Favourite unknown film

[johngammon]

What's your favourite not very well known film?

[MargeB]

There's one I saw as a kid called 'pinky' about a guy who works in a bank and is 'compromised', I never heard of it again but I really loved it.

[JinxtheCat]

A film called Go with Katie Holmes in it

Also a French film called Betty Blue

[Johnmof]

McCabe and Mrs Miller with Warren Beatty and Julie Christie. Completely different from the standard western.

Absence of Malice, with Paul Newman and Sally Field.

Inherit the Wind with Spencer Tracy and Frederick March. Tracy play the atheist lawyer defending a teacher on trial in the bible belt for teaching Darwin. Superb perfomance.

Murder by Decree. Christopher Plummer as Sherlock Holmes chasing Jack the Ripper.

[GucciGal]

MargeB - wow you are the only other person I know that has watched this film! apart from the one person that told me about it of course! It's still so vivid and the music .... (on that end scene) ..... powerful stuff huh?

[LeMarchand]

There's lots, but possibly the most "not very well known" is "A Summer Story", a period drama/romance with James Wilby and Imogen Stubbs. AFAIK it has never been released to retail, and the rental was only on VHS many years ago. It doesn't even seem to turn up on TV often. (Luckily I managed to get an ex-rental copy).

[jno]

Canterbury Tale is good, and there's a great old Michael Redgrave film called A Window in London, about a man who thinks he's witnessed a murder - an odd comedy/thriller, only an hour or so long, pops up on TV once in a while and feels a bit like some of those yuppie-in-peril films in the 1980s, such as Something Wild.

[Artful]

It has to be a Tchec (spelling?) film I saw about 18 years ago in France called "L'incin�rateur de cadavres" (France) aka "The Cremator (USA) and the original title "Spalovac Mrtvol" by Juraj Herz (1968).

And then of course there is "Element of Crime" by Lars von Trier (his first film ?) circa 1980-ish.

[Artful]

I agree, fairman, Kasper Hauser is brilliant AND poignant. Made by Werner Herzog. Have you seen the same actor in "The Ballade of Bruno" by the same film director? And "Heart of Glass" minus the actor? If you haven't and you get the chance GO!!!