Looking for strange or off-beat modern films
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Topic: Looking for strange or off-beat modern films
Posted By: Logan
Subject: Looking for strange or off-beat modern films
Date Posted: December 30 2018 at 12:58
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A few of the last decade or so that immediately spring to mind are: The Lobster (also loved Yorgos Lanthimos' Dogtooth and enjoyed The Killing of a Sacred Deer very much). The Bothersome Man: Under the Skin: High-Rise: |
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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: January 09 2019 at 12:21
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Sorry if this was too vague, and perhaps I should have left the, I think, remarkable Under the Skin off the list to focus more on films of a dystopian black comedy bent, which would include films such as A Clockwork Orange, Brazil, Delicatessen, and A Boy and His Dog. Recommendations from any era would be appreciated, and feel free to mention any films that you think would appeal to someone who is into any such films. I focused on modern originally since I have seen so many films from earlier times, and so I thought I'd be rather less likely to be familiar with ones from the past decade or so. |
Posted By: Argo2112
Date Posted: January 09 2019 at 12:28
^ you do realize now that I have seen that picture of Sean Connery I can never un-see it, right? 
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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: January 09 2019 at 12:42
^ Zardoz would be pleased. It's far too manly for some people. ;)  |
Posted By: TCat
Date Posted: January 09 2019 at 16:45
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I love the Coen Brothers movies, even the ones that are more off beat. They have a new one that is quite an off-beat western called "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs". I totally enjoyed it. There was one released several years ago called "The Signal" that I got as a screener which I didn't expect a lot from, but it was free so I watched it. Maybe it was because I wasn't expecting much, but part of it was a complete surprise to me that I definitely didn't expect. There were 3 sections to the movie, each directed by a different director. The middle section was so violent, dark and hilarious, especially for a sci-fi/horror type movie. I mean, how many zombie inspired movies from 2007 tells the story from the zombie's perspective (okay so they are not really zombies, but they sort of are). Anyway, the movie is worth it just for the middle part if nothing else. ------------- https://ibb.co/8x0xjR0" rel="nofollow">  |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: January 10 2019 at 06:19
| Thanks, TCat. I also love the Coen Brothers and probably will get down to "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs" today, which I've had lined up on Netflix since it became available. I started watching another the Signal at some time (a 2014 sci-fi one), but the 2007 horror one of which thou speaketh looks interesting. By the way, one of my favourite actual zombie films is The Girl With All the Gifts, and for a zombie TV series, I've often plugged Charlie Brooker's Dead Set (Big Brother meets zombies). |
Posted By: TCat
Date Posted: January 10 2019 at 09:19
Okay those sound like a couple I want to check out for sure. ------------- https://ibb.co/8x0xjR0" rel="nofollow"> |
Logan wrote:Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: January 10 2019 at 10:32
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Ramble alert: Hopefully if you ever catch them they will appeal. Both used to be on Netflix Canada, but "The Girl With All the Gifts" isn't there anymore. The Korean "Train to Busan: is, and that's good. "The Host" is a really good Korean monster movie with humour still on Netflix. Perhaps my absolute favourite zombie TV show has been the British "In the Flesh", which sadly was cancelled before series three. And in sort of Zombie-Related, I adore Les Revenants. I thought of another quite modern one just now that I think would have been worth mentioning: The Japanese trilogy, 20th Century Boys. Mind you, I've never met anyone who knows it or likes it (I caught the first two on the plane when flying to Japan). I'm into a wide variety of film, but I do like off beat ones such as Coen Brothers ones, Todd Solandz, David Cronenberg, Terry Gilliam, Jeunet et Caro, David Lynch, Lars von Trier ones, and films like Donnie Darko (which I find Black Mirror's Bandersnatch very reminiscent of in part) and films like Mr. Nobody, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless mind, Synecdoche, New York, Oldboy (Korean), The Three Flavours Cornetto Trilogy etc, and stuff like Zardoz of course, of which my avatar scares some people. Side-side Note: It's been cool getting to know what kinds of films people like here -- I expect that I lean towards Art House films and quirky things more than most here, but I like to think of myself as open minded and willing to try a wide variety of things. It's to be expected at a music forum, but I do sometimes wish that we had more film, TV and novels discussion and deep dives here into such subjects, though I usually have a few people to rap about such stuff with. Some of us should get together, via skype or whatever, and make some podcasts. |
Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: January 10 2019 at 13:55
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I have been unable to find a copy...but my friend claims that 'Southbound' is a good strange horror film. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4935334/ ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: dwill123
Date Posted: January 10 2019 at 16:53
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: January 10 2019 at 17:41
hahaha ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: January 11 2019 at 13:06
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^^^ Southbound looks good. ^^ I've seen Putney Swope, very different than what I was expecting originally, but a good film for sure (I like satirical films). Another classic that would fit generally is Doctor Strangelove, and Woody Allen's Sleeper for that matter. I've finally seen "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs" and liked it very much. I'm into a wide variety of film -- I had a serious Art House cinema phase, but sci-fi/horror/fantasy is kind of my comfort food. Being off-beat, or just plain off myself, I am very into off beat ones such as Coen Brothers ones, Todd Solandz, David Cronenberg (and his son's film Antiviral) Terry Gilliam, Jeunet et Caro, David Lynch, Lars von Trier ones, and films like Donnie Darko (which I find Black Mirror's Bandersnatch very reminiscent of in part) and films like Mr. Nobody, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless mind, Synecdoche, New York, Oldboy (Korean), The Three Flavours Cornetto Trilogy etc, and stuff like Zardoz of course, of which my avatar scares some people. And films like Battle Royale and Quentin Tarantino films (I really love Kill Bill). There is so much great for me stuff over the decades, but I am finding it harder to find movies that feel "fresh" to me. I've watched so much over the years.... |
Posted By: TCat
Date Posted: January 11 2019 at 13:26
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Honestly (and this will get me hate mail for sure) I am sick of all the super hero movies. I would rather find a great TV series like The Haunting of Hill House or Hannibal than go to the movies anymore. There was a time when I couldn't stand to watch TV, but things have done a complete 180 for me (or 360 or wtf-ever) As far as newer movies, I usually only look for the ones that seem to be original, quirky, or done by filmmakers that I appreciate just like Logan said. ------------- https://ibb.co/8x0xjR0" rel="nofollow"> |
Posted By: TCat
Date Posted: August 15 2019 at 18:56
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What does a grifter, an astronaut, Walker Texas Ranger, Lens Crafters, an ice cream truck, magic and killing a man with a shoe have in common? Perpetual Grace Ltd. Just finished what I hope is only the first season of several seasons to come of Perpetual Grace Ltd. What a whacky, crazy, fun, tense and well acted series. It would do no good to explain it, you just have to see it. It is so far out there, yet it all makes sense. Highly recommended, but most people probably won't get it.------------- https://ibb.co/8x0xjR0" rel="nofollow"> |
Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: August 15 2019 at 19:44
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I'm not that big into comic book movies either even though I have seen a few. I didn't even see the latest Avengers which set all sorts of box office records. There's a few that I thought were really good but then again I haven't seen many(my brother is the comic book geek not me). |
Posted By: MortSahlFan
Date Posted: August 16 2019 at 06:35
If you liked "Dogtooth", you might like "The Castle of Purity" ------------- https://www.youtube.com/c/LoyalOpposition https://www.scribd.com/document/382737647/MortSahlFan-Song-List |
Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: August 16 2019 at 07:29
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Drømmeslottet, i have not seen it but it is famed to be wierd and unusual. Kind of like a predesessor to the Bothersome Man (Den Brysomme Mannen). I also reccomdnd Veiviseren ( Ofelas) epic sami arctic chase and hunt film with mystical undertones. -------------  
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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: August 16 2019 at 11:21
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^^ Love Dogtooth, will look for The Castle of Purity. ^ Will look into Drømmeslottet and Veiviseren.
There have been some superhero movies and shows that I've really enjoyed, but mostly I avoid them. As an offbeat superpowers show, I loved an English one called Misfits. And I enjoyed The Umbrella Academy (which features someone from Misfits). In film, I liked various graphic novel inspired ones. There's too much of it around now for my interests, and I rarely go to the cinema anymore (last time I did it was because my son wanted to see an Avengers film). I found it quite boring.
