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[Benicio]

"Trust"(1990) starring Adrienne Shelly & Martin Donovan
It's about relationships and truly believing in people.

http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0103130/

Last week the star, Adrienne Shelly, was murdered in her apartment in New York.

It really made me think of this movie because I watched it with my dad and we both liked it a lot. My dad has been around for a while and absolutely hates mainstream TV and movies! He always complains "**** I've seen that before. They've done the same stories again and again!"
He really likes indy movies because, while they have a real potential to suck, they also have a real potential to throw something at you that you've never seen before.

I liked her and I liked this movie. R.I.P.

[Benicio]

Chotaerang,
I remember �Five Corners�. A great little movie with John Turturro & Tim Robbins way back when!
Never made too much, though. Though it had Jodie Foster, I remember Robbins and Turtorro best.
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0093029/

Son Deureo!,
�The Reflecting Skin�- one of the weirder films I�ve seen. The exploding toad was a bit of comic relief in a truly strange film. This was back when Viggo Mortensen was hidden away in indy movies before �Lord of the Rings�. Incredibly weird stuff. http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0100469/
On my dad�s scale: he liked it. It was definitely different.

ChopChaeJoe,
My dad loved �The Dark Backward�! Judd Nelson as a terrible comedian with an arm growing out of his back. The classic scene was Bill Paxton licking the torso of a dead girl he found in the trash dump!
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0101660/

Huffdaddy,
You saw �Spirit of �76� too. Suddenly, I�m feeling not so special.
Olivia d�Abo is way hot!

Now, I�ve got to tell you about one flick my dad sent me:

�Corndog Man� http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0193837/
Plot Outline: A foul-mouthed and bigoted boat salesman in rural South Carolina is targeted for ruthless and never-ending telephone terrorism by a mysterious man claiming to be his son...

It�s almost too much!

[zappalives]

Two great off-beat films
Local Hero:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085859/

Jim Jarmusch's Ghost Dog
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0165798//


Better than Grizzly Man:
Little Dieter Needs to Fly
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0145046/


Spalding Gray monologue, Swimming to Cambodia
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094089/

[ChopChaeJoe]

[huffdaddy]

[crazy_arcade]

I don't know about "off the wall" or "funky" or whatever....

I'd recommend,

"Brazil" -- A movie about a funky Orwell like 1984 world.

"He Died With a Falafel in His Hand"-Great Aussie movie about shared housing. Apparently the book is better though.

"Run Lola Run"--German movie with Lola's alternate realities. If you haven't seen it then you're missing out.

[Chicoloco]

Gather the family around and settle down for these two classics.


"Even Dwarfs Started Small"

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065436/

"Gummo"

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119237/

[Bulsajo]

(Using an extremely loose definition of 'best' and 'funkiest') it would be a tie between Andy Warhol's Dracula and Liquid Sky.

[tiger fancini]

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079815


This is a seriously baaadaassss movie! Also great for learning how to speak patois.

[venus]

Snake of June. Japanese. Director - Shinya Tsukamoto. The dept store scene, where she has the vibrating egg inside her is pretty cool.

Dolls by Takeshi Kitano. Beautiful, sad.

3iron by Kim Ki Duk. Called 'bin jib' - aka 'empty house' in Korean.

Valseuses, Les by Bertrand Blier.

Tales of ordinary madness Marco Ferreri

Days of being wild by wong Kar Wei - not off the beaten track, but very foriegn and exotic.

Last life in the Universe by Pen-ek Ratanaruang. Flawed but gorgeous.

[wormholes101]

Definitely back up the "Withnail and I" choices. That's a brilliant film. Funny, funky and off the beaten track.

Also "Black Cat, White Cat" is supercool too. Quirky, funny and engaging.

Some of the movie recommendations are a bit weird in this thread. In my opinion, horror or dark movies aren't really funky. Doesn't funky usually mean upbeat, lighter, amusing, with a touch of originality?

The name of the thread is not "What's you favourite movie?" Unfortunately, people just post whatever they want and it the thread becomes a waste of time trying to sort out the junk from the original intent of the thread.

[deadman]

Several people recomended The Life Aquatic. I agree, and if you like that, check out Rushmore, also by Wes Anderson. I think his movies are

Bottle Rocket->Rushmore->The Royal Tenembaums->The Life Aquatic



Rushmore is my favourite, so if you liked any of the others check it out. It's got Bill Murray in it, with another outstandingly touching and quietly humourous portrayal of an older man dealing with the problems of his life, but with an almost childlike innocence and honesty.

I second Ghost Dog and add another of Jim Jarmusch's films: Deadman. It's an off-beat western. Beautiful, meditative, with layers of meaning, but I'd have to add that you must be in the mood to sit down and be absorbed by a stunning work of art, preferably stoned out of your mind.



Another movie, which I saw last night, and unresevedly recommend, is Blueberry. Another Western, similar in some ways to Deadman, but better in many ways (it's in colour for one!). The most outstanding aspect of it is its mindblowing CGI depictions of Peyote trips and astral travel. If you're not in Korea, definately get stoned for this one!
You can see the sequence I'm talking about on Youtube, but of course, it doesn't do it justice. On DVD it's just amazing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKpyK0Ozp7s

[crazy_arcade]

[happeningthang]

Julien Donky Boy vs Gummo has the second time around attempt feeling like more of the same.

If you're enjoying the Mexican movies the coolest/ funkiest cop movie ever is El Patrullero an Alex Cox (of Nancy and Sid, and Repo Man fame) movie. An idealist Mexican cop gets an education.

Another Mexican effort is Cabaza De Vaca, a lone survivor of a conquistador expedition, De Vaca becomes enslaved by a shaman and his armless dwarf and picks up a few things.

True story.

[Woland]

Seconds for Sexy Beast and Local Hero.

Local Hero is a masterpiece, but I don't know if it is the funkiest of Bill Forsythe's work. I think of three other films of his that I might put above it on the funkiness scale:

That Sinking Feeling: A group of unemployed youth in Glasgow plot to rob the local stainless steel sink factory of its goods, sell them on the black market and live off their ill-gotten drains. They end up with a doughnut truck. (Warning: I saw this film with three good friends in Chicago. Two of us laughed so hard we were crying; the other sat like stones through the whole thing and found it incomprehensible and stupid. Your viewing experience may vary.)

Comfort and Joy: A jilted Glasgow disc jockey gets caught up in a turf war between rival ice cream truck companies

Housekeeping: Haunting film, based on Marilynne Robinson's brilliant novel, about two girls raised in an isolated community by their aunt, who may or may not be mad.