the brains department!

[deadparrot]

47. It is...

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000ALM4EE/qid=1133817251/sr=8-1/ref=pd_bbs_1/002-9019352-7932847?n=507846&s=dvd&v=glance

I remembered seeing its DVD release advertised a while back. :)

[Left Is Write]

49. Oh my gosh, I love you!

Thank you! Bless you!

I'm buying a copy for myself and one to give my mother for Christmas.

You've made my day.

[deadparrot]

53. No problem.

:hi:

[RetroLounge]

72. I loved that movie!

She was so good in it too!

RL

[bigwillq]

25. Congrats on 2500!

:toast:

[MarianJack]

28. Thanx, bigwillq!

Do you have any favorite obscure movies?

[bigwillq]

40. 32 Short Flims on Glenn Gould

I think that's the name of it.

[terrya]

30. "The Wedding Banquet"

Nice comedy directed by Ang Lee. Very much worth a look. :-)

[MarianJack]

32. Anything by Ang Lee...

...is worth a look!

[edbermac]

33. Koyaanisqatsi, Powaqqatsi, Naqoyqatsi, Baraka

Great music, great head trips...

[ksilvas]

36. Baraka, blew my mind. n/t

[MarianJack]

51. Haven't Heard of Them,...

...but we are talking OBSCURE!

[Radio_Lady]

110. Naqoyqatsi? That picture gave me a headache and ended up on

one of my Ten Worst Pictures of that year. Ugh!

Thankfully, I didn't have to suffer through any of the others.

http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0145937/combined

In peace,

Radio_Lady (radio film reviewer for more than three decades...)

[ksilvas]

35. Pretty Village, Pretty Flame...

This is a movie about the Yugoslavian War. It's a great movie,
done by a Bosnian, Srjan Dragoevic, I think it's one of the best movies
I've seen on this War. I saw it at the Portland Film Fest about 7 years ago, found a dvd of
it, yet I've never met anyone who's ever heard of it. A rare gem.

[MarianJack]

52. Sounds Like a Buried Treasure!

Thanks

[Dying Eagle]

37. Ollie Hopnoodle's Haven Of Bliss

one of two sequels to "A Christmas Story"


http://www.flicklives.com/Movies/Hopnoodle/movie_hopnoodle.htm

[MarianJack]

54. THANK YOU!

I always knew there was a second sequel, but never knew the title!

:hi: :loveya: :headbang: :yourock:

[Dying Eagle]

75. This movie is a gem!!!

If you are lucky enough to find it, you will love it!!!!

It is a Classic!!!!!

[GoddessOfGuinness]

128. I saw a Jean Shepherd story on PBS once...

It was a 4th of July story...Pretty short, as I recall...maybe an hour long. But it had me :rofl:

I'd love to find it somewhere...

[RandomKoolzip]

38. Putney Swope.

Greatest comedy of the 1960's, hands down. Dick Gregory plays a Black Panther who takes over an advertising agency. Directed by Robert Downey Sr. Insane, surreal, life-affirming.

Also:

The Chocolate War: a moving study of adolescent individualism and the mechanisms of grief, set in an all-boys Catholic School. The soundtrack is a masterpiece of tone, too.

[MarianJack]

55. When That First Came Out, Around 1969,...

...it was rated X!

That was before X meant porn. Midnight Cowboy and A Clockwork Orange were X when released, too!

[ghostsofgiants]

39. Now this is my kind of thread...

Some of these might not be overly obscure, but to your average filmgoer they probably are.

"Mulholland Dr." by David Lynch
"Lost Highway" by David Lynch
"Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me" by David Lynch (Lynch's most underrated film in my opinion.)
"Eraserhead" by David Lynch
"The Short Films of David Lynch" (Clearly, I'm a huge David Lynch fan, haha.)
"Pi" by Darren Aronofsky
"Videodrome" by David Cronenberg
"The Brothers Quay Collection" (A collection of their short films, some really cool stuff.)
"La Lettre" by Michel Gondry (A short film available on his Directors Label dvd. I'd highly recommend "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" as well, but I don't think that's very obscure.)
"Un Chien Andalou" by Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dali (Brilliant short of just plain surrealism.)
"Cowards Bend The Knee" by Guy Maddin (A silent film made in 2003, quite an odd little film, haha.)

There are a LOT more I could list, but I'm far too lazy. (Though if you want me to, I will.)

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

42. No "Blue Velvet"?????

(I can't remember if I've recommended these to you before, but

Tetsuo - http://www.mandiapple.com/snowblood/tetsuo.htm http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096251/
Tetsuo II: Body Hammer - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105569/

are blooming awesome.

