Obscure Movie(s) You Rcmnd ?

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The Three Burials Of Melquiades Estrada-Tommy Lee Jones
Things To Do In Denver When Your Dead-Andy Garcia,Christopher Lloyd

Enjoyed them both, as well as A Boy and His Dog.

I'll add. The Milagro Beanfield War
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Tiki wrote:
Raising Arizona.
jonjon714 wrote:
Just about any Coen brothers film.

The Hudsucker Proxy is one of my favorites. Yeah, yeah, sure, sure.
"You know? For Kids!" "AND They Dock Ya!"

The Hud is the best
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Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia


Once Upon a Time in the West


Death Hunt

The Shop

3/3/2009 10:31pm
Rupert X wrote:
What flicks, very possibly well off the beaten path, whether they be Hollywood rejects, Indy flicks or foreign films, do you recommend to us pretenders-to-be-patrons -of-the-arts...

What flicks, very possibly well off the beaten path, whether they be Hollywood rejects,

Indy flicks or foreign films, do you recommend to us pretenders-to-be-patrons

-of-the-arts ?
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John Huston film, Nominated for 4 Oscars, Golden Globe, the Score is still used today in trailers.

Great film.

Army of Darkness. Bruce Campbell!
I'm curious Tiki ... where did you hear that the score from 'Man Who Would Be King' is still used today in trailers? It's actually one of Jarre's weaker efforts, especially if you put it up against his masterpiece 'Lawrence of Arabia'.

Jarre was really on the decline through the mid to late 70s before going through a rebirth in the 80s by incorporating synths into such gorgeous scores as Witness, The Year of Living Dangerously and Mosquito Coast. ( No doubt inspired by his son Jean Michel Jarre's success with synth pop at the time. )

Link to 'Man Who Would Be King' soundtrack cues - http://mp3fiesta.com/the_man_who_would_be_king_album130229/

It's just hard to imagine what anyone would use off of this score today. It's not terrible ... but he's done much better work.
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The Caine Mutiny - Navy, WWII,

Green Street Hooligans - American involved with Soccor Hooligans in England
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these are two of the best movies I've ever seen. Do yourself a fovor and check em out Rup



Drugstore Cowboy
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Drugstore Cowboy

Theatrical release poster
Directed by Gus Van Sant
Produced by Karen Murphy
Cary Brokaw
Nick Wechsler
Written by James Fogle (novel)
Gus Van Sant
Daniel Yost
William S. Burroughs
Starring Matt Dillon
Kelly Lynch
James Le Gros
Heather Graham

Drugstore Cowboy is a 1989 crime drama written and directed by Gus Van Sant.

Matt Dillon stars in the title role, and Kelly Lynch, Heather Graham, and William S. Burroughs are also featured. Drugstore Cowboy was filmed mainly around Portland, Oregon. The film's score was written by composer Elliot Goldenthal. Drugstore Cowboy was Van Sant's breakthrough picture.

Drugstore Cowboy was listed on the top ten list of both Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert for films released in 1989. The film was very well-received critically.


[edit] Plot
The story follows Bob Hughes (Matt Dillon) and his "family" of drug addicts as they travel across the US Pacific Northwest in the early 1970s, supporting their habit by robbing pharmacies and hospitals. A highlight of the film is an appearance by recovering addict William S. Burroughs as Tom, a defrocked priest who lectures Bob on the dangers of temptation. After a tragedy strikes the "family" Bob decides to try to "go straight," but finds that there is more to extricating himself from the drug user's lifestyle than just giving up drugs.


[edit] Cast
Matt Dillon as Bob Hughes
Kelly Lynch as Dianne
James Le Gros as Rick
Heather Graham as Nadine
Max Perlich as David
James Remar as Gentry
Grace Zabriskie as Mrs. Hughes
William S. Burroughs as Tom




Sid and Nancy

original film poster for Sid and Nancy.
Directed by Alex Cox
Produced by Eric Fellner
Written by Alex Cox
Abbe Wool
Starring Gary Oldman
Chloe Webb
David Hayman
Debby Bishop
Andrew Schofield


Sid and Nancy is a 1986 film directed by Alex Cox. The film materialized during a time of renewed interest in the period of punk rock, heroin addiction and specifically the life of Sid Vicious. It stars Gary Oldman as Vicious and Chloe Webb as his girlfriend, Nancy Spungen.




[edit] Production
The movie is largely based on the mutually destructive, drug-and-sex filled relationship between Vicious and Spungen. Vicious's mother, Anne Beverley, initially tried to prevent the movie from being made. After meeting with Cox, however, she decided to help the production. Some of the supporting characters are composites, invented to streamline the plot.

Oldman lost weight to play the emaciated Vicious by eating nothing but "steamed fish and lots of melon," but was briefly hospitalized when he lost too much weight. Vicious's mother also gave Oldman Vicious' own trademark heavy metal chain and padlock to wear in the film.

