Fresh was good.
Primer is good as well, may have to watch it a few times though, it will make much more sense on a second viewing

I'll second magnolia (one of my favorite movies) and add The Thin Red Line
Neither of those are nec. lesser known movies but American Beauty and Saving Private Ryan came out at the same time respectively, which kinda of pushed these movies under the radar

and Tape with ethan hawke and Uma thurman. The entire film was shot in 1 room and there are only 3 actors.

3/21/2006 3:55:25 PM

Buddy Boy

2046

Last Life in the Universe

3/21/2006 4:06:28 PM

Speaking of 2046; Kar Wai Wong's films are great. I would recommend Chung-King Express.

3/21/2006 4:13:06 PM

he's not trolling

SECONDHAND LIONS MADE LESS THAN 50 MILLION DOLLARS WORLD WIDE

3/21/2006 4:14:19 PM

yeah but a 4.5 netflix rating means it is obviously not shitty and he said it was shitty.

3/21/2006 4:29:39 PM

^^^ Yes, Chunky Express ftw.

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"Dark City"

Terminate.

[Edited on March 21, 2006 at 5:15 PM. Reason : asdf]

3/21/2006 5:14:42 PM

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"The Way of the Gun"

it's slow in parts, but has some of the coolest (and loudest) gunplay i've ever seen in a movie

The Conversation

old and also slow in parts, but has Harrison Ford and Gene Hackman. Hackman pretty much reprises the same role several years later in Enemy of the State.

Boiler Room

3/21/2006 6:06:00 PM

haha

3/21/2006 6:31:59 PM

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"there's an old Lawrence Fisburne movie called 'Always Outnumbered'"

the book that the movie is based on is excellent, full title is "Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned". i highly recommend it.

the author is Walter Mosley. he is also the author of "Devil in a Blue Dress" which was also made into an excellent movie starring denzel washington and don cheadle. i highly recommend you see it as well.

i'll second "saints and soldiers" as well. i loved it.

check out some spike lee joints...notably "do the right thing".

it was huge when it first came out, not so publicly known in our generation but still very good...the movie i'm talking about is "Mean Streets" (harvey keitel, de niro, dir by scorsese), a semi-autobiography of martin scorsese and a damn good film too.

if you saw "goodnight and goodluck" and was interested in the blacklist era that the film took place during, i strongly suggest you check out "Guilty by Suspicion" starring Robert De Niro.

if you like westerns i recommend "High Noon" (gary cooper and grace kelly) and "Once Upon A Time in the West" (henry fonda, charles bronson, claudia cardinale, dir by sergio leone).

*boiler room fucking sucked, but you redeemed yourself with "malena" on the page before.



[Edited on March 21, 2006 at 8:04 PM. Reason : ]

3/21/2006 8:00:36 PM

Carandiru

3/21/2006 9:06:52 PM

Dogville, Manderlay... There are so many films you should see, really.

3/21/2006 9:09:31 PM

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"hit up the ethan hawke version of Hamlet and lemme know how it is i've always wanted to see that shit"

ill second that it wasnt very good. maybe worth a watch, but i doubt it.

i wasnt overly impressed with magnolia, i liked it but it really was too long (if you're going to make a 3 hr movie, it's gonna have to do more).

3/21/2006 9:12:24 PM

this is a sentence i always feel like i should regret

but for me, the second half of the tom cruise arc is the best part of magnolia

(not that overrated "TAME THE CUNT" part)

3/21/2006 9:19:21 PM

say what you will, but the tame the cunt taught me some important lessons.

[Edited on March 21, 2006 at 9:28 PM. Reason : but really i dont recall much of magnolia, cuz it was a while back and i was bored at times]

3/21/2006 9:27:23 PM

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"(if you're going to make a 3 hr movie, it's gonna have to do more)"

I'm not all hot for Magnolia like I used to be, but it's a three hour movie with things happening nonstop. I'm not sure what you mean by "do more", but I think it carries an incredible emotional weight along with an interesting intersecting plot that is constantly in motion. It IS kind of a ripoff of Short Cuts, but they're both good movies.

