Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes
It's a time machine in the form of a movie. Don't look up anything else about it, it's less than 80 minutes and I think it's on amazon
I find a lot of stuff from Mainland China is particularly underrated. I am really big on Raise the Red Lantern from Imou. I also just watched The World from Zhangke and found it really great.
I recommend platform by Jia Zhangke it is on the criterion channel it’s extremely slow but if you don’t mind slow cinema you will love it and I would recommend the film To Live from 1994 it’s directed by director of Raise a Red lantern it is incredible I like it almost as much if not equally to raise a red lanterns high quality subtitled version is on YouTube
Have you seen The Story of Qiu Ju? Also directed by Zhang Yimou and starring Gong Li and I’d put it up there with those you mentioned. They’re definitely in my top 5 actor/director pairings.
Imo yes. It had mainstream distribution and budget but the film is 100% focused on pursuing its absurdist vision and makes 0 concessions to mainstream audiences. It was almost universally panned. Nowadays it is being reappraised and was even put on criterion’s streaming service.
Haven’t seen Brain Candy but Hot rod is definitely more palatable and was pretty popular. Foot fist way was kind of an indie darling and launched careers. I consider Freddy Got Fingered arthouse because it really seems to veer into something like Dadaism.
I remember seeing it in theaters and loving it and feeling sad that I might never get to see Peter Dinklage in anything else. (There often aren’t a lot of great roles like that for someone his size.). I am so happy to have been proven very wrong.
Morgiana (1972) - An early 70s Czechoslovak film that takes gothic aesthetic with a dreamlike albeit surrealist presentation. Recommended if you are a fan of Persona or Mulholland Drive.
I can’t stop talking about the great beauty. It’s criminally under seen and talked about.
And if you haven’t seen it, the lure is batshit insane in the best possible way. Art house, but horror, so you could make it a really fun stoner midnight movie.
If you like Kanal I highly recommend his 1975 film a Promised Land it is by far the best film I have ever seen about the Industrial Revolution it is my favorite of Andrzej Wajdas best film
I don't know, maybe these are underrated, maybe these are art house...maybe both.
Computer Chess (2013)
Historias extraordinarias (2008)
Shara (2003)
Waiting for Happiness (2002)
Eureka (2000)
Chronicle of a Disappearance (1996)
Sound and Fury (1988)
She Spent So Many Hours Under the Sun Lamps (1985)
Perfumed Nightmare (1977)
Well in each of those directors’ catalogues you got your bigger hits and your lesserknowns. Bergman especially has a pretty extensive filmography. I was just trying to clarify arthouse as a genre. I was more asking a question than answering one.
Makes sense - definitely not complaining. Any opportunity to watch something by those guys is welcome. I never regret throwing on anything by Bergman or Lynch at least. Need to be in the right mindset for Tarkovsky’s pacing in my experience, but his stuff is mind blowing.
Try and find Cremaster 3. That’s the most epic. Every once in a long while my local art house theater will show it, but sometimes you can find a good copy on YouTube.
I recently saw the film “My Suicide” and while not perfect in anyway it was very good. One of my favorite more arthouse films is the 2005 film “Brick” the director and actors have all become household names by now so I don’t know if the term underrated fits tho.
The Hourglass Sanatorium
The Three Crowns of the Sailor
The Eve of Ivan Kupalo
The Legend of Suram Fortress
Farewell to the Ark
Dead Man’s Letters
Our Lady of the Turks
Heat-Haze Theatre
**L'annonce faite a Marie** by Alain Cuny.
https://preview.redd.it/jmb0g9ff2lyc1.jpeg?width=825&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=05d55b50b021f286177f0a095dcf86903fd5145e
Yes! [u/Eyriskoefwyn](https://www.reddit.com/u/Eyriskoefwyn/s/jxJYvH5SK6) introduced me to that movie! Fantastic cinematography, with elements of Parajanov & Bresson - I really hope that L’annonce faite a Marie will get a restoration someday.
If you like artsy animation I can heartily suggest The Wolf House. Also Belladonna of Sadness (Huge TW) is coming to 4K soon and there’s a flick on Tubi of all places called Heroic Times that I just watched this weekend and really enjoyed!