Electric Dragon 80.000 Volts - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0276935/
http://www.mandiapple.com/snowblood/ed80000v.htm

is also supposed to be very good, along similar lines.

[ghostsofgiants]

45. Haha, shit, forgot about Blue Velvet...

And I don't believe you have recommended those. They look interesting.

[MarianJack]

56. Let Me Take a Wild Geuss,...

...You like David Lynch! :hi:

[ghostsofgiants]

59. What the hell are you talking about?

That guy's a fucking hack! :P

[ThoughtCriminal]

41. The Burbs

Critical and commercial failure. I love it.

We're the Lunatics!

[BobEPeru]

46. Alice in Acidland...

I show this to practically everyone who walks through my door.
also Zombie2, Street Fight (the Ralph Bakshi cartoon, not that crap based on a video game), and Maniac from the 1930s.

[newyawker99]

73. Hi BobEPeru!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[BobEPeru]

86. Thanks NY99

Before I read your sig I thought you might have known me from another message board. Thanks again for the welcome.

[MarianJack]

79. HI! Welcome to DU!

:bounce: :hi: :headbang:

[BobEPeru]

87. Hey, thanks

Love how active these boards are.

[MarianJack]

60. Actualy, I Enjoyed That Movie.

Corey Feldman (or Haim) playing smart? What a stretch!

[Dying Eagle]

77. I love "The Burbs"

A Tom Hanks classic.

[u4ic]

105. Sarrr-dines?

:rofl:

I love it, too. It's so damn cheesy, but I love it.

[SeattleGirl]

43. "Bagdad Cafe"

w/Mariane Sagebrecht, CCH Pounder, and Jack Palance.

[MarianJack]

57. I always heard that was good.

Thanks.

[Jade Fox]

44. The Love Letter

Only a few years old. Stars Ellen DeGeneres, Tom Selleck, and some other swell folks, about a anonymous love letter that causes havoc in a small town.

[MarianJack]

58. I Saw the Trailer Once,...

...but never saw the movie in a theatre!

[WeRQ4U]

48. Mathau in "Hopscotch" and Cusack in "One Crazy Summer"

One is pretty old and not really one that someone from my generation would like.

The other wasn't the success one would imagine from a film with Cusack and Demi Moore.

[MarianJack]

62. Mathau was always great to watch.

Haven't heard of the other.

[Fenris]

50. Psych-Out

Starring Jack Nicholson as the frontman of the worst musical act in history. Plus there's Bruce Dern, Susan Strasburg, and Dean Stockwell!

[MarianJack]

63. Haven't Heard Of It,...

...but that's one hell of a cast!

[RubyDuby in GA]

64. Clay Pigeons

Plot summary from imdb:
Clay (as in the title) is a young man in a small town who witnesses his friend kill himself because of the ongoing affair that Clay was having with the man's wife. Feeling guilty, Clay now resists the widow when she presses him to continue with their sexual affairs. Into this comes a serial killer who befriends Clay, even to murdering the nagging widow for him... but certainly not at Clay's request. But that doesn't matter for the police, as well as for a savvy female FBI agent who sees Clay as their prime suspect. Yet Clay doesn't tell them of his 'friend' who admits to him of his serial killings, primarily because Clay sees himself as somewhat of an accomplice, in that he seems to have introduced to the killer each young woman that is killed... in fact, the sheriff comments that he wishes Clay would quit finding the murdered victims, which he always seems to do. But at last Clay is able to turn from being the pigeon... to giving the film its very unpredictable conclusion.

Joaquin Phoenix, Vince Vaughn and Janeane Garofalo. It is hilarious!

[MarianJack]

65. Good Plot & Good Cast!

We'll have to check it out!

[masshole]

67. Tape Heads

1988 Tim Robbins and John Cusack play wanabee music video producers.
Great soundtrack, Who rmembers The Swanky Modes?

[MarianJack]

80. Thanks, Never heard of it,...

...hence, the obscure!

[elshiva]

113. I love Tape Heads! Thanks!

Also "Hoboken Chicken Emergency" a children's movie about a giant chicken in NJ.

[rzemanfl]

69. "Miracle of Morgan's Creek" circa 1944. Google it. n/t

[MarianJack]

85. I Did!

Looks Good!

Thanks!

