What are your favorite lower-key movies?
March 17, 2022 9:40 AM Subscribe
Gandysaur's question reminded me of Rocket Gibraltar and Breaking Away, niche movies that I loved. What are the excellent movies you're fond of that didn't get gobs of marketing and a big audience? And that are slower-paced, not violent or horror.
My Dinner with Andre
A Room with a View
The Man in the White Suit
Kind Hearts and Coronets (it does have a lot of murders in it, but they're not graphic)
The Lavender Hill Mob (Alec Guinness version, please)
Harold and Maude
posted by plinth at 9:52 AM on March 17, 2022 [2 favorites]
A Room with a View
The Man in the White Suit
Kind Hearts and Coronets (it does have a lot of murders in it, but they're not graphic)
The Lavender Hill Mob (Alec Guinness version, please)
Harold and Maude
posted by plinth at 9:52 AM on March 17, 2022 [2 favorites]
Local Hero!
posted by Ipsifendus at 9:53 AM on March 17, 2022 [13 favorites]
posted by Ipsifendus at 9:53 AM on March 17, 2022 [13 favorites]
The Big Empty. (some threats of violence, but it all turns out okay, I think. It's been a while.)
Safety Not Guaranteed.
Lars and the Real Girl.
Night on Earth.
Good By Lenin!
posted by eotvos at 9:53 AM on March 17, 2022 [2 favorites]
Safety Not Guaranteed.
Lars and the Real Girl.
Night on Earth.
Good By Lenin!
posted by eotvos at 9:53 AM on March 17, 2022 [2 favorites]
Sword of Trust
Laggies
Obvious Child
Juliet, Naked
Midnight Special
It's a mini series, but Tales from the Loop
posted by esoterrica at 9:54 AM on March 17, 2022
Laggies
Obvious Child
Juliet, Naked
Midnight Special
It's a mini series, but Tales from the Loop
posted by esoterrica at 9:54 AM on March 17, 2022
Frank (the 2014 Lenny Abrahamson one)
posted by Bloxworth Snout at 9:57 AM on March 17, 2022
posted by Bloxworth Snout at 9:57 AM on March 17, 2022
Northfork (2003), though it might be a bit too heavy on the knowing "Oops, did I just do a symbolism?" for some folks. CW also: James Woods is in it
posted by scruss at 9:59 AM on March 17, 2022
posted by scruss at 9:59 AM on March 17, 2022
Here are some movies that have nothing really in common with each other but I think capture a vibe you'll like:
Ruby in Paradise
All the Real Girls
My Brilliant Career
Shadowlands (have your hankies ready for this one!)
Breaking Away is a pretty well-known movie that won a bunch of awards, so in the spirit of that, I would also recommend Drive My Car if you haven't seen it yet.
posted by cakelite at 10:02 AM on March 17, 2022 [1 favorite]
Ruby in Paradise
All the Real Girls
My Brilliant Career
Shadowlands (have your hankies ready for this one!)
Breaking Away is a pretty well-known movie that won a bunch of awards, so in the spirit of that, I would also recommend Drive My Car if you haven't seen it yet.
posted by cakelite at 10:02 AM on March 17, 2022 [1 favorite]
Bottle Rocket, always a favorite! Before Wes Anderson had it down exactly, and while he was still writing with Owen Wilson.
posted by LKWorking at 10:17 AM on March 17, 2022 [1 favorite]
posted by LKWorking at 10:17 AM on March 17, 2022 [1 favorite]
Big Night
posted by niicholas at 10:24 AM on March 17, 2022 [4 favorites]
posted by niicholas at 10:24 AM on March 17, 2022 [4 favorites]
The Man From Earth is a favorite, quite low-key and contemplative. .
posted by Alensin at 10:27 AM on March 17, 2022 [2 favorites]
posted by Alensin at 10:27 AM on March 17, 2022 [2 favorites]
I won't swear to all of these lacking marketing, but I think the following flew under many folks' radars:
Away We Go
Hunt for the Wilderpeople
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
Robot & Frank
Safety Not Guaranteed (nth'd!)
Seeking a Friend for the End of the World (YMMV)
Song of the Sea
Stranger than Fiction
The City of Lost Children
The Fall
The Secret of Kells
posted by xenization at 10:28 AM on March 17, 2022 [1 favorite]
Away We Go
Hunt for the Wilderpeople
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
Robot & Frank
Safety Not Guaranteed (nth'd!)