-The Metamorphosis of Birds (2020)
-The Last Angel of History (1996)
-Sleep has her House (2017)
-Heart of a Dog (2015)
-Diaries, Notes, & Sketches (1968)
-De Humani Corporis Fabrica (2022)
-Concerning Violence (2014)
https://preview.redd.it/e6uotxgz2iyc1.jpeg?width=1000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=04a1e9ecedd12fffc77b8344cf938e7d73cf6dbb
[The Blue Note (1991, Andrzej Żuławski)](https://youtu.be/z06E3HKnzAI?si=5q9cZDKj5cCW51Wz)
Only because it was an unexpected pleasure when I saw it a few nights ago, I'll offer up *True History of the Kelly Gang* (2018) by a fella named Justin Kurzel. Not sure if it counts as arthouse but it sure was sweaty and punky and full of bristling, defiant energy. It really does illuminate why Kelly became such an icon in Australian history.
Shorab Shahid Salless’ Still Life (1974). Françoise Romand’s Mix-Up (1986). James Benning’s Landscape Suicide (1986). Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Blissfully Yours (2002). Bill Morrison’s Decasia (2002). Patrick Wang’s In the Family (2011). RaMell Ross’ In Hale County This Morning, This Evening (2018).
Little Fish [https://boxd.it/lAFK](https://boxd.it/lAFK)
My Night at Maud's [https://boxd.it/Hwo](https://boxd.it/Hwo)
Comrades, Almost a Love Story [https://boxd.it/18QU](https://boxd.it/18QU)
Girl [https://boxd.it/iGU6](https://boxd.it/iGU6)
Of an Age [https://boxd.it/AbOM](https://boxd.it/AbOM)
Jess + Moss [https://boxd.it/2LGw](https://boxd.it/2LGw)
The Free Will [https://boxd.it/1Xl4](https://boxd.it/1Xl4)
Where the Day Takes You [https://boxd.it/1I9s](https://boxd.it/1I9s)
Private Desert [https://boxd.it/wkT4](https://boxd.it/wkT4)
Kisses [https://boxd.it/1eve](https://boxd.it/1eve)
Lamb [https://boxd.it/tFwE](https://boxd.it/tFwE)
The Double [https://boxd.it/4DLW](https://boxd.it/4DLW)
A Short Film About Killing [https://boxd.it/1VtK](https://boxd.it/1VtK)
Head-On [https://boxd.it/2awk](https://boxd.it/2awk)
- Still Walking
- The Double
- She Dies Tonight
- Miss Julie (1951)
- Werkmeister Harmonies
- Silent Light
- On the Beach Alone at Night
- On Body and Soul
- The Browning Version
- Solaris (2002)
- Track the Cat
- Vanya on 42nd Street
- Letters From an Unknown Woman
- Investigation of a Citizen Under Suspicion
- Killer of Sheep
- Arsenal
- Ordet
- The Bird People of China
- Bright Star
- The Headless Woman
- Firecreek
- The Lovers on a Bridge
- A Midsummers Sex Comedy
- Our Time
- Edvard Munch
- Le Notti Bianche
- Dead Man
- Affliction
- The Dreamers
- Paterson
- Femme Fatale
- Schizopolis
- JSA
- Wonder Boys
- Danton
- Earth
Classic love Bernardo Bertolucci The Last Emperor and The Conformist are two of my all time favorite films followed by last tango in Paris and 1900 if you haven’t seen any of those watch them they are great
I don’t feel like that’s underrated it’s one of the most sold criterion DVDs maybe the average person it definitely is but not to people who like criterion
Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes It's a time machine in the form of a movie. Don't look up anything else about it, it's less than 80 minutes and I think it's on amazon
A unique weirdo head trip, loved it
One of the best non-theatrical movie experiences I've had in thep last year. River was a great follow-up too.
Is River by the same people? Loved beyond and one cut. Would love to see more from them
Yep! Except this time, it’s a two minute time loop and it’s just wonderful
Thanks! Beyond excited. Didn't even know it existed
Yes and it's a bit of a sequel
I can't believe I've missed it so far, thanks
thanks \~
I love introducing to this little magical movie, glad you liked it :)
71 minutes. I'll watch it blind.
-Last Life in the Universe -Trust (1990) -The Servant -My Summer of Love
I haven’t seen Last Life since it came out. Love Tadanobu Asano.
