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

Blackrock - Some aussies might have seen it
Rabbit Proof Fence - Another aussie movie
The Jacket - A pretty lame horror movie that manages to turn the whole travel back in time concept into a decent philosophical idea... pisses all over Butterfly Effect

How about interactive movies... like 'Under A Killing Moon" and "The Pandora Directive"... yes they are games, but there linear storyline makes them movie like... I bring it up cause I want to mention the game storylines that I think are gems, and have influenced my personal thought process... some more than any movie...

Secret Of Mana
Chrono Trigger

and books while I'm here:

Tomorrow, When The War Began - John Marsden (read the whole series)
The Climb - Libby Hawthorn (the reason I do and always will love the name 'Maya')
Elli - Coming Of Age In The Holocaust - Livia E. Bitton Jackson (some of you probably studied in school)
 
Series 7: the contenders
See it!

user comment from IMDB
Shock! Horror!
Entertaining originality alert - flee for the hills Hollywood!,
30 August 2002Author: Aidan McGuinness from Dublin, Ireland

Sigh. It's been too long - an original concept in a movie and not just a twist on a concept. Well it's welcome.

The movie is a subversion of all the reality television series plaguing our screens. As there numbers increase, along with their audacity, this movie's parody of them is all the more striking. `The Contenders', now in Series 7, is a television show where a reigning champion is pitted against five members of the public, selected at random from a lottery. Each is given a gun. The winner is the one who lives after winning a number of games. The current contender is the heavily pregnant Dawn, who is going back to her old town where she might actually know some of the competitors. We're then treated to the whole series of this reality drama, run back to back, in a `marathon' run. At no point does the film deviate from pretending to be a TV series, which allows the viewer to get the intended feeling of a show rather than a movie.

The characters in this TV `show' are small parodies of the real ones you see. The actors are all well chosen to make you think `where have I seen them before?' - the sort of familiar faces that plaster these shows. There's the introspective one, the energetic one, the determined one, the wild kid, etc. All are played with a touch of the melodrama we too often see in these real people - exaggerated pleas to the camera, extreme spectrums of emotions, and so forth. Dawn's monologues to the camera are strongly reminiscent of shows I've seen before, just done with a hint of mockery that makes me grimly smile. They're all just a little off kilter, a little bit `out there' that you can simultaneously identify them and mock them.

The direction of the movie keeps it constantly in tone. There is a definite split in the movie - an episodic feel as we go from episode to episode in the `series 7 marathon'. Each of these splits is accompanied by a hilarious `next time on The Contenders', with clips of whats-to-come. There is a great use of the dramatic and corny tunes that such series have - overly sentimental clichéd nonsense is shown for exactly what it is. The sheer absurdity of some moments of tenderness (when people are being brutally slaughtered) adds to the delicious black comedy of it all. How can it not be ironic having sweet `I love you' music playing while someone plans to kill? And let's not forget the great `Love Will Tear Us Apart' Joy Division video. If you see the movie you won't forget that - and forever mock pretentious art videos. As they deserve to be mocked.

The film isn't flawless. The biggest flaw is that the movie falls into absurdity towards the end. It's quite damaging and ruins the effect of the picture. The situation - the set up - is bizarre enough without the need to build to an overly-climatic confrontation at the end. It's as if the producers felt that the ending wasn't strong enough and pandered to the audience that they are, somewhat, taking the proverbial out of. It makes the movies' powers of parody a lot less effective in the final few minutes and seems forced. Still, up to that, it was an effective commentary on the ridiculous way these shows are heading, and bitingly funny at times in a nihilistic sense. Well worth a watch, but the ending left a distaste in my mouth I couldn't entirely remove. 6.9/10 for the originality aspirations though.
 
Gohatto (Taboo is the English title)... well it's not so much obscure as it is foreign. It's by Nagisa Oshima and it's about samurai gayness ("No, but what's it REALLY about? Love? Insecurity?" Your mom's tits.).

It's about samurai gayness, and I think it was exquisite, for lack of a better word. I'll admit to being reined in by the unusual subject matter, but it seriously is beautiful.
 
Iam honestly shocked that nobody mentioned Liquid Sky(might sound familiar to my fellow junglists) Its about ugly jaded 80's club kids, aliens, heroin and a german scientist who thinks duty comes before shrimp. somebody pleeeease watch.
Also i mentioned Stroszek in a recent thread. I rented this from netflix. it was directed by Werner Herzog. in Mr. Herzogs bio it mentions a film that he wrote and dircted in wich the actors are hypnotized. i canot belive that this hadnt been done before.
(The brazilian 70's) Black Orpheus
Fort Apache in the Bronx
Haxen (as narrated by William S. Burrows(sp)
Women Chaser
Cremaster 1,2,&3(this plays in NY monthly and i read somebody paid $500,000 for a dvd wich i could imagine doing or dream of affording to do, every freakin frame is a work of art)
Jhony Got His Gun
Mr. Death (documentory)
Miles Electric: A Diffrent Kind of Blue(a later years Miles Davis bio and film of the Call it Anything You like show at the Isle of White)
Iron Man
umm. ok i cant think of anything else at the moment. but these are sure too please.
 
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Gangster #1

Not exactly how the title looks on the DVD box but thats what it says, caught this flick one night late in a hotel working out of town. This guy gets recruited by this gangster. Well he wants to live the big mans lifestyle so he... You know what just go rent it... I don't buy many DVD's unless I really enjoy them and this one is a part of my collection of my top 10... It's funny in the movie they say "cunt" alot with that english accent and "bird" WTF I guess thats what they call women..8( check it out. It's Very strange and some pretty good scenes where guys get chopped up. The main character went into the rival gangs leaders apartment and shot him in the leg. And chopped him up all midevil style with axes and chisels and all kinds of wierd shit..
 
the 2:37 thread made me add these:

Gerry
Elephant

both are Gus Van Sant movies (he directed Good Will Hunting and Finding Forrester for those that need a point of reference), and both sit up there in my top 5... i just forget about em as I forget about all 100 of my top 5 movies.
 
Kontroll
A Hungarian movie that deals with a group of ticket inspection officers in a subway,and the problems they have to face. Focusing on one man who apparently doesn't leave the subway and has to deal with a hooded man pushing people infront of the trains.
I just turned this movie on at random and was very plesantly surprised. I unfortunatly only caught the last half, but the ending was amazing.
 
OMG I loved the cube....

Ok guys since we are discussing indie movies here. out of

1. Jindabyne
2. Brick
3. two thirtyseven
or 4.Breakfast on Pluto

which ones would you prefer to see?
 
Brick is apparently good, and I want to see it. Jindabyne is on my list, because I liked Lantana, and I'm also intrigued by the story that Jindabyne is based on.
 
^^^
Ah I'm so not sure now I want to see 2.37 but like you said Jindabyne would be really good and Brick sounded interesting as does Breakfast on Pluto.

Hmm I might just go see all four.

Fave obscure film:- Last days
 
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