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List your favorite underground movies/shows

luke hugh

19:10 / 05.03.04

I'm someone who finds that the best movies are always the ones given to you by a friend . I just thought it would be great if everybody on this site could share certain personal movie gems with all the rest of us . I think everyone on barbelith are all tuned in the same culturally so any movie suggested I'll probably rent .

So any rare personal favorites

Jack Fear

19:37 / 05.03.04

These are treacherous terms. What constitutes "underground"? What constitutes "Hollywood"? I mean, technically the LORD OF THE RINGS movies aren't "Hollywood" films, but DONNIE DARKO (shot in California, financed by Drew Barrymore) might be.

Is the product of Miramax (which has its offices in NYC) somehow not "Hollywood"? Are we talking strictly non-commercial/experimental film, here? Commercial cinema of other countries? Samizdat videotapes of Mexican snuff films? What?

Oh, and it must be said...

I think everyone on barbelith are all tuned in the same culturally...

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha no.

Regrettable Juvenilia

Withnail And I

Harold And Maude

OC And Stiggs

Chuck And Buck

Rosemary's Baby

Triumph Of The Will

Jack Fear

23:53 / 05.03.04

Those last two should be retitled "Rosie and Scratch" and "Adolf & Me."

Mike Modular

00:41 / 06.03.04

luke hugh

15:48 / 06.03.04

jack frost you are a cocky fuck . First when I said no hollywood I was thinking like nothing from the USA . I seen the Navigator a few months ago and was curious of any other foreign movies ass. Secondly every fucking message on this site are the same and I do believe people like you write the most typical shit about drugs , crap about mind and body , and Buddhism while belittling a 14 year old kid . You and your ego are full of shit.

luke hugh

15:50 / 06.03.04

what the fuck is with all those silly movie posters

Suedey! SHOT FOR MEAT!

15:55 / 06.03.04

You might do well to read the poster's name again, chap.

Hieronymus

16:11 / 06.03.04

Luke, I think you're confusing Jack Fear with Jack Frost.

And yes, Jack Fear's taking the piss from your 'underground' term with some decidedly under-the-ground movies. But, despite his usual cocky knee-jerk way, he has a point. Your use of underground is slightly loaded, given that it requires a definition of what's mainstream and what exactly is underground/anti-mainstream.

Are you simply interested in people's opinion of what they enjoy as 'revolutionary' films and if so, what kind of examples do you think of? Give us a roadmap of what you're after.

Sirhan Sirhan Solo

16:57 / 06.03.04

Richard Elfman's "Forbidden Zone."
Not a Hollywood flick, but it is American.

_Boboss

i'd like to say that meem's first choice is my nomination for best movie ever

Bed Head

21:32 / 06.03.04

Oh, rubbish. Dogs! In! Space! Almost exactly the same as Suburbia, but Australian and with a better soundtrack! And Hutch looking sexy as fuck. Great music, sexy bloke, lots of drugs: what more does one need? in a film, I mean.

Regrettable Juvenilia

19:20 / 07.03.04

seen the Navigator a few months ago

Dude, I love that movie too! I first saw it when I was a kid and it represented a real fulfillment of my wishes - like, how cool would it be to have your own spaceship that could fly really fast, or in a straight line up into space, or even through time? And it had those cool liquid metal steps, and the Beach Boys, and that little cute alien! Man, it rocked.

raelianautopsy

03:08 / 08.03.04

One of my favirate films of all times is Farewell My Concubine. I would highly reccomend that one. It is the best example of mainland communist Chinese movies (not Hong Kong movies). They can be incredably depressing and powerful. They may not be for everyone, but everyone should at least see Farewell My Concubine.

eddie thirteen

04:05 / 08.03.04

Flyboy, you're thinking about a different movie -- The Navigator is the weird time travel/black plague movie (that really is good). The thing is, I...can't...think of WHAT THE HELL IT'S CALLED! It's like Travelers, or...something...I think River Phoenix was one of the kids...uh...it was like from 1985...it was something -ers...gahhhhh!

ibis the being

12:53 / 08.03.04

goodness, no hollywood = no USA? some of my friends should be a lot more rich & famous if that's the case.

Hieronymus

13:25 / 08.03.04

I first saw it when I was a kid and it represented a real fulfillment of my wishes - like, how cool would it be to have your own spaceship that could fly really fast, or in a straight line up into space, or even through time? And it had those cool liquid metal steps, and the Beach Boys, and that little cute alien! Man, it rocked.

Flight of the Navigator?

It's like Travelers, or...something...I think River Phoenix was one of the kids...uh...it was like from 1985...it was something -ers...gahhhhh!

Explorers?

The two are very similar.

Regrettable Juvenilia

13:57 / 08.03.04

Yeah, I... I've seen both Navigators. I'm sorry. I got a little confused. I don't what came over me. Lately, I don't know what's right anymore.

Tryphena Absent

14:29 / 08.03.04

We are horrible, horrible people and we deserve to be beaten. It's perfectly obvious what Hollywood means, when we watch films we look at them and can sum up whether they're Hollywood or not pretty damn instantaneously. I think the original question was fair though the use of the word underground is misleading. So excuse me while I spit on all of you and answer the question seriously through the use of image and interpretive dance...

rizla mission

15:01 / 08.03.04

WORD!!

Zazie Dans Le Metro is about the most incredible things I've ever seen!

Well.. I saw the last half an hour of it on a French TV channel in the early hours of the morning and nearly died from laughter it was so great.. I can't believe such a film is considered a 'family classic' in France.. it practically redefines the term "crazed anarchic destruction". The fact it had no sub-titles so I had no idea what the hell was going on apart from "Onion soup!" and "VENGEANGE!" probably helped.

I'd love to get a copy of it.

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