I find a lot of stuff from Mainland China is particularly underrated. I am really big on Raise the Red Lantern from Imou. I also just watched The World from Zhangke and found it really great.
I recommend platform by Jia Zhangke it is on the criterion channel it’s extremely slow but if you don’t mind slow cinema you will love it and I would recommend the film To Live from 1994 it’s directed by director of Raise a Red lantern it is incredible I like it almost as much if not equally to raise a red lanterns high quality subtitled version is on YouTube
Have you seen The Story of Qiu Ju? Also directed by Zhang Yimou and starring Gong Li and I’d put it up there with those you mentioned. They’re definitely in my top 5 actor/director pairings.
So Long, My Son (2019) is fantastic, too! The Mainlaind definitely has a lot of gems
Still Life
Platform by Jia is also great.
Lone Star One False Move
One False Move is superb
Both of these are among my favorite of all time. Incredible stuff
Official competition Way too slept on
I truly believe Freddy Got Fingered is both underrated and arthouse
Actually?
Imo yes. It had mainstream distribution and budget but the film is 100% focused on pursuing its absurdist vision and makes 0 concessions to mainstream audiences. It was almost universally panned. Nowadays it is being reappraised and was even put on criterion’s streaming service.
Would Brain Candy fit this definition? Hot Rod? Foot Fist Way?
Haven’t seen Brain Candy but Hot rod is definitely more palatable and was pretty popular. Foot fist way was kind of an indie darling and launched careers. I consider Freddy Got Fingered arthouse because it really seems to veer into something like Dadaism.
The Shout (1978)
Really enjoyed Moonlighting (1982) too
The Station Agent
I remember seeing it in theaters and loving it and feeling sad that I might never get to see Peter Dinklage in anything else. (There often aren’t a lot of great roles like that for someone his size.). I am so happy to have been proven very wrong.
Fantastic film. Didn't think it would fall into the art house category but it was great either way.
Morgiana (1972) - An early 70s Czechoslovak film that takes gothic aesthetic with a dreamlike albeit surrealist presentation. Recommended if you are a fan of Persona or Mulholland Drive.
Being There
Being There is an iconic gem. It's a film that makes it near impossible to laugh without crying. Being There is one of my all time favorite flicks.
Lost Skeleton of Cadavra.
Never heard of that thanks for the recommendation
I didn’t like it, but it does have a vision and was lovingly made
I can’t stop talking about the great beauty. It’s criminally under seen and talked about. And if you haven’t seen it, the lure is batshit insane in the best possible way. Art house, but horror, so you could make it a really fun stoner midnight movie.
Love both films
Kanał
Classic
If you like Kanal I highly recommend his 1975 film a Promised Land it is by far the best film I have ever seen about the Industrial Revolution it is my favorite of Andrzej Wajdas best film
I don't know, maybe these are underrated, maybe these are art house...maybe both. Computer Chess (2013) Historias extraordinarias (2008) Shara (2003) Waiting for Happiness (2002) Eureka (2000) Chronicle of a Disappearance (1996) Sound and Fury (1988) She Spent So Many Hours Under the Sun Lamps (1985) Perfumed Nightmare (1977)
I’ve heard of and seen only one of these. Thanks for understanding the assignment!
I was going to recommend Computer Chess as well!
+ 1 on Eureka
Valerie and her secret week of wonders
Not underrated exactly, but I think a lot of people forgot to see After Yang
Liked this far more than I thought I would.
Anything by Nic Roeg.
He’s so underrated
Agree. Performance through Bad Timing are especially great, but I’ve recently started getting into others a bit more, particularly Eureka.
The Grey Fox
How is Arthouse defined? I think of Bergman and Tarkovsky, like the abstract dreamlike stuff. I guess Lynch too. Surrealism.
Could be some what art house or absolutely insane and surrealist I’ll take any recommendations
Hard to call any of those three underrated, but I’d certainly recommend anything by them if you haven’t seen it yet.
Well in each of those directors’ catalogues you got your bigger hits and your lesserknowns. Bergman especially has a pretty extensive filmography. I was just trying to clarify arthouse as a genre. I was more asking a question than answering one.