That definitely looks interesting to me; I just have to find a way to see it. Some of my favourite modern series have been Fargo, Les Revenants (The Returned), Westworld, Äkta människor (Real Humans), Black Mirror, Utopia, Inside No. 9, Kingdom (gorgeous cinematography in this Korean historical fiction zombie series), The Bridge, Dead Set, Misfits, In the Flesh and Stranger Things. I need something fresh. I have been watching Peaky Blinders on Netflix. One I'm looking forward to is The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance. I mostly watch things on Netflix Canada, but I find it hard to find something that really interests me most of the time (seen some good documentary series on it, a fave being Wild Wild Country). I definitely tend to enjoy quirky things, black comedies, unusual dramas and have long had something of an art-house bent. Where I used to live we had cinemas that played really thought-provoking and interesting films, and libraries that had huge numbers of interesting videos and DVDs from around the world. For a while I subscribed to something called Hollywood Suite, which showed many superb films, but I stopped subscribing to the service because I'd already seen so very many of them. That said, it was nice to revisit many old favourites on it such as Delicatessen and Time Bandits. |
Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: August 16 2019 at 12:28
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I saw an ad for Perpetual Grace but it looked like a crime drama.....but after your comments I'll ck it out. (Epix is an xtra fee...sadly..) I recommend 'Preacher'....but it's also an acquired taste. 'Lodge 49' is fun in a quirky comedy manner...and 'The Rook' is a decent Brit sci-fi thing with a secret agency of mutant spies. btw..those are all cable series... 'Identity' with John Cusack.....a strange thriller. I also liked 'The Raven' where he plays Edgar Allen Poe. ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: Howard the Duck
Date Posted: August 16 2019 at 13:44
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------------- MacGyver can do a super guitar solo with a broom and an elastic band. Can you do better? |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: August 16 2019 at 14:27
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^ Seen Swiss Army Man and liked it; it definitely fits the topic. ^^ Will have to look into those that DrWu mentioned. There's so much good stuff out there, but it can be difficult to find and watch. ------------------------- Off from a black comedy/dramedy angle, a couple of horror films I watched and liked not that long ago were Apostle (one I liked much more than many critics, but I'm into folk horror) and The VVitch. And Hereditary was very good, but kind of hard to watch. The Babadook was another that I had really enjoyed. |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: August 16 2019 at 19:16
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Hi, I'm not even sure that I can add to this ... I think that the word "modern" throws me off, since it could easily be said that some of the things I see and review are totally strange or off-beat films ... and in my eyes and vision, there are not many film makers that go past Luis Bunuel and Jean-Luc Godard ... in terms of strangeness and total off the wall weirdness that is really hard to even say something about. The middle stuff by Luis Bunuel, is really nutz and crazy, and when you see things like Viridiana and its ending, you will go ... wow ... what was that for? But it is, and besides it being crazy, hilarious and amazing ... and later in one of his last films, several other paintings were also alive ... and I'm not sure that we know those kinds of things or even understand them .... or seeing the end of NAZARIN, when a pineapple ends the story ... which had the famous painting of JC laughing that so many churches at the time hated! Jean-Luc is one of the worst, and hardest film makers, specially for Americans, since his work intentionally makes fun of all film conventions and sometimes he drives you up a wall and get mad. You don't realize the camera movement in a film doing a track left away from the two lovers discussing their relationship and all of a sudden, this camera is hearing other things and it goes quite far and then later comes back ... and it throws you off terribly ... ohhh the relationship is not important ... why did he do that? There is no "sense" in these things, but it is exactly the same thing that we would DO, but since "entertainment" is about the drink we want ... it can't be done or seen, or appreciated ... and this kind of stuff is totally off kilter and crazy, not to mention the odd stuff, like music in the wrong place, and then dialogue over it on purpose, and then ... if that's not enough, you get Godard over it thinking about it! And worse ... all of a sudden, a cup of coffee gets a little cream and it creates these nice lines in the turning and movement of the spoon and he goes into a philosophical rant about the universe ... and you watch and go ... what? how's this a part of the story in the film? That's not the point ... it really is just a story, so to speak, filmed by a child, and as such he goes left and something goes right and then he has something else ... stories in Godard films are an illusion ... to be busted and broken with everything possible in his arsenal. There is a problem ... most film go'ers can't handle that stuff ... even if Tarantino thinks that he is paying his respects to Godard, and is only giving you 4 seconds worth ... a vapid and terribly frustrating "nothing", for the sake of "nothing" ... well, that's a bit on the Godard side of things, but in an American film? Wasted! Both Terry Gilliam and the duo of Jeunot et Cairo owe these two a lot ... and if you want to see something weird, try ... the early Bunuel ... see things like THE EXTERMINATING ANGEL, LOS OLVIDADOS, for things that to this day, so few people can relate to and try to figure out ... and yet, they have moments that are simply ... wow! ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: August 17 2019 at 06:15
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Your descriptions made me think first of Being John Malkovich and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. I love some other great films that aren't connected that much to the things you have yet written about but should count as "off beat". I love pretty much everything Ashgar Farhadi did. "Halbe Treppe" is one of my favourite German films, it probably exists with English subtitles, however not sure whether it works that well if you're not proficient in German. It's hilarious, but rather in a realistic down to earth way. Another fun German film, fairly well known abroad, is Run Lola Run. Once Upon a Time in Anatolia from Turkey is stunning. I recently watched Roma from Mexico and it was great. Some of my favourite films from the London Film Festival were actually Indian. Maybe the number one film I ever saw at the Film Festival was "Court". I tend to watch pretty realistic things,no monsters, super heroes etc. Not sure whether that's your taste. Talvar was great, too. From Russia we have Leviathan and How I Ended This Summer. From Brasil City of God. From South Korea Burning and Poetry. Enough for now...
