Forgotten Classic you would reccomend to others?

[thingsgoinon]

I looked thru the threads, didn't come to anything, hope this isn't repetetive:

I know most of us have underated or overated lists...but wahat are some movies that in your mind should be considered "classics" (in other words, films most ppl may not have heard of) that have been forgotten over the years?

Some of mine:

>Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959)

Tho it is considered a classic, I am amazed how many nevre heard of this. Soem of the monsters are cheesy, but it is VERY well acted, and well paced... a nice adaption of the novel.

>Going in Style

A comedy drama starring George Burns, Art Carney and Lee Strasburg. Much better tale of the plight of senior citizens than ...say..Cocoon.

>Sorcerer

A little known gem from 1977 about a group of men who have to transport trucks of nitroglyceryn across a jungle. A remake of an old French film Wages of Fear.Visually this film is incredible, you may even have trouble realizing it was made in the 70's.Tense man vs machine vs nature drama.Starring Roy Scheider.

[Antonio]

PAPER MOON (1973) Peter Bogdanovich
THE INNOCENTS (1961) Jack Clayton
THE LAST OF SHEILA (1973) Herbert Ross

[notchreturns]

12 Angry Men
The Sting
The Goodbye Girl
Papillon

All excellent films that are overlooked by all.

[This message has been edited by notchreturns (edited 04-27-2002).]

[Big Screen Fan]

Imitation of Life
Roman Holiday
The African Queen
Mr.Smith Goes To Washington
Houseboat
Tammy and The Bachelor
The Three Faces of Eve
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
The Spiral Staircase
Wait Until Dark
Mrs. Miniver

[bskutle]

Andrei Tarkovsky's "Stalker" (though it's more forgotten than a forgotten "classic")
Alfred Hitchcock's "Rebecca"
Samuel Fuller's "Shock Corridor"
Billy Wilder's "Double Indemnity"
Frank Capra's "Arsenic and Old Lace"
Blake Edward's "A Shot in the Dark"
Vincent Minnelli's "The Bad and the Beautiful"
Alfred Hitchcock's "The Lady Vanishes"

[sanshodayu]

Difficult to be sure which classics are forgotten.Several of the above-mentioned are excellent,but i think some are still remembered with affection by many.I'll second Antonio's recommendation of The Innocents;a beautifully photographed and atmospheric British psychological horror film.5 great American films deserving to be better-known(admired by critics but not included in the American Film Institute 100);
Letter from an Unknown Woman(1948):Exquisitely poignant and romantic Viennese period tale of unrequited/lost love.
Night of the Hunter(1955):Charles Laughton's only film as director,a failure at the time but a unique masterpiece.
Sunrise(1927):if you like silents or are willing to give them a go,you can't do any better than start here.Sad,exhilarating,tempestuous,frightening,char ming,heartwarming..the film has everything!And happens to be a work of cinematic genius.
To Be or Not to Be(1942);i can't explain why this isn't more widely known as one of the most brilliant comedies ever made.Its wit and inventiveness are scintillating.
The Band Wagon(1953);a musical to rank with Singin in the Rain.Fred Astaire still dazzling,and visually it's magnificent too

[Kavan]

All Mine to Give
All the Way Home

Two very different movies but they just lept to mind. The first deals with a Scottish family in America and is a very sad but beautiful film.

All the Way Home is about a death and how it affects a family in turn of the century America.

Both are really beautiful films. I feel safe recommending them to anyone.

[Ezikel]

Here are some overlooked gems. They were overlooked on their initial release but have been born again on video.

Titanic (1997) - great effects on a modest budget
Die Hard (1988) - thrilling!
Terminator 2 : Judgement Day - very clever use of mercury
Harry Potter & the Philosophers Stone: good adaption of little known novel

[thingsgoinon]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Ezikel:
Here are some overlooked gems. They were overlooked on their initial release but have been born again on video.

Titanic (1997) - great effects on a modest budget
Die Hard (1988) - thrilling!
Terminator 2 : Judgement Day - very clever use of mercury
Harry Potter & the Philosophers Stone: good adaption of little known novel</font>

??????? scratches his head wondering if he's still sleeping ???????????????