Courtney Love recorded an infamous video audition in which she exclaimed "I am Nancy Spungen." Cox was impressed by Love's audition, but has said the film's investors insisted on an experienced actress for the co-leading role. Cox would later cast Love as one of the leads in his movie Straight to Hell. Instead Love was cast in the relatively minor role of Gretchen (a part that Cox wrote specifically for her benefit), one of Sid and Nancy's New York junkie friends. Somewhat ironically, Love would be compared to Spungen later in life on account of her marriage to Kurt Cobain.

In his 2007 autobiography, Guns N' Roses guitarist Slash revealed that the casting director hired all five members of Guns & Roses as extras for a club scene, having coincidentally scouted them in different locations without their knowledge. He said "all of us showed up to the first day of casting, like 'Hey...what are you doing here?'" However, Slash was the only one in the group to stay the entire shoot.


Gary Oldman as Sid Vicious in Sid & Nancy.Webb and Oldman improvised the dialogue heard in the scene leading up to Spungen's death, but based it on interviews and other materials available to them. The stabbing scene is fictionalized and based only on conjecture. Cox told the New Musical Express: "We wanted to make the film not just about Sid Vicious and punk rock, but as an anti-drugs statement, to show the degradation caused to various people is not at all glamorous."

The original music is by Pray for Rain, Joe Strummer and The Pogues. The film was rated R in the USA for drug use, language, violence, sexuality and nudity. Prominent musicians made appearances in the film, including: Iggy Pop, The Circle Jerks, and Edward Tudor-Pole of Tenpole Tudor. The film was originally titled Love Kills.

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Prime Cut



You cant beat Lee Marvin & Gene Hackman in the same flick.....

Plus theres lots of T&A Wink
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Tiki wrote:
Raising Arizona.
jonjon714 wrote:
Just about any Coen brothers film.

The Hudsucker Proxy is one of my favorites. Yeah, yeah, sure, sure.
Tiki wrote:
"You know? For Kids!" "AND They Dock Ya!"

The Hud is the best
A little trivia...

In Raising Arizona - remember the machine shop part?

Machine shop ear bender - "So we were doin' paramedical work in affiliation with the state highway system. Not actual practice, you understand. And me & Bill were patrolling down Nine Miles."

H.I - "Bill Roberts?"

Machine shop ear bender - "No, not that mother-scratcher. Bill Parker. Anyway, we're approaching the wreck, and there's this spherical object a restin' in the highway. And it's not a piece of the car."

Look at the company name on their shirts.... HUDSUCKER INDUSTRIES!!!

Raising Arizona came out seven years before Hud.

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not obscure but not really hyped - The Score w/ Deniro, Norton and Brando.

excellent movie
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"Trees Lounge" is the best movie you've never seen.

Also on the Buscemi front, try "Living in Oblivion"
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Barfly w/ Micky Rourke as Charles Bukowski

Pope of Greenwich Village w/ Rourke as well
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Boondock Saints - love that movie
Boondock Saints is a great movie, also "In Bruges" with Colin Farrell.
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Boondock Saints - love that movie
fcr wrote:
Boondock Saints is a great movie, also "In Bruges" with Colin Farrell.
I really liked Green Street Hooligans. Elijah Wood from the Lord of the Rings trilogy is in the movie.
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I'll check it out.
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Obscure movies?

Here's one:


Ken Kesey book about a logging family in Oregon. Fun MX scene on the beach.
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Dean, i was going to mention Drugstore Cowboy, one of my top 5's.
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Somebody mentioned Ghost world, good flick.
Another obscure one is Red Rocks West & my personal fave Lone Star.
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HiLo Country -Woody Harrelson,Billy Crudup, and Penelope Cruz.
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Little Fauss and Big Halsy
Great pick, there
Aloha Bobby and Rose
Eat my dust
Dirty Mary and crazy Larry
On any sunday
Skin game
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Shallow Grave- From Danny Boyle director of Trainspotting, and Slumdog Millionaire.

American Splendor

Permanent Midnight

Flirting With Disaster

Bound

At Close Range

Cookies Fortune
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Things to do in Denver is great.


Mother Jugs and Speed.

Vanishing point.

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Blood Simple


Mystery Men


Lost in America


and my favorite, Timerider. I loved that movie!
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ocscottie wrote:
Dean, i was going to mention Drugstore Cowboy, one of my top 5's.
Matt Dillon was never better. You should really check out Sid and Nancy Scottie. Gary Oldman was unreal as Sid Vicious



Bob: Well, to begin with, nobody, and I mean nobody, can talk a junkie out of using. You can talk to 'em for years but sooner or later they're gonna get ahold of something. Maybe it's not dope. Maybe it's booze, maybe it's glue, maybe it's gasoline. Maybe it's a gunshot to the head. But something. Something to relieve the pressures of their everyday life, like having to tie their shoes.
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Caveman with Ringo Starr, Barbara Bach, Dennis quaid, and Shelly Long.

It is the touching story of our early ancestors and their journey through primitive times where they discover walking upright, music, fire, weapons and pot.

The special affects will make you realize who far we really have come but a funny movie

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eddie wrote:
city of god
the rowdyman
City of God is a fav of mine.

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