Films that hardly raised a stir which you rate very highly.

[SeagullinExile]

Stir of Echoes - Supernatural thriller with Kevin Bacon. In my opinion a far better film than The Sixth Sense, which was around about the same time.

Thouroughly enjoyable.

 

[Seagull on the wing]

Best story ever....'Chase a Crooked Shadow'...... British B/W fim...Richard Todd......saw it in 1957 at the cinema....doubt if many of you have seen it....I finally got a DVD of it from America...you think you have it sussed out but ...the ending is a real surprise.

 

[somerset]

And the follow up manon DES sources

Second one was not quite as good, the main man kicked the bucket in the first film and to a degree it lost something in my view.

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

Animal Kingdom - intense and brooding 2010 Australian crime family drama. Classic film.

 

[fatfingers]

Blood Diamond, DiCaprio film thats just a damn good watch

 

[Captain Haddock]

Lost Highway.



Most of my others are foreign language (which Spirited Away, Crouching Tiger, City Of God and Pan's Labyrinth aside always seem to be a bit under the radar).


I'd go:

All About My Mother
Downfall
The Lives Of Others
Tell No-One
A Prophet
Princess Mononoke (it's successor Spirited Away certainly did though)

 

[Captain Haddock]

Good thread btw, US.

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

Great list of films Haddock, but Downfall and Lives of Others 'hardly raising a stir' !?!

 

[herecomesaregular]

With a rather excited air to the upcoming Berberian Sound Studio, i had a quick look back at Toby Jones' canon. In there are two i would have to answer the question of the thread. One is The Mist, a surprisingly good monster thriller in a supermarket. And the other the lesser celebrated, or lesser seen, take on Truman Capote, this time payed by Jones and called Infamous.

I heard good things about The Mist....... Watched it......thought it was absolute rubbish!

I'd put forward Backbeat (story of the early Beatles, far from perfect but highly enjoyable) and Cyrus which i found hilarious.

 

[Seagull73]

Hot Fuzz is excellent - Saving Grace I still find funny now, after watching it for the umpteenth time....

 

[Westdene Seagull]

Neither have you. Marisa Tomei got nominated for an oscar for My Cousin Vinny.

A fair point but in my defence I didn't know that when I watched it ( after seeing a trailer for it on a very old film rental ) and many people I mention it have never heard of it.

 

[Herne Hill Seagull]

I liked The Mist too, Meadster old boy - reasonably faithful to the book, too.

Miller's Crossing is mine. The Coen Brothers' finest work, sadly unregarded behind better-known but, for me, inferior offerings.

 

[Woodchip]

Joe's Apartment. That is a top class film. As is Hackers.

 

[johnny jigsaw]

The Cooler - William H. Macey as a professional casino jinx whose luck changes
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead - about a pair of brothers whose get rich quick scheme goes wrong, with Ethan Hawke and Philip Seymour Hoffman (and Marisa Tomei, very nice indeed)
The Limey - Terence Stamp goes Cockney-tastic on the LA crime scene in a Get Carter stylee
Ghost Dog - already mentioned here
Super - surprisingly violent loser-becomes-crap-costumed-vigilante film
Kill List - odd British thriller which I can't work out whether is great or crap.

 

[mistahclarke]

Mr Nobody

 

[big nuts]

Recently watched Wild Bill which is one of the better British gangster type films I have seen recently.

Also watched searching for Sugarman at the DOY's and that was superb

Other films that weren't huge box office hits:-
Man on Wire
Big River Man
Anvil - Superb documentary about an under achieving Canadian heavy rock band.
Another vote for 'lives of others' one of my favourite films
Hunger - Directed by Steve McQueen
The Class - French film set in a suburban Paris school - absolutely superb.
Baader Meinhoff complex
Control - Ian Curtis documentary
Requiem for a dream - One of the most affecting films I've ever seen.
A Prophet - French gangster film very good.

 

[mistahclarke]

The salton sea
Jesus's son
Requiem for a Dream

 

[Fitzcarraldo]

Another vote for

I saw it on DVD quite recently and it was easily the best film that I have watched over the last year or so.

 

[albion534]

Club dread

Same guys as super troopers, I just think its so damn silly

Also I love butterfly effect, 1 of my all time favourite films

 

[Nibble]

The Castle. An Australian comedy about a family about to lose their ramshackle house due to a runway being built at the end of their garden. Sounds dull but it is superb, the characters are fantastic and a great early performance from Eric Bana. Directed by same guy who did The Dish, mentioned earlier.

Box of Moonlight. With John Tuturro. A real feelgood but slightly dark gem of a film.

The Browning Version. The remake with Albert Finney. A heartwrenching tale but done with subtelty. Set in a boy's boarding school. Greta Scattchi looking fine and a tremendous performance by Albert. It's what Dead Poet's Society would have liked to have been. US, I think you'd like this.

The Edge. With Anthony Hopkins and the ever brilliant Alec Baldwin, screenplay by David Mamet (Glengary, Glenross).