[pavan]

I wouldn't say that either Die Hard or T2 were 'overlooked on their initial release', as T2 made the most money ever or something when it came out in the cinemas.

As for my own choice, I'd go for Orson Welles' Touch of Evil.

[pavan]

Sorry, I just noticed that Titanic was in Ezikel's list as well.

'modest budget'??? $200 million is modest???

And it made the most money ever for a film. How could that be 'overlooked'??

[Professor Falk]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by sanshodayu:
Night of the Hunter(1955):Charles Laughton's only film as director,a failure at the time but a unique masterpiece.
</font>


Yeeeeeeeeess it is. I started a topic a few weeks ago about one-time only Directors, and used this and Marlon Brando's superb One Eyed Jacks, (which my man Stanley Kubrick started and then either abandoned or was reassigned, I can't remember which.) as my examples. A unique and (I can't avoid using it...) haunting film.

[sanshodayu]

Glad you agree,Professor,about Night of the Hunter;in fact it was voted #3 film of all time by a Time Out critics' poll in 1989,and #4 in a German poll in 95.The children's moonlit river journey,magnificently photographed by Stanley Cortez,is one of the high points of American and World cinema(and the scene of Shelley Winters underwater is unforgettable-yes,haunting-too).I happen to also agree with you about One Eyed Jacks-its inclusion in the British Film Institute's 360 classics list raised eyebrows,but i've always loved it and would go so far as to say it's my favourite Brando film.
As for Ezikel(from a beautiful part of the lovely emerald isle),and his Irish wit:I'm only surprised he didn't add that there's a neglected director named Steven Spielberg,who did films about a shark,an alien and dinosaurs that somehow were ignored by the public!

[Stop Making Sense]

David Byrne's TRUE STORIES

Woody Allen's TAKE THE MONEY AND RUN

[pat00139]

I definitely have to agree with Night of the Hunter, The Innocents, To Be Or Not To Be and Stalker.

But I was thinking more along the lines of Gun Crazy, Experiment in Terror, Trouble in Paradise, Ninotchka (well, any Lubitsch, actually), Sullivan's Travels, Lost Horizon, Scarface(1932 version), Things to Come(although I doubt this one was ever considered a classic), The Uninvited, The Ox-Bow Incident, and a whole bunch more... There are A LOT of terrific movies that are pretty much forgotten nowadays.

[Antonio]

THE NIGHT OF THE IGUANA (1964) John Huston
SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS (1957) Alexander Mackendrick
SOME CAME RUNNING (1959) Vincent Minnelli
BUNNY LAKE IS MISSING (1965) Otto Preminger
SECONDS (1966) John Frankenheimer

[SteveSzyk]

Straw Dogs: Dustin Hoffman's best performance in an absorbing, disturbing, and all around fantastic film. Doesn't seem to be mentioned much on these boards.

[jaaron]

Random Harvest

Umbrellas of Cherbourg

Peter Ibbetson

Last Year at Marienbad

Le Bonheur

I'm sure there're more.

[KornKidJedi]

Dawn of the Dead

[Ezikel]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by pavan:
Sorry, I just noticed that Titanic was in Ezikel's list as well.

'modest budget'??? $200 million is modest???

And it made the most money ever for a film. How could that be 'overlooked'??</font>

Ezikel slaps head.

The following info is from the IMDB:


Titanic (1997)

Budget
$200m (USA)


Rentals
$324.425m (USA

Opening Weekend
AUD 3,170,890 (Australia) (21 December 1997)
DEM 13,995,065 (Germany) (11 January 1998) (673 screens)
£4.805m (UK) (25 January 1998) (416 screens)
$28.638m (USA) (21 December 1997) (2,674 screens)

