Amazing movies you'd like to recommend to everyone here

oblique strategies · Post by **oblique strategies** » Mon Aug 18, 2008 1:25 pm

Let's get weird...

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari -Robert Wiene 1919, Germany

Eraserhead -David Lynch 1977, USA

Fata Morgana -Werner Herzog 1971, Germany

Spider Baby -Jack Hill 1968, USA

Stalker -Andrei Tarkovsky 1979, Soviet Union

The Street of Crocodiles (& other tales) -Brothers Quay, 1986

Possession -Andrzej Zulawsk1, 1981, France

Aguirre, The Wrath of God -Werner Herzog 1972, Germany

Even Dwarves Started Small -Werner Herzog 1970, Germany

Audition -Takashi Miike, 1999

That should hold you for a little while... hee hee hee

oblique strategies · Post by **oblique strategies** » Mon Aug 18, 2008 1:38 pm

landrvr1 wrote:
oblique strategies wrote:I agree completely! Dawn is too cutesy-wootsy. The original Day of The Dead is so relentlessly grim, you have to take a shower sfter watching it!

Indeed, lol. For that reason I'm probably the only guy around that loves Fincher's Alien 3. It's just got to be one of the bleakest sci-Fi movies ever. From the moment it starts (Newt is dead!) to the very end there's not one good thing that happens. It's one downer moment after another. I can appreciate that kind of relentlessness. It's not compromising

Too fucking funny -I almost wrote the exact same things earlier! I LOVE Alien3 -it's the best of the bunch! Not only annoying Newt, but also lover boy: both dead in the first opening moments! Ha! Take that James Cameron!

It's one delicious bad trip. PLUS, the best production design, best costumes, best music, Sigourney Weaver never looked better. The list just goes on & on. Director David Fincher really started out strong!

landrvr1 wrote:Another fantastic bit of SciFi/horror B movie fare is The Last Man on Earth with Vincent Price. I'm also a huge Richard Matheson fan, and this little Italian production does justice to I Am Legend. I'd not seen this flick until about 5 years ago when it was finally released on budget DVD. Didn't know what to expect, but was shocked at how great it was - very bleak, very creepy. It's B movie all the way, but without the corny dialog and cheese. Much better than that Will Smith debacle - and the Omega Man.

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I was fortunate enough to see The Last Man On Earth as a kid. Perfect viewing for warping young minds. My mother still remembers hearing "Morgan! Morgan! Come out Morgan!" coming from the TV room! Years later, I was watching it & realized that turning the sound off during the voice over monologues had an amazing effect, & made it ultra-grim. He's just going thorough his bleak day to day rituals in total silence. Makes it really dark. I wish the film makers had caught this right off the bat & filmed it that way, if they had it would have become a true classic.

Richard Matheson rules. Born of Man & Woman. Nuff said.

musicmachine · Post by **musicmachine** » Mon Aug 18, 2008 2:59 pm

oblique strategies wrote:Let's get weird...

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari -Robert Wiene 1919, Germany

Eraserhead -David Lynch 1977, USA

Fata Morgana -Werner Herzog 1971, Germany

Spider Baby -Jack Hill 1968, USA

Stalker -Andrei Tarkovsky 1979, Soviet Union

The Street of Crocodiles (& other tales) -Brothers Quay, 1986

Possession -Andrzej Zulawsk1, 1981, France

Aguirre, The Wrath of God -Werner Herzog 1972, Germany

Even Dwarves Started Small -Werner Herzog 1970, Germany

Audition -Takashi Miike, 1999

That should hold you for a little while... hee hee hee

I was just thinking of audition but i couldn't remeber the name. God only knows what the other films are like then.

Action Jackson · Post by **Action Jackson** » Mon Aug 18, 2008 3:28 pm

Anyone seen Ichi The Killer by Takashi Miike? That's one sick and twisted movie! But funny in a weird sort of way.

spkey · Post by **spkey** » Mon Aug 18, 2008 4:06 pm

oblique strategies wrote:Let's get weird...

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari -Robert Wiene 1919, Germany

Eraserhead -David Lynch 1977, USA

Fata Morgana -Werner Herzog 1971, Germany

Spider Baby -Jack Hill 1968, USA

Stalker -Andrei Tarkovsky 1979, Soviet Union

The Street of Crocodiles (& other tales) -Brothers Quay, 1986

Possession -Andrzej Zulawsk1, 1981, France

Aguirre, The Wrath of God -Werner Herzog 1972, Germany

Even Dwarves Started Small -Werner Herzog 1970, Germany

Audition -Takashi Miike, 1999

That should hold you for a little while... hee hee hee

Great taste

Since you're into the Quay Brothers I guess you also like svankmajer's films

I'll have to check spider baby as I 've never heard of it...

I'll also reccomend Funny Games by the great Haneke but pls, watch the Austrian version

musicmachine · Post by **musicmachine** » Mon Aug 18, 2008 6:50 pm

Action Jackson wrote:Anyone seen Ichi The Killer by Takashi Miike? That's one sick and twisted movie! But funny in a weird sort of way.

