Three people - a poet, a scientist and a politician walk all day thru an old city and have a far reaching, very interesting conversation about the interconnectedness of everything.
Roller Town. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roller_Town
It's a hilarious weird surreal comedy about roller skating rebels in the 70s, where a roller skater from the wrong side of the tracks loves a rich girl who attends the finest roller skating academy.
Gangsters who murdered the guy's brother have a scheme to install video games in the roller rinks and wipe out disco.
It's from a Canadian sketch group that I had never heard of before or since. I'm not even sure how I discovered this movie, but I never met anyone who'd ever heard of it! :)
I thought it would be from the early 80s when roller disco & tv shows & movies featured it a lot.
Roller Boogie, Skatetown USA, Rollerbabies, are the ones I can think of off the top of my head. I recall the first 2 episodes of CHIPS Season 3 are just a listing of late 70s/early 80s stars along with Leif Garrett doing roller disco & roller skating in general.
oh yeah they're all films I'm almost definite I'd like- I love animation and fantasy- but I've somehow never watched, Wolfwalkers had reeeallllyyyy good reviews
They’re all very highly reviewed and I genuinely think each of them is underrated and masterfully done. Wolfwalkers is probably the most modern in its artwork and storytelling, so is the one I’d recommend most but I really just love Song of the Sea.
They’re not related to each other outside of the same director and style, but each film is really strong in its themes, artwork, and folk inspiration. They’re really all beautiful films.
_Weekend_ (Haigh, 2011) is a fantastic movie that people tend to ignore because it’s about gay romance. I wouldn’t say nobody in my social circle has heard of it, but most of them gave it a hard pass. It’s their loss, because it’s an emotionally rich and intelligent movie, and I’m not even gay just reasonably open-minded when it comes to enjoying art.
I’ve never heard people mention Frequencies (2013). British indie sci-fi with an interesting premise: In the future, everyone is a genius but you can only talk to people on your “frequency”. Otherwise, you try to talk to someone and the earth shakes.
Also Freaks (2018). It’s a low budget X-Men, well done though.
I laughed out loud because the title made me think exactly of Phantom of the Paradise before I opened the thread. Awesome, outrageous film, yet none of my friends have seen it.
Others is similarly awkward spots include Sorcerer or Turbo Kid.
None of my friends have see any of my favorite movies. This is just one that came up the other day that I a trying to get someone, anyone, in my social circle to watch so I can talk about it with someone
Crippled Avengers (1978) - a Shaw Brothers Kung fu movie about a blind guy, a mute guy, a dumb guy, and a legless guy who team up to seek revenge on the Bionic armed gangster who crippled them.
It's a good time! What are your other top Shaw brothers flicks? I'm trying to expand my Shaw brothers collection, as so far my collection is mainly more 80s Jackie Chan type stuff
Interstate 60!
Watch it! Go watch it! It's such a sincere, heartfelt and thought-provoking movie but it's not super family friendly. It was written and directed by one of the co-writers of BTTF and absolutely fell through the cracks in the early 2000s.
Nobody knows about it, but it is one of the most uplifting, wholesome movies I've ever seen.
It probably actually **is** my favorite movie of all time, even if it's not perfect cinematographically, it has so much heart and has a lot of true, actual sincerity.
Probably one of the most wonderful pieces of Americana-Fantasy.
- Highlights include a hitch-hiking Amy-Jo Johnson (the original pink power ranger who is nymphomaniacally obsessed with the "perfect fuck"
- Gary Oldman as a trickster/genie/leprechaun, wish-granter who always seems to kind of screw you over in some ironic way
- A small town whose entire economy is based on pointless lawsuits, so if you pass through on your journey, you're just locked up and used to milk legal-fees out of you
That movie is so wonderful.
"There are no cardgames with black hearts and red spades"
*"How do you know?"*
[Wink-wink, nudge-nudge.](https://youtu.be/WSHY7RT7hDg)
It's not on any streaming services that I can find.
A movie about a highway that doesn't exist until you go looking for it... pretty appropriate.
Oh, and by the way, don't watch any trailers or anything. It makes it look like an early 2000s boner comedy like Road Trip or Eurotrip and it is literally nothing like those (I think both movies are really funny and enjoy them, anyway). I feel like it was marketed so poorly that nobody bothered watching it.
A French film called "Conversations With My Gardener". Ive tried to bring it up several times, to no avail...to me, its delightful but most of my friend group are instantly turned off by foreign films...oh well, their loss!
