Mr. Ed
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Recommend an unusual movie please
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Mr. Ed
Be what you is not what you what you ain’t
- Location
- Central NY
Mr. Ed
Be what you is not what you what you ain’t
- Location
- Central NY
I must look up Bagdad Cafe! I read the original work, decades ago, by Carson McCullers. I forgot all about her, I used to devour her work!
Looked this up. Very well received. It's on Paramount+ which I no longer have, but a possibility to watch on YouTube? Not sure.
Mr. Ed
Be what you is not what you what you ain’t
- Location
- Central NY
Mr. Ed
Be what you is not what you what you ain’t
- Location
- Central NY
Fat City is the WORST movie I ever saw in my life. Second to that is Barry Lyndon, yuck.
Hilarious, I remember loving this one!
MrJim
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In 1971, a comedy troupe called Firesign Theater, which also spawned Cheech & Chong, produced a movie called Zachariah.
Billed as "the first electric western", it featured an impressive list of rock musicians playing various weird characters. In the opening scenes of the YouTube trailer, the guy playing the clear bodied guitar in the middle of the desert, is Joe Walsh with his then group, The James Gang. He also appears in a later scene.
Also, more prominently featured as main characters with dialogue, are Country Joe and the Fish and a couple of others listed in the trailer.
This is a movie best enjoyed with a good buzz.
Billed as "the first electric western", it featured an impressive list of rock musicians playing various weird characters. In the opening scenes of the YouTube trailer, the guy playing the clear bodied guitar in the middle of the desert, is Joe Walsh with his then group, The James Gang. He also appears in a later scene.
Also, more prominently featured as main characters with dialogue, are Country Joe and the Fish and a couple of others listed in the trailer.
This is a movie best enjoyed with a good buzz.
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Trade
Well-known Member
I think Fat City is an awesome movie. Never saw Barry Lyndon. Never even heard of it.
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MrJim
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In 1982 there was an American indie film directed by a Russian director called Liquid Sky.
The plot centered around the new wave fashion scene in NYC and one model in particular played by actress Ann Carlisle, who also played her male counterpart. The models and their heroin using social circle all resided in the same building which was chosen by a dinner plate sized flying saucer operated by shrimp-sized aliens who enjoyed getting high off the endorphins emitted by humans during sexual orgasm. If the humans were high on heroin at the time, it increased the alien's enjoyment exponentially. The saucer landed on the roof of the building so they could get their jollies at the expense of the young hipsters who would disappear into thin air as they were consumed by the pleasure seeking aliens.
But the model played by Carlisle didn't use heroin and never achieved orgasm because the sex she had was never by her own choice or desire, so she was never "consumed". Only the men (and one woman) who were using her for their own pleasure would be consumed, leading her to think she was the one responsible for their being consumed, or that God was avenging her.
If you're looking for "unusual" movies, this one might fill the bill....
Liquid Sky - Wikipedia
The plot centered around the new wave fashion scene in NYC and one model in particular played by actress Ann Carlisle, who also played her male counterpart. The models and their heroin using social circle all resided in the same building which was chosen by a dinner plate sized flying saucer operated by shrimp-sized aliens who enjoyed getting high off the endorphins emitted by humans during sexual orgasm. If the humans were high on heroin at the time, it increased the alien's enjoyment exponentially. The saucer landed on the roof of the building so they could get their jollies at the expense of the young hipsters who would disappear into thin air as they were consumed by the pleasure seeking aliens.
But the model played by Carlisle didn't use heroin and never achieved orgasm because the sex she had was never by her own choice or desire, so she was never "consumed". Only the men (and one woman) who were using her for their own pleasure would be consumed, leading her to think she was the one responsible for their being consumed, or that God was avenging her.
If you're looking for "unusual" movies, this one might fill the bill....
Liquid Sky - Wikipedia
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Trade
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I've never heard of this one. And Ethan Hawke is one of my favorite actors. I'll have to check it out, thanks.
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This is my favorite Ethan Hawke movie.
George1959
Senior Member
"Boxing Helena" (1993)
Jennifer Lynch, the daughter of filmmaker David Lynch, who died six days ago at age 78, made her debut as director with this very strange movie. The topic is fetishism for amputees (acrotomophilia).
Nick (Julian Sands) is an Atlanta surgeon. After his neighbor Helena (Sherilyn Fenn) has a car accident, he kidnaps her and covertly provides her with illicit medical care in the confines of his home. He amputates both of her legs. Later he goes even further by amputating her arms above the elbow as a means of keeping her under his control.
Madonna and later Kim Basinger who should play the role of Helena both quit.
Boxing Helena - Wikipedia
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106471/?ref_=fn_all_ttl_1
Jennifer Lynch, the daughter of filmmaker David Lynch, who died six days ago at age 78, made her debut as director with this very strange movie. The topic is fetishism for amputees (acrotomophilia).