Seeking a Friend for the End of the World (YMMV)
Song of the Sea
Stranger than Fiction
The City of Lost Children
The Fall
The Secret of Kells
posted by xenization at 10:28 AM on March 17, 2022 [1 favorite]
The Station Agent (starring Peter Dinklage).
posted by praemunire at 10:28 AM on March 17, 2022 [9 favorites]
posted by praemunire at 10:28 AM on March 17, 2022 [9 favorites]
Stalker
posted by mekily at 10:28 AM on March 17, 2022 [1 favorite]
posted by mekily at 10:28 AM on March 17, 2022 [1 favorite]
Lars and the Real Girl
Chef
Gosford Park doesn't *quite* fit (lots of Names, faster-paced though long), but fundamentally it's about character observation and *why* people do what they do, which makes me lump it in with this category
The Secret of Roan Inish
posted by epj at 10:32 AM on March 17, 2022
Chef
Gosford Park doesn't *quite* fit (lots of Names, faster-paced though long), but fundamentally it's about character observation and *why* people do what they do, which makes me lump it in with this category
The Secret of Roan Inish
posted by epj at 10:32 AM on March 17, 2022
I'm going to make a case for 1985's Fandango, even though it did have a marketing push behind it - it's just that the marketing push got things wrong and it didn't do well because people went expecting a big zany college-hijinks film and instead got something a little quieter. It was an early film for Kevin Reynolds, Kevin Costner, and Judd Nelson, and so impressed a young Quentin Tarantino that he went to see it about twice a day during the one week it ran in his local movie theater. (I did an FPP about it a few years back.)
Another one is Cal - this was a 1984 Romeo-and-Juliet tragic love story set in Northern Ireland in the 80s. About a year before the events of the film, Cal (John Lynch) drove the getaway car when his buddy in the IRA assassinated the Protestant Chief of Police on his doorstep; Cal has been trying to forget about all that for a year, and when the film starts he's started to get a crush a new librarian at the library he hangs out at, but then discovers she's the widow of the police officer. He takes a job on her family's farm to sort of punish himself - and then she starts to reciprocate his crush. ....That sounds IMPOSSIBLY soap-opera-ish, but I promise it's not.
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 10:41 AM on March 17, 2022 [2 favorites]
Another one is Cal - this was a 1984 Romeo-and-Juliet tragic love story set in Northern Ireland in the 80s. About a year before the events of the film, Cal (John Lynch) drove the getaway car when his buddy in the IRA assassinated the Protestant Chief of Police on his doorstep; Cal has been trying to forget about all that for a year, and when the film starts he's started to get a crush a new librarian at the library he hangs out at, but then discovers she's the widow of the police officer. He takes a job on her family's farm to sort of punish himself - and then she starts to reciprocate his crush. ....That sounds IMPOSSIBLY soap-opera-ish, but I promise it's not.
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 10:41 AM on March 17, 2022 [2 favorites]
I really love Rosalie Goes Shopping and Haiku Tunnel, but people I've suggested those to have not liked them at all. I've heard Haiku Tunnel described as art house Office Space.
Babette's Feast is magnificent.
I'm not completely sure if these are going to be slow paced enough, but Monsoon Wedding and Bride and Prejudice are both really good.
posted by FencingGal at 10:42 AM on March 17, 2022
Babette's Feast is magnificent.
I'm not completely sure if these are going to be slow paced enough, but Monsoon Wedding and Bride and Prejudice are both really good.
posted by FencingGal at 10:42 AM on March 17, 2022
Bagdad Cafe is probably my favorite movie that hardly anyone has heard of, and I think it fits your other criteria too.
