Forgotten Gems (A place to share movies lost in the mists of time)

Freeway - Very twisted crime drama/black comedy about a white trash red riding hood and a serial killer big bad wolf. This movie knocked me on my @ss the first time I saw it. Suffice to say, people who only saw Reese Witherspoon in Sweet Home Alabama or Legally Blonde will be shocked as hell.

Hype! - A great documentary about Seattle and the music scene of the early 1990's. I wish they'd put this out on DVD.

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I think Walter Hill's The Long Riders is an often overlooked Western. The performances are solid. It's probably one of the most historically accurate portrayals of the James/Younger gang. It contains the best shootout scene I've ever seen in a western. This film also probably made a great case for Hill directing the first Deadwood episode.

Never heard of it, is it any good?

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Major apologies for posting before carefully perusing the board. Consider my post a thumbs up for Caitlyn's.

Yes, but as much if not more to his credit was his Wild Bill (1995), with its stylized Sodom & Gomorrah depiction of Deadwood (from Pete Dexter's novel) and centered by Jeff Bridges as Hickock, Ellen Barkin as Calamity Jane and William Hurt as Charley Prince (with a smaller role for Keith Carradine as Buffalo Bill). It's flawed, but has some wonderful elements.

The Long Riders is a better overall film, but clearly Wild Bill is more specifically what put him over the top to get him the "Deadwood" gig.

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I have yet to see this film. I'll have to check it out. Thanks!

The Boys Next Door a.k.a. Big Shots (1986) by Penelope Spheeris starring Maxwell Caulfield and Charlie Sheen.

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They had temporarily escaped the factories, the warehouses, the slaughterhouses, the car washes - they'd be back in captivity the next day but now they were out - they were wild with freedom. They weren't thinking about the slavery of poverty. Or the slavery of welfare and food stamps. The rest of us would be all right until the poor learned how to make atom bombs in their basements.

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Looks like In Cold Blood.

I haven't seen In Cold Blood, but after having read the plot summary I can see that there are some similarities. The Boys Next Door, though, is more of a road movie, if my memory serves me right. Sheen and Caulfield play two working class kids that realize when they get out of high school they will never get anywhere in life. So instead they go out and beat up and kill all kinds of people. I saw this one a long time ago and I have never seen it again, yet never heard it being mentioned anywhere and no one else seems to have seen it. I would love to see it again soon...

Papillon seems to be disregarded by the general population, maybe not on this board but I certainly don't think it gets the acclaim it deserves.

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Yikes! Start digging trenches...

i just saw "the unknown valley" with Omar Sharif and Michael Caine, and was pleasantly surprised by it, it's a very good historical movie about a little village in the alps that is hidden and safe, a regular paradise amidst the anarchy of medieval Europe, until a group of mercenaries comes along and decides to take refuge there from the 30 year war ( it's set in the middle ages ) and it shows the tactical games the villagers and the invaders play with each other. it's very realistic and shows what people will do to survive and how they must sometimes work together in order to do so.
pick it up if you get a chance to and you like old movies.

I though All the Real Girls by David Gordon Greene was a fantastic movie that no one really saw.

Harold and Maude

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House of Games

Good one. The film that spawned the term 'Mametian' (in my house anyway).

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I have 3 faves to contribute here.

84 Charing Cross Road - Anthony Hopkins and Anne Bancroft
A story about friendships that grow through admiration and respect just after WWII. Good charater developments by the entire cast. An ensamble work.

The Stranger - Edward G. Robinson and Orson Wells
A post war propaganda movie that was directed by Wells. Dark and well acted.

And my 'guilty pleasure'
Strictly Ballroom - Paul Mercurio and Tara Morice
Pure fluff and fun but a nice ugly duckly movie with great dancing. It doesn't take itself too seriously. Directed by Baz Luhrmann

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Having just seen it recently, i have to recommend the not-too-well-known-outside-arthouse-circles Woman of the Dunes (1964). Tis classy

Oh and coolbreeze, i reckon your first two count as 'forgotten', but you're gonna get a Holden-hickey for Strictly Ballroom (he loves to bite )

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