Nick (Julian Sands) is an Atlanta surgeon. After his neighbor Helena (Sherilyn Fenn) has a car accident, he kidnaps her and covertly provides her with illicit medical care in the confines of his home. He amputates both of her legs. Later he goes even further by amputating her arms above the elbow as a means of keeping her under his control.
Madonna and later Kim Basinger who should play the role of Helena both quit.
Boxing Helena - Wikipedia
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106471/?ref_=fn_all_ttl_1
George1959
Senior Member
"Dead Ringers" (1988) by David Cronenberg.
Jeremy Irons in a dual role as identical twin gynecologists Beverly and Elliot Mantle.
One twin is more confident than the other, and always manages to seduce the women he meets. When he's tired of his current partner, she is passed on to the other brother - without her knowing. Everything runs smoothly, until the infertile actress Claire Niveau (Geneviève Bujold) visits their clinic, and the shy brother is the first to fall in love." (Source: IMDB)
The film received a lot of excellent critics and awards.
Dead Ringers (film) - Wikipedia
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094964/?ref_=fn_all_ttl_1
Already the intro of the movie is outstanding, featuring gynecological instruments from the past. A user of YouTube commented: "Such a haunting intro to a haunting film."
Jeremy Irons in a dual role as identical twin gynecologists Beverly and Elliot Mantle.
One twin is more confident than the other, and always manages to seduce the women he meets. When he's tired of his current partner, she is passed on to the other brother - without her knowing. Everything runs smoothly, until the infertile actress Claire Niveau (Geneviève Bujold) visits their clinic, and the shy brother is the first to fall in love." (Source: IMDB)
The film received a lot of excellent critics and awards.
Dead Ringers (film) - Wikipedia
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094964/?ref_=fn_all_ttl_1
Already the intro of the movie is outstanding, featuring gynecological instruments from the past. A user of YouTube commented: "Such a haunting intro to a haunting film."
George1959
Senior Member
"After.Life" (2009), directed by Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo.
"Eliot Deacon (Liam Neeson) owns a funeral home and talks softly to the corpses he prepares for burial.
Middle school teacher Anna Taylor (Christina Ricci) meets Eliot when she attends the funeral of her piano teacher. That night Anna argues with her boyfriend Paul (Justin Long) at a restaurant. She drives off in a state of distress and has a traffic accident.
She awakens on an embalming table in the funeral home to find the funeral director, Eliot, cutting off her clothes and telling her she has died. He tells Anna that he has a gift and that he can hear the dead. Eliot has a collection of photographs of corpses whom he has helped "make the transition". Eliot injects Anna with a fictional drug called hydronium bromide to "relax the muscles and keep rigor mortis from setting in." (Source: Wikipedia)
After.Life - Wikipedia
I've asked myself why Liam Neeson took the role of funeral director Eliot Deacon shortly after the death of his wife Natasha Richardson, who died after a skiing accident in March 2009 in Quebec. My conclusion is that he needed it to get rid of his bad feelings towards death.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0838247/?ref_=nm_flmg_job_1_cdt_t_97
I especially like the following dialog:
Anna Taylor to Eliot Deacon: "Can I ask you a question?"
Deacon: "Yes, of course."
Anna: "Why do we die?"
Eliot: "To make life important."
"Eliot Deacon (Liam Neeson) owns a funeral home and talks softly to the corpses he prepares for burial.
Middle school teacher Anna Taylor (Christina Ricci) meets Eliot when she attends the funeral of her piano teacher. That night Anna argues with her boyfriend Paul (Justin Long) at a restaurant. She drives off in a state of distress and has a traffic accident.
She awakens on an embalming table in the funeral home to find the funeral director, Eliot, cutting off her clothes and telling her she has died. He tells Anna that he has a gift and that he can hear the dead. Eliot has a collection of photographs of corpses whom he has helped "make the transition". Eliot injects Anna with a fictional drug called hydronium bromide to "relax the muscles and keep rigor mortis from setting in." (Source: Wikipedia)
After.Life - Wikipedia
I've asked myself why Liam Neeson took the role of funeral director Eliot Deacon shortly after the death of his wife Natasha Richardson, who died after a skiing accident in March 2009 in Quebec. My conclusion is that he needed it to get rid of his bad feelings towards death.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0838247/?ref_=nm_flmg_job_1_cdt_t_97
I especially like the following dialog:
Anna Taylor to Eliot Deacon: "Can I ask you a question?"
Deacon: "Yes, of course."
Anna: "Why do we die?"
Eliot: "To make life important."
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George1959
Senior Member
"The Wicker Man" (1973).
I've already mentioned the movie "The Wicker Man" (I'm only referring to the first film, not the bad remake of 2006 with Nicolas Cage) in the thread "What Was the Last Movie You Watched?"
Christopher Lee funded a part of the film with his own money and was very proud of his role as Lord Summerisle. The movie received a lot of excellent critics and won the "Licorne d'Or" (Golden Licorn; The French la licorne means unicorn in English) of the 3rd "Paris International Festival of Fantastic and Science Fiction Film" in 1974.
