What's your favourite unknown movie ?

[Scipio]

Ostrov (Lugin, 2006).  A movie about a weirdly ascetic Russian hermit at a Russian monastery, who is believed to have mysterious healing powers and human insight.  Takes place in the brezhnev era. 

[Queequeg]

Ostrov (Lugin, 2006).  A movie about a weirdly ascetic Russian hermit at a Russian monastery, who is believed to have mysterious healing powers and human insight.  Takes place in the brezhnev era.

Good.  Tarkosky-ish.

Sheilbh, how long is Cherry?  Been meaning to go on an Iranian Film binge recently, is Cherry the place to start? 

[Martinus]

Does "Gods and Monsters" count as "unknown"? What about "Velvet Goldmine"? I'm also quite partial to "Were the World Mine", but it's more of a "guilty pleasure" kind of fave.

[CountDeMoney]

Does "Gods and Monsters" count as "unknown"? What about "Velvet Goldmine"?

No. No.

[Admiral Yi]

Some Australian musical about an aspiring singer whose title I have forgotten.  Early 80s.  Starstruck?  Something like that.

[Martinus]

Also (to contradict my earlier rebuke of Queen Mother's pick), anything with Tilda Swinton in it.

[Sheilbh]

Sheilbh, how long is Cherry?  Been meaning to go on an Iranian Film binge recently, is Cherry the place to start?

Oh it's only one and a half hours.  I love it and think it's probably one of the most accessible. 

Though I really recommend Where is the friend's house? which is a beautiful film.  Then watch Life, and Nothing Else which is a semi-fictional film set in the same area a couple of years later after a devastating area and Through the Olive Trees which is about the filming of Life.  After a Kiarostami binge I recommend Mohsen Makhmalbaf and his daughter's films.  They are very good.

[Eddie Teach]

Some Australian musical about an aspiring singer whose title I have forgotten.  Early 80s.  Starstruck?  Something like that.

Not Xanadu is it?

[Tonitrus]

Ostrov (Lugin, 2006).  A movie about a weirdly ascetic Russian hermit at a Russian monastery, who is believed to have mysterious healing powers and human insight.  Takes place in the brezhnev era.

Indeed, a very film.  The religious themes are layed on a bit thick(not a complaint, just an observation, though I imagine it would turn many viewers off), but still, just a very well done film.

[DisturbedPervert]

The Man from Earth -  A bunch of college professors sitting around talking when one reveals that he is 14,000 years old, and the subsequent discussion this claim results in.

[BuddhaRhubarb]

"4" contemporary Russian film that one could only vaguely categorize as Lynchian but if David Lynch had grown up in Russia. Messed up but mesmerizing.

Any David Gordon Green film before Pineapple express.

[Razgovory]

I don't know.

[Admiral Yi]

Not Xanadu is it?

Couldn't tell you.  Parents own a pub, the chick walks a tightrope in the pub, she has a crush on the music exec, he turns out to be gay.  Is that Xanadu?

[Syt]

Probably Karniggels; a film ca. 1990 by German movie maker Detlev Buck about a young police cadet in rural Holstein struggling with his life. It's a good comedy; and though Buck's later movies (esp. "Wir können auch anders", a road movie about two illiterate East Germans and a deserted Red Army soldier) are arguably better movie making Karniggels give a pretty accurate portrayal of people in the area where I grew up.

[Lettow77]

Kidnapped, a pbs literarary cinema thing.