Most UNIQUE Movie You've Seen?

[holyzombiejesus]

Forty years old this year and still one of the grimmest and unique cinema experiences of my life.

Looked this up on Wikipedia and the apparently official theatrical release poster depicted on there is a bit dodgy (and possibly NSFW).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixote

[steveh]

Maurizio Nichetti's comedy The Icicle Thief from 1989, in which the director of a black and white neorealist film goes to a TV station to be interviewed about it only to find that it has been chopped up with garish commercials and then a power cut somehow results in people from the film, the commercials and Nichetti himself ending up all mixed up and the protagonists from his film wanting the life they see in the commercials. It's beautifully done, intelligently critiquing film and TV while also being really funny.

He then went on to do Volere Volare about a film foley artist who loves doing cartoons but has to spend his time doing tedious soft porn stuff as the Italian film industry sunk in the eighties, but then he starts to slowly turn into a cartoon himself.

Sadly, neither has had a UK DVD release though the Italian DVD release of the former does (or did) come with English subtitles. Could really do with someone like Arrow picking them up for a Blu Ray but maybe they're caught up in rights issues.

[Small Man Big Horse]

Maurizio Nichetti's comedy The Icicle Thief from 1989, in which the director of a black and white neorealist film goes to a TV station to be interviewed about it only to find that it has been chopped up with garish commercials and then a power cut somehow results in people from the film, the commercials and Nichetti himself ending up all mixed up and the protagonists from his film wanting the life they see in the commercials. It's beautifully done, intelligently critiquing film and TV while also being really funny.

He then went on to do Volere Volare about a film foley artist who loves doing cartoons but has to spend his time doing tedious soft porn stuff as the Italian film industry sunk in the eighties, but then he starts to slowly turn into a cartoon himself.

Sadly, neither has had a UK DVD release though the Italian DVD release of the former does (or did) come with English subtitles. Could really do with someone like Arrow picking them up for a Blu Ray but maybe they're caught up in rights issues.

I had both of them on video and I'm surprised there's no dvd release, quite a big thing was made of Nichetti at the time with lots of references to him as the Italian Woody Allen (but in a good way!), yet oddly despite really liking both films I've not kept up to date with him since.

[steveh]

IMDB says Nichetti did four theatrical films afterwards but I don't think any of them have had proper distribution outside Italy and I've never come across any of them. Three have quite reasonable IMDB ratings too.

[MortSahlFan]

Paradise: Love

[MortSahlFan]

"Little Fugitive"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POj4dLyRCgI

[All Surrogate]

Wax
or
The Discovery of Television Among the Bees

A dreamlike collage of a film, investigating mesopotamian bees, the afterlife and television, seemingly made by a schizophrenic apiarist.



I discovered the planet of television four hours after my death.

[DrGreggles]

La Cabina is pretty unique.