posted by tchemgrrl at 10:59 AM on March 17, 2022 [1 favorite]
posted by tchemgrrl at 10:59 AM on March 17, 2022 [1 favorite]
Crossing Delancey
The Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick
posted by angiep at 11:17 AM on March 17, 2022
The Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick
posted by angiep at 11:17 AM on March 17, 2022
The Matchmaker (1997)
In A Day
Our Little Sister
The Grand Highway/Le Grand Chemin
Songcatcher
Eagle vs Shark
Seconding The Fall
Everything Beautiful Is Far Away
The Winter Guest
posted by gudrun at 11:34 AM on March 17, 2022 [1 favorite]
In A Day
Our Little Sister
The Grand Highway/Le Grand Chemin
Songcatcher
Eagle vs Shark
Seconding The Fall
Everything Beautiful Is Far Away
The Winter Guest
posted by gudrun at 11:34 AM on March 17, 2022 [1 favorite]
There's a movie called Highball that was made, and later disowned, by Noah Baumbach using the cast and leftover money from another movie he was making. It's just a movie about the same group of people going to three parties at the same apartment. It's apparently unfinished, in the sense that it needed a little more work, not in the sense that it cuts off in the middle or anything. I can see why Baumbach doesn't like having it out there, since it feels pretty rough. But the script is so damn funny! I watch it all the time.
posted by Ragged Richard at 11:35 AM on March 17, 2022 [1 favorite]
posted by Ragged Richard at 11:35 AM on March 17, 2022 [1 favorite]
Walking and Talking, by Nicole Holofcener. What a terrific cast: Catherine Keener, Kevin Corrigan, Liev Schriber, Anne Heche.
PS The trailer is ridiculous and doesn’t give a good indication of the movie’s tone at all.
posted by hurdy gurdy girl at 11:38 AM on March 17, 2022 [2 favorites]
PS The trailer is ridiculous and doesn’t give a good indication of the movie’s tone at all.
posted by hurdy gurdy girl at 11:38 AM on March 17, 2022 [2 favorites]
All of Abbas Kiarostami
All of Hong Sang-soo
Brigsby Bear
Early Bujalski like Funny Ha Ha
Rejtman's Silvia Prieto
posted by youarenothere at 11:43 AM on March 17, 2022
All of Hong Sang-soo
Brigsby Bear
Early Bujalski like Funny Ha Ha
Rejtman's Silvia Prieto
posted by youarenothere at 11:43 AM on March 17, 2022
i think will ferrel might have easily been our next bill murray (as if anyone could be) as demonstrated by his pathos in stranger than fiction and everything must go.
alas, lowbrow comedy seems to be what keeps the lights on over there.
Nthing seeking a friend for the end of the world, local hero, and my favorite year.
i guess I'm an old. sleeper+newer...
drive my car - so good. (as noted, not a sleeper, but of a kind with many recs here)
palm springs
belle (anime) - if you can either appreciate or keep a distance from the setting, this is quite the jungian self-discovery narrative arc. it has at least one brilliant moment of cinema.
jeff who lives at home, i think, was made for me. ed helms portrays a real dick in this...
but...man, what a vulnerable guy in together together.
(at this point I'm seeing a lotta dudes here)
ramblin rose
portrait of a lady on fire was not a sleeper, but ahh the pacing. and quiet. and nuance. a masterpiece. that is sweet, and then, bittersweet.
brittany runs a marathon.
rogerebert.com still has the best, most, reliable, and most diverse stable of reviewers. search for 3-3.5 out of 4 star reviews. that's where the sleepers and oddballs hang out. try from 2012-2022. there's quite a list of candidates there.
the site is a shitshow on mobile.
don't be afraid of subs. there's real gold coming from asian, mexico, and south america.
posted by j_curiouser at 11:46 AM on March 17, 2022 [1 favorite]
alas, lowbrow comedy seems to be what keeps the lights on over there.
Nthing seeking a friend for the end of the world, local hero, and my favorite year.
i guess I'm an old. sleeper+newer...
drive my car - so good. (as noted, not a sleeper, but of a kind with many recs here)
palm springs
belle (anime) - if you can either appreciate or keep a distance from the setting, this is quite the jungian self-discovery narrative arc. it has at least one brilliant moment of cinema.
jeff who lives at home, i think, was made for me. ed helms portrays a real dick in this...
but...man, what a vulnerable guy in together together.
