For anyone wondering what films were shown in the opening, here is what I able to recognize: _24 Frames_ (2017), by Abbas Kiarostami _Empire of Passion_ (1978), by Nagisa Oshima _The Trial of Joan of Arc_ (1962), by Robert Bresson _Eureka_ (2000), by Shinji Aoyama _A Hidden Life_ (2019), by Terrence Malick
"After Hours," is growing in reputation. I've heard more people talking about that movie in the past two years, than the previous 30. I think it's because Scorcese is getting older, so people are rewatching his filmography ("Joker's," popularity probably helped).
Man, I love to search for the overlooked and underrated works in cinema! Just a great feeling of watching films you love from the most unexpected places! I can’t help but always love these videos immensely!
I saw Living in Oblivion twice in the theatre (Angelika in NYC) when it came out. I’ve often wondered why it seemed to fade into obscurity, given the cast. Thank you for exposing us to so many masterpieces and for your thoughtful and warm intellectual discourse (a rare thing) !
Apocalyto is definitely a super great movie. I'm glad to see it get some appreciation. I can't help but watch it when I see it on. I'm the same way with Scorceses "The Aviator"
The underrated Scorsese for me is Bringing Out the Dead. Nic Cage also thinks it is one of his best performances. And a few days ago I saw the Czechoslovakian movie The Cremator. I hadn't heard of it before, but almost everyone who has seen it (including now me), considers it a masterpiece.
My list 1:Wiseblood 2:I love you to Death 3:Slingblade 4:A High wind in Jamaica 5:The Day of the Beast (el dia de la beastia) 6:Shock Corridor 7:Shout at the Deavil 8:A Fist full of Dinomite 9:Hell in the Pacific 10: Hawaii
for me, my personal hidden gem: its a german film named "the last company". you should give it a try. its about a few prussian soldiers defending a windmill against the approaching french army in the 18th century. its basically a seven samurai like film. seven samurai was heavily inspired by it.
As a local people live in the filming location of An Elephant Siting Still ,I just say some feelings. It’s my favorite movie.Sad thing is the director suicide in 2017. The known reasons is said that producer wanna cut the movie from 4 hours to 2 hours and Hu Bo didn’t compromise. And cause that his movie can’t show in china. Maybe that producer feels guilty, the next year he took movie to the Berlin film festival. I like the atmosphere of movies, and grey is indeed full of my city, it’s a poor city,lack of water and back to 2017 it’s full of haze and smog. I don’t think it’s sad movie I only can see it’s a real movie.
The Fast Runner is a movie that has stuck with me since I watched it alone in my favorite old cinema. It was the first movie ever filmed in Inuit language. It's a folk story in a horror story in a love story.
After Hours is an absolute classic Scorsese flick! So many good selections here; some I know, others I don't. Keen to check them out. Thanks for the video!
Omg! I fondly remember watching a town called panic when i was a kid and have been wondering about it recently and since i forgot the name i couldn’t find it so it feels insane seeing it here
Panique au village !!! I also loved An elephant sitting still, though I get why this one is a bit under the radar (themes and length + the director's death)
After Hours was really enjoyable. Maybe because I lived that club scene in Soho in NYC in the 80's. I love the Give him a mohawk scene with the Bad Brains on the soundtrack . Bravo, Martin
I have been contemplating You Were Never Really Here very much lately, even just before the video was uploaded. The film is terrific on all fronts. Lynne Ramsey put her viewers right in the head of Joe. This is a film that makes you actively participate in its world rather than dumbing you down with passive consumption. With striking imagery, the film is a visual masterpiece!
I didn’t expect to say it, but besides the first and last I’ve seen these - although I suppose underrated doesn’t suggest unknown - underrated though I agree.
An Elephant Sitting Still was/is fantastic. The bleakness you so perfectly describe feels not only like a general feeling for humanity, but also specifically in modern China, for those unable to move upwards in society, but who've lost the anchoring in belief in a system; that belief has been supplanted with a big hole; the same hole Americans fill with dollars. A hard film to watch but also a mesmerising one; I struggle to imagine a film I'd rather add to the Criterion Collection.
The thing about Apocalypto is, that (from a historical viewpoint) the movie does not make any sense at all. I recommend checking out the Apocalypto Episode by History Buffs, he shows why the movie (from a historical viewpoint and a historical chronology) doesn't make a lick of sense. That is a huge turnoff for me.