I watched some of it a friends a while back but i haven't gone out of my way to see it since then.

Another that looks pretty sick is Machine Girl

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSpCWJnnWVI

thelike5 · Post by **thelike5** » Mon Aug 18, 2008 7:18 pm

Mike Leigh's "Naked"

Whit Stillman's "Metropolitan"

oblique strategies · Post by **oblique strategies** » Mon Aug 18, 2008 8:22 pm

spkey wrote:Since you're into the Quay Brothers I guess you also like svankmajer's films

I do like some of his films, I'd like to see a few more. If you like stop motion animation check out Blood Tea & Red String.

"Blood Tea & Red String is a handmade stop-motion fairy tale for adults.

Thirteen years in the making, Christiane Cegavske’s dialogue free film tells the tale of the struggle between the aristocratic White Mice and the rustic Creatures Who Dwell Under the Oak over the doll of their heart’s desire."

http://www.christianecegavske.com/Blood ... tring.html

spkey wrote:I'll have to check spider baby as I 've never heard of it...

I'll also reccomend Funny Games by the great Haneke but pls, watch the Austrian version

I'll check the Austrian version.

PS: thanks for the compliment

There are a LOT of good movies being recommended, & I'm looking forward to seeing those that I have not seen

thelike5 · Post by **thelike5** » Mon Aug 18, 2008 9:56 pm

oblique strategies wrote:Let's get weird...

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari -Robert Wiene 1919, Germany

Eraserhead -David Lynch 1977, USA

Fata Morgana -Werner Herzog 1971, Germany

Spider Baby -Jack Hill 1968, USA

Stalker -Andrei Tarkovsky 1979, Soviet Union

The Street of Crocodiles (& other tales) -Brothers Quay, 1986

Possession -Andrzej Zulawsk1, 1981, France

Aguirre, The Wrath of God -Werner Herzog 1972, Germany

Even Dwarves Started Small -Werner Herzog 1970, Germany

Audition -Takashi Miike, 1999

That should hold you for a little while... hee hee hee

Good list... might I add:

Chung King Express - Wong Kar Wai

Le Samurai - Jean Pierre Melville

The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser - Werner Herzog

The Best of Youth - Marco Tullio

Bad Timing - Nicolas Roeg

Pitch Black · Post by **Pitch Black** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 12:40 am

If you're on the documentary tip:

Standing in the Shadows of Motown - the story of the all-but-unknown musicians who played on the classic tracks.

The Filth and the Fury - the story of the Sex Pistols, insightful, hillarious and moving.

No Maps for These Territories - doco/interview with William Gibson. So many great quotes! e.g. "I see religions as basically franchise operations. They're like chicken franchises... But that doesn't mean there's no chicken".

smutek · Post by **smutek** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 3:19 am

Koyaanisqatsi is a good one.

Pitch Black · Post by **Pitch Black** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 3:21 am

+ Baraka!

smutek · Post by **smutek** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 3:24 am

I haven't seen Baraka - I was just reading about it and will definitely put it on my list.

veggieryan · Post by **veggieryan** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 4:01 am

RawTheory wrote:Sunshine by director Danny Boyle. Brilliant...

this is in my top 5 of all time.
everyone should see this.
classic scifi!!!!

oblique strategies · Post by **oblique strategies** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 5:29 am

Pitch Black wrote:If you're on the documentary tip:

Standing in the Shadows of Motown - the story of the all-but-unknown musicians who played on the classic tracks.

The Filth and the Fury - the story of the Sex Pistols, insightful, hillarious and moving.

No Maps for These Territories - doco/interview with William Gibson. So many great quotes! e.g. "I see religions as basically franchise operations. They're like chicken franchises... But that doesn't mean there's no chicken".

Another essential music documentary is Roots, Rock, Reggae. Filmed in Jamaica in 1977. I'll let that sink in for a moment... The Golden Age!

You get to go inside the Black Ark studio & see Lee Perry producing Junior Murvin, The Heptones, & The Congos who are all all singing together!

Witness Lee Perry rocking out on his Mutron Bi-Phase prototype!

Later you are treated to this dread slice of live:

"The boss around Ocho Rios was Jack Ruby, a tough, bearded, straight-talking record producer who was famed throughout Jamaica as a talent spotter. A weekly procession of young hopefuls came down from the hills to Jack Ruby’s house, where they waited for hours outside the gates for a hearing. On the day we visited, there were solos, duos, trios, with and without guitars, some accompanying themselves on matchboxes or newspapers or just tapping their feet: an incredible variety of real talent able to conjure up lyrics of meaning and harmonies of sweet subtlety out of their lives in the hills. If Jack Ruby liked what he heard, he would take the aspiring young reggae stars down to Kingston for a session in a recording studio. "

Really poignant.

This is Holy Grail stuff boys n' girls!