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Your favourite obscure film (that nobody else has even seen)

MIRRORMASK

I'm not sure if it's been mentioned already, but considering there have been *2* threads started on it and only a total of 3 people (including myself) have responded, I'm guessing most of you haven't seen it.

It, as far as I know, hasn't really been commercialized or advertised much.

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psychetool said:
Whats it about ? The art looks cool.
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To be honest, I'd watch it just for the art and I kinda did the first time. It's from Neil Gaiman (any Tori Amos fans know him and he's got some good books [fantasy]), Dave Mkean, and The Jim Henson Company.

From IMDb:

Plot Summary for
MirrorMask (2005)

MirrorMask centers on Helena, a 15 year old girl in a family of circus entertainers, who often wishes she could run off and join real life. After a fight with her parents about her future plans, her mother falls quite ill and Helena is convinced that it is all her fault. On the eve of her mother's major surgery, she dreams that she is in a strange world with two opposing queens, bizarre creatures, and masked inhabitants. All is not well in this new world - the white queen has fallen ill and can only be restored by the MirrorMask, and it's up to Helena to find it. But as her adventures continue, she begins to wonder whether she's in a dream, or something far more sinister.

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There were points in the movie that were a little slow and it wasn't the best movie I've ever seen, but the actual picture itself kept me mesmerized the entire time.
 
QuestionEverything said:
There were points in the movie that were a little slow and it wasn't the best movie I've ever seen, but the actual picture itself kept me mesmerized the entire time.
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i completely agree. the art/fantasy element of the movie was really mesmerizing at times; and although overall the movie isn't quite fantastic, it's definitely worth a look purely for the aforementioned reasons.
 
Where I am from, not many people know about Velvet Goldmine.

My favorite film, though, and it's very well known in Scandinavia (but I live in the US so no one knows it :D) is Terkel i knibe (Terkel in trouble). So fucking hilarious.
 
I liked Manic, I think it's called. About troubled teens who struggle to control their violent impulses. It's shot in a very unique 'home video' style and has some very powerful messages about having to confront your own demons. A very sad movie, but a good one too.
 
Life with Father was on TV again the other night. Though I think I've mentioned it before I want to again. One of the best older films I've ever seen. It helps that I grew up in a family with a father of similar characteristics. :)
 
ditto on life with father. Never really resembled my family, but turn of the century america has always amused me.
 
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lots of people have seen this, but lately i've found out there are many who have not..

Being There all the way...!

btw - this was Peter Sellers' last film..
 
^ i love that movie. have you seen 'harold and maude' by the same director?

alasdair
 
"Samsara"

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0196069/

The story of Tashi, a young Tibetan Buddhist monk, who renounces monastic life in favour of a relationship with a woman.
However as the story unfolds Tashi's life in the material world becomes increasingly complex and difficult.
The first ever film to be shot in Ladakh (Indian Himalayas) and a joy for anyone interested in Himalayan culture and religion. The photography of the extraordinary setting is moving, the soundtrack haunting, and the lead actors deeply touching in their portrayals. It took me a while to slow down and appreciate the rhythm of the film, as it is a meditation.
Samsara runs over two and a half hours.But there are not more than 100 words spoken in it.
The title "Samsara" refers to daily material existence, characterised by the passing of time experienced as the cycle of birth and death and opposite to the timeless spiritual state of "Nirvana" aspired to by Buddhists and Hindus.

It's not available on region 1 or region 2 , But it is in Austrailia and a few ebay stores have the hong kong region.

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heres a couple more

"California Split"
Altman at the absolute top of his form--which is to say among the freest, loosest and sensorily densest great movies ever made in America. Visually and sonically thick as a brick, it also represents some of the highest-flying improvisatory acting you've ever seen. Put the Godard of the early sixties in a polyester shirt, lay him down among the rummies and compulsive cases of the American gambling subculture, and fill him with equal parts beer and caffeine, and you have some idea of this thoroughly amazing, free-and-easy comedy, which has a scary undertow
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"Seconds" ...an aronofsky movie before aronofsky was born. the biggest headfuck of an ending for any movie EVER

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"the long goodbye" another 70's classic , the major influence for "the big lebowski" according to the coens

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"101 reykjavik" ( brilliant soundtrack and abril is worth watchin in anything)

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"hard eight" (aka sydney) 90's masterpiece from a first time then 25 year old director who went on to make "boogie nights" "magnolia" and "punchdrunk love", heavily influenced by "california split" and jonathan demmes "melvin and howard"

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- the cabinet of dr. caligari
- dark city
-blood feast
- crumb
- master of the flying guillotine
 
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Dead or Alive

A prostitute plunges to her death clutching a bag of drugs, a furtive men's room tryst climaxes in a geyser of blood, an after-dinner shotgun blast graphically puts a new spin on bulimia, a stripper writhes, a mysterious knife-thrower takes aim and a gangster snorts a line of white powder stretching to infinity...and that's merely the first ten minutes. From Takashi Miike (Audition, Ichi the Killer), "one of the most exciting, versatile directors working today" (The New York Post), comes a film of such kaleidoscopic mayhem and frenzied violence that it defies hyperbole. Burlesquing and surpassing every other full-bore, double-barreled Asian crime thriller, Dead or Alive conjures up a harrowing urban fever-dream where "the images are so astonishing, you'll feel you inhaled them." (The San Francisco Chronicle).

In Tokyo's crime-ridden Shinjuku district, emotionally and financially bankrupt Detective Jojima (Show Aikawa) plays referee in a gangland turf war pitting the Japanese Yakuza (Mafia) against a bloodthirsty band of Chinese immigrant gangsters. But Jojima's obligation to his terminally ill daughter and ruthless Chinese mobster Ryuichi's (Riki Takeuchi) sentimental devotion to his erzatz family of misfit assassins threatens to add their own corpses to the landslide of fresh bodies littering Tokyo. Miike depicts Dead or Alive's gruesome acts of excess and debasement with shockingly graphic relish, allowing his vision to escalate beyond even a cartoonish level of audacity.

http://www.kino.com/video/trailer_qt.php?film_id=573&media_id=1 <--- Trailer!

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Highly recommended, the opening scene where this dude snorts a line of coke that is literally like 15 feet long is hilarious. NOT - I REPEAT NOT - FOR ANYONE WITH A WEAK STOMACH! This movie even OFFENDED me at some parts!
 
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keiths31 said:
I thought this movie was great...saw it years ago by accident.
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I know. I was a bit wary about it as I'm not a big fan of love stories in general. But I loved both River Phoenix performance (as usual) and I thought it was one of Lili Taylor's best roles too.
 
saturnine said:
- the cabinet of dr. caligari
- dark city
-blood feast
- crumb
- master of the flying guillotine
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i just saw the cabinet of dr. caligari the other day. what a great movie, those sets were amazing.

and damn you dark city. one day i will get my hands one you and watch you in your entirety. (stupid people sleeping in and thus missing just over half of the screening of a really good movie in class :|)
 
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