Independent Film Recommendations

[turkishproverb]

Hey, I was wondering if anyone had any indy/ultra indy film recommendations?

I'll start by giving an obvious one or two:

Thriller:
Paranoia featuring Brad Jones of cinema Snob semi-fame

and
Comedy:

ICWXP The proper successor to MST3K

[jseah]

Primer (2004)

Yay for time travel and 9 nested loops in the time line!

[AshesOfOld]

Persepolis. Really sweet cartoon about an Iranian refugee.

And Antichrist. Although I don't recommend you watch it if you're frail of heart, it's beautiful in a brutal way.

[Dr.Epic]

Thriller:
Paranoia featuring Brad Jones of cinema Snob semi-fame

Brad actually has quite a few films he's made on his site.

Also, Clerks and Medicine for Melancholy.

I just don't recommend Five Across the Eyes. Watch the review for it, and then decide if you want to sit through it:

Spoiler

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If she kills you, you're dead!

[WalkingTarget]

Primer (2004)

Yay for time travel and 9 nested loops in the time line!

Seconded.

Also: Brick - hard-boiled detective story set in high school (better than it sounds).

[Bhu]

Persepolis. Really sweet cartoon about an Iranian refugee.

And Antichrist. Although I don't recommend you watch it if you're frail of heart, it's beautiful in a brutal way.

especially the uncut version

Also Riget i.e. Kingdom by the same writer

[Feytalist]

I've got a few. I never even knew they were independent films until I looked them up afterwards.

How To Rob a Bank: relatively smart heist movie. Amusing dialogue. Some guys rob a bank, it goes wrong.

Welcome to the Rileys: wait 'til you hear who stars in this one. Low-key drama, nothing really happens. It's still a brilliant movie. Some people need to sort their lives out, and that's it, really.

[turkishproverb]

Seconded.

Also: Brick - hard-boiled detective story set in high school (better than it sounds).

Mmm...

Hard. Boiled.


On that note, another Recommendation for ultra-indy dvd's:

Kaiju Big Battel.

Good old campy fun.

And The Man from Earth, which is only regular indy, but awesome.

[AshesOfOld]

especially the uncut version

Also Riget i.e. Kingdom by the same writer

Yeah, but that's a television show, right? In danish and swedish. Or was it remade?

[turkishproverb]

It was remade as stephen king's kingdom hospital. Not as good from what I've heard.

[AshesOfOld]

Too bad. I remember watching it as a 14 year old. Scared ****less. Had some of the weirdest **** ever to happen on a tv-show, that wasn't an animé. Good times.

[Anarion]

If I might indulge in a personal recommendation, my uncle has produced and directed three independent films, which are of pretty good quality, but extremely post-modernist.

Bartleby (If you liked the obscure Melville story, this is basically a more comedic modernized version, which captures the original quite well)
The Californians
(Untitled)

[H Birchgrove]

Star Wars ep. 1-3.

[turkishproverb]

Star Wars ep. 1-3.

...No.


Just...no.

[Nameless]

Well, if you're in to avant garde and surrealist films then you could try:

Das Kabbinet Das Kabinett des Doktor Caligari. (Fantastic German Expressionist film which started the "dark eye shadow = bad guy" tradition as well as every Tim Burton film ever)

Cat Soup. (A very surreal anime involving anthropomorphic cats)

Stree of Crocodiles. (The most popular Quay Brothers film with a mixture of live action and animated sequences.)

The Last Theft. (An awesome short pixel motion film.)

[Dr.Epic]

Birdemic: Shock and Awe

It's not good, but it is hilarious!

[WoodStock_PV]

If you guys here don't mind I'll put my 2 cents in the "good independent movies" discussion by posting some awesome independent shorts which are quite rare to get the usual way (purchasing)

Isle of flowers (ilha das flores) the saddest, funniest, cruellest and most fantastic piece of moving picture i've seen

http://www.youtube.com/results?searc...0l0l0l0l0ll0l0

Palindrome (Palíndromo) a slice of life kind of deal.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ER13JaVZXY4

Food by Jan Svankmajer (this is part 1, the second part is also found on youtube)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39j7bypVxL8

Sorry about the long post and any english mistakes. If anyone likes one of these shorts share some with me too. Also, if I'm breaking any rules by posting these here I'll be glad to remove them.

[Nameless]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ER13JaVZXY4

Food by Jan Svankmajer (this is part 1, the second part is also found on youtube)

+1
Anything by Svankmajer is worth watching.

[WoodStock_PV]

+1
Anything by Svankmajer is worth watching.

Indeed. I thank the gods for youtube.. without it I would never had found this. Sadly many good stuff around ranging from music to short movies and every art manifestation in between is not mainstream, at least not here in Brazil.

Post some good ones you like. =)

[Serpentine]

And Antichrist. Although I don't recommend you watch it if you're frail of heart, it's beautiful in a brutal way.

I swear I thought - even said it out loud - that the first ten minutes was a parody of pretentious film. It's very good, but my God it's pretentious.

It was remade as stephen king's kingdom hospital. Not as good from what I've heard.

I saw the American version from start to finish, and then a good part of the original. Pretty much of a muchness, from what I recall.

I'd like to recommend some Australian indie films, but I don't know which ones are indie, nor really what exactly it means :/ Chances are, really, a lot of Aussie movies are indie...

[The_Admiral]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWTFG...yer_embedded#! not a movie but a music video. It's catchy. I am the man who arranges the blocks.

[pita]

The Station Agent is one of my favorite movies of all time, not only because it has a pre-"I HAVE EVERY GOOD DWARF ROLE EVER" Peter Dinklage, but also because it manages to be both funny and heartbreaking, usually in the same scene.

[Bhu]

The Last Circus

Very messed up film
Would link to trailer but all the good ones are red band.

[Serpentine]

I'm gonna assume all Aussie movies are Indie, and say everyone should see Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Undead, Two Hands, Dating the Enemy, The Castle, Muriel's Wedding, and to a lesser extent Japanese Story.

edit: Oh! Ten Canoes! It is (I believe) the only film with an all-aboriginal cast, and it's set in pre-European times, and it's based on some famous photographs, and it's a good story!

[Bhu]

I'm gonna assume all Aussie movies are Indie, and say everyone should see Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Undead, Two Hands, Dating the Enemy, The Castle, Muriel's Wedding, and to a lesser extent Japanese Story.

edit: Oh! Ten Canoes! It is (I believe) the only film with an all-aboriginal cast, and it's set in pre-European times, and it's based on some famous photographs, and it's a good story!

omg Ive seen half of those!!!

[Serpentine]

:O!
Which half?

[Bhu]

I own Undead, Two Hands, I've seen Priscilla, and I started on Muriel's Wedding befre the dvd went phhbbbttt..

[Serpentine]

I presume, based on the fact you own them, you like Two Hands and Undead. What did you think about the other two?

[Bhu]

Priscilla was darn good, Muriel was good till the dvd committed suicide 15 minutes in...

[Feytalist]

Most of those are at least known of over here. Go Commonwealth... I think?

Although I haven't heard of Ten Canoes yet. I'll check it out.


Also, I could list a bunch of South African movies, which are all sure to be indie... but I won't