(at this point I'm seeing a lotta dudes here)
ramblin rose
portrait of a lady on fire was not a sleeper, but ahh the pacing. and quiet. and nuance. a masterpiece. that is sweet, and then, bittersweet.
brittany runs a marathon.
rogerebert.com still has the best, most, reliable, and most diverse stable of reviewers. search for 3-3.5 out of 4 star reviews. that's where the sleepers and oddballs hang out. try from 2012-2022. there's quite a list of candidates there.
the site is a shitshow on mobile.
don't be afraid of subs. there's real gold coming from asian, mexico, and south america.
posted by j_curiouser at 11:46 AM on March 17, 2022 [1 favorite]
Local Hero and The Station Agent have already been named. They're great. Kedi is about street cats and the people who adopt them, set in Istanbul.
posted by kingless at 12:12 PM on March 17, 2022
posted by kingless at 12:12 PM on March 17, 2022
Everything from Mike Leigh. The common ones to start with are Happy Go Lucky or Topsy Turvy, since they're extra friendly portraits of people trying to achieve something that's relatively low stakes, but Naked is excellent if extremely emotionally intense (and weirdly, horribly incorrectly marketed as a romcom) and Vera Drake is an excellent portrait of midwifery pre legal abortion in the UK. High Hopes is also lovely as just a portrait of middleish class life, with no real plot... just people, living.
I don't think his films are overlooked, really, but are low key.
Oh! Also, The Lady In The Van got some buzz but not as much as it deserved. Again, reasonably slow paced, no real action just interpersonal conflict, but there's a definite plot.
posted by Grim Fridge at 12:14 PM on March 17, 2022 [3 favorites]
I don't think his films are overlooked, really, but are low key.
Oh! Also, The Lady In The Van got some buzz but not as much as it deserved. Again, reasonably slow paced, no real action just interpersonal conflict, but there's a definite plot.
posted by Grim Fridge at 12:14 PM on March 17, 2022 [3 favorites]
Is "Chef" the one about the food truck? I loved that movie so much. I started making Cubanos a lot after that!
posted by wenestvedt at 12:19 PM on March 17, 2022 [2 favorites]
posted by wenestvedt at 12:19 PM on March 17, 2022 [2 favorites]
Seconding The Station Agent. Adding:
The Big Animal.
(I'm tempted to add Coffee & Cigarettes, but it may be too well known to count. Nobody I know seems to have seen it, but it's not obscure.)
Looking forward to trying many suggestions above.
posted by eotvos at 12:56 PM on March 17, 2022
The Big Animal.
(I'm tempted to add Coffee & Cigarettes, but it may be too well known to count. Nobody I know seems to have seen it, but it's not obscure.)
Looking forward to trying many suggestions above.
posted by eotvos at 12:56 PM on March 17, 2022
Please watch Fast Color. It's absolutely incredible.
posted by kitten kaboodle at 1:10 PM on March 17, 2022
posted by kitten kaboodle at 1:10 PM on March 17, 2022
Leningrad Cowboys Go America. Trailer
Mielensäpahoittaja aka The Grump cw: aging
Gregory's Girl dir Bill Forsyth; whose Comfort and Joy and Local Hero are cited above.
Miss Potter biopic of Beatrix P
posted by BobTheScientist at 1:14 PM on March 17, 2022
Mielensäpahoittaja aka The Grump cw: aging
Gregory's Girl dir Bill Forsyth; whose Comfort and Joy and Local Hero are cited above.
Miss Potter biopic of Beatrix P
posted by BobTheScientist at 1:14 PM on March 17, 2022
I love this question. Thanks to the person who reminded me about Ruby in Paradise.
My favorite Mike Leigh movie is Another Year.
Passion Fish
Walking and Talking
Lovely and Amazing
Bread and Tulips
Walk Invisible
posted by loveandhappiness at 1:17 PM on March 17, 2022 [2 favorites]
My favorite Mike Leigh movie is Another Year.
Passion Fish
Walking and Talking
Lovely and Amazing
Bread and Tulips
Walk Invisible
posted by loveandhappiness at 1:17 PM on March 17, 2022 [2 favorites]
Obscure then, but straightforward, evenly paced and delightfully overacted: My Cousin Vinny.
posted by Citizen Cane Juice at 1:56 PM on March 17, 2022 [5 favorites]
posted by Citizen Cane Juice at 1:56 PM on March 17, 2022 [5 favorites]
I stumbled across "Secondhand Lions" completely by accident and adored it. It does have big names starring in it, but I honestly don't ever remember seeing any marketing for it.