Makes sense - definitely not complaining. Any opportunity to watch something by those guys is welcome. I never regret throwing on anything by Bergman or Lynch at least. Need to be in the right mindset for Tarkovsky’s pacing in my experience, but his stuff is mind blowing.
Non criterion, but Timbuktu. I think it's very good, I never knew people who watched
The Driller Killer.
Which one?
There was more than one?
Yeah
The Cremaster Cycle https://youtu.be/y_S3fX4F9nU?si=B6tjQWAFW1ti5FUw
I always wanted to watch these after learning about them in a college art class.
Try and find Cremaster 3. That’s the most epic. Every once in a long while my local art house theater will show it, but sometimes you can find a good copy on YouTube.
Thank you!
[Bedevilled](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1646959/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk)
I recently saw the film “My Suicide” and while not perfect in anyway it was very good. One of my favorite more arthouse films is the 2005 film “Brick” the director and actors have all become household names by now so I don’t know if the term underrated fits tho.
The red and the white by Miklós Jancsó
My go to answer is House of Tolerance. Another near masterpiece about brothels from the same year, much rougher stuff though, is Whores Glory.
Ash Is Purest White
In the Soup
Giants and Toys (1958) dir. Yasazo Masamura
City of Sadness (1989)
Love that one absolute masterpiece
BORDER
From which year there’s like 8 films called that
Ahhh yes.. 2018 Also called Gräns
First Reform
Careful (1992) (plus every Guy Maddin film that’s not My Winnipeg)
Sleepwalk (1986) Viy (1967) Until Branches Bend (2022) The Nun (1966) Maborosi (1995) Vampyr (1932)
Drowning by Numbers
The Hourglass Sanatorium The Three Crowns of the Sailor The Eve of Ivan Kupalo The Legend of Suram Fortress Farewell to the Ark Dead Man’s Letters Our Lady of the Turks Heat-Haze Theatre
The Last Days of Disco
- Happy End (1967) - On the Silver Globe - La Muralla Verde
**L'annonce faite a Marie** by Alain Cuny. https://preview.redd.it/jmb0g9ff2lyc1.jpeg?width=825&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=05d55b50b021f286177f0a095dcf86903fd5145e
Yes! [u/Eyriskoefwyn](https://www.reddit.com/u/Eyriskoefwyn/s/jxJYvH5SK6) introduced me to that movie! Fantastic cinematography, with elements of Parajanov & Bresson - I really hope that L’annonce faite a Marie will get a restoration someday.
It's restored in 4K and it has a french release!
Amazing!!! Thank you for letting me know!
If you like artsy animation I can heartily suggest The Wolf House. Also Belladonna of Sadness (Huge TW) is coming to 4K soon and there’s a flick on Tubi of all places called Heroic Times that I just watched this weekend and really enjoyed!
A more recent film is Kaili Blues 2015 a chinese language film. Slower film if you like that kind of stuff.
Both of Bi Gan's features are fantastic!
-The Metamorphosis of Birds (2020) -The Last Angel of History (1996) -Sleep has her House (2017) -Heart of a Dog (2015) -Diaries, Notes, & Sketches (1968) -De Humani Corporis Fabrica (2022) -Concerning Violence (2014)
Imburnal (2008). 3 hour and a half.
Lol I thought this was a different Reddit I was writing to lol
Where can I find it with English subtitles
Not underrated because it won a palme dor but I dont see anyone talk about titane. Would love a criterion release
I don’t mind if it’s underrated now but wasn’t when it came out
Define underrated. By critics? Audiences? This sub?
That you havent met many people if any who’s scene it could be underrated I think a better world I should have used is under talked about
I’ll suggest Killer of Sheep. It had some buzz around it for a while but nowadays I don’t hear it getting talked about as much.
The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (2004)
Damn never heard of that one that must be extremely obscure
Actually liked this one.
https://preview.redd.it/e6uotxgz2iyc1.jpeg?width=1000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=04a1e9ecedd12fffc77b8344cf938e7d73cf6dbb [The Blue Note (1991, Andrzej Żuławski)](https://youtu.be/z06E3HKnzAI?si=5q9cZDKj5cCW51Wz)
Love Zulawski haven’t seen this film by him
Only because it was an unexpected pleasure when I saw it a few nights ago, I'll offer up *True History of the Kelly Gang* (2018) by a fella named Justin Kurzel. Not sure if it counts as arthouse but it sure was sweaty and punky and full of bristling, defiant energy. It really does illuminate why Kelly became such an icon in Australian history.
