Obscure but great movies!

[Michaelangelica]

Godzilla
(The modern USA one) - although you may need to have been weaned on the Japanese versions.
A very funny movie. Especially the French Secret Service trying to find real food and coffee in the USA.

[Buffy]

Originally Posted by Michaelangelica

Godzilla
(The modern USA one) - although you may need to have been weaned on the Japanese versions.
A very funny movie. Especially the French Secret Service trying to find real food and coffee in the USA.

Jean Reno is marvelous in that version, but otherwise, I think its totally sucky! I will go see *anything* with Jean Reno in it! Even the remake of The Pink Panther!

What you need to be "weened" from is the absolutely bizarre American version of the original Godzilla with Raymond Burr in it. A couple of years ago they re-released the original Japanese version (sans Perry Masonesque-voiceover), which is an amazing anti-war, anti-nuclear weapon paean, that everyone should see. Its actually quite disturbing...

And while we're on Japanese films, here are two *really* obscure ones that are also hard to find, but are among my favorite films of all time: Harakiri and The Harp of Burma....

The greatest delicacies taste of nothing when eaten alone,
Buffy

[sanctus]

Buffy I completely agree on Jean Reno, I love the movies he is in too. The new Pink Panther was in my view almost funnier than the older ones.
My favorits of him are "Leon" and "Le dernier combat (the last combat)". The latter really fits into the category obscure and gret movies. It is only non-mute movie I know of...in all the movie there is only one word spoken (sounds are there though)! And for once he is the bad guy...

[modest]

Originally Posted by Buffy

And while we're on Japanese films, here are two *really* obscure ones that are also hard to find, but are among my favorite films of all time: Harakiri and

Somebody's speaking my language. I have an old copy of Seppuku/Harakiri on VHS - bootlegged at that

Looking at a list of Kobayashi's other films, I know I've seen 2 or 3 of them, but this was a while ago and they've kind of blended together in my memory. But, Seppuku I clearly recall as it makes a very bold impression. I don't mind a sad ending in a feature. Then again, I am American, so I love a happy ending as well:

Spirited Away - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

~modest

[Thunderbird]

Originally Posted by modest

Somebody's speaking my language. I have an old copy of Seppuku/Harakiri on VHS - bootlegged at that

Looking at a list of Kobayashi's other films, I know I've seen 2 or 3 of them, but this was a while ago and they've kind of blended together in my memory. But, Seppuku I clearly recall as it makes a very bold impression. I don't mind a sad ending in a feature. Then again, I am American, so I love a happy ending as well:

Spirited Away - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

~modest

Jean Reno & Natalie Portman The Professional

YouTube - Princess Mononoke Trailer

[Michaelangelica]

Originally Posted by Buffy

Jean Reno is marvelous in that version, but otherwise, I think its totally sucky! I will go see *anything* with Jean Reno in it! Even the remake of The Pink Panther!

What you need to be "weened" from is the absolutely bizarre American version of the original Godzilla with Raymond Burr in it. A couple of years ago they re-released the original Japanese version (sans Perry Masonesque-voiceover), which is an amazing anti-war, anti-nuclear weapon paean, that everyone should see. Its actually quite disturbing...

And while we're on Japanese films, here are two *really* obscure ones that are also hard to find, but are among my favorite films of all time: Harakiri and The Harp of Burma....

The greatest delicacies taste of nothing when eaten alone,
Buffy

Thanks Buffy and for the PM
I will put it on my ever growing Amazon "Wish List" in the hope that my children will get generous one birthday
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One movie I have been looking for for along time is "The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimer"
by Peter Cook
I have finally tracked it down at Amazon in the UK
It tells the story of how a politician becomes a supreme dictator of the UK by giving people what they say they want- "absolute democracy."
I remember it as being very satirical and funny
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HELP PLEASE?
Some oldies might be able to help with this obscure French movie I saw 40 years ago at a Film Festival Marathon.
It was about a thief/burglar who joins a circus; gets shot out of a canon with an 'angel wings' costume; and eventually gets the wings to work.
His consequent reception at nunneries and catholic girls schools is ecstatic!

He has a compulsion about stealing clocks. Of course the wings give him a suburb burglar advantage.
In the final scene, the 'bad guy' and he, have a traditional "pie-fight" except they use clocks as the 'pies'.
I remember it as one of the funniest movies I have ever seen
Anyone know what it was?

[modest]

Originally Posted by Thunderbird

YouTube - Princess Mononoke Trailer

Yup, that's another good Miyazaki creation for sure

~modest

[sanctus]

What about Dersu Uzala by Kurosawa? One of my all time favorites...
Also Down by law is a great one in my view

[CraigD]

Zarkorr! The Invader (1996). Considered by many (32% of IMDB voters give it a 1) simply a bad, bad movie, I think it’s one of the most intelligent films, on many levels, ever made. It’s writer, Benajmin Carr, impresses me as a sort of golden age SF writer timewarped from the world of 1950s pulps into the world of 1990s B-movies. Also, though it strains the imagination that this movie, a sort of fusion of the Godzilla, swords and sorcery, and nerd genres, can be, IMHO it actually qualifies as hard SF.

By no means do I recommend Zarkorr (32% of IMDB voters can’t be completely wrong!), but if my description strikes a resonant chord in you, you might see if you’re one of the rare (13.9% of IMDB gave it a 10) folk who share my affection for this obscure (122 votes at IMDB) movie.

[TheBigDog]

I have always recommended Diggstown, and I do again today. Is this the best movie ever made? No, but it is one most people have not heard of and from beginning to end is creative, intelligent, and exciting. A crafty duel between con-men with boxing as the backdrop. The fix is definitely on. Oh yeah! A young Heather Graham!

Bill