Gross
$21.559m (Argentina)
AUD 44,638,315 (Australia) (25 March 1998)
AUD 32,121,441 (Australia) (11 February 1998)
AUD 15,740,465 (Australia) (7 January 1998)
DEM 224,948,803 (Germany) (26 July 1998)
DEM 222,951,725 (Germany) (5 July 1998)
DEM 218,930,798 (Germany) (31 May 1998)
DEM 217,007,027 (Germany) (24 May 1998)
DEM 211,407,826 (Germany) (3 May 1998)
DEM 185,031,228 (Germany) (5 April 1998)
DEM 176,139,477 (Germany) (29 March 1998)
DEM 155,931,820 (Germany) (15 March 1998)
DEM 116,507,971 (Germany) (22 February 1998)
DEM 103,209,612 (Germany) (15 February 1998)
DEM 70,908,571 (Germany) (1 February 1998)
ITL 81,457,547,000 (Italy) (19 July 1998)
$225m (Japan)
$1.214 billion (Non-USA) (4 October 1998)
$1.191 billion (Non-USA) (16 August 1998)
$1.093 billion (Non-USA) (17 May 1998)
$1.080 billion (Non-USA) (10 May 1998)
$1.054 billion (Non-USA) (3 May 1998)
$1.017 billion (Non-USA) (26 April 1998)
$978.3m (Non-USA) (19 April 1998)
$916.4m (Non-USA) (12 April 1998)
$872.8m (Non-USA) (5 April 1998)
$815m (Non-USA) (29 March 1998)
$756.2m (Non-USA) (22 March 1998)
$704.7m (Non-USA) (15 March 1998)
$647m (Non-USA) (8 March 1998)
$583m (Non-USA) (1 March 1998)
$516m (Non-USA) (22 February 1998)
$440m (Non-USA) (15 February 1998)
$291.2m (Non-USA) (1 February 1998)
$217m (Non-USA) (25 January 1998)
$88.3m (Non-USA) (11 January 1998)
$48.1m (Non-USA) (4 January 1998)
$1.234 billion (Non-USA) (final)
SGD 6,420,000 (Singapore)
£68.532m (UK) (19 July 1998)
£68.44m (UK) (12 July 1998)
£68.312m (UK) (5 July 1998)
£68.161m (UK) (28 June 1998)
£67.992m (UK) (21 June 1998)
£67.814m (UK) (14 June 1998)
£67.587m (UK) (7 June 1998)
£67.345m (UK) (31 May 1998)
£66.941m (UK) (24 May 1998)
£66.634m (UK) (17 May 1998)
£66.313m (UK) (10 May 1998)
£65.733m (UK) (3 May 1998)
£64.86m (UK) (26 April 1998)
£63.626m (UK) (19 April 1998)
£61.221m (UK) (12 April 1998)
£58.508m (UK) (5 April 1998)
£55.708m (UK) (29 March 1998)
£51.964m (UK) (22 March 1998)
£48.723m (UK) (15 March 1998)
£44.622m (UK) (8 March 1998)
£39.696m (UK) (1 March 1998)
£34.118m (UK) (22 February 1998)
£26.774m (UK) (15 February 1998)
£20.238m (UK) (8 February 1998)
£12.87m (UK) (1 February 1998)
£4.805m (UK) (25 January 1998)
$600.779m (USA) (20 September 1998)
$600.743m (USA) (13 September 1998)
$600.374m (USA) (30 August 1998)
$599.657m (USA) (23 August 1998)
$598.614m (USA) (16 August 1998)
$597.285m (USA) (9 August 1998)
$595.467m (USA) (2 August 1998)
$593.234m (USA) (26 July 1998)
$590.489m (USA) (19 July 1998)
$588.931m (USA) (12 July 1998)
$588.205m (USA) (5 July 1998)
$587.071m (USA) (28 June 1998)
$585.544m (USA) (21 June 1998)
$583.885m (USA) (14 June 1998)
$581.889m (USA) (7 June 1998)
$579.419m (USA) (31 May 1998)
$577.06m (USA) (25 May 1998)
$572.713m (USA) (17 May 1998)
$569.82m (USA) (10 May 1998)
$565.736m (USA) (3 May 1998)
$560.615m (USA) (26 April 1998)
$554.067m (USA) (19 April 1998)
$542.853m (USA) (12 April 1998)
$530.406m (USA) (5 April 1998)
$515.262m (USA) (29 March 1998)
$494.514m (USA) (22 March 1998)
$471.446m (USA) (15 March 1998)
$449.157m (USA) (8 March 1998)
$426.983m (USA) (1 March 1998)
$402.561m (USA) (22 February 1998)
$376.27m (USA) (15 February 1998)
$337.355m (USA) (8 February 1998)
$308.1m (USA) (1 February 1998)
$274.599m (USA) (25 January 1998)
$242.748m (USA) (19 January 1998)
$197.881m (USA) (11 January 1998)
$157.467m (USA) (4 January 1998)
$88.425m (USA) (28 December 1997)
$28.638m (USA) (21 December 1997)

