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Top 10 Obscure Films
« on: November 09, 2019, 05:43:12 PM »
Hey guys, favorite subject of mine in all movie circles.

Top movies that are actually obscure, my completely arbitrary definition of obscure movie is one with less than 10 thousands votes on IMDB.

10.  United Red Army
9.   The Saddest Music in the World
8.   The Adventures of Prince Achmed
7.   Noroi: The Curse
6.   Noi the Albino
5.   Heart of a Dog
4.   Kanal
3.   Pixote
2.   Autumn Marathon
1.   Chuchelo
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Re: Top 10 Obscure Films
« Reply #1 on: November 09, 2019, 05:49:12 PM »
Long time no read zarodinu, welcome back.

I do like The Saddest Music in the World, the rest I have not seen (5 I have not heard of before).

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Re: Top 10 Obscure Films
« Reply #2 on: November 09, 2019, 06:11:10 PM »
Based on my top 100

1. Ring of Bright Water
2. The Five Obstructions
3. Boxing Day (2007)
4. Not Quite Hollywood
5. Lichter (aka Distant Lights)
6. A Complete History of My Sexual Failures

That's it from my top 100 (or near top 100), there were a few in my top 100 the had 10 thousand and something, so were almost obscure. In my list above the lowest number of votes went to Boxing Day with 129 votes.

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Re: Top 10 Obscure Films
« Reply #3 on: November 09, 2019, 08:27:20 PM »

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Re: Top 10 Obscure Films
« Reply #4 on: November 09, 2019, 10:02:41 PM »
1. It's Love I'm After (1937) starring Bette Davis, Leslie Howard and Olivia De Havilland
2. Live From Baghdad (2002) starring Michael Keaton and Helena Bonham Carter
3. American Dream (1990) Barbara Kopple's follow-up to Harlan County USA
4. The Visit (1964) starring Ingrid Bergman and Anthony Quinn
5. Vanishing Act (1986) starring Elliott Gould, Margot Kidder and Fred Gwynne
6. The Underworld Story (1950) starring Dan Duryea
7. So Proudly We Hail (1943) starring Claudette Colbert, Paulette Goddard and Veronica Lake
8. The Shopworn Angel (1938) starring Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart and Walter Pidgeon
9. Room For One More (1952) starring Cary Grant
10. Malaya (1949) starring Spencer Tracy, James Stewart, Sydney Greenstreet and Lionel Barrymore

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Re: Top 10 Obscure Films
« Reply #5 on: November 09, 2019, 11:27:28 PM »
The most obscure films in my top 250 (with # of IMDb votes):

1. Cocorico Monsieur Poulet (129)
2. The Beautiful Washing Machine (141)
3. Thirst for Love (294)
4. Girl Walk//All Day (326)
5. Storm Fear (389)
6. Rat-Trap (402)
7. Who's Camus Anyway? (467)
8. Cruel Gun Story (661)
9. A Tale of the Wind (696)
10. Subarnarekha (749)

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Re: Top 10 Obscure Films
« Reply #6 on: November 10, 2019, 01:14:04 AM »
Great to see you, zarodinu!



From my top 100,

Support Your Local Sheriff
Truly, Madly, Deeply
Sarah, Plain and Tall
Music from Another Room
Yours, Mine and Ours (1968)
I Know Where I'm Going!

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Re: Top 10 Obscure Films
« Reply #7 on: November 10, 2019, 04:02:37 AM »
1. Les ogres / Ogres (2015, 597 votes)
2. Numéro deux (1975, 686)
3. La glace et le ciel / Ice and the Sky (2015, 452)
4. Ni juge, ni soumise / So Help Me God (2017, 754)
5. Makala (2017, 490)
6. Louise en hiver / Louise by the Shore (2016, 673)
7. Historias extraordinarias / Extraordinary Stories (2008, 868)
8. Vingt et une nuits avec Pattie / 21 Nights with Pattie (2015, 523)
9. Ce sentiment de l'été / This Feeling of Summer (2015, 472)
10. Neak sre / Rice People (1994, 249)

So mostly stuff I saw in French theaters in the past few years and never caught on with everyone else, plus a 70s Godard which was my first foray into avant-garde cinema and impressed me a lot and a few forum-related discoveries (is the FEB ever coming back ?  :'().
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Re: Top 10 Obscure Films
« Reply #8 on: November 10, 2019, 12:54:02 PM »
I did my last Top 100 five years ago, which had some nerdy stats as an addendum, among them the number of IMDb votes. Back then, they were spread like this:

      < 100              6
      100 - 1,000       21
      1,000 - 5,000     41
      5,000 - 10,000    10
      10,000 - 50,000   16
      50,000 - 100,000   3
      > 100,000          3


Top 10 out of those, with less than 10 thousand votes (and current vote count):

Kosmos  (Reha Erdem, 2010)  4359 votes
Perceval le Gallois  (Eric Rohmer, 1978)  1047 votes
Damnation  (Béla Tarr, 1988)  4605 votes
L'amour braque  (Andrzej Zulawski, 1985)  750 votes
Vagabond  (Agnès Varda, 1985)  7335 votes
Places in Cities  (Angela Schanelec, 1998)  62 votes
A Summer's Tale  (Eric Rohmer, 1996)  5640 votes
Beau travail  (Claire Denis, 1999)  7253 votes
Hail Mary  (Jean-Luc Godard, 1985)  2756 votes
Simple Men  (Hal Hartley, 1992)  3834 votes

10 most obscure (per current vote count):

Céleste  (Valérie Gaudissart, 2005)  19 votes
Die Zeit mit Kathrin  (Urs Graf, 1999)  36 votes
Places in Cities  (Angela Schanelec, 1998)  62 votes
Redland  (Asiel Norton, 2009)  89 votes
The Complaint of an Empress  (Pina Bausch, 1990)  105 votes
Berlin Chamissoplatz  (Rudolf Thome, 1980)  113 votes
Heimat II: A Chronicle of a Generation  (Edgar Reitz, 1992)  151 votes
Toutes les nuits  (Eugène Green, 2001)  253 votes
Johanna  (Kornél Mundruczó, 2005)  430 votes
Marseille  (Angela Schanelec, 2004)  446 votes

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Re: Top 10 Obscure Films
« Reply #9 on: November 10, 2019, 12:58:34 PM »
Long time no read zarodinu, welcome back.

I do like The Saddest Music in the World, the rest I have not seen (5 I have not heard of before).

Hey! Good to be back!

I am emerging from a horrible place and am getting back into cinema. Saddest Music in the World is such a magical piece of weirdness Maddin was amazing. My Winnipeg and Careful are two more pieces of bizarro magic. I haven't checked out any of his new stuff, will need to see if anything is worth a watch.

I heard of Lichter and Not Quite Holywood, I put Lichter on my watch list, will let you know how it was. I have to ask, Why Ring of Bright Water #1? Trailer was opposite of what I expected.
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