The Big Year. Also has big names, but I never heard of this one either, until my kids told me about it. They figured I'd like it since it's about bird watching, but it's so much more than just that.
posted by annieb at 2:37 PM on March 17, 2022
The Big Year. Also has big names, but I never heard of this one either, until my kids told me about it. They figured I'd like it since it's about bird watching, but it's so much more than just that.
posted by annieb at 2:37 PM on March 17, 2022
Jesus of Montreal
Set Me Free
25 Watts
Duck Season
(Man, I used to see a lot of small, foreign language films.)
posted by vunder at 2:46 PM on March 17, 2022 [1 favorite]
Set Me Free
25 Watts
Duck Season
(Man, I used to see a lot of small, foreign language films.)
posted by vunder at 2:46 PM on March 17, 2022 [1 favorite]
Sometimes, Always, Never (2018)
The Bookshop (2017)
Bottle Shock (2008)
Once (2007)
Begin Again (2013)
About Time (2013)
A Good Year (2006)
Uncorked (2020)
(These are not all necessarily great films, but have a vibe and pleasantness.)
posted by typetive at 3:46 PM on March 17, 2022
The Bookshop (2017)
Bottle Shock (2008)
Once (2007)
Begin Again (2013)
About Time (2013)
A Good Year (2006)
Uncorked (2020)
(These are not all necessarily great films, but have a vibe and pleasantness.)
posted by typetive at 3:46 PM on March 17, 2022
Similar to the Bill Forsyth films mentioned, Experience Preferred… But Not Essential. In the 1960s, a young student takes a summer job at a seaside hotel in Wales. Quiet charm.
posted by TWinbrook8 at 3:55 PM on March 17, 2022
posted by TWinbrook8 at 3:55 PM on March 17, 2022
I'm really psyched to dive into unfamiliar titles. thanks, everyone.
posted by j_curiouser at 4:32 PM on March 17, 2022
posted by j_curiouser at 4:32 PM on March 17, 2022
“The Secret of Roan Inish”
“An Englishman Abroad”
“Gods and Monsters”
“Dreamchild” (YMMV)
“Choose Me”
posted by baseballpajamas at 4:48 PM on March 17, 2022
“An Englishman Abroad”
“Gods and Monsters”
“Dreamchild” (YMMV)
“Choose Me”
posted by baseballpajamas at 4:48 PM on March 17, 2022
Response by poster: These are terrific; a few that I've seen and loved and many new ones.
posted by theora55 at 5:54 PM on March 17, 2022
posted by theora55 at 5:54 PM on March 17, 2022
Wait. Two more.
Smoke was a 1995 film based on and expanding on a Paul Auster short story or two. It's sort of collection of three intersecting slice-of-life stories all connected to this small old-school smoke/tobacco shop in Brooklyn.
And a very differently-toned, but related, film - Blue In The Face, which is more of a general Love Letter To Brooklyn. The story behind why Blue In The Face exists is almost as good as the movie - when they were making Smoke, there were a bunch of actors playing the regular "dudes hanging around the tobacco shop all day" and Harvey Keitel, who played the shopkeeper, would do these little improv bits with them between scenes just for fun. And they got so carried away with that that the director asked the studio if he could just keep filming for an extra couple weeks after they finished the footage for Smoke, and then wrote up a very quick couple scene ideas with Paul Auster and kept the cast around to improv an entire second movie.
It's a lot more loosey-goosey and free-form, with a whole raft of people doing one-off cameos; Jim Jarmusch plays himself, and does a whole bit where he's come in to the shop because he's quitting smoking and wants to have his last cigarette there at the shop and he and Harvey Keitel have a whole conversation about how movie characters smoke. There's a running thing where Lily Tomlin plays a somewhat mentally unwell person on an endless quest for Belgian Waffles. There's a bunch of clips of Lou Reed talking about whatever comes into his head, and that's literally what happened - he'd heard about the film and wanted to be involved, but they didn't know what else to do with him so they just put him on a stool in front of a camera and said, "okay, just....talk."
Definitely see Smoke first, and then Blue In The Face is like the sorbet after.
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 7:11 PM on March 17, 2022 [2 favorites]
Smoke was a 1995 film based on and expanding on a Paul Auster short story or two. It's sort of collection of three intersecting slice-of-life stories all connected to this small old-school smoke/tobacco shop in Brooklyn.