3/21/2006 9:33:14 PM

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"boiler room fucking sucked, but you redeemed yourself with "malena" on the page before"

you are mistaken on many levels

1. i never mentioned Boiler Room; someone else did

2. it doesn't suck, its awesome. if you don't know, you just don't know

3. i said "haha", because i've seen it so many times, its not "lesser-known"

3/21/2006 10:11:07 PM

Blow Up
Battle Royal
Just Looking
Run Ronnie Run
To Live (from the same director who did House of Flying Daggers)
Grave of the Fireflies (animated)

a lot of people love James Dean in East of Eden and Rebel w/o a Cause, but they always forget his best movie (imo): Giant

3/21/2006 10:16:59 PM

Dark City

3/21/2006 10:18:57 PM

^

3/21/2006 10:22:09 PM

so, i'm watching the way of the gun tonight

i've seen it plenty of times and i own it

but man

i'd really forgotten just how detailed and well written this movie is

i mean, good grief

i always just remembered the "fuckstart" bit at the beginning...

3/21/2006 10:28:56 PM

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"you are mistaken on many levels 1. i never mentioned Boiler Room; someone else did 2. it doesn't suck, its awesome. if you don't know, you just don't know 3. i said "haha", because i've seen it so many times, its not "lesser-known""

ah i see how i got you confused.

but i still stick by what i said about boiler room. i was completely unimpressed by any aspect of that movie. and yes its definitely not "lesser-known".

i thought of another.

if you liked "ghost dog", "coffee and cigarettes", and "broken flowers", check out "down by law" also by jim jarmusch. good solid sentimental movie with some really funny parts. features tom waits and roberto benini and the other guy thats in several other jarmusch movies.

3/21/2006 10:50:29 PM

3/21/2006 10:54:41 PM

UNITED STATES OF LELAND

3/21/2006 11:11:42 PM

More like UNITED STATES OF A PIECE OF SHIT, am i rite?!?

3/21/2006 11:18:09 PM

no you're not right

[Edited on March 21, 2006 at 11:18 PM. Reason : ]

3/21/2006 11:18:44 PM

Pumpkin
Haiku Tunnel ---if you liked Office Space you'll like this movie
Gummo
Elling
Dead Birds

Here's the cover to Dead Birds:

3/21/2006 11:39:04 PM

3/21/2006 11:51:41 PM

Wicker Man. fucked up as hell, but it's pretty good.

The Vanishing.

the foreign one, not the american bullshit happy happy remake.

[Edited on March 22, 2006 at 12:09 AM. Reason : dsf]

3/22/2006 12:07:59 AM

Last Life in the Universe
I really dont know why i like it but its the most laid back movie ever. The fact that Christopher Doyle does the cinematography is just an added bonus.

Barry Lyndon
Why doesnt this movie get enough love. I love how the movie's depection of framing barry's life within "portraits" symbolizes his fate.

3/22/2006 12:32:10 AM

This thread makes me lose faith in humanity.

3/22/2006 1:23:52 AM

This film is awesome. Painfull to watch what he does to his wiener.

3/22/2006 7:44:36 AM

hehe good to know other people enjoyed Haiku Tunnel and Run Ronnie Run

Layer Cake
Transporter 2
Shaolin Soccer

3/22/2006 9:42:07 AM

spooky, i wasnt saying there wasnt much actually going on...it jsut kinda failed to keep my interest after a while. that struck me as weird cuz i like those kind of movies. so we can chalk it up to me being in a bad mood or the movie lacking something. i went with the latter.

3/22/2006 10:13:24 AM

Transporter 2, what the fuck?

how is that lesser known at all??

3/22/2006 5:38:44 PM

It only grossed $43 million domestically. That's, like, fifteen people that saw it nation wide.

