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Art Films Bucket List...limited release, independent, obscure, and rare

l0ck_0ff said:
Pan's Labyrinth was a realy good movie we had a whole section about it my senior year in english it went along with "sexual" things and parts hidden in movies and commercials and stuff if you understand what im saying? we did a whole study on how they hide "porn" in movies and commercials but not with people with objects... such as the cover of pans labyrinth looks like a...? take a guess ( Ophilia is getting re-born)

a pepsi bottle in a commercial explodng the top off looks like a male ejaculation..? get it? Pans labyrinth is a good movie but alot of sexual things in the movie
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Yes, a lot of very powerful imagery in the film, but not for 'sexy' purposes, I feel, but as allegories of myths and magic. So I wouldn't class the earth being a womb out of which Ophelia is born as porn, personally.
Having just been thi summer to the mountains in Andalusia where the guerillas held out against Franco's regime, I watched the film again understanding more about the political background and enjoying it all over again. The grandfather of a bar owner I met was the last person shot by Franco's men during that time, his father had to support the whole family by then labouring for Franco for bags of rice to feed the family on, they risked death by firing squad by hunting wild boar in the mountains to share the meat in the village, or for collecting firewood instead of buying it.
 
Fatman608 said:
I got to trow my 2 cents in here.

Dune both movies

Blade Runner

Love the Fatman
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Three good movies, Fatman. I remember the first Dune very well.

I really liked Pan's Labyrinth. I don't remember any sexual organs.
It did make me think of Picasso and Dali and several other artists displaced by war in the iberian peninsula. There are several disturbing works painted on the subject of the consequences or war, that I can't name at the moment.
 
Mike, you and Janine are going to draw me into a reverie of remembering europaische filme. LOL.

I was thinking about Trainspotting (1996) the other day, as I was typing The Lair of the White Worm.
 
snakewispera snr said:
You mean like
Arsenic and old lace 1944.....
no wait thats American..... LOL
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You know, Mike. I never really think/thought of British films as foreign.
I mean, I'm such an anglophile, they don't seem foreign.
I love Martita Hunt, Flora Robson, and Edna May Oliver.
 
On a lighter note:
The Full Monty
Waking Ned Devine
Billy Elliot
Mostly Martha
Eat Drink Man Woman
The Fifth Element
Tank Girl


I'm sure I'l think of more later.
 
It is hard being a Fat Texas Redneck here, but I did forget one

Jesus Christ Superstar

Ok I can't respond here anymore because I have seen way to many of this Art Films and am close to losing my Redneck stats.

Your Secret Art Film Redneck Fatman
 
Fatman608 said:
It is hard being a Fat Texas Redneck here, but I did forget one

Jesus Christ Superstar

Ok I can't respond here anymore because I have seen way to many of this Art Films and am close to losing my Redneck stats.

Your Secret Art Film Redneck Fatman
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Secret Art Film Man...you reached back deep for that gem!

EDIT : That made me think of The Last Temptation Of Christ (1988).
 

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What about movies good for background, i.e. sewing, reading, cooking...
The Interpretor
Angels and Demons
DaVinci Code
even Twilight movies; don't have to watch just sound in the background

Pans Labrynith powerful movie, I deon't think the point was sexual but mor social/political

Eric, like Guernica, I once saw a reference to a painting or photo called a fine snow, beautiful until you looked deeper and realized it was a concentration camp.
 
Fatman608 said:
It is hard being a Fat Texas Redneck here, but I did forget one

Jesus Christ Superstar

Ok I can't respond here anymore because I have seen way to many of this Art Films and am close to losing my Redneck stats.

Your Secret Art Film Redneck Fatman
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Well now cough up the titles because in my redneck territory most people don't know an Art Film from :shrugs:
 
vetusvates said:
I was thinking about Trainspotting (1996) the other day,
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You know, I've seen that movie something like 3 or 4 times (I have yet to watch it from beginning to end. It usually happens that I start watching it with someone from the middle to the end, or the beginning to the middle, etc... Though I have seen the whole movie, just not in one sitting :laugh:). Every time I see it it makes me scratch my head a little more, I love it :laugh:

How about "Nosferatu"! Dracula with character name changes to avoid legalities.

An interesting movie I saw is "City of God." Brazillian I think. Back in college my friend had to watch it for some class, so I watched it with her because I had nothing else to do. I didn't really know anything about it, or what to expect. I liked it, very interesting.

An awesome indie film, of course, is Kevin Smith's original "Clerks". Fantabulous.

I'm also a fan of Woody Allen films. I haven't seen a whole lot of them, but the one's I have usually intrigued me.

How about Kubricks "A Clockwork Orange". I haven't seen it in such a long time! I might have to queue it up. Haven't read the book in a while either.

Oh, and "Donnie Darko". That is one I had been meaning to watch for a long time, but kept forgetting about it, but finally got a chance to watch it a few months ago. Very good.

Another movie I've been meaning to see for a few years now but haven't yet is "Good Bye, Lenin". German. I'll have to queue that up too.

I'm going to have to revsit this thread the next time I am trying to think of a film to watch.
 
A lot of Cronenberg - Maybe start with Naked Lunch and Rabid

Tucker & Dale vs. Evil

Let Me In (remake of Let the Right One In - but with bonus Elias Koteas!)
 
cat bojangles said:
A lot of Cronenberg - Maybe start with Naked Lunch and Rabid

Tucker & Dale vs. Evil

Let Me In (remake of Let the Right One In - but with bonus Elias Koteas!)
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Excellent. Excellent. Excellent.

I loved Naked Lunch. I think I have been infatuated with Judy Davis in every movie she's been in. She has a brilliant flair for the comedy in any situation.
Where Angels Fear to Tread (1991).
Impromptu (1991).
Barton Fink (1991).
 
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