Weekend Gross
DEM 335,335 (Germany) (26 July 1998) (258 screens)
DEM 454,069 (Germany) (5 July 1998) (391 screens)
DEM 1,481,881 (Germany) (31 May 1998) (497 screens)
DEM 1,807,993 (Germany) (24 May 1998) (488 screens)
DEM 3,002,585 (Germany) (3 May 1998) (676 screens)
DEM 5,460,548 (Germany) (19 April 1998) (764 screens)
DEM 6,667,395 (Germany) (5 April 1998) (799 screens)
DEM 7,205,599 (Germany) (29 March 1998) (820 screens)
DEM 9,471,598 (Germany) (15 March 1998) (824 screens)
DEM 10,403,920 (Germany) (1 March 1998) (810 screens)
DEM 9,642,296 (Germany) (22 February 1998) (806 screens)
DEM 11,384,161 (Germany) (15 February 1998) (808 screens)
£38,850 (UK) (19 July 1998) (55 screens)
£65,632 (UK) (12 July 1998) (85 screens)
£72,814 (UK) (5 July 1998) (108 screens)
£93,716 (UK) (28 June 1998) (149 screens)
£87,845 (UK) (21 June 1998) (151 screens)
£140,108 (UK) (14 June 1998) (165 screens)
£134,182 (UK) (7 June 1998) (137 screens)
£155,794 (UK) (31 May 1998) (147 screens)
£199,618 (UK) (24 May 1998) (188 screens)
£157,678 (UK) (17 May 1998) (194 screens)
£292,757 (UK) (10 May 1998) (236 screens)
£526,477 (UK) (3 May 1998) (247 screens)
£669,252 (UK) (26 April 1998) (295 screens)
£981,940 (UK) (19 April 1998) (358 screens)
£1.373m (UK) (12 April 1998) (434 screens)
£1.504m (UK) (5 April 1998) (426 screens)
£2.223m (UK) (29 March 1998) (452 screens)
£1.953m (UK) (22 March 1998) (447 screens)
£2.469m (UK) (15 March 1998) (474 screens)
£3.01m (UK) (8 March 1998) (478 screens)
£3.403m (UK) (1 March 1998) (470 screens)
£3.657m (UK) (22 February 1998) (457 screens)
£3.849m (UK) (15 February 1998) (425 screens)
£4.274m (UK) (8 February 1998) (424 screens)
£4.773m (UK) (1 February 1998) (419 screens)
£4.805m (UK) (25 January 1998) (416 screens)
$1.214m (USA) (14 June 1998) (975 screens)
$1.648m (USA) (7 June 1998) (1,219 screens)
$1.783m (USA) (31 May 1998) (1,562 screens)
$3.672m (USA) (24 May 1998) (2,008 screens)
$2.112m (USA) (17 May 1998) (1,990 screens)
$3.178m (USA) (10 May 1998) (2,256 screens)
$4.011m (USA) (3 May 1998) (2,660 screens)
$4.938m (USA) (26 April 1998) (2,912 screens)
$7.407m (USA) (19 April 1998) (3,012 screens)
$8.558m (USA) (12 April 1998) (3,265 screens)
$11.533m (USA) (5 April 1998) (3,265 screens)
$15.213m (USA) (29 March 1998) (3,233 screens)
$17.165m (USA) (22 March 1998) (3,169 screens)
$17.578m (USA) (15 March 1998) (3,116 screens)
$17.605m (USA) (8 March 1998) (3,103 screens)
$19.633m (USA) (1 March 1998) (3,035 screens)
$21.036m (USA) (22 February 1998) (3,006 screens)
$32.876m (USA) (15 February 1998) (3,002 screens)
$23.027m (USA) (8 February 1998) (2,956 screens)
$25.907m (USA) (1 February 1998) (2,853 screens)
$25.238m (USA) (25 January 1998) (2,771 screens)
$36.014m (USA) (18 January 1998) (2,767 screens)
$28.716m (USA) (11 January 1998) (2,745 screens)
$33.315m (USA) (4 January 1998) (2,727 screens)

