i'm having trouble deciding what's "obscurish", but...
search:closely watched trainsil postothe cranes are flyingeyes without a faceharakirithe vanishinghazan
"destroy"idi amintanner '88hopscotch
― a spectator bird (a spectator bird), Friday, 28 July 2006 20:57 (seventeen years ago) link
DestroyThe Ruling Class (despite O'Toole's WAY over the top performance)Armageddon (Michael Bay's style makes me dizzy)
― Sean Robison (yaratnam), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 05:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sean Robison (yaratnam), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 05:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― Joe (Joe), Saturday, 13 January 2007 04:46 (seventeen years ago) link
I don't understand 'over-the-top' as a complaint, it's a bloody satire.
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 13 January 2007 16:39 (seventeen years ago) link
(TV actors?)
Yes, it's too obvious and had many bad jokes, but besides PO'T, Alastair Sim is pretty great as the doddering bishop. Also, the Medak home-movie footage in the extras of the decomposing-zombie House of Lords scene!
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 1 February 2007 17:49 (seventeen years ago) link
idi amin?Hearts and Minds?The Firemen's Ball?The Killers 1946?
Nuts!
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 1 February 2007 22:06 (seventeen years ago) link
destroy: young torless -- if the torless character is meant as an author stand in, which i think he is (see monologue at the end), then this movie is fascist.
― abanana, Thursday, 6 March 2008 04:29 (sixteen years ago) link
sounds unlikely. schlondorff was pretty leftish.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Saturday, 8 March 2008 11:43 (sixteen years ago) link
You'd think a German filmmaker after the war would put some effort into making his morals clear, especially in a film that's obviously about nazism. What are we to make of the scene where the victim admits that he feels nothing when he steals or when he's raped, and Torless blames him for his own victimization?
― abanana, Sunday, 9 March 2008 06:59 (sixteen years ago) link
Destroy Toyko Drifter
HOW U SO RONG
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 9 March 2008 07:04 (sixteen years ago) link
damn, that dude was all over the place with the RONGitude
― Gukbe, Sunday, 9 March 2008 16:53 (sixteen years ago) link
Search: Salesman. trying to hide the fact that it's all being filmed was a stupid idea, but it has moments of brilliance e.g. while the salesman gets the wife to fill out forms for the expensive and gaudy bible, the husband walks over to a huge wooden stereo set and turns on a beatles song ... or rather, a warbly, muzak version of a beatles song.
Destroy: Koko, the gorilla who talks. not much of a film. if you've seen a talking gorilla segment on pbs you've seen them all. the philosophical stuff is rather basic.
― abanana, Thursday, 13 March 2008 06:16 (sixteen years ago) link
HOORAY! they're going to release malle's Le Feu Follet/The Fire Within. (also: feu follet = will o' the wisps.. wtf?)
― poortheatre, Sunday, 16 March 2008 18:13 (sixteen years ago) link
no thread for Kalatozov but The Cranes Are Flying and Letter Never Sent are great, looking forward to seeing I Am Cuba next week.
― flappy bird, Friday, 24 May 2019 17:15 (four years ago) link
I've only seen Letter Never Sent, but I was blown away by it
― rob, Friday, 24 May 2019 19:42 (four years ago) link
Had this pop up in Articles For You
https://thetwingeeks.com/2019/06/30/50-overlooked-films-in-the-criterion-collection/
― frustration and wonky passion (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 1 July 2019 04:16 (four years ago) link
wow, i have a different idea of what is obscure now.
The Tales of Beatrix Potter on the criterion channel has under 400 imdb votes. I don't do drugs, but it was a treat to watch it when I was drowsy.
― adam the (abanana), Tuesday, 2 July 2019 13:32 (four years ago) link