Something a bit different...? (8 titles)

Reached a point where everything looks like another, better film you've seen before? Feel like you could sketch in the rest of the script yourself? Bored with slick, polished, referential Hollywood multiplex-filling product? Thse may not be the best films ever made, but you don't always know where they are going, what they are trying to say or trying to do - which is sometimes what the jaded palate needs.....

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Sonatine

Well it's a gangster movie, innit...but these gangsters are Japanese and it's Takeshi Kitano, so Guy Ritchie, GoodFellas, Sopranos...it's not

Sonatine on DVD (1993)
Starring: 'Beat' Takeshi Kitano, Ren Osugi, Susumu Terajima
Director: 'Beat' Takeshi Kitano
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In Takeshi Kitano's SONATINE, a Tokyo-based yakuza boss sends Murakawa (Kitano), one of his top men, on a peacekeeping mission to Okinawa, where two rival factions are coming to blows. Murakawa is naturally suspicious of the volatile situation and decides to lay low for a few days on a secluded ..read more »

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Dead Man

A film shot in BLACK & WHITE! with Johnny Depp, Iggy Pop in drag, & a fantastic Neil Young sound track- what it commonly called 'an elegaic western'.

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Dead Man on DVD (1995)
Starring: Johnny Depp, Gary Farmer, Gabriel Byrne
Director: Jim Jarmusch
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William Blake (Johnny Depp) set out on an exciting journey to start his life over in a new town with a new job. He never could have prepared himself for what was to come. Through a mysterious chain of events, he becomes involved in a love triangle that ends in a double murder--with him as the ..read more »

Rate this: 65% from 4,514 members

OldBoy

The plot has several huge holes, some of the ethics are pretty dodgy, one of the fight scenes has already acheived mythic status - this one just just has you thinking 'What the F***?' all the way through, but you will find you just have to keep watching until the end

OldBoy on DVD (2003)
Starring: Kang Hye-jeong
Director: Chan-wook Park, Chan-Wook Park
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A man is inexplicably kidnapped and imprisoned for 15 years and his wife is brutally murdered. On his release, he is given a wallet full of money and a mobile phone. A stranger calls and asks him to try and figure out why he was imprisoned. A girl appears and promises to help him solve the enigma ..read more »

Rate this: 72% from 41,335 members

Kandahar

Forget most of the news coverage about Afghanistan, Iran/Iraq conflict, the Taliban - what does it mean on the ground, for many people on a day to day basis? Some unforgettable images and a very unwestern approach to narrative structure, it doesn't so much end as just stop....

Kandahar (2001)
Starring: Niloufar Pazira, Hassan Tantai, Sadou Teymouri
Director: Moshen Makhmalbaf
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Iranian director Mohsen Makhmalbaf presents this partially fictionalized documentary that illustrates the suffering of Afghan women under the Taliban regime in Afghanistan in the year 2000. The quiet, stark, powerful film follows an Afghan native, Nafas (the stunningly beautiful Noulifar Pazira), ..read more »

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Fellini's Casanova

It's Fellini, so surrealist decadence should come as no suprise, and it's far too long, but since Casanova's life was largely a series of vignettes, who cares? Just choose your favourite episode when you reach the end - the giantess and the dwarves, the sea made of black plastic bin liners, the hunchback nymphomaniac - I could go on, but why not see for yourself?

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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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Jabberwocky

With Monty Python and the Holy Grail you knew where you were - firmly in the land of the ridiculous, but with this one you aren't quite sure - less fantastical than Baron Munchhausen, less grim than Brazil, but still very muddy and bloody....

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Jabberwocky on DVD (1977)
Starring: Michael Palin, Harry H. Corbett, John Le Mesurier
Director: Terry Gilliam
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Opening with a quote from Lewis Carroll's classic nonsensical poem, Terry Gilliam's JABBERWOCKY is a darkly comic medieval masterpiece about a monster wreaking havoc on helpless villages. Michael Palin stars as Dennis Cooper, a happy-go-lucky ne'er-do-well stock taker who becomes the unlikely hero ..read more »

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Cube

Not so much horror as a nightmare, with the qualities of some of your nastiest dreams. This mixture of abstraction and mathematics doesn't have a single well known face, so no clues either as to who lives and who dies horribly

Cube on DVD (1997)
Starring: Nicky Guadagni, David Hewlett, Wayne Robson
Director: Vincenzo Natali
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Six Strangers awaken from their daily lives to find themselves trapped in a surreal prison - a seemingly endless maze of interlocking cubical chambers armed with lethal booby traps. None of these people knows why or how they were imprisoned... But it soon emerges that each of them has a skill that ..read more »

Rate this: 63% from 17,223 members

Liquid Sky

Sci-fi, aliens, heroine & cocaine, New York, 80s club scene - some bizarre!

Liquid Sky (1983)
Starring: Anne Carlisle, Paula E. Sheppard, Susan Doukas
Director: Slava Tsukerman
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A small UFO secretly lands in the apartment of a promiscuous, bisexual model. The alien kills the woman's lovers as they are experiencing orgasms with her, since this provides the unearthly visitor nourishment. The bewildered model, unaware of the alien's presence, believes that she is responsible ..read more »

Rate this: 59% from 12 members