And a very differently-toned, but related, film - Blue In The Face, which is more of a general Love Letter To Brooklyn. The story behind why Blue In The Face exists is almost as good as the movie - when they were making Smoke, there were a bunch of actors playing the regular "dudes hanging around the tobacco shop all day" and Harvey Keitel, who played the shopkeeper, would do these little improv bits with them between scenes just for fun. And they got so carried away with that that the director asked the studio if he could just keep filming for an extra couple weeks after they finished the footage for Smoke, and then wrote up a very quick couple scene ideas with Paul Auster and kept the cast around to improv an entire second movie.
It's a lot more loosey-goosey and free-form, with a whole raft of people doing one-off cameos; Jim Jarmusch plays himself, and does a whole bit where he's come in to the shop because he's quitting smoking and wants to have his last cigarette there at the shop and he and Harvey Keitel have a whole conversation about how movie characters smoke. There's a running thing where Lily Tomlin plays a somewhat mentally unwell person on an endless quest for Belgian Waffles. There's a bunch of clips of Lou Reed talking about whatever comes into his head, and that's literally what happened - he'd heard about the film and wanted to be involved, but they didn't know what else to do with him so they just put him on a stool in front of a camera and said, "okay, just....talk."
Definitely see Smoke first, and then Blue In The Face is like the sorbet after.
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 7:11 PM on March 17, 2022 [2 favorites]
True Stories was recommended to me by my gutter cleaner, and I will now always be in debt to Downspout Dave.
posted by eelgrassman at 7:38 PM on March 17, 2022 [3 favorites]
posted by eelgrassman at 7:38 PM on March 17, 2022 [3 favorites]
Another one is Cal - this was a 1984 Romeo-and-Juliet tragic love story set in Northern Ireland in the 80s.
I really like Cal... it is the film that introduced me to Helen Mirren. I think it is closer to Oedipus Rex than Romeo and Juliet.
La Lectrice (The Reader)
I hesitate to recommend Tokyo Fiancée... Pauline Etienne is adorable, but I don't think the film does its Japanese characters justice.
posted by Multicellular Exothermic at 7:56 PM on March 17, 2022
I really like Cal... it is the film that introduced me to Helen Mirren. I think it is closer to Oedipus Rex than Romeo and Juliet.
La Lectrice (The Reader)
I hesitate to recommend Tokyo Fiancée... Pauline Etienne is adorable, but I don't think the film does its Japanese characters justice.
posted by Multicellular Exothermic at 7:56 PM on March 17, 2022
I really liked The Last Black Man in San Francisco and Leave No Trace.
Stalker is incredible.
posted by jeoc at 8:02 PM on March 17, 2022 [1 favorite]
Stalker is incredible.
posted by jeoc at 8:02 PM on March 17, 2022 [1 favorite]
The first thing that came to mind is Tender Mercies.
posted by less-of-course at 11:16 PM on March 17, 2022
posted by less-of-course at 11:16 PM on March 17, 2022
Mary and Max, an Australian claymation about a little girl and her pen pal, an autistic man in nyc
The Qaatsi trilogy, just Philip Glass and imagery. Eye candy more than plot driven
Baraka, same as above but with animals and a mix of musicians
A Home at the End of the World, set in the 1980s lgtbq romance
Velvet Goldmine, Johnathan Rhys Meyers and Eddie Izzard in a fictionalized version of the David Bowie/iggy Pop story
Me Without You, follows a close but toxic female friendship over 20+ years beginning in 1970s England
The Science of Sleep, a man with a sleep disorder and a budding romance
If anime is acceptable, I highly recommend MuShi-Shi.
posted by ananci at 1:43 AM on March 18, 2022
The Qaatsi trilogy, just Philip Glass and imagery. Eye candy more than plot driven
Baraka, same as above but with animals and a mix of musicians
A Home at the End of the World, set in the 1980s lgtbq romance
Velvet Goldmine, Johnathan Rhys Meyers and Eddie Izzard in a fictionalized version of the David Bowie/iggy Pop story
Me Without You, follows a close but toxic female friendship over 20+ years beginning in 1970s England
The Science of Sleep, a man with a sleep disorder and a budding romance
If anime is acceptable, I highly recommend MuShi-Shi.
