Some good little films

[robbiesheik]

Since we have been talking about some of the worst films ever. I thought we could also share some little films we may have seen and liked but others may have missed.

2 that come to mind are 2 little films I love.

Spring Forward www.imdb.com/title/tt0156096/
and
The Station Agent www.imdb.com/title/tt0340377/

Oh and a Clive Owen one I enjoyed Greenfingers www.imdb.com/title/tt0203540/

~Laura

[ukelelehip]

I adore Heartlands:

www.imdb.com/title/tt0295303/

[sharman]

Great thread! Thanks, Laura. I am always on the look-out for good films. And any friend of Clive Owen's is my friend.

Here's one I think one absolutely should not miss, it's extremely moving.

www.imdb.com/title/tt0385017/

[robbiesheik]

Dec 9, 2008 6:25:03 GMT sharman said:

Here's one I think one absolutely should not miss, it's extremely moving.

www.imdb.com/title/tt0385017/

My Fathers Den...I have been waiting for that to come on DVD. I don't think it is avail in the US yet. I have had it on my Netflix list forever but no luck yet.

Clive...

[maxx02]

I keep wondering to myself what it is about the Kiwi's that make all of their most successful films be coming of age stories about precocious adolescent girls. My Father's Den is very typically Kiwi. If you like it, try Rain--it's another in the vein of MFD and the Whale Rider.

I liked Greenfingers as well. Not a film but Chancer is pretty entertaining if you can find it. It's very young Clive Owen.

[dreamer]

Of course no one of those movies have been showed in Italy apart from "The Station Agent" and I didn't see it.

Most of little films I loved are european (expecially Danish, dogma movies) and perhaps there is no release in US for them.
They are:

After the wedding by Susanne Bier - www.imdb.com/title/tt0457655/
Adam's apples by Anders Thomas Jensen, the writer of the previous one too www.imdb.com/title/tt0418455/

and one Italian by a friend of mine as director and my close friend since childhood as protagonist: "Bread and Tulips" - www.imdb.com/title/tt0237539/ released in Us too.

From US I liked
Little Miss Sunshine - www.imdb.com/title/tt0449059/
and Transamerica - www.imdb.com/title/tt0407265/

[peach]

"The Station Agent" is on my list as well, Peter Dinklage gives such a sweet and touching performance, as well as Patricia Clarkson and Bobby Cannavale.

"Il Postino" is another little gem that will melt your heart. Try to view it in Italian with subtitles, I've seen it advertised dubbed, it loses all the flavor. Weepy too.

[robbiesheik]

Dec 10, 2008 2:23:19 GMT peach said:

"The Station Agent" is on my list as well, Peter Dinklage gives such a sweet and touching performance, as well as Patricia Clarkson and Bobby Cannavale.

Peter Dinklage...he was soo good wasn't he. I would love to see him get another chance to lead a film. I was blown away.

[miss october]

I also really liked 'The Station Agent'! Peter Dinklage is really good in 'Death at a Funeral', too.

[robbiesheik]

I thought of another one I love. Me Without You www.imdb.com/title/tt0263725/

[catdishy]

Dreamer, Bread and Tulips is one of my favorite films...I have to see it at least twice a year. I love LIcia Maglietti and Bruno Ganz together.

[GreenEyesToo]

A film which I don't think was widely seen was "The Squeeze" - not the Stacy Keach one, but with Michael Keaton. Lousy reviews and plot holes by the dozen but I thought it was absolutely hilarious, and it's one of my favourite feel-good movies.

[dreamer]

Dec 17, 2008 6:44:01 GMT catdishy said:

Dreamer, Bread and Tulips is one of my favorite films...I have to see it at least twice a year. I love LIcia Maglietti and Bruno Ganz together.

I did know Licia Maglietta 50 years ago, at a day nursery, and then we were together at secondary school, high school and university, and we still meet when she comes to Rome for some play on stage.
The director and playwriter Silvio Soldini, was her life-partner for many years and Bruno Ganz was fantastic in that role.
That film is really very nice, it got a great success in Italy and abroad.

[catdishy]

I just took it out of the library again, dreamer, and I never tire of seeing it.I don't think I've seen other Licia Maglietta films. Is she still acting in film?

[dreamer]

Dec 19, 2008 4:27:24 GMT catdishy said:

I just took it out of the library again, dreamer, and I never tire of seeing it.I don't think I've seen other Licia Maglietta films. Is she still acting in film?

www.imdb.com/name/nm0536134/

With the same director of Bred and Tulips, Silvio Soldini, she played "Agata and the Storm" and "The Acrobat". Before and after you can find her films on IMDB.
A dramatic film I loved was "Red moon".
Lately she's playing much more on stage, writing and directing the play by herself.

We started interesting of theatre about in 1974, when there were many young acting company, not in the same actors group and with different task (I never acted . After the Architecture Degree we took different ways.