Admissions
15,859,705 (Brazil) (9 July 1998)
20,738,844 (France) (29 December 1998)
20,692,515 (France) (7 October 1998)
20,621,965 (France) (9 September 1998)
19,162,386 (France) (28 April 1998)
18,137,165 (France) (14 April 1998)
17,292,498 (France) (7 April 1998)
16,630,182 (France) (31 March 1998)
15,898,084 (France) (24 March 1998)
15,015,344 (France) (17 March 1998)
14,093,494 (France) (10 March 1998)
12,881,830 (France) (3 March 1998)
11,437,833 (France) (24 February 1998)
9,988,103 (France) (17 February 1998)
8,611,067 (France) (10 February 1998)
7,034,936 (France) (3 February 1998)
5,450,817 (France) (27 January 1998) (683 screens)
3,672,580 (France) (20 January 1998) (636 screens)
1,743,419 (France) (opening week) (564 screens)
18,081,000 (Germany)
17,876,702 (Germany) (18 October 1998)
17,603,186 (Germany) (16 August 1998)
17,560,673 (Germany) (9 August 1998)
17,453,984 (Germany) (26 July 1998)
17,408,950 (Germany) (19 July 1998)
17,347,024 (Germany) (12 July 1998)
17,278,853 (Germany) (5 July 1998)
17,167,578 (Germany) (21 June 1998)
17,113,309 (Germany) (15 June 1998)
16,942,632 (Germany) (1 June 1998)
16,787,500 (Germany) (25 May 1998)
16,607,790 (Germany) (18 May 1998)
16,499,590 (Germany) (11 May 1998)
16,346,489 (Germany) (4 May 1998)
16,050,368 (Germany) (27 April 1998)
14,314,369 (Germany) (6 April 1998)
13,633,006 (Germany) (30 March 1998)
12,886,597 (Germany) (23 March 1998)
12,058,681 (Germany) (16 March 1998)
11,113,728 (Germany) (9 March 1998)
10,097,661 (Germany) (1 March 1998)
8,995,316 (Germany) (23 February 1998)
7,964,777 (Germany) (16 February 1998)
6,773,964 (Germany) (9 February 1998)
5,448,477 (Germany) (2 February 1998)
4,021,474 (Germany) (26 January 1998)
2,517,246 (Germany) (19 January 1998)
1,040,573 (Germany) (12 January 1998) (opening week)
3,079,081 (Paris) (29 December 1998)
2,890,017 (Paris) (28 April 1998)
2,848,271 (Paris) (21 April 1998)
2,758,434 (Paris) (14 April 1998)
2,661,162 (Paris) (7 April 1998)
2,475,266 (Paris) (24 March 1998)
2,358,371 (Paris) (17 March 1998)
2,240,666 (Paris) (10 March 1998)
2,096,467 (Paris) (3 March 1998)
1,889,159 (Paris) (24 February 1998)
1,662,510 (Paris) (17 February 1998)
1,458,623 (Paris) (10 February 1998)
1,223,107 (Paris) (3 February 1998)
973,286 (Paris) (27 January 1998)
682,932 (Paris) (20 January 1998)
342,910 (Paris) (13 January 1998) (opening week)
39,963 (Paris) (7 January 1998) (opening day)
10,841,850 (Spain)
10,837,725 (Spain)
2,166,584 (Sweden) (31 December 1998)
128,099,826 (USA) (31 December 1998)

[max]

THE SILENT PARTNER
THE BIG EASY
ANGEL HEART
LOCAL HERO
ATLANTIC CITY
THE MAN IN THE MOON (with Reese Witherspoon)
STRANGER THAN PARADISE
NORMAL LIFE
THE CONVERSATION
KING OF COMEDY
DINER
BEFORE SUNRISE
THE ARRIVAL
ULEE'S GOLD
MEAN STREETS
FREEWAY
BOUND

[thingsgoinon]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by KornKidJedi:
Dawn of the Dead</font>

And speaking of King Romero...a little known film of his called Knightriders. Quite possibly one of the finest films ever made.

