Contarama
Well-known
How about Blow Up?
Jaans
Well-known
Obviously you don't live in Fargo!
Yeap, damn right I don't live in Fargo and me thanks me lucky stars for that small bit of good fortune...
Griffin
Grampa's cameras user
One of my favorites is "American Movie", though I'm not sure it's all that underrated.
kanzlr
Hexaneur
Orgazmo.
Brain Candy.
those.
Brain Candy.
those.
j j
Well-known
kshapero
South Florida Man
The Party - Peter Sellers is hilarious.
zauhar
Veteran
"300". Universally panned by the critics and the butt of jokes, but I enjoyed it immensely.
By the way, some of the movies mentioned above are hardly "underrated".
Randy
By the way, some of the movies mentioned above are hardly "underrated".
Randy
kanzlr
Hexaneur
haempe
Well-known
"Gubben i Stugan"
Contemplative swedish documentary.
Contemplative swedish documentary.
zauhar
Veteran
MrFujicaman
Well-known
1992's "The Public Eye" with Joe Pesci. Never really promoted by the studio so it failed at the box office. I dragged a friend of mine to see it with me when it hit the $1.00 movie theater-and he thanked me afterwards !
My fav line from the movie..." His hat....throw his hat in the picture...people like to see the dead guys hat."
My fav line from the movie..." His hat....throw his hat in the picture...people like to see the dead guys hat."
Vics
Veteran
"The Night of the Following Day" with Richard Crenna, Richard Boone and Marlon Brando. Creepy crawly scary psycho-thriller.
paulfish4570
Veteran
being there
silent running
the passenger
das boot
(perhaps underappreciated might be better than underrated ...)
silent running
the passenger
das boot
(perhaps underappreciated might be better than underrated ...)
abo_1970
Member
The Passenger... excellent choice... never heard of it until my wife introduced me to the movie, as she introduced me to alot more movies... not so much underrated, but probably more unknown...
Stalker and Solaris - Andrey Tarkovskiy
The Color of Pomegranate - Sergej Paradjanov
taemo
eat sleep shoot
Lost in Translation for me, just stunning and vibrant cinematography on that movie.
Ezzie
E. D. Russell Roberts
All on my fav list too.
As to underrated films, my top three: Reqiuem for a dream. Happy. Down by law
jvan01
Established
from 2012 - "The Comedy" by Rick Alverson
Not for everyone's tastes, but I enjoyed it immensely.
Beautifully filmed too - everything is shot in close-up with long lenses, so it feels claustrophobic and minimalist.
Not for everyone's tastes, but I enjoyed it immensely.
Beautifully filmed too - everything is shot in close-up with long lenses, so it feels claustrophobic and minimalist.
sparrow6224
Well-known
Jacques Tati's Playtime -- absolutely. great call.
Roma: La Citta Aperta. Underrated in US, not in Europe.
Speaking of Mizoguchi, I nominate those and virtually every film by Ozu. Esp Tokyo Story and Green Tea with Rice
Underrated Kurasawa films: Ikiru, High and Low, Dodes ka'Den, and Dersu Uzala
In fundamental ways almost all Coen Brothers movies are underrated EXCEPT Fargo which got the praise it deserved and Big Lebowski which has become an acknowledged classic. All the rest are underrated as far as I'm concerned. After Scorsese and Mallick these guys are the finest American filmmakers of our time.
Speaking of Mallick: Badlands
Speaking of Scorsese: King of Comedy
indie films that no one much knows about:
TV with what'shisname the sex addict from X Files
Charlotte Sometimes
Eros
Full Frontal
Wong Kar Wai films, ESPECIALLY In the Mood for Love
Lust, Caution by Ang Lee
Into the Wild by Sean Penn
The second Tarzan movie, (Tarzan Takes aWife? something like that...)
The Jacket
Inglorious *******s
Friiends of Eddie Coyle
Three giant movies from the late 60s and 1970s that are way way better than you even remember them being: Midnight Cowboy, Chinatown, and Taxi Driver
Ditto for 1990s: Glen Garry Glen Ross and Fight Club
Advise and Consent (Otto Preminger)
Almost all of Godard's films other than Breathless. Esp A Gang Apart and La Chinoise
Knife in the Water (Polanski)
Battle of Algiers (amazing)
Shoah (seen in 1 sitting esp)
Berlin Alexanderplatz (seen in two sittings esp)
and so many many more.....
Roma: La Citta Aperta. Underrated in US, not in Europe.
Speaking of Mizoguchi, I nominate those and virtually every film by Ozu. Esp Tokyo Story and Green Tea with Rice
Underrated Kurasawa films: Ikiru, High and Low, Dodes ka'Den, and Dersu Uzala
In fundamental ways almost all Coen Brothers movies are underrated EXCEPT Fargo which got the praise it deserved and Big Lebowski which has become an acknowledged classic. All the rest are underrated as far as I'm concerned. After Scorsese and Mallick these guys are the finest American filmmakers of our time.
Speaking of Mallick: Badlands
Speaking of Scorsese: King of Comedy
indie films that no one much knows about:
TV with what'shisname the sex addict from X Files
Charlotte Sometimes
Eros
Full Frontal
Wong Kar Wai films, ESPECIALLY In the Mood for Love
Lust, Caution by Ang Lee
Into the Wild by Sean Penn
The second Tarzan movie, (Tarzan Takes aWife? something like that...)
The Jacket
Inglorious *******s
Friiends of Eddie Coyle
Three giant movies from the late 60s and 1970s that are way way better than you even remember them being: Midnight Cowboy, Chinatown, and Taxi Driver
Ditto for 1990s: Glen Garry Glen Ross and Fight Club
Advise and Consent (Otto Preminger)
Almost all of Godard's films other than Breathless. Esp A Gang Apart and La Chinoise
Knife in the Water (Polanski)
Battle of Algiers (amazing)
Shoah (seen in 1 sitting esp)
Berlin Alexanderplatz (seen in two sittings esp)
and so many many more.....
sparrow6224
Well-known
My whole list is men. Here are some women whose films I admire, just for the record: Sarah Polley (Away from Her), Catherine Breillat (several), Jane Campion (several) Julie Taymor (Across theUniverse) and Line Wertmuller (several)
j j
Well-known
Eagle vs Shark