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[mindmetoo]

I second Local Hero. A quirky film with some mainstream actors is Miami Blues. A really good performance by Fred Ward. There's a classic line in there that went something like:

Ditzy Prostitute: I can't go out tonight. I have to do my English homework.

Ex-con: What do you have to do?

Ditzy Prostitute: I have to write a haiku.

Another good one: The Quiet Earth.

Anyone mention Punch-Drunk Love yet? That was an interesting one to catch in the theatre. Half the audience was like me, Adam Sandler haters but came because of the critical praise. The other half were Adam Sandler fanboys. The fanboys came out of the theatre going "THAT SUCKED!" And the film lovers came out going "Where the hell has that Adam Sandler been hiding all these years?"

[corroonb]

I would say Oldboy and Requiem for a Dream. Both not exactly off-the-beaten-track but not mainstream either. Oldboy is really weird and violent. Requiem is very surreal and dreamy, then harsh and painfully 'in your face'. Both good films. Also Pie (the mathemathical symbol) by Aronofsky is excellent as well; maths genius makes a formula to predict the stock market.

[jaderedux]

[mindmetoo]

[Hollywoodaction]

Off the top of my head...

Six-string samurai (Buddy Holly as a samurai, fighting off the forces of evil (heavy metal) as he tries to reach Vegas to claim his rightful place on the throne after the death of the King (Elvis))

Le fabuleux destin D'Amelie Poulin (Amelie) (wonderful movie, very quirky)

Le huitieme jour (The 8th Day) (seeing the world through the eyes of a young man with Down's syndrome who has a vivid imagination)

Murnau's 'The Last Laugh' (a must see, groundbreaking techniques still used today to convey certain feelings to the audience)

Eisenstein's 'Ivan the Terrible' and 'Battleship Potemkin' (not really weird, but interesting nonetheless because of his creative editing)

La double vie de V�ronique (The double life of Veronique) (dreamlike and ambiguous...my favorite of Kieslowski's).

As mentioned before, 200 Motels (Frank Zappa didn't do drugs, but he certainly understood psychedelia...and it's just funny seeing Ringo Star saying the f word).

Anything by Ed Wood

Anything by Russ Meyer

blaxploitation movies (and I mean the bad ones like Blacula)


So many more, too many to name them all.

[Nowhere Man]

After Hours-Scorsese does comedy

Un Chien Andalou-I thought silent movies were rather mundane. I was wrong.

[wormholes101]

[mj roach]

Punishment Park........banned in the U.S. after one showing.
Would be timely today, what with the Neo-Con fringe at the helm.

[ChopChaeJoe]

Six String Samurai was great.

Man Bites Dog is another gem.

[Woland]

[hogwonguy1979]

"The Adventures of Priscillia: Queen of the Desert" great Aussie movie with some of funniest lines I've ever heard.

US tried to imitiate it with "To Wang Foo: Thanks for Everything Julie Neumar" with Patrick Swayze as a drag queen, it just doesnt compare

[Bulsajo]

[swetepete]

"Survive Style 5+" is my favorite movie of all time. It's got it all: several almost totally incomprehensible plots, funny humor, sad poignant stuff, very special special effects, a character with the worst teeth since Shane McGowan in "Straight to Hell" (also quite a funny, silly movie), violent violence, Vinnie Jones, beautiful sexy women who can cook a mean breakfast and then beat the hell out of anybody except Vinnie Jones (even though they're dead beautiful women, I think--or is it all a dream? Who cares anyway, it's surrealism), dashing heroes who are really awful people, a stirring soundtrack, and the best set design I've ever seen in any movie.
I still have dreams about it.
I want that breakfast She cooks for Him. I wonder what the blue smoothie was?

[pastis]

I like Japanese movies. A nice one I watched a while back is an upbeat yakuza flick by Suzuki Seijun called "Branded to Kill", from the 60's. Really cool.

[Bulsajo]

Is "Do the Right Thing" funky and off-beat?
What about "Jacob's Ladder"?