Breaker Morant

The Grey Fox

1957 movie about an American Destroyer and a German U-Boat in WWII. Playing suspense filled cat and mouse games for about a 100 minutes. Robert Mitchum plays the US Skipper. I’m partial to WWII movies about the Navy. This ain’t Pearl Harbor but the action and acting are outstanding. My favorite WWII movie for decades. Worth seeing.

Hardly anybody mentions it when they talk about Scorsese, but I loved it and think it's a true masterpiece.

One of the best foreign-language films I've ever seen, IMHO, and also one of the best science-fiction films I've ever seen, and yet, it seems, almost nobody has ever heard of it. It's a psychological study of isolation, and survival. Wow, I love this movie. You can watch it free on YouTube.

But I gotta throw in the Black and White 1973 Comedy gem Paper Moon with Ryan O’Neil and his daughter Tatum. Conman Man Ryan and moral compass Tatum roving around 1930s Kansas looking to score a Buck. Madelyn Kahn was over the top. The emoting hooker with “a bladder the size of a peanut.” Lots of laughs and a happy ending.

But it doesn't fit in this category because it is not forgotten, overlooked, under-appreciated, or anything of the sort. Tatum O'Neal won Best Supporting Actress. I just watched it a week or two ago on one of the movie channels I get on cable. As I said, it doesn't fit in this category.

-- Ron

Ben Whishaw plays an olfactory savant in 18th-Century France who had been abandoned by his mother because she was repulsed by the infant's lack of body odor. With his extremely discerning nose he becomes obsessed with finding the perfect fragrance, eventually murdering young women to capture their natural redolence. An incredibly odd and sometimes visually breathtaking film that manages to evoke the sense of smell and, like Hitchcock's Vertigo, convincingly portray obsession.

...this movie has been released as The Blonde Witch. In case anyone wanted to track it down.

Some fascinating responses, here. Mostly stuff new to me.

David Bowie should have gotten an Oscar for that one.

Difficult movie to watch, but worth it for one of the most hauntingly beautiful endings in movie history.

The Canterville Ghost (1944)

People Will Talk (1951)

It Happened to Jane (1959)

Start the Revolution Without Me (1970)

I'd reschedule almost anything to watch this one again (I first saw it on the old "Night Flight" ). It's about as quirky as they get:

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Young adult immigrants come to the United States from everywhere and the adjustments and the attempts to
fit in are always fascinating.

The ending of this movie is a reminder that family roots spoken of over time and places can be
just as fascinating and mysterious to the generations watching as their family adjusts.

Tikki
John Lurie is in this movie.

“Dead Man” with Johnny Depp
bonus: music score by Neil Young

Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman. It came out in 1973 and I saw it in a bunker on an Air Force Base in Maryland.

A very powerful movie with some great performances.

An Australian movie released in 1971 about 2 children finding themselves alone in the Outback and trying to survive.

"Seconds."