Best Movie You've Never Seen

[steve(thelil)]

It's kind of tough, of course. But I'm pretty certain, for example, that Forrest Gump is not it. And you Gump luvin wussies, please cool your jets , because I haven't seen alot of GREAT movies (although I can't be sure).

I'd have to say that either 8 and 1/2 Blows or 9 and 1/2 Weeks is mine

[Enforcer]

Shirley Manson's rumored-to-exist, "Sexual Acts I Want To Perform On Larry Nagel" video.

Larry

[Sergio Zamora]

Originally Posted by steve(thelil)

I'd have to say that either 8 and 1/2 Blows...

I think you probably meant Fellini's '400'

[patricia]

If you haven't seen "All Quiet On The Western Front" [the original, not the recent re-make], do. This was made in 1930, directed by the great Lewis Milestone and starred Lew Ayres. It is a powerful movie that has lost none of it's impact, even though it takes place during the First World War and is shown from a young German soldier's viewpoint. Within minutes, it doesn't matter what the nationality of the character is. You can have "Platoon", "Full Metal Jacket" and even "Apocolypse Now". This is the definitive anti-war movie, IMO.

[jake gittes]

Indeed, The Milestone's movie is one of the strongest "plaidoyer" against war, and I think that "Four of the infantery" of G.W Pabst is even more desperate and deep as the blackest soul.

My preferate film are "The real end of the war" from J.Kawalerowicz, a polish director and "Kiss me deadly" of R. Aldrich.

But, speaking of war, the worst is yet to come under the south winds.

[john williams]

Some best Aussie movies you've possibly never seen

Beneath Clouds
Lantana
Alexandra's Project
The Tracker
Getting Square

[jake gittes]

I saw Lantana last year, with the ambiguous G. Rush.

[pollo loco]

Originally Posted by JBW

Some best Aussie movies you've possibly never seen

Beneath Clouds
Lantana
Alexandra'a Project
The Tracker
Getting Square

I've never even heard of them! Looking them up in Leonard Maltin's book, I became so frustrated I came close to throwing that volume up against the wall! How about sending me a PM in which you tell me something about the plot of these movies?
pl

[jake gittes]

You just go to allmovie.com. The whole thing is in.

[pollo loco]

Thanks!
pl

[john williams]

Or try the SBS movie show site here-

http://www.sbs.com.au/movieshow/reviews.php3

[crawjo]

Of the war movies I've seen, I'd rank them in this order:

1. The Thin Red Line (a lot of people hate this movie, but I thought it was brilliant.)
2. Platoon
3. All Quiet on the Western Front
4. Paths of Glory (IMO, the best Kubrick war film)
5. Saving Private Ryan (overrated)
6. Full Metal Jacket
7. Apocalypse Now (also overrated, IMO)
8. Glory
9. Enemy at the Gates
10. We Were Soldiers
11. Gettysburg
12. The Longest Day
13. Casualties of War (all in all, a pretty bad movie)
14. Born on the Fourth of July
15. The Patriot (mind-numbingly terrible)

I'm sure I've seen other war films, but those are the ones that come to mind right now.

[Jon Abbey]

obviously you have to guess here. I'm going with Bela Tarr-Satantango, which I hope to rectify next month at one of the MoMA screenings.

[Cem]

I almost started such a thread yesterday. We'll see where goes...

[Borat Pri Hagafen]

Children of Paradise
Magnificent Ambersons
La Dolce Vita
Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo
Titanic
Mr. Nanny

[Chris D]

Juliet of the Spirits

[bluenoter]

Originally Posted by Borat Pri Hagafen

Children of Paradise

Bingo. Best movie I've never seen too.

[MRS]

Originally Posted by Jon Abbey

obviously you have to guess here. I'm going with Bela Tarr-Satantango, which I hope to rectify next month at one of the MoMA screenings.

Would you prefer the 7.5 hour w/2 15 minute breaks or the two-day?

[Sergio Zamora]

'Shoah'

[Jon Abbey]

Originally Posted by MRS

Would you prefer the 7.5 hour w/2 15 minute breaks or the two-day?

I think the one-day version might be less crowded, I'll decide when it gets closer.

Children of Paradise and Juliet of the Spirits are both great, Children of Paradise I called my fave movie for a long time, but I didn't think it held up quite so well the last time I saw it.

[clinthopson]

Debbie Does Dallas

[blawless]

Great thread. I'd include Santantango too, along with Berlin Alexanderplatz, Les Vampires, Sunrise, Gertrud, Two Lane Blacktop, and probably two or three dozen more that I can fantasize about now but would probably not actually end up on any personal best list were I to actually consummate a viewing.

For best movies that no one has seen, I'd say the legendary full versions of Greed and Magnificent Ambersons and Orson Welles's unscreened The Other Side of the Wind. I was also going to say the legally blocked Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story, but as I just found it available for download below, probably lots of people have seen it now.

http://www.illegal-art.org/video/popups/superstar.html

I'll have to watch it now.

[jeff54]

I almost watched Wings of Desire last night. I once caught about 20 minutes of it near the end and it seemed like it might be the best movie I never saw (at least all the way through).

[Rob C]

Originally Posted by blawless

I was also going to say the legally blocked Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story

The best movie I've never seen is Superstar: The Rob Castle Story. I bet it's friggin' awesome, though.

[stonemonkts]

Not sure which of these I'll like the best, but here's my list:

Ivan the Terrible (Eisenstein)
Rashoman (Kurosawa)
The World of Apu (Ray)
Diary of a Country Priest (Bresson)
L'avventura (Antonini)
The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer)
Striker (Tarkovsky)
Winter Light (Bergman)

[walto]

Funny you should ask. I used to think I was a relatively (though maybe not extremely) cultured fellow, but then I happened upon an interview with Susan Sontag, in which she named all her favorite films, I'd never heard of any of them. She didn't mention a single director I'd ever heard of--not Tarkovsky, not Bergman, not De Sica, not Kurosawa, not Dreyer, not Chaplin. So maybe I've never seen any of the really best best films.

I have seen most of those listed so far on this thread, though. (But not "Titannic"--if Borat meant the recent one. )

[Borat Pri Hagafen]

Originally Posted by walto

(But not "Titanic"--if Borat meant the recent one. ]

I was mocking. I thought the fact that i sandwiched it between Deuce Bigalow and a Hulk Hogan vehicle made that clear.

[bluenoter]

Originally Posted by walto

I used to think I was a relatively (though maybe not extremely) cultured fellow, but then I happened upon an interview with Susan Sontag, in which she named all her favorite films, I'd never heard of any of them. She didn't mention a single director I'd ever heard of--not Tarkovsky, not Bergman, not De Sica, not Kurosawa, not Dreyer, not Chaplin. So maybe I've never seen any of the really best best films.

Walto--

I couldn't find that interview or anything similar online, but

How's your German? She curated a 1990 festival consisting of
some of her favorites, in Berlin. See her statement in English beneath the list.

She also curated a 2003 festival consisting of
some of her favorite Japanese films, in Los Angeles.

[Gary Sisco]

Sergio -- *Shoah* is a must-see if you really haven't seen it. I went so far as to own the whole thing. I watch it every few years. It's one of the most powerful films ever made and reveals, better than anything I've encountered, books included, just how banal evil really can be.

[Enforcer]

Fixed.

Originally Posted by Gary Sisco

It's one of the most powerful films ever made and reveals, better than anything I've encountered, books included, just how banal evil really can be. OK, except for Nagel when he's hanging around the co-ed college dorms. But other than that.