Your Favourite Indie Film
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Topic: Your Favourite Indie Film
Posted By: FusionKing
Subject: Your Favourite Indie Film
Date Posted: April 17 2010 at 21:02
Welcome to the strange and anarchistic world of the indie film!
Which is your favourite?
I think they're all a bit different and interesting.  ------------- "Man is nothing else but that which he makes of himself" - Sartre |
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Posted By: UndercoverBoy
Date Posted: April 17 2010 at 21:08
| I was tempted to vote for Pan's Labyrinth, but it's the only one from this list I've seen. Still, I doubt any of these films (and I've heard of most of them) can top that masterpiece. |
Posted By: Henry Plainview
Date Posted: April 18 2010 at 01:57
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So the first four, skipping Walmart, were distributed by major studios, and Farenheit 9/11 is the highest grossing documentary ever, so I am fairly certain those doesn't qualify as indie...And the last four are unbelievably stupid conspiracy theories that appear to have had a limited run in theaters, but now exist primarily as uploads on Google Videos, so I don't think those count either.
I can tell you for certain that I hate Zeitgeist the most, as it is one of the primary causes of people posting terrible ideas on the internet, but I think that if I watched it I could work up quite a fury for A Ludicrous Diversion, as idiotic 9/11 conspiracy theories are dear to my heart and this seems like it is more of the same. And, of course, people trying to not pay their income tax is always tragically amusing. I think that if I worked for the IRS those cases would bring me the most joy.
I haven't seen Pan's Labyrinth, but I've intended to for a long time so I'll vote for that. ------------- if you own a sodastream i hate you |
Posted By: CPicard
Date Posted: April 18 2010 at 07:18
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What a strange list: the first movie belongs to the fantastic genre and had been directed by a Spanish director (Del Toro) and the other are - more or less - documentaries. It's really Apple & Oranges (and, if I read what Plainview wrote, some fruits seem to be rotten). Speaking about "indie" films, I was expecting "Little Miss Sunshine", Wes Anderson, Greg Araki, etc. |
Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: April 18 2010 at 07:37
| Eraserhead. |
Posted By: rpe9p
Date Posted: April 18 2010 at 15:37
| Am I misunderstanding what an indie film is? these poll choices dont make sense to me |
Posted By: clarke2001
Date Posted: April 18 2010 at 19:32
None of the above. The independent movie that shocked me is currently in my signature: Nine Lives of Tomas Katz, critics described it as a pretentious, incoherent avantgarde nonsense, but I think it's one of the best motion pictures ever: it struck me deeply, and I can't explain why. ------------- |
Posted By: KoS
Date Posted: April 18 2010 at 19:54
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Posted By: Finnforest
Date Posted: April 18 2010 at 20:12
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The Weatherman for me, because the subject matter was quite interesting
------------- ...that moment you realize you like "Mob Rules" better than "Heaven and Hell" |
Posted By: Epignosis
Date Posted: April 18 2010 at 20:20
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Not sure what's "indie" about the list, but Pan's Labyrinth was f**king creepy- in a great way. Loved it.
------------- https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays" rel="nofollow - https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays |
Posted By: Henry Plainview
Date Posted: April 18 2010 at 22:41
I watched that because of The Onion, and it was just stupid. The basic idea was clever, but once it spiraled out of control there were too many holes (and yes, I got it, although I did have to look at the internet, but the whole major plotline is a copout). And the dialogue was terrible. I can't even imagine characters more bland than those engineers.
------------- if you own a sodastream i hate you |
KoS wrote:Posted By: KoS
Date Posted: April 18 2010 at 22:52
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Still better than most muti-million dollar movies. |
Posted By: akamaisondufromage
Date Posted: April 19 2010 at 12:35
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I won't vote 'cos i haven't seen many of these. But I'm pretty sure 'Pan's Labyrinth' would get my vote even if I had seen the rest! I love the way it shifts between fantasy and the brutality of Franco's Spain. I would recommend 'The Devil's Backbone' which is del Torro's film before this and is excellent too! ------------- Help me I'm falling! |
Posted By: Captain Capricorn
Date Posted: April 19 2010 at 12:42
Pan's Labyrinth, easily ...I'm a sucker for archetypal & mythological motifs 
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Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: April 19 2010 at 12:52
| Can Focus Features be considered an indie studio? If yes, they've got a lot of my favourite modern films. |
Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: April 19 2010 at 12:55
I guess it can't  Focus Features (formerly USA Films, Universal Focus and Good Machine) is the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_film - art house films division of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBC_Universal - NBC Universal 's http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Pictures - Universal Pictures , and acts as both a producer and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_distributor - distributor for its own films and a distributor for http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_film - foreign films . |
Posted By: Queen By-Tor
Date Posted: April 19 2010 at 13:41
| But none of these are indie films... |
Posted By: Henry Plainview
Date Posted: April 20 2010 at 00:27
------------- if you own a sodastream i hate you |
Posted By: crimhead
Date Posted: April 23 2010 at 18:14
| The original Night of the Living Dead. No major studio, no distributor,no budget. |