What's your favourite unknown movie ?

[Richard Hakluyt]

"Unknown" and "favourite" are somewhat contradictory but I will post my choice anyway.

Which is The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036112/

It's a 1943 British war movie with, gasp!, a sympathetic German character.

I'm not sure how unknown it is, but strongly recommend it to the board.

[Razgovory]

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?

Your parents own a pub?  That explains so much.

[Alatriste]

"Unknown" and "favourite" are somewhat contradictory but I will post my choice anyway.

Which is The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036112/

It's a 1943 British war movie with, gasp!, a sympathetic German character.

I'm not sure how unknown it is, but strongly recommend it to the board.

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp is a great movie.

[The Larch]

Don't know if it's really "unknown", but the mostly unheard of movie I enjoy the most is Gabriele Salvatores' Mediterraneo (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediterraneo), winner of the 1992 Oscar for the Best Foreign Language Film.

It's about a ragtag company of Italian soldiers in WWII, sent to a random and strategically worthless Greek island for garrison and lookout duty, which are left behind by his command and forgotten until the end of the war, and how they manage with abandonment by his superiors, insecurity about their future, sense of purpose and so on, and how they integrate with the locals.

[Pedrito]

Mediterraneo is a nice film 

it's difficult to say that's a favourite of mine, but Intacto (2002, J.C. Fresnadillo) is a pretty good movie no one has ever seen; the main character is a plane crash survivor who's able to steal the luck from other people; he's soon contacted by other "lucky" guys to a challenge to establish who's the luckiest of all.

L.

[Tamas]

Miller's Crossing One of the best movies ever but none of my RL peers saw it.

[The Larch]

Mediterraneo is a nice film 

Indeed, it always cheers me up to see it, even if the movie itself is bittersweet.

[Brazen]

"I bought a Vampire Motorcycle" starring the late, great Michael Elphick. Contains possibly my favourite movie line ever, "I haven't had a cunt all night, Drinkstable."

[Josquius]

24 Hour Party People is quite unknown right? As is Avalon.

[Ed Anger]

"Unknown" and "favourite" are somewhat contradictory but I will post my choice anyway.

Which is The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036112/

It's a 1943 British war movie with, gasp!, a sympathetic German character.

I'm not sure how unknown it is, but strongly recommend it to the board.

They have been showing it here on the TCM channel. I'll record it, even though I usually skip brit war movies.

[saskganesh]

hard core logo?

[Octavian]

Conspiracy and The Conclave

[BuddhaRhubarb]

hard core logo?

Deserves wider recognition... is the "Goin Down The Road" of the modern age.

[saskganesh]

hard core logo?

Deserves wider recognition... is the "Goin Down The Road" of the modern age.

apparently 4 sequels are/were planned. is Bruce MacDonald George Lucas? or does he just want to escape directing "queer as folk" and "degrassi next generation" rent gigs

[Lucidor]

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

But those are among the longest hours of your life. I litterally wanted death to liberate me from that one, the fourth or fifth time a car with its lights on went down a pitch-black hill (the same hill) which took about an hour.