Let me preface this reply by stating that I am not picking on you, Sonia...buuuuut...given that RHPS is getting a reboot/remake at present, and that it STILL screens for weekend midnight showings and shadow cast performances in multiple cities across the U.S. (as it has for the past 4 decades...)Originally Posted by Sonia_Mota
Is Rocky Horror Show obscure enough for this forum?
I'd say it fails the thread litmus test as well.
-=Will you stand by me against the cold night, or are you afraid of the ice?=-
Awww RTF666, I understand you are not picking on meLet me preface this reply by stating that I am not picking on you, Sonia...buuuuut...given that RHPS is getting a reboot/remake at present, and that it STILL screens for weekend midnight showings and shadow cast performances in multiple cities across the U.S. (as it has for the past 4 decades...)
I'd say it fails the thread litmus test as well.infact you have been very sweet trying to explain it all to me
Especially this, I am very curious but hate torrent sites bah! Used it once and my pc went pufffff... arghh... I wish I had more options
I'm probably responding out of turn anyways, as it's Rickenbacker's thread, then I'll defer to Rickenbacker's rulesAwww RTF666, I understand you are not picking on me- and - Sonia! It looks as if you and I have a couple of mutual FB friends!
-=Will you stand by me against the cold night, or are you afraid of the ice?=-
We have mutual friends?I'm probably responding out of turn anyways, as it's Rickenbacker's thread, then I'll defer to Rickenbacker's rules
P.S. I can recognise a Rickenbacker sound anywhere just like I can recognize a fretless bass
Many of the movies you all have mentioned are not "forgotten" at all. Some even classics.Is Rocky Horror Show obscure enough for this forum?
The Anderson Tapes - I have no idea if this one is forgotten but it presents Martin Balsam in a role like no other. Plus there's Connery, a young Walken and some other decent actors. Plus a year later Lumet made The Offence with Connery. It was recently on TV.
The Dark - this one has a shabby reputation but worth seeing just for fun. An alien comes to Earth and shoots with laser rays with his eyes. William Devane, Richard Jaeckel and Keenan Wynn star. There are some good scenes in it but also some awful dialogue.
The Evil - I love this haunted house flick. With Richard Crenna, Victor Buono, Joanne Pettet and Andrew Prine. Plus a great Milton Selzer in this.
A Cold Night's Death - wouldn't be surprised if this was one of Carpenter's inspirations for The Thing. It's about some mysterious happening on an isolated base in Alaska. Robert Culp and Eli Wallach star. Not great but worth seeing.
Klute - somebody mentioned The Parallax View. I prefer All The President's Men out of Pakula's conspiracy trilogy but this one has some great cinematography from Gordon Willis.
The Paper Chase - Timothy Bottoms at the peak of his career, I like Lindsay Wagner, there's John Houseman and some great supporting turns, one of them was Edward Herrman. Also shot by Willis. It's intertesting how this decent movie seems to be totally forgotten.
Etat De Siege - this was made by Costa Gavras after "Z". And again stars Yves Montand. I think last year it was released on Blu Ray.
Sonia -- I'm pretty sure you're thinking of Facebook censoring (female) nipples. I definitely see plenty of them on Google searches.
Cobra handling and cocaine use are a bad mix.
Vanishing Point (1971)
During the 1970s, car delivery driver Kowalski delivers hot rods in record time but always runs into trouble with the highway cops.
I consider this a unique early 70s cult film, , with beautiful panoramic cinematography of Americas heartland.
no tunes, no dynamics, no nosebone
Yeah, love this one. It has a truly satisfying ending, too. No cop-out. Directed by Michael Winner, who directed no fewer than six Charles Bronson films, including The Mechanic and the first three Death Wish installments.
This one rocks. Another one where there's more going on beyond the surface, if you choose to look at it a certain way.
A couple of other good 70s road films
Two Lane Blacktop
Dirty Mary Crazy Larry
The Sugarland Express
Keep 'em coming, everyone. I remember some mentioned. I and am looking forward to viewing some that have slipped by me or I never knew of.
Not that it really matters, but he played a photographer who lost his head when he got too close to the truth! The 2nd Doctor Who Patrick Troughton played the priest! However, did love Time After Time...I own the DVD somewhere!
I was going to mention Hawk the Slayer...so bad it's good---but that was 1980 (not the 70s!).
So, a few of my old forgotten faves (at least I remember really liking them years ago!
Americathon with John Ritter
Sorcerer - Roy Scheider and William Friedkin
All that Jazz (although that might be too mainstream...and so would be The Man Who Would Be King)
The Last Wave---a Peter Weir movie
Omega Man ...Charlton Heston and post apocalyptic zombies, what's not to love?
"So it goes."
-Kurt Vonnegut
Heroes (1977)
A Vietnam War veteran with PTSD sets about finding the men from his unit that had served in Vietnam. Field plays his at-first-reluctant girlfriend and Ford plays one of the former soldiers in his unit, now a dysfunctional stock car driver in Sedalia, Missouri who keeps a stolen machine gun in his motor home. This was the first film released after the conflict ended in 1975 to address Vietnam War issues.
Henry Winkler, Sally Field, Harrison Ford, Val Avery
I got one for you. Tribes (1971), starring Jan-Michael Vincent and Darren McGavin.
