Rusty's for-his-own-self-not-for-you movie-guide

Film stuff

A Respectable list of the 50 Greatest Unremembered Films.

rusty's list o' cinematic tastiness.

Harold and Maude: an eccentric 70s film about a kid with an obsession with death and a starvation for attention. soundtrack by Cat Stevens. the boy meets an equally but more experienced eccentric, and the film follows their relationship.
Les City des Enfants Perdu, (The City of Lost Children): terrifically french, i've only seen it with subtitles. this movie is visual and surreal, including a dwarf woman, a man with no soul, a brain with no body, a mad scientist, and seven twins with sleeping sickness. throw in the little french girl (all good french films have a small girl to be the object of pedophilic allusions) and the muscle man (ron perlman, who it turns out doesn't speak french too well.) and you've got one fine film.
Delicatessen: same folks that brought you City of Lost Children, this a quasi post-apocalyptic story about a boarding house with an extra incentive for paying up on time.
Better off Dead: john cusack and the eighties. what can you say. it should come right after The Breakfast Club in terms of jewels of the eighties.
Brazil: take 1984, throw in more amusing satire and a catchy theme song.
Tank Girl: a definite comic-gone-movie phenomenon. Ice-T as a mutant Kangaroo only adds to the fun.
Like Water for Chocolate: it's all in the mole sauce. sensual cooking and star-crossed lovers succeed in making this classic foreign film engaging from start to finish. you only think you're watching a staunch classic until gertrudis steals away to the rebellion in her birthday suit.
Happiness: brought to you by the same folks who made "Welcome to the Dollhouse". i can't exactly say that it is an enjoyable movie in the purest sense of the word enjoy. it's a good movie. it will make you think, squirm, question things you may have taken for granted -- it is well crafted to meet these ends. do not, i repeat, do not take a date to this movie.

I have seen only a few of these movies, but I trust Lawrence Toppman's reviews, certainly more than the reviews in Houston papers.

Lawrence Toppman's 50 Greatest Unremembered Films

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