Border Radio A low budget, black + white movie set in the Southern California punk rock scene. John Doe stars, and Dave Alvun has a great cameo...
I used to have this movie on VHS tape. Young Hayley Mills was a talented actress. In the states and I guess, the rest of the world, Haley was mainly known for her Disney movies. That was fine, but she had a much greater scope as an actress, as this movie shows.
A favorite of mine. I mentioned this movie in the thread where Renee Zellweger, plays Judy Garland, in Judy. Jane Horrocks in real life imates famous singers including Judy Garland. Because of this, a play was written around her ability. The play was made into a this movie.
I really liked it - the supporting cast is also awesome and there are plenty of laugh out loud funny moments.
The Yellow Handkerchief was an endearing low budget movie with William Hurt. It also starred a pre-Twilight, Kristen Stewart in a very interesting role. Interestingly enough, Stewart was in another movie, Into The Wild, with Hurt, only the year before. I'm quite fond of this movie.
That reminds me: The Late Show starring Art Carney as an old, broken-down PI and Lily Tomlin as his flaky client. Produced by Robert Altman and directed by Robert Benton.
Regarding lesser-known Kurosawa films, I’m partial to his 1975 film Dersu Uzala. It’s a Japanese/Soviet Union co-production, filmed in Siberia, about a Russian military officer who befriends a local hunter. It’s an unusual subject and location for Kurosawa, but much of his style is there, particularly in the scenes of Siberia’s brutal weather. Even though the movie won the Oscar for Best Foreign Film and was distributed in the U.S. by Roger Corman, I think it’s little-known these days (here, anyway) except to cinephiles.
Thief. James Caan's best performance ever, bar none! Even he thinks so. And it was Michael Mann's first theatrical feature, after the TV movie, "The Jericho Mile"
In the late seventies Channel 44 in Chicago used to show unusual and obscure films, the same movie repeated the same time, Monday through Friday! This was long before cable channels thought of it! I had a girlfriend then who watched The Baby (1973) five nights in a row...don’t know how she did it! A movie I liked was Hitch Hike (1963) starring Aretha Aems, Arletty, etc. It was a really good movie, and seems to have disappeared. I made an audio recording of the soundtrack (mic up to a TV speaker into a reel to reel, still have the tape) but I wonder whatever happened to this film, I’ve never found it on VHS, DVD...anybody else remember this movie?
I had a 16mm print of that back in the 70's. Don't remember much of it, just that this guy, went from here to there by swimming house to house in other people's swimming pools. An odd little low budget film to see a big name like Burt Lancaster in?
That's one of my favourite movies and i can't wait to see it on Blu Ray or in theaters...Mia Farrow, the soundtrack, the Scope cinematography, the autumnal London and some of the scenes (the opening and ending) are breathtaking! Here's a nice link about the film: https://twitter.com/full_julia?lang=fr
Tiger Bay - Hayley Mills' first movie is fantastic!!! The Family Way - One of my favorites with Hayley Mills & it is awesome!!! Both highly recommended.
There's unfortunately no Blu Ray of THE HAUNTING OF JULIA/FULL CIRCLE yet, but the channel Shudder has shown a cool HD print of this unfairly forgotten film a few weeks ago, so at least you can find it somewhere in all its glorious visual beauty!
Arthur Penn's Mickey One (FWIW, Beatty seemed to have very few actual hit movies, and a lot of bombs. Somehow he seemed to sort of just project this air of being commercially viable. Perhaps his greatest acting....)
August Rush - An orphaned musical prodigy uses his gift to try to find his birth parents. The Age Of Adaline - A young woman, born at the turn of the 20th century, is rendered ageless after an accident. After many solitary years, she meets a man who complicates the eternal life she has settled into. Same concept: Late For Dinner - Two young men evading the police for a crime they didn't commit are cryogenically frozen in the early 1960s. The next thing they know is that they are in a strange new world (thirty years on). Forever Young - During a cryogenics test, a pilot frozen in 1939 awakes in 1992 but time is running out, as his body starts to age rapidly. Shining Through - An American woman of Irish, Jewish-German parentage goes undercover in Nazi Germany. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UzSekc0LoQ&t=50s - The Age Of Adaline https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYNvZW5cWnw - Late For Dinner https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIEHuEFDgac - Forever Young https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChujSmX8KDU - Shining Through
Counselor at Law (1933) Slither (1972) Workingman's Death (2005) Le Cercle Rouge (1970) The Good Fairy (1935) Satan Met a Lady (1936) The Match King (1932) The Mind Reader (1933) The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1956) Pauline at the Beach (1983)
Treasure Island with Charlton Heston and Christian Bale. Best, most accurate version of the classic novel. Amazing.