Full movie here! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Azw1t__ipUA Marine Corps drill instructor who is disgusted by the fact that the Corps now accepts draftees finds himself pitted against a hippie who has been drafted but refuses to accept the military's way of doing things.
Brewster McCloud (1970): Weird cult comedy with Bud Cort as a Where’s Waldo look-alike who lives in the rafters of Houston’s Astrodome, is building wings to fly away, and may or may not be responsible for (or at least accomplice to) a series of strangulation murders. Has to be the only film I’ve ever seen where bird shit is a major plot point. Crazy all-star cast including Shelly Duvall in her feature film debut (she was apparently a local theater actor that Robert Altman liked enough to keep using). Screenplay written by Doran William Cannon, who also wrote the script to Otto Preminger’s infamous Skidoo.
Darktown Strutters (1975): Outrageous blaxploitation comedy in which a trio of flamboyant biker ladies battle a Colonel Sanders manqué. Features the Delfonics singing in a dungeon jail cell!
Star Odyssey (1979): Absurd, cheap Italian knockoff of Star Wars featuring some of the most incomprehensible editing you’ve ever seen. Among other things, you’ll see a robot made of an oil drum and silver-painted oven-mitts*, two robots with duck bills in some kind of suicide pact, a crazy acrobat guy, another guy who looks like Zapp Branigan with a little Hercule Poirot moustache, soft-core porn actress Malisa Longo as a kind of gender-flipped Han Solo and Yanti Sommer looking like a frumpy Sigourney Weaver in a series of unflattering muu-muus.
*when watching this film with a friend, we had to stop it at this scene, as we were both laughing so hard we couldn’t breathe!
Confirmed Bachelors: the dramedy hit of 1883...
Always loved Klute....,can't wait for the blu-ray.
Rolling Thunder (1977)
Major Charles Rane comes back from the war and is given a number of gifts from his hometown because he is a war hero. Some greedy thugs decide that they want to steal a number of silver dollars from him. In the process they also manage to kill his wife and son and destroy his hand. The Major wants revenge so he enlists the help of his war buddy Johnny to meet the thugs in a final showdown
Starring William Devane and Tommy Lee Jones.
My Blu-ray copy arrived today!
This is one of Quentin Tarantinos favorites but be forewarned, its very violent.
no tunes, no dynamics, no nosebone
Slaughterhouse Five (based on Kurt Vonnegut Jr's book); Silent Running (with Bruce Dern); Zachariah (with many rock bands and Firesign Theatre); and A Boy and His Dog (with Don Johnson, who was also in Zachariah) are among my favorite movies of all time, all now fall under the "obscure 70's" label. I've never seen any of these on DVD, only VHS, though I'm sure some have been reissued.
Sturgeon's Lawyer,
You'll still find nudes on google search, but you won't find them on google pay sites, these websites although they are independent, get a revenue from google, i.e. some these are music websites and they do have to censor nudity inc. nipples on album covers otherwise they won't receive pay.
I've yet to see Rolling Thunder. I like both the lead actors. I've seen the final shoot-out, I think it was on youtube.
Always loved Klute....,can't wait for the blu-ray.
Rolling Thunder (1977)
Major Charles Rane comes back from the war and is given a number of gifts from his hometown because he is a war hero. Some greedy thugs decide that they want to steal a number of silver dollars from him. In the process they also manage to kill his wife and son and destroy his hand. The Major wants revenge so he enlists the help of his war buddy Johnny to meet the thugs in a final showdown
Starring William Devane and Tommy Lee Jones.
My Blu-ray copy arrived today!
This is one of Quentin Tarantinos favorites but be forewarned, its very violent.
Didn't know that Klute is coming to Blu, I think it's already available in that format, there are films which are released on Blu several times, one of them Halloween and also The Fog. Both of them have huge differences in picture quality, Dean Cundey supervised the latest ones after being not happy what was done previously.
The Day Of The Jackal - a great one from 1973. I think most cinephiles know of this but I don't think it's a much talked about film.
There are also tons of good European films from the 70's but I have no idea how many have at least subtitles. Most of the time the English dubbing is fairly bad, at best it's average. My guess is even some of the Argento films have bad dubbing. Better see them with subs or with a decent translation if that kind of thing is even done in other countries outside of Europe.
Wonderful movie. I even liked the corny ending that story writer Harlan Ellison hated.
Lou
Looking forward to my day in court.
Was reminded to the 1971 movie Cold Turkey by the Bob Elliot thread. Obscure to be sure and funny as anything. A small town of heavy smokers pledges to quit for 30 days to win a big payoff by a tobacco company. Bob Newhart plays a company executive who's dispatched to the town to entice the weaker participants to smoke. Bob and Ray are news reporters David Chetley and Walter Chronic.
Lou
Looking forward to my day in court.
Prime Cut (1972)
A Chicago mob enforcer is sent to Kansas City to settle a debt with a cattle rancher who not only grinds his enemies into sausage, but sells women as sex slaves.
Another bizarre crime favorite starring Lee Marvin, Gene Hackman and a very young & nude Sissy Spacek!
no tunes, no dynamics, no nosebone
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