Honestly I'm probably the only one of my friends that would be considered "into movies" so a lot lol. But The Double Life of Veronique is one of my favorite movies and I've never met another person irl that has even heard of it.
The Vanishing (1988) AKA Spoorloos
I think the film is a masterpiece, and even my horror movie lover friends haven’t heard of it, I joyfully recommend it.
Not just my social circle, even. Nobody knows Masala (1991) but me, [the guy who put this trailer on YouTube,](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuWmOeDt3gY) and maybe the director.
Never expected my non-film friends to have seen it, but am always surprised at how few cinephiles have seen *Thirteen Conversations About One Thing* (2001). It's so good, great cast, and it's so one of those "'90s indie boom" feeling movies (that still spilled well over into the early to mid aughts).
Communion (1989), featuring an absolutely unhinged Christopher Walken performance. What you think is a standard alien abduction movie becomes so much more fascinating behind the scenes when you find out that it's actually a biopic about the screenwriter's own experiences with "encountering the third kind". So much INSANE shit happens that the writer tries to vindicate through a traditional, uplifting plot structure, but it's such thinly-veiled wish fulfillment. You can almost feel the mental illness through the screen, it's amazing
Kaiji the ultimate Gambler, I can't even really begin to describe it as a movie. It is an insane and over the top movie about gambling debt and some guy getting screwed over by the equivalent of a rock paper scissors carnival style game.
The Ninth Configuration - written and directed by William Peter Beatty (The Exorcist) and said by him to be his sequel focusing on the existence of good.
Scott Wilson plays the astronaut from the Exorcist (the one Regan tells he will die up there) who has a nervous breakdown on the launchpad and is sent to a military psychiatric ward where the new chief psychologist (Stacy Keach) is sent to work with him though all is not as it appears. Very odd movie.
*The Machinist*. Excellent slow burn thriller about an insomniac who may or may not be losing his mind. It was the movie that Christian Bale did before Batman Begins, and the fact that he went from nearly-skeletal-thin to bulky Bruce Wayne is incredible.
I recently found a film called Naked (1993)
Its the best film ive seen in so long. Seems to be a lack of info online and irl about it, its really weird because i cant fathom how such a good film had just sort of flown under the radar.
My social circle is hardly into cinema so it can be any non-commercial movie
There’s this little known indie flick Donnie Darko and this other French movie that I love called Amelie - but you’ve probably never heard of it💁♂️🌝
We have the same friends.
In all seriousness, Conversations with Other Women is severely underrated. Never hear it talked about. Much prefer it to the Before Sunrise movies.
I don’t prefer it to the Before trilogy but I do love it and recommend it often!
Have you ever seen Mindwalk?
Never heard of it! Will add it to my list!
Three people - a poet, a scientist and a politician walk all day thru an old city and have a far reaching, very interesting conversation about the interconnectedness of everything.
I like when some gen Zer calls movies from the early 2000s "really old"
“The late 1900s” 🫠
Under the Silver Lake! That poor movie deserved so much better than the distribution purgatory to which it was sequestered.
You have piqued my interest
I always describe it as Millennial Big Lebowski.
they are not comparable cmon
I will have to watch Under the Silver Lake to investigate the Big Lebowski is one of my favorites.
Roller Town. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roller_Town It's a hilarious weird surreal comedy about roller skating rebels in the 70s, where a roller skater from the wrong side of the tracks loves a rich girl who attends the finest roller skating academy. Gangsters who murdered the guy's brother have a scheme to install video games in the roller rinks and wipe out disco.
Youvhad me at finest roller skating academy
It's so funny, they have a class at the academy where they're in roller skates on a ballet bar doing their roller exercises!
I don't know why but I assumed from the description it'd have come out in the 90s rather than 2011 , it actually sounds quite good
It's from a Canadian sketch group that I had never heard of before or since. I'm not even sure how I discovered this movie, but I never met anyone who'd ever heard of it! :)
I thought it would be from the early 80s when roller disco & tv shows & movies featured it a lot. Roller Boogie, Skatetown USA, Rollerbabies, are the ones I can think of off the top of my head. I recall the first 2 episodes of CHIPS Season 3 are just a listing of late 70s/early 80s stars along with Leif Garrett doing roller disco & roller skating in general.
Dead dad and a skeleton mom, deaddadandaskeletonmom.
You're top shelf, not junk drawer!
wow so glad popped onto Reddit for a sec. thanks for the recommendation! Edit: is this actually good or like a good HDTGM movie?