Suggestion: I say we all take one we haven't seen from someone elses list, and report back !

[thingsgoinon]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by max:
KING OF COMEDY

BOUND</font>
YES! Good call, I LOVE that movie. Lets hear it for Rupert Pupkin!...Rupert Pupkin ladies and gentlemen!

[movieDUDE68686]

philadelphia

[Hannibal21]

All About Eve
The Night of the Iguana
Disraeli
Rebecca
White Heat
Now, Voyager
Two Women
The Little Foxes
Sunset Boulevard
The 39 Steps
The Snake Pit

[Scarface98.9]

Due to the controversy surrounding its release, Once Upon a Time in America is one that I think qualifies as a forgotten classic. It wasn't until recently that people have noticed it, but it's one of Sergio Leones best movies, and didn't deserve the treatment it got

[Damned Martian]

12 ANGRY MEN
FORBIDDEN PLANET
CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF
SLEUTH
ARSENIC AND OLD LACE
WHATEVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE?

[Tagia_Romero]

Wuthering Heights (Olivier version, very very romantic without being conventionally soppy)
The Invisible Man (Claude Rains)
Nikita (Anne Parilaud, directed by Luc Besson)

[The Professional]

Forgotton Cult "Classics":

Across 110th St.(Blaxploitation)
Deadbeat at Dawn(Action)
Hard Times(Action)
The Mechanic(Action)
Mr. Majestyk(Action)
Southern Comfort(Adventure)
Streets of Fire(Action)
Thou Shalt Not Kill...Except(Revenge/Action)
Thunderbolt & Lightfoot(Crime Road Movie)
Vigilante(Action/Revenge)
Violent Cop(Japanese Action)
Midnight Run(Action/Buddy/Road Movie)
Branded To Kill(Japanese Crime)
Dillinger(73)(Action)
Running Time(Heist/Crime)
Tokyo Drifter(Japanese Crime)
A Better Place(Low Budget Teen Violence)
Cockfighter(Drive-In)
Cutter's Way(Neo-Noir)
Two-Lane Blacktop(Road Movie)
Blue Sunshine(Crazy LSD freak Movie)
Brain Damage(Crazy Parasite movie)
Cannibal Apocalypse(Action/Cannibal/zombie Movie)
Rabid(crazy plague movie)
The Crazies(Crazy plague movie)
Let Sleeping Corpses Lie(zombie Horror movie)
Miracle Mile(fast paced nuke movie)
Dark Star(no-budget space comedy)
Le Dernier Combat(french post-apocalypse)
Dreamscape(dated sci-fi movie)
Attack!(well paced war flick, definitly worth a look)
The Beast(another cool war movie)
Companeros(best spaghetti western ever)
The Great Silence(second best)
The Shooting(cool no-budget monte hellman film)

Forgotton "Classics":

The Bounty(High seas adventure)
Barfly(Movie about a drunk)
Shoot The Piano Player(French crime flick, great)
Un Flic(french heist flick by the hero of french crime, Melville)
At Close Range(good drama)
Pierrot Le Fou(great improv french crime flick)
Ninth Configuration(amazing unclassifiable comedy/drama)
The American Friend(beutifully photographed german crime flick)
Kings of The Road(amazing movie by Wenders)
The Big Heat(one of fritz langs best american films, well paced Noir)
Bob Le Flambeur(classic french crime by melville)
This Man Must Die(well paced thriller by frenchman chabrol)
Z(interesting, deliberatly paced political film by Costa-Gavras)

[VicVega]

I don't think Deliverance gets half as much recognition as it should. It's a fucking great movie.