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Posted By: MortSahlFan
Date Posted: August 17 2019 at 07:08
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They Shoot Horses Don't They and the full movie is on YouTube ------------- https://www.youtube.com/c/LoyalOpposition https://www.scribd.com/document/382737647/MortSahlFan-Song-List |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: August 17 2019 at 09:50
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Moshkito, I'm well aware of Buñuel and Godard, and The Exterminating Angel and Los Olvidados did have an effect on me. One reason why I'm looking for more modern films here is because of my familiarity with the classics (and I have done past topics that cover other eras). That said, of course there are many older great films that I must have missed. In this poll, I mentioned lots of my favourite directors and films from each of them: http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=115056" rel="nofollow - http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=115056 My list then, including films (lots more I could have listed, and some here I like more than others): Woody Allen - Sleeper, Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask), Casino Royale Pedro Almodóvar - Talk to Her, All About My Mother, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown Robert Altman - The Player, Vincent & Theo, Nashville Lindsay Anderson - if..., O Lucky Man, This Sporting Life Paul Thomas Anderson - There Will Be Blood, Punch-Drunk Love, Boogie Nights Wes Anderson - The Grand Budapest Hotel, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou Theo Angelopoulos - The Travelling Players, Eternity and a Day, Ulysses' Gaze Michelangelo Antonioni - L'Avventura, La Notte, The Passenger Denys Arcand - Jesus of Montreal, The Decline of the American Empire, The Barbarian Invasions Hal Ashby - Harold and Maude, Being There Ingmar Bergman - Through a Glass Darkly, Wild Strawberries, The Seventh Seal Bong Joon-ho - The Host, Memories of Murder, Snowpiercer John Boorman - Zardoz, Deliverance, Excalibur Robert Bresson - Diary of a Country Priest, Mouchette, The Trial of Joan of Arc Luis Buñuel - The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, Belle de Jour, The Exterminating Angel Chen Kaige - Yellow Earth, Farewell My Concubine, Temptress Moon Jean Cocteau - Orpheus, Beauty and the Beast Joel & Ethan Coen - Miller's Crossing, Barton Fink, Fargo or The Big Lebowski) Francis Ford Coppola - Apocalypse Now, The Godfather, The Godfather: Part 2 David Cronenberg - Dead Ringers, Naked Lunch, Spider (love so much of his) Atom Egoyan - The Sweet Hereafter, Exotica, Felicia's Journey Sergei M. Eisenstein - Alexander Nevsky, Battleship Potemkin, Ivan the Terrible Rainer Werner Fassbinder - World on a Wire (TV miniseries), Fox and His Friends, Despair Federico Fellini - La Dolce Vita, 8½, Fellini's Satyricon David Fincher - Se7en, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Fight Cub Terry Gilliam - Brazil, Time Bandits, Twelve Monkeys Jonathan Glazer - Under the Skin, Sexy Beast Jean-Luc Godard - Alphaville, Breathless, La Chinoise Michel Gondry - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Science of Sleep Peter Greenaway - Drowning by Numbers, The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, 8 ½ Women Michael Haneke - Funny Games (1997), Code Unknown, The Piano Teacher Robin Hardy - The Wicker Man (1973) Todd Haynes - Far From Heaven, Velvet Goldmine Werner Herzog - Aguirre, the Wrath of God, Fitzcarraldo, Where the Green Ants Dream Hirokazu Kore-eda - After Life, Air Doll, Nobody Knows Alfred Hitchcock - Psycho, The Birds, Vertigo Agnieszka Holland - Olivier, Olivier, Europa, Europa Hou Hsiao-hsien - Flowers of Shanghai, Taipei Story, A Time to Live, A Time to Die Shohei Imamura - Black Rain, Vengeance is Mine, The Insect Woman Juzo Itami - Tampopo, The Funeral, A Taxing Woman Jim Jarmusch - Mystery Train, Stranger than Paradise, Night on Earth Jean-Pierre Jeunet - Delicatessen, The City of Lost Children, Amélie Terry Jones - Monty Python and the Holy Grail (with Gilliam), Life of Brian, The Meaning of Life Spike Jonze - Her, Being John Malkovich, Adaptation Alejandro Jodorowsky - The Holy Mountain, El Topo Aki Kaurismaki - The Man Without a Past, Juha, Drifting Clouds Abbas Kiarostami - Taste of Cherry, The Wind Will Carry Us, Where is the Friend's Home? Krzysztof Kieślowski - Dekalog (tv miniseries); Three Colours Trilogy: Blue, White, Red; The Double Life of Veronique Takeshi Kitano - Fireworks, Kikujiro Stanley Kubrick - A Clockwork Orange, 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Shining, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb Akira Kurosawa - Dodes'ka-den, Rashomon, Ran Fritz Lang - M, Metropolis, Contempt Yorgos Lanthimos - Dogtooth, The Lobster, The Killing of a Sacred Deer Ray Lawrence - Bliss (not in the poll, but I love this film) Ang Lee - Eat Drink Man Woman; Lust, Caution; Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Mike Leigh - Naked, Secrets & Lies, Life is Sweet Jens Lien - The Bothersome Man, Sons of Norway Sergio Leone - The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, For a Few Dollars More, Once Upon a Time in the West Ken Loach - Riff-Raff, Raining Stones, Land and Freedom Bigas Luna - Jamón, Jamón; La teta y la luna; Golden Balls David Lynch - Mulholland Drive, Blue Velvet, Eraserhead Terrence Malick - The Tree of Life, Days of Heaven, The Thin Red Line George Miller - Mad Max and Mad Max II (The Road Warrior) Hayao Miyazaki - Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, Howl's Moving Castle Gaspar Noé - Enter the Void, Irreversible Yasujirō Ozu - Tokyo Story, Tokyo Twilight, A Story of Floating Weeds Peter Weir - Gallipoli, Picnic at Hanging Rock, The Year of Living Dangerously, The Truman Show Park Chan-wook - Oldboy, Lady Vengeance, I'm a Cyborg but That's OK Wolfgang Petersen - Das Boot, Consequence He Ping - Red Firecracker, Green Firecracker; Wheat Satyajit Ray- The World of Apu, Aparajito, Pather Panchali Jean Renoir - The Rules of the Game, The Grand Illusion, La Chienne Alan Resnais - Night and Fog, Hiroshia Mon Amour, Last Year at Marienbad Jacques Rivette - The Nun, Celine and Julie Go Boating, Paris Belongs to Us Nicolas Roeg - The Man Who Fell to Earth, Don't Look Now, Walkabout Éric Rohmer- Pauline at the Beach, Claire's Knee, My Night at Maud's Walter Salles - Central Station, The Motorcycle Diaries, Behind the Sun John Schlesinger - Sunday Bloody Sunday, Midnight Cowboy, Marathon Man Martin Scorsese - Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore Vittorio De Sica - Umberto D., Bicycle Thieves, Two Women Volker Schlöndorff - The Tin Drum, The Ogre, The Ninth Day Ridley Scott - Alien, The Duellists, Blade Runner Tony Scott - The Hunger Todd Solondz - Happiness, Welcome to the Dollhouse, Palindromes