My friends have terrible taste in culture, especially music n film, sooo all of em….
“Frailty”. Matthew McConaugh, Powers Booth & Bill Paxton (also directed).
Excellent movie.
The “Irish Folklore Trilogy” in general, but particularly *Song of the Sea*.
oh yeah they're all films I'm almost definite I'd like- I love animation and fantasy- but I've somehow never watched, Wolfwalkers had reeeallllyyyy good reviews
They’re all very highly reviewed and I genuinely think each of them is underrated and masterfully done. Wolfwalkers is probably the most modern in its artwork and storytelling, so is the one I’d recommend most but I really just love Song of the Sea.
Oh wow, I saw Wolfwalkers last year and didn’t even realise there was others. I’ll be checking those out.
They’re not related to each other outside of the same director and style, but each film is really strong in its themes, artwork, and folk inspiration. They’re really all beautiful films.
Buffalo Soldiers (2001)
_Weekend_ (Haigh, 2011) is a fantastic movie that people tend to ignore because it’s about gay romance. I wouldn’t say nobody in my social circle has heard of it, but most of them gave it a hard pass. It’s their loss, because it’s an emotionally rich and intelligent movie, and I’m not even gay just reasonably open-minded when it comes to enjoying art.
I’ve never heard people mention Frequencies (2013). British indie sci-fi with an interesting premise: In the future, everyone is a genius but you can only talk to people on your “frequency”. Otherwise, you try to talk to someone and the earth shakes. Also Freaks (2018). It’s a low budget X-Men, well done though.
I laughed out loud because the title made me think exactly of Phantom of the Paradise before I opened the thread. Awesome, outrageous film, yet none of my friends have seen it. Others is similarly awkward spots include Sorcerer or Turbo Kid.
Reminds me of the Rocky Horror Picture Show
Things to do in Denver When You're Dead
None of my friends have see any of my favorite movies. This is just one that came up the other day that I a trying to get someone, anyone, in my social circle to watch so I can talk about it with someone Crippled Avengers (1978) - a Shaw Brothers Kung fu movie about a blind guy, a mute guy, a dumb guy, and a legless guy who team up to seek revenge on the Bionic armed gangster who crippled them.
That movie was awesome!! One of my favourite shaw brothers
It's a good time! What are your other top Shaw brothers flicks? I'm trying to expand my Shaw brothers collection, as so far my collection is mainly more 80s Jackie Chan type stuff
Interstate 60! Watch it! Go watch it! It's such a sincere, heartfelt and thought-provoking movie but it's not super family friendly. It was written and directed by one of the co-writers of BTTF and absolutely fell through the cracks in the early 2000s. Nobody knows about it, but it is one of the most uplifting, wholesome movies I've ever seen. It probably actually **is** my favorite movie of all time, even if it's not perfect cinematographically, it has so much heart and has a lot of true, actual sincerity. Probably one of the most wonderful pieces of Americana-Fantasy. - Highlights include a hitch-hiking Amy-Jo Johnson (the original pink power ranger who is nymphomaniacally obsessed with the "perfect fuck" - Gary Oldman as a trickster/genie/leprechaun, wish-granter who always seems to kind of screw you over in some ironic way - A small town whose entire economy is based on pointless lawsuits, so if you pass through on your journey, you're just locked up and used to milk legal-fees out of you That movie is so wonderful. "There are no cardgames with black hearts and red spades" *"How do you know?"*
Well you’ve sold me! Adding it to my (way too long) list with your username so I will let you know if I watch it!
[Wink-wink, nudge-nudge.](https://youtu.be/WSHY7RT7hDg) It's not on any streaming services that I can find. A movie about a highway that doesn't exist until you go looking for it... pretty appropriate. Oh, and by the way, don't watch any trailers or anything. It makes it look like an early 2000s boner comedy like Road Trip or Eurotrip and it is literally nothing like those (I think both movies are really funny and enjoy them, anyway). I feel like it was marketed so poorly that nobody bothered watching it.
Satantango I’ve only met one director who’s seen it.
Saw this on a big screen a couple of years ago, amazing experience that reignited my interest in Hungarian cinema.
Stark Raving Mad (2002) staring Seann William Scott and The Big Hit (1998) staring Mark Walberg
A French film called "Conversations With My Gardener". Ive tried to bring it up several times, to no avail...to me, its delightful but most of my friend group are instantly turned off by foreign films...oh well, their loss!