[rzemanfl]

92. An absolute classic. Most libraries have it on VHS. n/t

[Faygo Kid]

71. Santa Fe Trail

With Errol Flynn as Jeb Stuart, Raymond Massey as John Brown and (sit down) Ronald Reagan as George Custer. An impossibly beautiful Olivia DeHavilland as love interest "Kit." Lots of fun, but the spirit captures John Brown, and so does Raymond Massey, and ultimately it is a disturbing movie. (Reagan had a lot of hair, I will give him that).

[MarianJack]

81. Was it dyed yet?

:shrug: :hi:

[colinmom71]

74. "The Red Violin" ....

Not very obscure, but also not well known, this is one of my very favorite films.

[MarianJack]

82. Don't Know It,...

...do you have any details??

Thanks for posting!

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

99. Man, I'd forgotten all about that - fantastic film

Just looked it up & it's not available in the UK, which sucks because I really want to see it again now. :(

[Radio_Lady]

112. Yes, "The Red Violin" was a beautiful and interesting movie --

That was 1998, the year we transitioned from Boston, Mass. to Portland, Oregon.

http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0120802/combined

Can't remember if we saw it on cable TV or in a theater. Too many films ago!

In peace,

Radio_Lady (radio movie reviewer for more than three decades...)

[Richardo]

76. 'Brother From Another Planet' and 'Choose Me'

Mid 80's gems. :thumbsup:

[MarianJack]

83. I Was Disappointed in "Brother",...

...have only heard of "Choose Me" in passing.

Thanks!

[rzemanfl]

93. With you on "Brother from Another Planet." n/t

[Beaverhausen]

78. The Station Agent

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0340377/

one of those fun, quirky indie movies!

[MarianJack]

84. I See It Advertised On Encore All the Time!

I'll have to check it out!

[AtomicKitten]

116. yep, good one.

[AtomicKitten]

117. The Last Supper

I could think of some folks I'd like to invite to dinner.

[Tikki]

88. Three of Penelope Spheeris' earlies.....

Suburbia
Hollywood Vice Squad
The Boys Next Door....





Tikki

[MarianJack]

89. O.K. Tikki!

Thanx! :hi:

[Rising Phoenix]

90. The Gift...with Perry Ferral

[LVdem]

91. After Hours...nt

[rateyes]

94. Matewan.....nt

[Guava Jelly]

95. Insignificance (1985)

This unique film takes place in 1953, and explores such themes as fame and emotional detachment. The four disparate main characters -- The Professor, The Actress, The Senator, and The Ballplayer, are thinly-veiled versions of Albert Einstein, Marilyn Monroe, Joseph McCarthy and Joe DiMaggio, respectively. When they all wind up in the same hotel room one night, the quartets' interactions with one another reveal fascinating aspects of their personalities, including vulnerability, naivete and guilt. But sadly, one trait is common to all four characters: despair.

[robbedvoter]

96. Ladyhawk - the most romantic movie ever.

early Michelle Pfeiffer - Rutger Hauer. (the movie that made Ann Rice write Lestat for him). Cursed lovers - he is a wolf by night she is a hawk by day.

[CatBoreal]

100. I *LOVE* that movie...

...took my Mom to see it.

Although The Alan Parson's Project may not have been the best choice to write the soundtrack....

[Lisa]

97. "Sex and Chocolate", with Dawn French

Proved to me that she can do serious roles too. If you've ever wondered about passing up a chance to have a different life, this is a good movie to see. It ends up being both heartwarming and realistic.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

98. "Her Primitive Man" (1944)

Starring Louise Albritton, Robert Paige, and the great character actor Edward Everett Horton, this movie is about as obscure as they get. I have never met anyone else on the planet who has seen this film and I last saw it broadcast on television in about 1961 when I was just a kid.

It's a zany romantic comedy about a guy who writes a book about headhunters having no knowledge of the subject and suddenly finds himself publicly accused of fraud by a lady who is a prominent anthropologist. To protect his writing career (and also because, unawares, he's attracted to the lovely lady anthropologist), he decides to take her on a head-hunting expedition in the wilds to prove his claims. He then dresses up like a headhunter in the wilds and allows the lady anthropologist to capture him (hoping she doesn't recognize him with all his make-up) and return the savage to society for further study. It's pretty wacky and a lot of fun. I'm surprised no one in Hollywood ever thought to do a comedy remake, perhaps having the writer be a guy who makes money writing UFO books and then, to prove his point, dresses up as an alien to dupe a lovely lady scientist.

