Tell me an old and weird #movie or #film you think everyone should watch (and why).

[lminiero@fosstodon.org]

@limebar define "old"... my definition may be very different than yours!

[limebar@mastodon.social]

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[lydialurch@mastodon.social]

@limebar Night Tide, because it's got a very young Dennis Hopper and a mysterious woman who may or may not be a mermaid, also it's free on YouTube.

[limebar@mastodon.social]

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[thejessiekirk@ohai.social]

@limebar House on Haunted Hill because it has Vincent Price in it.

[synkr3tyk@mastodon.social]

@limebar Toys, 1992, directed by Barry Levinson, with Robin Williams & Joan Cusack.

American culture's distaste for earnestness and whimsy led to a deeply unfair response to this film. The level of surrealism was also probably turned up past most people's tolerance.

[limebar@mastodon.social]

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[synkr3tyk@mastodon.social]

@limebar
@gregvr , did you want to maybe say a word about Slacker?

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[synkr3tyk@mastodon.social]

@limebar I was about to edit the above to indicate (as requested) *why* I recommend it, but I see that I already mentioned whimsy, surrealism, Williams, and Cusack, which feels like enough of a sales job.

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[cuauh@social.heycuauh.com]

@limebar Harold and Maude (1971). Everyone needs to think about the inevitability of death, and the inevitability of living.

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[sknob@mamot.fr]

@limebar one of my favorite movies of all time: A matter of Life and death (rebranded Stairway to heaven in the US). British film from the forties by Powell and Pressburger)

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[sknob@mamot.fr]

@limebar I would suggest you find a copy with a decent resolution. The cinematography is quite exceptional for the time.

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[ike_seblon@mastodon.social]

@limebar Eat the Rich: 1987 flawed political collision of sketch comedians, Motorhead and cannibalism starring Lanah Pelay (of Pistol in my Pocket). It's all nauseatingly relevant, and amazing.

[jrp@hub.kliklak.net]

@Lime Bar Tarkovsky's movie version oft Stanislav Lems book Solaris.
It's amazingly teaching for the way cameras were telling a story by image, instead oft actors telling you what to - or how you should understand what to - see.
For the necessity of enough time in scenes, so not needing sped up editing, which would only usually cover up a lack of content.
For a whole other planet diving into the human psyche, digging out the buried, wordless, haunting and fascinating at the same time.
Amazing movie - while Soderberghs later version of Solaris isn't bad, but operates just too quick and formatted for such mind blowing content.