posted by ananci at 1:43 AM on March 18, 2022
The Gleaners and I
Happy Accidents
American Movie
Taste of Cherry
Blue, White & Red
Night on Earth
posted by zerobyproxy at 8:20 AM on March 18, 2022
Happy Accidents
American Movie
Taste of Cherry
Blue, White & Red
Night on Earth
posted by zerobyproxy at 8:20 AM on March 18, 2022
The Milagro Beanfield War
My Favorite Year
ETA: Waking Ned Devine
posted by sundrop at 12:20 PM on March 18, 2022
My Favorite Year
ETA: Waking Ned Devine
posted by sundrop at 12:20 PM on March 18, 2022
The Triplets of Belleville
The Gods Must Be Crazy
posted by Homer42 at 3:19 PM on March 18, 2022 [2 favorites]
The Gods Must Be Crazy
posted by Homer42 at 3:19 PM on March 18, 2022 [2 favorites]
What a great question!
You've gotten some terrific recommendations above.
Here are mine:
Jump Tomorrow
Paterson
Don't Think Twice
After Life
And I cannot state this strongly enough: if you can possibly see A Bread Factory (two parts: For the Sake of Gold and Walk with Me A While), DO IT. What an amazing work.
(Also, not a film, but if you haven't seen the 19-episode series Detectorists, I think you'd really enjoy it.)
posted by kristi at 5:41 PM on March 18, 2022
You've gotten some terrific recommendations above.
Here are mine:
Jump Tomorrow
Paterson
Don't Think Twice
After Life
And I cannot state this strongly enough: if you can possibly see A Bread Factory (two parts: For the Sake of Gold and Walk with Me A While), DO IT. What an amazing work.
(Also, not a film, but if you haven't seen the 19-episode series Detectorists, I think you'd really enjoy it.)
posted by kristi at 5:41 PM on March 18, 2022
You Can Count on Me” is one of my favourites.
posted by backwards guitar at 6:01 PM on March 19, 2022
posted by backwards guitar at 6:01 PM on March 19, 2022
I think that the link wannabecounselor links to is the WRONG "Saving Grace" film - there are apparently two.
The link above goes to the 2007 "Saving Grace", which is a murder mystery and is probably not the one wannabecounselor had in mind.
The 2000 "Saving Grace" is a comedy about a widow whose hobby is gardening - she discovers her husband left her with a massive debt, and her gardener (played by Craig Ferguson, by the way) suggests she grow cannabis.
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 4:05 AM on March 23, 2022
The link above goes to the 2007 "Saving Grace", which is a murder mystery and is probably not the one wannabecounselor had in mind.
The 2000 "Saving Grace" is a comedy about a widow whose hobby is gardening - she discovers her husband left her with a massive debt, and her gardener (played by Craig Ferguson, by the way) suggests she grow cannabis.
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 4:05 AM on March 23, 2022
And now that I look further, the 2007 film is actually titled "SAVAGE Grace"; however, I'm still pretty sure that the 2000 film with Craig Ferguson is what wannabecounselor meant, however the link in their comment does not go to that film so be warned.
(And I do second the 2000 "Saving Grace", I saw it in the theater when it was released and it was pretty cute.)
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 7:41 AM on March 23, 2022
(And I do second the 2000 "Saving Grace", I saw it in the theater when it was released and it was pretty cute.)
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 7:41 AM on March 23, 2022
Ideal Home starring Paul Rudd and Steve Coogan "A bickering gay couple must suddenly deal with the unexpected task of raising a 10-year-old boy." I found it hilarious!
posted by soelo at 1:49 PM on March 23, 2022
posted by soelo at 1:49 PM on March 23, 2022
Seconding others' recommendations: Local Hero, Robot & Frank, Stranger Than Fiction, The Station Agent, Gosford Park, many many films by Krzysztof Kieślowski, You Can Count on Me.
I also want to mention "Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles" which is 201 minutes long and has a brief moment of violence but is otherwise quite meditative.
posted by brainwane at 3:57 AM on March 24, 2022
I also want to mention "Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles" which is 201 minutes long and has a brief moment of violence but is otherwise quite meditative.
posted by brainwane at 3:57 AM on March 24, 2022
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