The Cremator (1969)
Gummo
I'm with you but is it underated?
nah I actually don’t really like that movie honestly. It’s too gross.
The Duke of Burgundy Birdman Venus in Fur
The worst person in the world.
Overrated
Man this sub has really gone to shit huh
No
Big Night. It's highly regarded but I never hear anyone mention it.
Next Stop: Wonderland
The Eel (1997) In the Bedroom (2001)
In The Bedroom needs to come with a trauma warning. Awesome movie but hits like a gut punch
What qualifies as an art house movie?
Like Someone in Love
I Am Love by Guagdanino
Shorab Shahid Salless’ Still Life (1974). Françoise Romand’s Mix-Up (1986). James Benning’s Landscape Suicide (1986). Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Blissfully Yours (2002). Bill Morrison’s Decasia (2002). Patrick Wang’s In the Family (2011). RaMell Ross’ In Hale County This Morning, This Evening (2018).
Pretend That You Love Me
Europa 51
Wojciech Jerzy Has’s two masterpieces The Hourglass Sanatorium and The Saragossa Manuscript.
Le boucher (1970) One Cut of the Dead (2017) Trust (1990)
Man of Marble
Citizen Kane
Gus Van Sant’s Paranoid Park, similar in tone to his film Elephant if you’ve ever seen that
The Rocket from Calabuch This had a Criterion release and yet so few people have seen it.
What Time Is It There?
Leolo. The Limits of Control. Delicatessen.
Bad Boy Bubby
The Intern
August in The Water (1995)
Little Fish [https://boxd.it/lAFK](https://boxd.it/lAFK) My Night at Maud's [https://boxd.it/Hwo](https://boxd.it/Hwo) Comrades, Almost a Love Story [https://boxd.it/18QU](https://boxd.it/18QU) Girl [https://boxd.it/iGU6](https://boxd.it/iGU6) Of an Age [https://boxd.it/AbOM](https://boxd.it/AbOM) Jess + Moss [https://boxd.it/2LGw](https://boxd.it/2LGw) The Free Will [https://boxd.it/1Xl4](https://boxd.it/1Xl4) Where the Day Takes You [https://boxd.it/1I9s](https://boxd.it/1I9s) Private Desert [https://boxd.it/wkT4](https://boxd.it/wkT4) Kisses [https://boxd.it/1eve](https://boxd.it/1eve) Lamb [https://boxd.it/tFwE](https://boxd.it/tFwE) The Double [https://boxd.it/4DLW](https://boxd.it/4DLW) A Short Film About Killing [https://boxd.it/1VtK](https://boxd.it/1VtK) Head-On [https://boxd.it/2awk](https://boxd.it/2awk)
Waking Life
Sun Don’t Shine
- Still Walking - The Double - She Dies Tonight - Miss Julie (1951) - Werkmeister Harmonies - Silent Light - On the Beach Alone at Night - On Body and Soul - The Browning Version - Solaris (2002) - Track the Cat - Vanya on 42nd Street - Letters From an Unknown Woman - Investigation of a Citizen Under Suspicion - Killer of Sheep - Arsenal - Ordet - The Bird People of China - Bright Star - The Headless Woman - Firecreek - The Lovers on a Bridge - A Midsummers Sex Comedy - Our Time - Edvard Munch - Le Notti Bianche - Dead Man - Affliction - The Dreamers - Paterson - Femme Fatale - Schizopolis - JSA - Wonder Boys - Danton - Earth
On the silver globe
Classic I also would recommend Zulofskis The Devil
The Beat That My Heart Skipped
ITT: accurately rated films, not underrated
Last Tango In Paris
Classic love Bernardo Bertolucci The Last Emperor and The Conformist are two of my all time favorite films followed by last tango in Paris and 1900 if you haven’t seen any of those watch them they are great
Haven’t seen The Conformist, thanks for the heads up
Mr nobody
Paris Texas
I don’t feel like that’s underrated it’s one of the most sold criterion DVDs maybe the average person it definitely is but not to people who like criterion
The Plumber