[Radio_Lady]

122. Pictures on sale at eBay...

http://cgi.ebay.com/LOUISE-ALLBRITTON-Her-Primitive-Man-Orig-Photo-1944_W0QQitemZ7541183378QQcategoryZ60315QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem#ebayphotohosting

http://cgi.ebay.com/ROBERT-PAIGE-LOUISE-ALLBRITTON-Original-Photo-1944_W0QQitemZ7541554080QQcategoryZ60315QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem#ebayphotohosting

http://cgi.ebay.com/SEXY-LOUISE-ALLBRITTON-LEGGY-Her-Primitive-Man-Photo_W0QQitemZ7567703793QQcategoryZ60315QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem#ebayphotohosting

You can, of course, capture the picture itself from these on-line sites and use for your own non-commercial purposes.

[CatBoreal]

101. The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover

The wife of a barbaric crime boss engages in a secretive romance with a gentle bookseller between meals at her husband's restaurant. Food, colour coding, sex, murder, torture and cannibalism are the exotic fare in this beautifully filmed but brutally uncompromising modern fable which has been interpreted as an allegory for Thatcherism.

Stars the incomperable Helen Mirren

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097108/

[Blue_In_AK]

102. I am so glad you said "The President's Analyst"

That's the very first movie that popped into my head when I saw your thread. I LOVE that movie, even now. At the time I thought it was the greatest thing I'd ever seen.

[Chemical Bill]

103. Truely, Madly, Deeply.

It has Alan Rickman in it.

Bill

[vixengrl]

104. "Rowing With the Wind". A *very* early Hugh Grant movie

where he plays Lord Byron and is smashing--exactly how I'd imagined Byron. Elizebeth Hurley is also in it. There's Valentine Pelka as Shelley, and it follows the poets and their families and their tragedies as death stalks their children, and then Shelley and Byron themselves, leaving Mary Shelley to imagine that her creation, Frankenstein's monster, has leapt from her pen into their lives. I do not know why I love it, but I wore out one videocassette, and then rented it and bootlegged myself another copy. But I'm a sucker for the romantic/gothic atmosphere, which this movie has in spades.

[u4ic]

106. Skyggen af Emma/Emma's Shadow

http://imdb.com/title/tt0096116/

[Lydia Leftcoast]

107. Strangers in Good Company

Canadian film from the 1980s about a busload of women from a senior center who are stranded in the middle of nowhere when the bus breaks down.

While they wait to be rescued (this is the pre-cell phone era, so one of the women has to walk back to the nearest town), they figure out how to survive the night and tell one another their life stories.

The actresses were all non-professionals, and the stories are all based on their real lives.

[robbedvoter]

124. Saw it. Very good.

[Glorfindel]

108. "Oh, Dad, Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You in the Closet and I'm

Feeling So Sad" starring Rosalind Russell. A very strange movie, to say the least.

"Elephant Walk" with Elizabeth Taylor

"Bird of Paradise" with Jeff Chandler

"The Grass Harp" - that OTHER movie starring Sissy Spacek and Piper Laurie, with a neat reversal of roles

[XemaSab]

111. Shallow Grave!!!!!

Ewan MacGregor, Christopher Eccleston, Kerry Fox....

(BTW, the President's Analyst is a GREAT FILM!)

[AtomicKitten]

115. yes, good movie

[XemaSab]

119. Spoiler:

Obi-Wan gets the dough. :D

[Arkham House]

114. Three Strangers

A Warner Brothers film of the Forties--maybe *the* Warner Brothers film, all the better for not being famous. It does have Greenstreet and Lorre, as well as Geraldine Fitzgerald, as three people who find themselves with a winning Irish Sweepstakes ticket...very atmospheric, in that old-fashioned--but utterly cool--black-and-white way they could do it back then...

[bigwillq]

118. Eve's Bayou

Hope it wasn't mentioned already.

[Chicago Democrat]

120. Desperate Living!

not so obscure. But I love it!



"Tell Your Mother I HATE HER! TELL YOUR MOTHER I HATE YOU!"

[waiting for hope]

121. Labyrinth and the first Dune.......

[Marie26]

125. Mumford

Very sweet, funny movie that apparantly no one has seen but me. I also loved "The Station Agent," "You Can Count On Me" & "Spring Forward" - all are character-driven indie films where people, you know, talk.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

126. The President's Analyst

Trucks with "TPC" written on them. :7

[GoddessOfGuinness]

129. My Fellow Americans

Jack Lemmon and James Garner playing ex-presidents from opposing parties who are forced to work together when their lives are suddenly in jeopardy.

Congrats on 2500! :toast:

[The Great Escape]

130. "Hope and Glory"....

a young boy comes of age in World War II London.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093209/