Excellent choices. I know several of these and I'd agree-- --APOCALYPTO!!! A masterpiece that should be far better known, and you sum it up perfectly. I"m going to seek out LIVING IN OBLIVION now, so thanks for that one. 3:10 TO YUMA, a nice surprise to see on your list. ACE IN THE HOLE too. I think AFTER HOURS is becoming well known since Criterion issued on blu-ray (it's not a big fave for me, but does have some good scenes), I also liked YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE, a film that seems ignored now, despite its star's reputation. For somewhat recent recomendatoin I'll mention NIGHTCRAWLER (2014) a riveting study of immorality in the media age, with a strong performance by Jake Gyllenhaal....Thanks for this video...I hope you continue!!
The problem with Apocalypto is that it is very historical inaccurate. Because you can’t have the Mayan collapse and have the Spanish coming at the end of the film. That just doesn’t make sense because the Mayan collapse happened I think 200 or so years before the Spanish arrived.
Turkish Cinema is very underrated. Here is some masterpiece of Turkish Cinema: "Eşkiya" (1996) "Aşk Filmlerinin Unutulmaz Yönetmeni" (1990) "Gölge Oyunu" (1993) "Ağır Roman" (1997) "Ahhh Güzel İstanbul" (1966)
I Imagine there's only room for so many, so all sins forgiven but several Others that are *Sinfully* Underrated are A Ghost Story, Brimstone, Let the Sunshine In, Empire of Light, Never Gonna Snow Again, A Very Long Engagement, Enemy, The Whistlers, Broken Circle Breakdown, Goode Luck To You Leo Grande, 3000 Years of Longing, Monday, and American Fable.. .
My underrated films would be Three Thousand Years of Longing, Speed Racer, Where is Anne Frank?, Asteroid City, Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, Michel Gondry's Green Hornet, Alien Resurrection, The Matrix Sequels (just any of them), War Horse, Panic Room, Avalon, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Speilberg's AI, I Am Not Madame Bovary and The Fountain.
*_After Hours,_* *_Taxi Driver_* and *_Bringing Out the Dead,_* three psychotically entertaining and deranged studies of nighttime New York by Martin Scorsese --- all masterpieces.
Add to this: *Storytelling* (2001) by Todd Solondz. *Knight of Cups* (2015) by Terrence Malick *Intolerable Cruelty* and *Burn After Reading* by the Coen Brothers
No offense but the original title ‘Panique au village’ might be translated as ‘Panic over the city/town’ to my understanding of French. Just a reminder and no big deal at all!❤🎉😊
Apocalypto is one of those movies I consider to be a masterpiece. If you watch the BTS and how gigantic the organization was, you gain another respect for this kind of filmmaking. Absolutely INCREDIBLE work by Mel Gibson!
Apocalypto is not historically authentic but it is popular with modern Mayas as a fun watch. Your lack of scholarship on the subject is unfortunately common.
Apocalypto is a movie with such a problematic political perspective on history and mesoamerican cultures, that for me watching it was only rewarding on a visual/technical level.
Thank you ~ I was looking for this comment. It looks pretty, but it's basically an extended, high-brow version of the worst parts of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
It's a commentary on civilization and power hierarchies not a history documentary... If you get caught up on technical inaccuracies you are failing to see the forest through the trees. You can't limit your view of art to a critical lens. You must also meet art on its own terms and see what it's trying to do.
@@ZanarkandIsntReal I mean, I get it but I think we should also have a critical view on the power relations that are in between the narrative and the usage of certain cultures in certain contexts, mainly because the reality is that mayan culture is still present to this day and addressing these topics without being careful in how they are represented, can lead to a very "exotizised"representation that can be offensefull to a community of people that have been structurally lessen. For me, it is important to address these issues. Its like if I make a story about "love and lust" and I use a black american context from the 1920s to tell my story but I represent the characters in an offensive, stereotipycal way and justify this representation by saying that the story if not about the characters, but about the topics. I get is not meant to be a historical piece, but I think it is necessary to question the implication of certain representations.
@@ZanarkandIsntReal I'd recommend having a look at the History Buffs episode about "Apocalypto", he shows why the movie is - from a historical viewpoint - highly probelamtic (also thus provides a disservice to this rich culture).
Apocalypto tripled it's budget in box office receipts and did much more on home video. A massive amount of people saw it and it earned near universal critical acclaim. I'm not sure you know the meaning of the word underrated.