3/22/2006 5:41:02 PM

WHY IN THE WORLD IS TRANSPORTER 2 LISTED HERE????

3/22/2006 5:45:44 PM

there used to be commercials for it all the time.

[Edited on March 22, 2006 at 5:46 PM. Reason : fg]

3/22/2006 5:45:58 PM

if you liked oldboy, be sure to check out sympathy for mr. vengeance. it isn't quite as good, but was still a great movie.

i'd also recommend these Asian movies available in the US:
The neighbor no. 13
301/302
The Returner
2009 Lost memories

3/22/2006 5:46:15 PM

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"check out some spike lee joints...notably "do the right thing"."

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"if you like westerns i recommend "High Noon" (gary cooper and grace kelly) and "Once Upon A Time in the West" (henry fonda, charles bronson, claudia cardinale, dir by sergio leone)."

LESSER
KNOWN

Two very highly regarded directors and their best movies and you think that qualifies as lesser known?

3/22/2006 5:57:15 PM

IDK how lesser known these are to everyone else, but Sniper with Tom Berenger is an awesome movie (imo), and also A Clockwork Orange, but then again I think a lot of people may have heard of this but never seen it due to its "lewd" content, i jes think its awesome...

Hopefully i dont get bashed because these arent really lesser-known

3/22/2006 6:23:35 PM

To clarify about Ciudad de Dios:

Brazilian

I was thinking Brazilian, and I wrote Argentina. Whoops

But a good movie, nonetheless.

3/22/2006 7:18:32 PM

Haiku Tunnel

3/22/2006 7:27:15 PM

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"I think a lot of people may have heard of this but never seen it due to its "lewd" content"

My head just exploded.

3/22/2006 7:33:34 PM

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"Haiku Tunnel"

That movie is strangely hilarious. I used to work at Blockbuster, and I only rented the movie because in its hisory in the store it had been rented twice. The movie was a funny surprise.

3/22/2006 7:50:37 PM

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"LESSER KNOWN Two very highly regarded directors and their best movies and you think that qualifies as lesser known?"

this is a college message board, populated by college students of the 18-20whatever range.

go to the brickyard and take a poll of how many students have seen those three films.

i guarantee you that the average college student hasn't even heard of most of those. sure they might know who spike lee is but they probably haven't taken the time to watch any of his movies (like myself until just recently, though i am speaking from a white male perspective).

i'm listing classic movies that most of my peers haven't been exposed to that i think they should see...lesser known to OUR generation.



[Edited on March 22, 2006 at 7:56 PM. Reason : ]

3/22/2006 7:55:02 PM

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"and also A Clockwork Orange, but then again I think a lot of people may have heard of this but never seen it due to its "lewd" content, i jes think its awesome"

You weren't home-schooled, by any chance?

3/22/2006 8:19:57 PM

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"That movie is strangely hilarious. I used to work at Blockbuster, and I only rented the movie because in its hisory in the store it had been rented twice. The movie was a funny surprise."

I saw years ago on IMDB as a recommendation for those that enjoyed Office Space. I finally managed to get a hold of it the other night at Blockbuster. My friend and I really enjoyed it. She's gonna end up in the coporate world, so I think she appreciates the humor of the two a bit more, but still it had a lot of great laughs. It wasn't just another office-type movie because the guy is originally a temp.

3/22/2006 8:45:39 PM

Boondock Saints, I don't know how this slipped through the cracks when it was released, but tons of people love it now.

3/22/2006 9:42:49 PM

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"but tons of people love it now"

3/22/2006 9:54:29 PM

haiku tunnel used to be on hbo or some cable channel all the time, i've seen it on tv quite a bit (watched it 2x), but yeah i had never heard of it.

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"go to the brickyard and take a poll of how many students have seen those three films."

we had to watch do the right thing for freshman english.

3/22/2006 10:42:26 PM