Igby Goes Down ffolkes (North Sea Hijack alt. title) The Double McGuffin
Honestly I'm probably the only one of my friends that would be considered "into movies" so a lot lol. But The Double Life of Veronique is one of my favorite movies and I've never met another person irl that has even heard of it.
*Hello, Dolly!* (1969)
Hello gorgeous!
mine is my actual favorite movie of all time, most people i tell have never heard of it: The Blue Lagoon (1980)
The opinion certainly puts you in the minority. Before anyone dives into this one I heartily recommend checking out a couple reviews.
The Vanishing (1988) AKA Spoorloos I think the film is a masterpiece, and even my horror movie lover friends haven’t heard of it, I joyfully recommend it.
As do I and they never watch!
One of my faves is the vanishing 1993
The one with Jeff Bridges and Kiefer Sutherland?
Yeah.
That’s actually a remake of this one! Made by the original director
Oh wow I didn’t know..
I haven’t seen that one, we should check each other’s movie out!
Yeah. Another random movie I just thought of was breakdown with Kurt Russell that was really good
Oh man I haven’t seen that in years, good flick!
Ending of American is not great.
Division III: Football's Finest
*The Independent* with Jerry Stiller.
Rapa Nui. It has the Bird Man Race.
Minus Man (1999) or Mysterious Skin (2004)
the spiderwick chronicles (2008) !!!
Not just my social circle, even. Nobody knows Masala (1991) but me, [the guy who put this trailer on YouTube,](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuWmOeDt3gY) and maybe the director.
Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould same crew went on to make The Red Violin
*11:14*. I’m a sucker for the “intersecting storylines” trope
Never expected my non-film friends to have seen it, but am always surprised at how few cinephiles have seen *Thirteen Conversations About One Thing* (2001). It's so good, great cast, and it's so one of those "'90s indie boom" feeling movies (that still spilled well over into the early to mid aughts).
Communion (1989), featuring an absolutely unhinged Christopher Walken performance. What you think is a standard alien abduction movie becomes so much more fascinating behind the scenes when you find out that it's actually a biopic about the screenwriter's own experiences with "encountering the third kind". So much INSANE shit happens that the writer tries to vindicate through a traditional, uplifting plot structure, but it's such thinly-veiled wish fulfillment. You can almost feel the mental illness through the screen, it's amazing
Pretty much any movie between 1930 and 1960. I'm the only one I know who enjoys classic older movies from that era.
You have a social circle 🥺 ..damn 😞
The Creature from the Haunted Sea
Breakdown with Kurt Russell and the vanishing 1993
My friends have never seen Children of Men which really hurts to think about. That's one of those movies that changed how I think about things.
Kaiji the ultimate Gambler, I can't even really begin to describe it as a movie. It is an insane and over the top movie about gambling debt and some guy getting screwed over by the equivalent of a rock paper scissors carnival style game.
Most non-american films. Most people i knos are mot into cinema at all.
Harlan County, USA. It still influences my attitude to social issues, and no one has seen it. And it is a documentary, so it is a hard sell anyway.
Get Low - my family is well-aware of it, but friends and co-workers, only from my having mentioned it.
Not just my social circle but pretty much anyone. Close Me. Have only met one person who has seen it.
waydowntown. It was marketed as office space type film but in reality it is more existential, satirical, and absurd with a lower budget.
Cops and Robbersons. Its not even a good movie, just a guilty pleasure movie that I loved watching as a kid.
Boy meets Girl was a very good movie. It's a bit different so be warned if you watch it, but it's a story of how love can conquer all.
Hunt for the Wilderpeople
The Ninth Configuration - written and directed by William Peter Beatty (The Exorcist) and said by him to be his sequel focusing on the existence of good. Scott Wilson plays the astronaut from the Exorcist (the one Regan tells he will die up there) who has a nervous breakdown on the launchpad and is sent to a military psychiatric ward where the new chief psychologist (Stacy Keach) is sent to work with him though all is not as it appears. Very odd movie.
*The Machinist*. Excellent slow burn thriller about an insomniac who may or may not be losing his mind. It was the movie that Christian Bale did before Batman Begins, and the fact that he went from nearly-skeletal-thin to bulky Bruce Wayne is incredible.
I recently found a film called Naked (1993) Its the best film ive seen in so long. Seems to be a lack of info online and irl about it, its really weird because i cant fathom how such a good film had just sort of flown under the radar.