Oliver Stone - Natural Born Killers, Salvador, Platoon Quentin Tarantino - Kill Bill Volumes 1 & 2, Reservoir Dogs, Jackie Brown Andrei Tarkovsky - Stalker, Andrei Rublev, Solaris Béla Tarr - Damnation, The Prefab People Lars von Trier - The Element of Crime, Europa, Melancholia François Truffaut - Fahrenheit 451, The 400 Blows, Jules et Jim Tsui Hark - Butterfly Murders, Once Upon a Time in China, Zu: Warriors from the Magic Mountain Tom Tykwer - Run Lola Run, Winter Sleepers, Heaven Denis Villeneuve - Maelstrom, Sicario, Arrival (he also directed Blade Runner 2049) Luchino Visconti - The Damned, The Leopard, Ossessione Wim Wenders - Paris, Texas; Wings of Desire; Until the End of the World Michael Winterbottom - Code 46, Wonderland Robert Wise - The Andromeda Strain (really why I included him), The Haunting, Star Trek: The Motion Picture Edgar Wright - Hot Fuzz, Shaun of the Dead, The World's End Wong Kar-wai - In the Mood for Love, 2046, Ashes of Time Zhang Yimou - Red Sorghum, Ju Dou, Raise the Red Lantern ----------------------- ^ Seen and enjoyed They Shoot Horses, Don't They? ^^ Love Being John Malkovich, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Run Lola Run (Lola rennt), I saw those in the cinema when they came out here. I wrote a review of Run Lola Run when it came it on video, which I ended with "Rennt Lola rennt, rennt it today." Once Upon a Time in Anatolia I've seen, and was very impressed with it. I also liked City of God. Others I have not seen, and will be looking into, thanks. I like a wide variety of things, from surreal mind-benders, sci-fi, fantasy and horror, to kitchen sink realism. I watch a lot of subtitled films, and a lot of films that gets labelled art house cinema. I will definitely look for "Halbe Treppe". Speaking of Indian films, at the multiplex cinema closest to me, at least half of the films are Indian as that area has a huge Punjabi population, and I have wanted to try some of those, but I think the ones that would interest me would more likely be at the Art House cinemas, and at the Vancouver International Film Festival, in Vancouver proper. Thanks for all the recommendations and mentions of so many great films. |
Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: August 17 2019 at 10:33
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Much of what I like most are realistic psychological films, not sure whether that's your cup of tea, but if it is, I add Festen by Vinterberg (first Danish Dogma film) and Force Majeure from Sweden. Also that's what Ashgar Farhadi does, maybe start with "About Elly" or "A Separation". Most episodes from Wild Tales (Argentina) are very worthwhile. That one is actually very funny. Otherwise your list is far too long for even checking whether what I recommend is already on it... but I'd probably agree with you on the vast majority of those. The Italian version of City of God by the way is Gomorra, very similar quality in my view. (Thanks for making me collect some of the best films I've seen in the last 20 years or so here. Had forgotten a number of titles and now they're all back...) |
Posted By: Howard the Duck
Date Posted: August 17 2019 at 11:06
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------------- MacGyver can do a super guitar solo with a broom and an elastic band. Can you do better? |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: August 17 2019 at 11:40
^ Noted, thank you.
