The Best Movies Nobody Has Heard Of

**Gilliene** · 05-07-2010, 06:36 AM

Thank You For Smoking was a great film, also the Duchess.

**jibblet** · 05-07-2010, 03:27 PM

Agreed, Thank You For Smoking is a rare jewel. Wish there were more films like that.

**cinephilia** · 05-07-2010, 03:32 PM

except that everyone has heard of it..

**The_Martinator** · 05-07-2010, 04:15 PM

Even I iz heard of itz...

**cinephilia** · 05-07-2010, 06:43 PM

ok, my turn.

"On The Bowery" - Lionel Rogosin (B&W, USA, 1956, 65 mins.)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050800/

A mix of documentary and scripted footage on the Bowery, New York City's skid row. Against a backdrop of men (and a few women) drinking in bars, talking and arguing, and sleeping on sidewalks, we have the story of Ray. He is younger and more vigorous than most on the Bowery. He arrives in Manhattan with a suitcase and a little money in his pocket. On his first night, he drinks himself into a stupor, falls asleep on the sidewalk, and is robbed of his suitcase. Over the next two days, we follow both Ray and the thief, who befriends him. Is there any hope Ray can get out of town and restart a life of work and sobriety, or is he stuck on the Bowery? Can the good thief help?

It is a film of indelible portraiture; the plot, as it is, exists largely to transfer our protagonists (and the camera) between congregations of winos, from gin mills to games of dominos around a flophouse common room’s pot-bellied stove, from a listless sermon at the Bowery Mission to bums in a side street squeezing a “Good morning” cup of pink lady from a can of Sterno. All throughout, the film looks hard at that which we’re accustomed to turning away from, exposing a litany of exploded hairdos, gardens of gin blossoms, trench-like worry lines, loose blubbery lips, toppled orthodontia, eyes glistening from burrows, noses pitted like no-man’s-land or broken across the bridge (even a couple of visages that are positively Beckettian). In numerous bar scenes, the atmosphere is palpable: the Rheingold on tap, the raw onions in the beards, the cracked-leather barstools soaking up rancid farts. – Nick Pinkerton, Glasses Full of Rye

**iLOVENZB** · 05-08-2010, 01:17 AM

I don't know many people who have watched Schindler's List, by Spielberg. If you find what Nazi's did to the Jews fascinating, you'll love it.

**IdolEyes787** · 05-08-2010, 01:31 AM

Schindler's List worldwide gross - $321,306,305 and another 100 million DVD /blu-ray .
Schindler's List is the most critically acclaimed film of Steven Spielberg's career."Recipient of seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Original Score, as well as numerous other awards (7 BAFTA, 3 Golden Globes). In 2007, the American Film Institute (AFI) ranked the film 8th on its list of the 100 best American films of all time"

Originally Posted by iLOVENZB

I don't know many people who have watched Schindler's List, by Spielberg.

But I bet they've seen all 6 Saws ,both Transformers, Little Man(but not Little Big Man) and Grandma's Boy

Btw I just noticed on the comments of a "greatest car chase movies" pack I'm downloading ( I recommended The French Connection,The Seven-Ups and the Blues Brothers as one previously excluded) that compared to everyone(Bullitt,Vanishing Point,Ronin,To Live and Die in LA ,Duel etc) listed someone said "great pack I love Deathproof"

It's OK not to know a lot about movies .It's not OK to be retarded.