2 awesome movies you (probably) never heard of

[Taverner]

"Head" This was the one and only Monkee's movie. Written by Jack Nicholson, this trippy journey. It's a road movie, even if it doesn't seem that way. Think a road movie over a moebius strip. 10 points if you can spot Frank Zappa and Teri Garr.



"The Sorcerer" Tangerine Dream haunts this movie with Roy Scheider perfectly. It's all about ex-pats on the lam trying to move old dynamite. But that description doesn't do it justice.



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Any suggestions of your own?

[VMI Dem]

1. Ichi the Killer.

flash that glasgow smile.

[Taverner]

2. Excellent movie, but definitely not for everyone

The gore alone (and its pretty real looking at that) would turn off many. Then take the killer himself, who actually horrifies more than the gore - and you've got a recipe for nightmares.

[kentauros]

5. Sounds a bit like "Tetsuo: The Iron Man"

The few clips I've seen are pretty horrifying and such a weird premise, too.

[kentauros]

3. You underestimate how eclectic we Loungers truly are

I've heard of "Head" but never seen it (or watched it when I thought I saw it was playing on TCM once.)

Now Sorcerer is a classic! I saw it in the theater and the scene where they "remove" that fallen tree is pretty amazing. Of course, the part with getting the trucks over that river are just mind-blowingly classic

Sorcerer is a brilliant remake of the French film "Wages of Fear". Both stand on their own as edge-of-your-seat films, though and I recommend seeing them both

[Patiod]

4. "Last Night" and "No Such Thing"

Last Night, with a young Sandra Oh, and what would a bunch of Canadians do with their last night on earth?



And this movie got panned, but I really liked it. About a modern-day monster, and what would happen to him in a celebrity culture. The monsteris very misanthropic, and when my (fairly large) SO gets cranky, I refer to him as No Such Thing.

[kentauros]

6. Watched "No Such Thing" on IFC a few months back.

I wasn't sure about it at first (actually missed the first fifteen minutes or so) but it was compelling. Glad I finished watching it

[MorningGlow]

9. LOVE Last Night

[kentauros]

7. The Final Programme

Although when I saw it in the early days of cable, it had been retitled as "The Last Days of Man on Earth". Very weird film and I really don't remember much about it as I only saw it the one time, very late at night. I guess the sexual bits made it a late-night movie. I'd like to see it again; I love weird movies

[sarge43]

8. I've seen Sorcerer. Great movie, a real nail biter.

I'd recommend The Ghost and Mrs Muir and The Heiress.

[BurtWorm]

27. The original of Sorcerer, Wages of Fear, is also a great film

Made by Georges Clouzot, en francais.

[sarge43]

29. So I've heard

I'll have to check it out.

So many movies, so few life times *Sigh.

[MorningGlow]

10. Have too

[Taverner]

11. Both?!?!?!

[MorningGlow]

12. Yes indeed!

Dig deeper, my friend.

[Taverner]

14. Wow u rawk

Tell me - have you seen Magical Mystery Tour?

[MorningGlow]

24. But of course--I am a major Beatlemaniac

Back in the days of yore, before VCRs, my friends and I rented the 8mm (?) from the public library. Found out the projector didn't have sound, though, which defeated the purpose.

Saw it properly a few years later, though. And Yellow Submarine.

[Fire Walk With Me]

13. I enjoy both of them.

Here are two, shame on you if you do not yet love the hell out of them:

Amelie

Koyaanisquatsi

The latter only if you like high-art concept films. Amelie is truly wonderful and needs no warnings, only encouragement, that you see it right away!

[Taverner]

15. Koyaanisquatsi was amazing. Amelie was predictable pablum to me...

But that's me

Remember I'm a pessimist and a nihilist

[Fire Walk With Me]

16. Ah, no problem. Amelie is wonderful to many, and those same folks might hate Koyaanisquatsi!

(I own a DVD of one of these two- you can guess which one..."K...")

[Taverner]

17. Koyaanisquatsi is the one to have on DVD

Especially if you have the sound system to support it

Phillip Glass - I don't like much of his stuff, but when hit gets it right he GETS IT RIGHT

[Tikki]

18. Two made-for-television movies....

The 1972 TV movie "Crawlspace"...not the Kinski theater movie, but the
Arthur Kennedy TV movie...

"California Girls"(1985)the Television movie with Robby Benson..


Tikki

[Patiod]

30. My favorite TV movie: "Long Gone"

A young William Petersen, Virginia Madsen, Dermot Mulroney, Henry Gibson, and Teller (from Penn & Teller)

[NightWatcher]

19. The Matador with Pierce Brosnan and Greg Kinnear

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

21. Loved it.

Great job by Brosnan.

[graywarrior]

25. That movie rocked.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

20. Oh, I've heard of both

I was a big Monkees fan when they had their comeback in the 80's, but didn't see Head until the mid to late 90's. It was very late at night when I saw it, and after waiting so many years to watch it, I was underwhelmed. But one of the all time forgotten psychedelic hits was from that movie, "Porpoise Song".

I'm a fan of Roy Scheider(after all he starred in my favorite movie ever....guess!), and I've never gotten the chance to see Sorcerer, but maybe I'll rent it off Netflix.

As for my two, try "Thumbsucker" with Lou Taylor Pucci, Tilda Swinton and Vincent D'Onofrio. Also, if you can handle sex and nudity, "This Girl's Life" about a porn star. It stars Juilette Marquis, who for some reason hasn't been in many movies since, yet is as good an actress as Angelina Jolie and as attractive. It also has a great performance by James Woods as her father who suffers from the after effects of a stroke.

[Demoiselle]

22. "Lagaan."

I may be the only person here who thinks this isn't a well known movie....but, anyway...It's a Bollywood production from 2001 about a village in India during the British Raj in the 19th Century that faces a new and punishing tax, levied on it by the powers that be. ("Lagaan" means tax.) A young Indian man in the village who plays cricket talks the local British military types into a bet....if the villagers can beat the military team...they don't have to pay the tax. Young man then proceeds to teach villagers, young and old, how to play cricket...and they...well...it has a happy ending. It also has music. Lots of it. And I swear it's really splendid, not hokey.

I haven't seen The Sorcerer but I remember when it came out, and I remember the French masterpiece on which it's based...The Wages of Fear. (Starred Yves Montand, who could forget it!)

[edbermac]

23. Seen both, though I prefer Sorcerer over Head.

That scene with the trucks crossing the rope bridge was just amazing. I also remember another earlier shot shown at a church wedding and the bride has a black eye.

[NNadir]

26. Paul Morrissey's (Andy Warhol's) Dracula.

It was a hilarious send up of Marxist affectations.



http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1559408944/holly...

I love irony and wit.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

28. "In the Company of Men," "Baraka" and "Fitzcarraldo."

[peekaloo]

31. I still wince every time I see Aaron Eckhart.

Fitzcarraldo is a masterpiece.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

34. I just bought Herzog's "Conquest of the Useless" book.

It's his diary of the making of the movie. Looks interesting.

[bif]

32. "Robinson Caruso on Mars" & "King of Marvin Gardens"

And "The Quiet Earth"

[bif]

33. Delete

[mtnester]

35. Dutch

hysterical yet a family movie for the most part

Ed O'Neil, Jo Beth Williams, 1991