[therealjohng]

King Kong

[sarah1980]

THE TIME MACHINE

not the crappy 2002 one I mean the 1960 Geogre Pal classic :)

[mrdeeds]

Here's some great Gary Cooper classics:

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (Adam Sandler can kiss my brown ass)
Meet John Doe (Story of the rise and fall of a people's hero. This story has been retold dozens of times)
Pride of the Yankees (A dramatization of Lou Gehrig's life story)

[Jasonite]

It seems like everyone has forgot about A Man For All Seasons. A fantastic movie, you'll thank me for recommending it.


J

[Tuukka]

Swallowtail Butterfly:

TOTALLY IGNORED MASTERPIECE!

Reflecting Skin:

Has some cult fame, but not many people have seen this great film.

Hardware:

A great low budget scifi-fi gem, totally misunderstood and one of my all time faves.

[Deckard]

Great topic a few gems from the past that tend to be overlooked are:

John Huston's THE ASHPHALT JUNGLE/THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING
Sidney Lumet's FAIL-SAFE/THE HILL
John Frankenheimer's SECONDS/7 DAYS IN MAY
Robert Wise's SOMEBODY UP THERE LIKES ME
Alan J Pakula's PARRALAX VIEW
Richard Fleischer's 10 RILLINGTON PLACE/THE BOSTON STRANGLER
Billy Wilder THE FORTUNE COOKIE/THE PRIVATE LIFE OF SHERLOCK HOLMES
Otto Preminger's ANATOMY FOR A MURDER/THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM
Richard Brookes IN COLD BLOOD
Don Siegel's MADIGAN/CHARLEY VARRICK/THE BEGUILED
George Roy Hill's SLAUGHTERHOUSE 5
Albert Lewin's THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY
Sidney J Furie's THE IPCRESS FILE
William Fredkin's TO LIVE AND DIE IN LA
Alfred Hitchcock's FRENZY
Hal Ashby's BEING THERE
Nicholas Meyers THE SEVEN PERCENT SOLUTION

just a few off the top of my head taht are well wortha look.

[VincentPrice]

Laura

[SykkBoy]

Knightriders (good call on this one)
Johnny Handsome the movie bombed but I felt Mickey Rourke gave his best perfomance ever in this flick and Ellen Barkin was good as well.
The Burning While Friday the 13th gets the accolades and endless sequels, this entry into the slasher-thon sweepstakes was a damn good flick (espceially if you can get the Unrated version). Future stars abound in this flick: Jason Alexander, Fisher Stevens and Holly Hunter...these days of bloodless, boobless slashers make me pine for the good old glory days of hack and slash.....
The Brood My favorite David Cronenberg flick and it's gone largely unseen, even in horror circles, but is finally getting a DVD release this summer.

[Romero&Juliet]

Originally posted by thingsgoinon
And speaking of King Romero...a little known film of his called Knightriders. Quite possibly one of the finest films ever made.

Suggestion: I say we all take one we haven't seen from someone elses list, and report back !

I miss things very, very much... :\

[Buck Turgidson]

Rancho Deluxe

[BadCoverVersion]

For now...

This Happy Breed (1944)
Look Back In Anger (1958)
A Taste Of Honey (1961)
Becket (1964)
Persona (1966)
Performance (1970)
10 Rillington Place (1971)
Unman, Wittering & Zigo (1971)

Not entirely ignored, but certainly forgotten a wee bit.

[Buck Turgidson]

Originally posted by BadCoverVersion

Unman, Wittering & Zigo (1971)


A great example of how a film can be a scary as a motherfucker, with no real horror or supernatural elements to it. A palpable sense of dread and foreboding runs all throught it.

(It was cool to see Carolyn Seymour so young. She has played cool, authoritative, in control types for a long time. She's kind of the British Grace Zabriskie :cool: )

[Grebdron]

Well, from the looks of another thread, one that seems to be missing from the collective conscience is The Great Santini.

One of Duval's finer roles.

[The Lolo]

Originally posted by notchreturns
12 Angry Men


12 Angry Men is such a wonderful film - and surprisingly suspensful even though nearly all the story takes place in the same small jury room. Excellent acting in it as well.

[t3h Qster]

To kill a mockingbird starring Gregory Peck, this movie is black and white, is very classic, great adaption of the book and it just can grip you even when you are little