Most underrated films of famous great directors... (10 titles)
Because there are so many duplicate lists out there. We all know you think 'The Godfather' 'Amelie' and 'The Shawshank Redemption' are the greatest movies ever, but why not look for something a little more unusual for a change...? [Plus the next stop on the 'underrated' line, in square brackets, where appropriate...]
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One From The Heart
Francis Ford Coppola (A little thing named 'The Godfather'): Very flawed but very good. Will certainly do as underrated gem until 'Rain People' is re-released.
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One From The Heart
on DVD
(1982)
Starring: Nastassja Kinski, Frederic Forrest, Teri Garr
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
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ONE FROM THE HEART is Francis Ford Coppola's ambitious and intensely stylized musical about a working-class couple living in Las Vegas. On the eve of their five-year anniversary, Frannie (Teri Garr) and Hank (Frederic Forrest) find themselves breaking up. Hank meets a circus performer (Nastassja ..read more »
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Who's that Knocking at my Door
Scorsese (I think he directed 'Mean Streets'' and 'Goodfellas', but I may be wrong): Sure, so you know 'Raging Bull' and 'Taxi Driver' back to front, but how about this one?
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Who's that Knocking at my Door
on DVD
(1967)
Starring: Harvey Keitel, Zina Bethune, Anne Collette
Director: Martin Scorsese
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J.R. is a typical Italian-American on the streets of New York. When he gets involved with a local girl, he decides to get married and settle down, but when he learns that she was once raped, he cannot handle it.
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Young And Innocent
Hitchcock (Do I need to mention something here?): Early dry-run for all his best 'on-the-run' movies. Fun and inventive.
[Head for 'Frenzy' if you want powerful, but sour. Or 'The Paradine Case' for surprisingly good courtroom biz]
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Young And Innocent
on DVD
(1938)
Starring: Nova Pilbeam, Derrick De Marney, Percy Marmont
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
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'Young and Innocent' finds a case of mistaken identity which sets off a chase through the Cornish countryside to find a murderer. Also features Basil Rathbone in The Woman in Grenn, and Hitchcock's The Man who Knew too Much
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One, Two, Three
Billy Wilder ('Some Like it Hot','Double Indemnity'): Great late perf from Cagney. Just a wonderful Wilder ride.
[But when will they release 'Kiss Me Stupid'?]
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One, Two, Three
on DVD
(1961)
Starring: James Cagney, Arlene Francis, Horst Buchholz
Director: Billy Wilder
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Billy Wilder's Cold War satire, derived from an energetic Molnar comedy the director had seen in 1929, probably owes as much to NINOTCHKA, perhaps the best known film of his idol Ernst Lubitsch. It stars James Cagney as C.J. MacNamara, a Coca-Cola executive who comes to West Berlin to promote the ..read more »
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The Bad Sleep Well
Kurosawa ('Seven Samurai', 'Rashomon'): Another smasher from the great man. His modern-day re-working of Hamlet. Chilling final image. Can you spot what the Coens stole from this in 'No Country for Old Men'?
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The Bad Sleep Well
on DVD
(1960)
Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Masayuki Mori, Kyoko Kagawa
Director: Akira Kurosawa
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Toshiro Mifune discovers corrupt officials as he sets out to avenge the death of his father. Japanese dialogue with subtitles.
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Fellini's Casanova
Fellini ('8 1/2' 'La Dolce Vita'): Famous priapist re-invented as hopeless dreamy romantic. Funny, disturbing and very moving. See it for the clockwork woman alone...
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Fellini's Casanova
on DVD
(1976)
Starring: Donald Sutherland, Tina Aumont, Cicely Browne
Director: Federico Fellini
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Based on the memoires of Casanova himself, Fellini offers his vision of this classical libertine's world.
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Delicatessen
Jean-Pierre Jeunet ('Amelie') and Marc Caro ('Alien Resurrection') : Because of the number of people who put Amelie on their user lists. PLEASE STOP AND COME UP WITH SOMETHING WE HAVEN'T ALL SEEN! This movie is much much better. Caro keeps Jeunet away from the sugar bowl.
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Delicatessen
on DVD
(1991)
Starring: Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Dominique Pinon, Marie-Laure Dougnac
Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Marc Caro
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After years of working successfully in commercials and music videos, French directors Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet make a splashing feature-film debut, DELICATESSEN, a hysterical exercise in style. Scripted by comic book writer and frequent Caro and Jeunet collaborator Gilles Adrien, the story ..read more »
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Nazarin
Luis Bunuel ('Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie'l: Beggar priests, randy dwarves and holy whores, though much much subtler than that sounds. A typically confrontational meditation on some seriously big themes, and a gut-punch of an ending.
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Nazarin
on DVD
(1959)
Starring: Francisco Rabal, Marga Lopez, Rita Macedo
Director: Luis Bunuel
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A simple priest tries to live by Christian precepts in one of Luis Bunuel's best films. "I am very much attached to Nazarin," said Bunuel. "He is a priest. He could as well be a hairdresser or a waiter. What interests me about him is that he stands by his ideas, that these ideas are unacceptable ..read more »
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The Soft Skin
Francois Truffaut ('Jules et Jim'): very romantic, very shocking...
['Pocket Money' is almost as overlooked and worth a visit as well]
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The Soft Skin
on DVD
(1964)
Starring: Jean Desailly, Francoise Dorleac, Nelly Benedetti
Director: Francois Truffaut
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THE SOFT SKIN, from one of the New Wave's most prolific directors, Francois Truffaut, is a brilliant classic replete with intrigue, emotion, and stunning imagery. This anatomy of an affair between successful publisher and novelist Pierre Lachenay (Jean Desailly), and airline stewardess Nicole (..read more »
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The Cars That Ate Paris
Peter Weir ('Dead Poets' Society', 'Witness'): Weir turns the ratchet slowly but oh-so surely. Great atmospheric, funny / disturbing build-up to a knockout denoument - part horror, part Spaghetti Western, part social commentary. If you're new to early Weir, start with 'Picnic at Hanging Rock', but then turn the corner to this (but watch out for the lights!).
[But where is 'The Last Wave?']
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The Cars That Ate Paris
on DVD
(1974)
Starring: John Meillon, Terry Camilleri, Kevin Miles
Director: Peter Weir
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Paris townsfolk are determined to make a killing in the spare auto parts business, even if it means forcing unsuspecting travellers off a deadly cliff. Most drivers are dying to help them out, and those who don't wind up as living guinea pigs in grisly brain experiments.
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