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by AFlickering
Thu Jul 18, 2019 8:36 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: MOVIES you might have missed
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Re: MOVIES you might have missed

a bunch of great stuff with a popularity score of 6/10 or less on criticker (this score refers to quantity of ratings, not the average rating):
Romancing in Thin Air (2012)
johnnie to's greatest movie IMO, thematically speaking it's a thousand times better version of life of pi. don't go breaking my heart 2 is almost as glorious, one of the most savage anti-romcoms ever while still being a great romcom.

Bleak Moments (1971)
mike leigh's underseen debut is one of his very best and strangest.

Hill of Freedom (2014)
often dismissed as minor but it may be hong sang-soo's most organic and sublime construction.

Man's Castle (1933)
fuck i need to see more borzage, he's food for the soul. so do you.

The Unspeakable Act (2012)
way better than all those more popular distaff coming of age movies of recent years (lady bird, the edge of seventeen, diary of a teenage girl etc), directed by critic dan sallitt.

Aaaaaaaah! (2015)
from steve oram, best known for collaborating with wheatley and strickland and thoroughly worthy of those guys.

A Bride for Rip Van Winkle (2016)
a top 3 movie of 2016 for me, a much better examination of identity and artifice in the digital age than iwai's more beloved all about lily chou-chou was.

Combat Shock (1986)
like watching eraserhead while suffering PTSD and dying of a heroin overdose.

Days of Eclipse (1988)
nearly as mesmerising a strugatsky adaptation as stalker.

Eye of God (1997)
exceptionally humane and harrowing southern gothic and the best possible 'problem of evil' allegory.

Into Eternity (2010)
rivals the act of killing as my favourite doc of the decade, a work of breathtaking portent even if the execution is a little ropey.

Je t'aime moi non plus (1976)
serge gainsbourg's greatest achievement. come for the painful anal sex, stay for all the offhand beauty and tragedy amidst the degeneracy.

Love and Peace (2015)
might be my favourite sion sono after love exposure; a majestically silly christmas musical built atop sadness, rage and mental illness.

Le Monde Vivant (2003)
deadpan fairy tale that's both bressonian and hilarious.

Posle smerti (1915)
this guy is long overdue being inducted into the silent canon.

Singapore Sling (1990)
unhinged, depraved riff on laura that should appeal to fans of lanthimos for its intimidating tonal control.

Tu dors Nicole (2014)
summer ennui film that plays like gently surreal science fiction; a movie to live in.

Buzzard (2015
death metal office space. the alchemist cookbook is even less seen and really great too. joel potrykus is the shit.

Candy Mountain (1988)
closest thing to the first two jarmusch movies you'll find. it even has a tom waits cameo.