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Mary-Louise Parker (Fried Green Tomatoes) in a wonderful ensemble piece. Several lives unfold. Really wonderful film.
Pulp Fiction fans should love this video, as it is quirkier, more exciting and funnier than Tarantino's film.
Michael Caine was robbed of an Oscar. He gives his finest performance in a decade as big-talking small-time agent Ray Say, a paunchy, pale life of the party hiding his desperation under gold chains and cool bravura. When he hears the almost magical voice of Jane Horrocks's meek little LV (short for Little Voice) fill her bedroom with the rich voice of Judy Garland, he sees his ticket to the big time. Little Voice is ostensibly LV's story, and in fact the original play was written for Horrocks, whose amazing vocal impressions of Garland, Shirley Bassey, and Marilyn Monroe (among others) form the centerpiece performance of the film.
Simon (James Urbaniak) is a shy garbage man. Into Simon's life comes Henry Fool (Thomas Jay Ryan), a heavy-drinking self-proclaimed great writer who goads Simon into writing an enormous poem. The poem becomes the source of great controversy, proclaimed by some as a great work of art, denounced by others as perverse trash. Parker Posey plays the loose-moraled sister in the family who takes an interest in the drifter living in a family's basement.
Pecker uses the camera to capture his fellow Baltimore residents living their daily lives. Of course, since this is a John Waters movie, those daily lives include visits to strip bars, shoplifting, and various other quirky, and frequently hilarious, human activities.
Some Girl (1998)
LA's singles scene starring Juliette Lewis (), Michael Rapaport ( ), Giovanni Ribisi ( ), and Marissa Ribisi ( ). Sex, cocktails and singles bars. A desparation to find something real in an unreal environment. If you can find a copy, its worth seeing.
John Cusack ( , ) as a virtual Woody surrogate, a neurotic, Jazz Age writer whose new play sounds wooden and unrealistic to a low-level mobster (Chazz Palminteri ) assigned to watch over his boss's actress-girlfriend (Jennifer Tilly ). When the hood starts contributing better story ideas and dialogue than what the official playwright can conjure, questions (not unlike those of Amadeus) about the price we pay to make art at the expense of other responsibilities are intriguingly raised. Palminteri gives a very interesting performance as the enforcer waking up to the desperate (and almost feminine) demands of his own creative psyche, and Dianne Wiest ( ), Tracey Ullman, Jim Broadbent (), and Jennifer Tilly are very funny together playing the ensemble cast of Cusack's play.
A George Lucas film. During frantic first night on air for Chicago radio station WBN, someone is murdering the radio station employees one by one. Lots of familar faces including Christopher Lloyd ( ), Rosemary Clooney, George Burns, Harvey Korman, Bobcat Goldwait, and Ned Beatty. Quirky rather than funny.
Bridget Fonda, Tim Roth, Phoebe Cates, and Eric Stoltz in a quirky romance. Roth abandons his girlfriend Fonda. Fonda beds the housepainter preparing her house for the next tenant (getting encouraged by Cates - Roth's ex-girlfriend also). Roth changes his mind and drives back. All in 24 hours. Now what? Funny! Definitely quirky.
Jeff Goldblum stars as a pianist who believes he is Johnann Strauss and who makes his living modelling as Jesus Christ for religious art. Quirky and funny. Strange. And yes, he begins to think he is Christ.
Quirky, clever chronicle of the relationship between two school friends. Antonia (Reeves) is attractive and arrogant whereas Jane (Staunton) is plump, but adventuresome. Without knowing it, they are envious of each other, they have the same therapist and Antonia's husband is Jane's stolen ex-boyfriend. Funny and quirky. BBC movie.
Sam Neill ( , , , ) plays the scruffiest role of his career. Odd but interesting movie. Shot in Brunswick (a suburb of Melbourne), which was the first residence of most migrants to Australia.
Juzo Itami film. A black comedy that chides solemn, traditional Japanese funeral rites. A modern Japanese family is compelled to hold a Buddhist funeral for its patriarch--who happened to own a brothel. When the family buys a video tape to instruct them on what to do and say at the funeral ...
screen biography of British punk rocker Sid Vicious (played by Gary Oldman) of the Sex Pistols and his American girlfriend Nancy Spungen. Want a view into a different kind of life?
A black comedy set in a postnuclear wasteland. The dog is telepathic and the sharper of the two. Starring the then unknown young Don Johnson.
Unlikely romance between a death-obsessed 19-year-old named Harold (Bud Cort) and a life-loving 79-year-old widow named Maude (Ruth Gordon). They meet at a funeral, (they attend a lot of funerals) and Maude finds something oddly appealing about Harold, urging him to "reach out" and grab life by the lapels as opposed to dwelling morbidly on mortality. Quirky, dark, funny, heartlifting.
Bates walks into French town in WW1 that has been abandoned by everyone except those in the insane asylum.
Peter Sellers, George C Scott - if you haven't seen it, you have missed THE classic black comedy.