"The plot centres on the visit of a police officer, Sergeant Neil Howie (Edward Woodward), to the isolated Scottish island of Summerisle in search of a missing girl, named Rowan Morrison. Howie, a devout Christian, is appalled to find that the inhabitants of the island have abandoned Christianity and now practise a form of Celtic paganism.
The island is owned by Lord Summerisle (Christopher Lee). He tells Howie that Rowan was never the intended sacrifice; Howie is. He fits their gods' four requirements: he came of his own free will, has "the power of a king" by representing the law, is a virgin (he has a fiancée, but had no sexual intercourse with her since they are not married yet), and is a "fool" by falling for their deception. Howie warns Summerisle and the islanders that the crops are failing due to the unsuitability of the climate, and that the villagers will turn on Summerisle and sacrifice him next summer when the next harvest fails again, but his pleas are ignored.
The villagers force Howie inside a giant wicker man statue along with various animals, set it ablaze, and surround it, singing the Middle English folk song "Sumer Is Icumen In". Inside the wicker man, Howie recites Psalm 23 and prays to God. Howie and the animals burn to death as the head of the wicker man collapses in flames, revealing the setting sun." (Source: Wikipedia)
The Wicker Man - Wikipedia
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070917/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_in_0_q_wicker%20man
The British TV series "Midsomer Murders" with John Nettles as the first Detective Chief Inspector Tom Barnaby used the topic in the episode "The Straw Woman" (Series 7, #6, original release date 29 February 2004).
It was also used later for an episode in a German TV crime show.
I've already mentioned the movie "The Wicker Man" (I'm only referring to the first film, not the bad remake of 2006 with Nicolas Cage) in the thread "What Was the Last Movie You Watched?"
Christopher Lee funded a part of the film with his own money and was very proud of his role as Lord Summerisle. The movie received a lot of excellent critics and won the "Licorne d'Or" (Golden Licorn; The French la licorne means unicorn in English) of the 3rd "Paris International Festival of Fantastic and Science Fiction Film" in 1974.
"The plot centres on the visit of a police officer, Sergeant Neil Howie (Edward Woodward), to the isolated Scottish island of Summerisle in search of a missing girl, named Rowan Morrison. Howie, a devout Christian, is appalled to find that the inhabitants of the island have abandoned Christianity and now practise a form of Celtic paganism.
The island is owned by Lord Summerisle (Christopher Lee). He tells Howie that Rowan was never the intended sacrifice; Howie is. He fits their gods' four requirements: he came of his own free will, has "the power of a king" by representing the law, is a virgin (he has a fiancée, but had no sexual intercourse with her since they are not married yet), and is a "fool" by falling for their deception. Howie warns Summerisle and the islanders that the crops are failing due to the unsuitability of the climate, and that the villagers will turn on Summerisle and sacrifice him next summer when the next harvest fails again, but his pleas are ignored.
The villagers force Howie inside a giant wicker man statue along with various animals, set it ablaze, and surround it, singing the Middle English folk song "Sumer Is Icumen In". Inside the wicker man, Howie recites Psalm 23 and prays to God. Howie and the animals burn to death as the head of the wicker man collapses in flames, revealing the setting sun." (Source: Wikipedia)
The Wicker Man - Wikipedia
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070917/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_in_0_q_wicker%20man
The British TV series "Midsomer Murders" with John Nettles as the first Detective Chief Inspector Tom Barnaby used the topic in the episode "The Straw Woman" (Series 7, #6, original release date 29 February 2004).
It was also used later for an episode in a German TV crime show.
Flarbalard
Senior Member
Ruben Brandt, Collector
We enjoyed this.
We enjoyed this.
George1959
Senior Member
"Tampopo" (Japan 1985).
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092048/?ref_=fn_all_ttl_1
Can you do this? Yummy!
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092048/?ref_=fn_all_ttl_1
Can you do this? Yummy!
UpstateGal
Member
"Here" with Tom Hanks and Robin Wright, new release on Netflix. It is unusual since the movie moves nonlinear in time and may be too "calm" for some viewers. The storyline touches on some sad and difficult life issues. It had an effect on me, has caused me to face a few issues that I've been avoiding. So, if you're looking to watch a movie to escape reality for a few hours, this is not the one for you.
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This looks wonderful, thanks!
It also brought to mind "The Collector" with Terence Stamp, and, I think, Charlotte Rampling.
Bella
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“The Collector”, directed by William Wyler, starred Terence Stamp and Samantha Eggar.
It's an excellent, albeit disturbing, psychological thriller about a young Englishman who stalks a beautiful art student before abducting and holding her captive in the basement of his rural farmhouse."The Collector" premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in May 1965, where both Stamp and Eggar won the awards for Best Actor and Best Actress. William Wyler turned down "The Sound of Music" to direct the film.