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What movie do you like that most people never seen?
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Posted on 06/26/2011 2:32:31 PM PDT by Yorlik803

What movie do you love that most people never heard of or seen? Mine is a movie called "Evenhand". I first saw it on IFC, then ordered a copy from Amazon. It is about two policemen in a small Texas town. One is meek and kind while the other is hard. They form a unlikley friendship. It is more plot driven, with little violence. The writing is pretty good.


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To: Yorlik803

Turk 182

Great movie from the ‘80’s.


21 posted on 06/26/2011 2:52:29 PM PDT by Semper911 (When you want to rob Peter to pay Paul, you'll always have the support of Paul.)
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To: Yorlik803
Blood and Roses : A gorgeous vampire fairy tale, directed by Vadim and based loosely on Lefanu's "Carmilla". I saw the dubbed version, and it was so well done I honestly thought it had been filmed in English. Sadly, the uncensored version has yet to be released on DVD.

One Man's Hero: Deals with historical events-the refusal of some Irish immigrants, fighting with the US Army against Mexico in the 1840s, to continue to wage war on fellow Catholics.

The Attic: Weird early 1970s film. It's about an aging, neurotic spinster, dominated by her overbearing father, who finds happiness-for awhile-when she loses her job, gains a friend, and buys a pet monkey (!)...Until the day she discovers exactly what had happened to her fiancee, who left her at the altar. The lead role is played by the always wonderful Carrie Snodgress.

22 posted on 06/26/2011 2:53:11 PM PDT by kaylar (It's MARTIAL law. Not marshal(l) or marital! This has been a spelling PSA. PS Secede not succeed)
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To: ClearCase_guy

I recall a line from “The Shooting Party”, James Mason was writing in his diary and a child asked he why he did it. His answer was something like “I’m putting my thoughts down so I’m not tempted to burden others with them.”


23 posted on 06/26/2011 2:53:34 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: Yorlik803

The Innocents.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055018/

The Innocents is a 1961 British horror film based on the novella The Turn of the Screw by Henry James. The title of the film was taken from William Archibald’s stage adaptation of James’ novella. Directed and produced by Jack Clayton, it stars Deborah Kerr, Michael Redgrave and Megs Jenkins. Falling within the subgenre of psychological horror, the film achieves its effects through lighting, music, and direction rather than gore and conventional shocks. Its distinctive atmosphere owes much to cinematographer Freddie Francis, who employed deep focus in many scenes, as well as bold, minimal lighting. It was filmed on location at the gothic mansion of Sheffield Park in East Sussex. The film includes the first role in cinema for child actor Pamela Franklin.


24 posted on 06/26/2011 2:54:00 PM PDT by Ge0ffrey
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To: Yorlik803
There is one movie that has stuck in my mind for years. It was a made-for-TV movie and it really touched me:

"A Family Upside Down" which stars Fred Astaire and Helen Hayes as a retired married couple. Astaire is a very independent man who suffers a sudden heart attack. After he recovers, Hayes is unable to care for Astaire herself, so she and her husband move in with son Efrem Zimbalist Jr. and daughter-in-law Pat Crowley and their children. Astaire's heart problems persist, and the family must face the unpleasant alternative of placing him in a nursing home. It co-stars Patty Duke Astin as Astaire and Hayes' emotionally overwrought daughter. There is humor, sadness, and a look at a truth which with we can all identify. Fred Astaire won the last of his many Emmy awards for his performance. It originally aired April 9, 1978.(my goodness, so long ago!) I would love to see it again.

25 posted on 06/26/2011 2:54:02 PM PDT by CitizenM (He who is silent is understood to consent)
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To: Yorlik803

Big Wednesday


26 posted on 06/26/2011 2:55:51 PM PDT by TomServo
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To: Yorlik803

“The Ref” with Denis Leary, Kevin Spacey and Judy Davis. I find it hilarious, though if cussing gets under your collar, you wouldn’t like it.


27 posted on 06/26/2011 2:55:53 PM PDT by Betis70 (Bruins!)
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To: Yorlik803
Trinity:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0264108/

Very difficult to find. My copy came from Europe, and is a Region 2 disk.