Sorry about the list being so long which I copy-pasted from a director's topic poll of mine (for those who didn't click on the link or see that topic before), I guess I sometimes have too much time on my hands. Laundry/ grocery type lists do tend to make for boring reading, and I doubt that topic really excited anyone (I sometimes do get excited when I see polls mentioning my favourites, especially when I can discuss those choices with the topic starter). I used to read a lot of books on film studies, and the most boring textbook of them for me incorporated very long lists in the text again and again. Examples are important, but it was done excessively in every chapter and broke up the flow. I've seen Festen. By the way, when I was taking a film course at about the turn of the millennium, I was disappointed that my professor was totally unfamiliar with Dogme 95. I probably learnt about that first, though, because I was a regular reader of the Sight & Sound magazine (from the BFI). Force Majeure is one that I have meant to see. I like topics that jog me memory. Thanks for all the ones you've mentioned and ones to look into (I do also hope that some off my topics have got someone to check out something that I know and like). I'm definitely into realistic psychological films (a psych component/angle is what really interests with many films, shows and novels). |
Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: August 17 2019 at 18:57
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While I'm at it: Import Export by Ulrich Seidl and Underground by Emir Kusturica. |
Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: August 17 2019 at 22:38
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"Hunger" about IRA hunger-striker Bobby Sands was a great piece of modern film-making. Michael Fassbender was splendid in the lead role. The film is notable for a 17 minute-long unbroken dialogue scene between Sands and a priest in prison... ------------- ...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology... |
Posted By: cstack3
Date Posted: August 18 2019 at 01:27
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Anything by Werner Herzog. ------------- I am not a Robot, I'm a FREE MAN!! |
Posted By: Kotro
Date Posted: August 18 2019 at 02:08
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Sound Of My Voice (probably my favourite movie from the 21st century) Another Earth The Handmaiden The Duke of Burgundy Mandy ------------- Bigger on the inside. |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: August 18 2019 at 08:22
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Hi, I went through the menus on my website for reviews, and here is a small listing of some things ... these, for the most part, are not exactly well known films, and I trimmed my list from the films that had some Academy Awards or some visible nature or other. In general, I'm not sure that any of these films got a wide release, since so many of them belong in an "art house", and the media (in general) does not reflect, and neither does it respect anything that is not a part of the company's groups and films that they produce and have a vested interest in ... for this reason alone, you will always find the "independent" a much better producer of films, however, this creates a big problem for European distributors ... in the past 10 years, since video stores died, the number of foreign films I can catch has dropped severely with the awful index in places like Netflix that will not search for a film that you asked for ... it will still give you 50 tons of sh*t that you are not interested in! These are just ... oddball films you could say, though that is not one of my words in my vocabulary in film and in the arts ... I tend to like the oddballs because that is where you find the folks experimenting with the medium, and that is fun to watch and enjoy. A Woman's Tale An Angel at My Table Walkabout After The Fox Bad Timing, A Sensual Obsession Caravaggio Castaway (the original) King Lear (Peter Brook's) Marat/Sade Orlando Performance Prospero's Books Savage Messiah The Crying Game Godard's King Lear Jean de Florette/Manon of the Spring Le Fantome de la Liberte Aguirre, The Wrath of God Allegro Non Troppo Little Buddha The Icicle Thief 32 Short Films About Glenn Gould Babette's Feast High Heels Intervista Journey of Hope The Island on Bird Street Burnt By The Sun Carmen (Carlos Saura) El Maestro de Esgrima (Olea) Basquiat Henry and June ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: dwill123
Date Posted: August 18 2019 at 10:45
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The King of Comedy . |
Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: August 18 2019 at 16:41
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I loved Jerry Lewis particularly in Funny Bones. From about the same time there's Tim Burton's very charming Ed Wood film. |
Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: August 18 2019 at 17:11
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^ the French are right, he's a genius, his solo films from the early 60s are hilarious. The Bellboy, Ladies Man, The Patsy, Nutty Professor, The Disorderly Orderly, Errand Boy, all great. ------------- "Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." -- John F. Kennedy |
Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: August 22 2019 at 08:03
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I can’t remember whether or not I’ve mentioned these before, but here goes anyway as I think you’d find them all pretty funny. Anders Thomas Jensen has made 4 films that all are wildly different from one another regarding general storyline, characters and whatnot, but there is a distinct black and wholly Danish kind of humour incorporated into them all that sort of takes a cue from Monty Python and then adds realism on steroids and a modern Pulp Fictionesque form of violence. Blinkende Lygter (my dad worked on this) De Grønne s.l.a.g.t.e.r.e. (Had to insert some dots so as to sneak pass the censor thang) Adams Æbler Mænd og Høns Features everything from laissez-faire violence in the most odd (and funny) of places, shooting cows with machine guns, bad tennis player turned drunkard, pie baking, theological ponderings, Take That, cannibalism, blowing Easter eggs Danish style, autism and all around weird conversations. Mads Mikkelsen and a bunch of other famous Danish actors that now also are fairly known in the big wide world all feature in these films...making them somewhat related in the cast and general ‘feel’ of them all. ------------- “The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” - Douglas Adams |
Posted By: MortSahlFan
Date Posted: August 22 2019 at 08:18
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I don't know many modern movies that fit this... "Wings of Desire", "Dogtooth", "Buffalo '66", "American Beauty" ------------- https://www.youtube.com/c/LoyalOpposition https://www.scribd.com/document/382737647/MortSahlFan-Song-List |