Atmospheric and puzzling. Supposedly there are many different versions; the movie itself is tied up in legal problems.

Possible Worlds:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0222293/

Odd but engrossing. Like nothing else.

Neither movie is suited to passive viewing--you have to think about what you are seeing.

Welt am Draht (World of Wires):

1973 German movie--the first virtual reality movie. It has only recently had a proper DVD release.
28 posted on 06/26/2011 2:56:02 PM PDT by Nepeta
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To: Twotone

The Fall is a movie that deserves IMAX. Beautiful.


29 posted on 06/26/2011 2:57:31 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy
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To: Yorlik803

Underworld USA - 1961


30 posted on 06/26/2011 2:58:42 PM PDT by hugorand
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To: Yorlik803

“Goodbye, Lenin.”


31 posted on 06/26/2011 2:58:52 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Mouton
"Serial...life in Marin County satire circa 1970."

Satire, but increasingly true... Idiocracy (2006)

32 posted on 06/26/2011 2:58:56 PM PDT by Dacus943
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To: Yorlik803

“Everything is Illuminated.” Easily one of the best movies I’ve ever seen. Just wonderful.

I’m mystified that more people have not seen “Mongol” and “Master and Commander, The Far Side of the World.” Truly superb films.


33 posted on 06/26/2011 2:58:56 PM PDT by Skooz (Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us)
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To: Vigilantcitizen
I also highly recommend a documentary titled "Beer Wars". Even if you don't drink beer, it's a very well done, in depth description of the industry by an ex exec, but the theme tells the tale of the difference between large, multinational companies like Anhauser Busch and the rest of the beer market.

It describes the difference perfectly between true free market competition and the rigged market we have today which closely resembles coroporate facism.

Every beer company lout there other than AB is in the business of making beer. AB is in the business of growth at all costs which includes spending billions paying off FEDERAL legislatures to make and continue laws which tilt the playing field in AB's favor making it close to impossible for any other competitor to play.

That's not a free market. That's tyranny.

34 posted on 06/26/2011 2:59:51 PM PDT by Vigilantcitizen (I got a fever and the only prescription is more watermelon trickworm, better known as bass crack.)
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To: Yorlik803
Put me down for Brazil (the Terry Gilliam Production).

The Mrs. votes for Harold and Maude with an honorable mention for Motel Hell.

35 posted on 06/26/2011 3:01:10 PM PDT by cc2k ( If having an "R" makes you conservative, does walking into a barn make you a horse's (_*_)?)
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To: Yorlik803

The quick,and the dead.


36 posted on 06/26/2011 3:01:11 PM PDT by BigCinBigD ("We hold it in our power, to begin the world anew")
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To: Yorlik803

Billy Wilder’s “One, Two, Three”, not as well known as his other movies, but IMHO one of the funniest movies ever made, and a brilliant comedic performance from James Cagney.


37 posted on 06/26/2011 3:01:49 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Yorlik803

The Swimmer with Burt Lancaster.

Ladybug, Ladybug.


38 posted on 06/26/2011 3:03:02 PM PDT by jtal (Runnin' a World in Need with White Folks' Greed - since 1492)
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To: Yorlik803
Let it Ride is a clever movie that really never got the acclaim it deserved. Richard Dreyfuss plays a middle-aged guy whose marriage is in trouble, who passes time hanging out with a bunch of losers at the horse track and in a bar across the street.

And then he has a stroke of good fortune . . .

I'd also add Kevin Costner's For Love of the Game to this list. It was a box-office bust and got panned by most critics, but I think a lot of people simply didn't appreciate the subtleties of the movie and extraordinary work that it took to make this film. It takes place during a single baseball game filmed in Yankee Stadium, but is built around a series of flashbacks over the last five years of the career of legendary Detroit Tigers' ace "Billy Chapel" (played by Costner).

39 posted on 06/26/2011 3:03:51 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("If you touch my junk, I'm gonna have you arrested.")
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To: Yorlik803

Netflix bookmark.


40 posted on 06/26/2011 3:04:02 PM PDT by Free Vulcan (Vote Republican! You can vote Democrat when you're dead.)
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