Remember that time Cinema Cartography made a video saying they enjoyed Joker part durrr? yeah.. hard to take them serious after that, huh? Wonder what the like to dislike ratio is on that video. That sucks because I like this Channel. But after admitting you liked it, and its not subjective before you say that, I turned the video off. 1:30 in. I cannot believe you would honestly say that and expect people to take you serious after that
For anyone wondering what films were shown in the opening, here is what I able to recognize:
_24 Frames_ (2017), by Abbas Kiarostami
_Empire of Passion_ (1978), by Nagisa Oshima
_The Trial of Joan of Arc_ (1962), by Robert Bresson
_Eureka_ (2000), by Shinji Aoyama
_A Hidden Life_ (2019), by Terrence Malick
Very helpful, thanks! I can add one more.
Two-Lane Blacktop (1971) dir. Monte Hellman
you must see and say about "Anaesthesia dolorosa" 1987 by Alexandr Sokurov and "South" 1983 by Víctor Erice
A Hidden Life is so underrated. Should’ve won the Palme d’Or.
A Town Called Panic is my favorite movie of all time. Been watching since I was a kid, at least once a year. Thank you for spreading the word!!!
Looks like a particularly surreal episode of Robot Chicken.
An Elephant Sitting Still is finally mentioned. A bleak yet intimate and poetic movie, one of my favorite from Chinese director beside Kaili Blues.
"After Hours," is growing in reputation. I've heard more people talking about that movie in the past two years, than the previous 30.
I think it's because Scorcese is getting older, so people are rewatching his filmography ("Joker's," popularity probably helped).
a Criterion release doesn't hurt either
Man, I love to search for the overlooked and underrated works in cinema! Just a great feeling of watching films you love from the most unexpected places!
I can’t help but always love these videos immensely!
Got to see An Elephant Sitting Still at the cinema once. Genuinely a true masterpiece in every sense of the word.
it's the best film on the list
Thank you for talking about a Town called panic, it’s sad most people don’t know about such a gem of a film.😂
I saw Living in Oblivion twice in the theatre (Angelika in NYC) when it came out. I’ve often wondered why it seemed to fade into obscurity, given the cast. Thank you for exposing us to so many masterpieces and for your thoughtful and warm intellectual discourse (a rare thing) !
you are underrated
No Regrets for Our Youth 1946
The Cranes are Flying 1957
The Incident 1967
Cyrano de Bergerac 1990
Burnt By The Sun 1994
Speed Racer 2008 is underrated
Yes! I always say, "Speed Racer is the Wachowskis' masterpiece (not the Matrix movies)"
Thanks for confirming that Town Called Panic wasn't just a fever dream I had as a kid, I'm gonna have to rewatch it now.
this channel always putting me on random japanese movies
When they do they’re soo top notch, yeah
Absolutely agree
How dare you call Eureka a random Japanese movie 😤
& we all love it 😂
I gotta believe you have another 2 sets of six just as overlooked masterworks as made this essay possible. I pray that you do.
Apocalyto is definitely a super great movie. I'm glad to see it get some appreciation. I can't help but watch it when I see it on. I'm the same way with Scorceses "The Aviator"
The underrated Scorsese for me is Bringing Out the Dead. Nic Cage also thinks it is one of his best performances. And a few days ago I saw the Czechoslovakian movie The Cremator. I hadn't heard of it before, but almost everyone who has seen it (including now me), considers it a masterpiece.
My list
1:Wiseblood
2:I love you to Death
3:Slingblade
4:A High wind in Jamaica
5:The Day of the Beast (el dia de la beastia)
6:Shock Corridor
7:Shout at the Deavil
8:A Fist full of Dinomite
9:Hell in the Pacific
10: Hawaii
I love Dog Day and The Big Red One. Both are unique for different reasons.
for me, my personal hidden gem: its a german film named "the last company". you should give it a try. its about a few prussian soldiers defending a windmill against the approaching french army in the 18th century. its basically a seven samurai like film. seven samurai was heavily inspired by it.
As a local people live in the filming location of An Elephant Siting Still ,I just say some feelings. It’s my favorite movie.Sad thing is the director suicide in 2017. The known reasons is said that producer wanna cut the movie from 4 hours to 2 hours and Hu Bo didn’t compromise. And cause that his movie can’t show in china. Maybe that producer feels guilty, the next year he took movie to the Berlin film festival. I like the atmosphere of movies, and grey is indeed full of my city, it’s a poor city,lack of water and back to 2017 it’s full of haze and smog. I don’t think it’s sad movie I only can see it’s a real movie.
The Fast Runner is a movie that has stuck with me since I watched it alone in my favorite old cinema. It was the first movie ever filmed in Inuit language. It's a folk story in a horror story in a love story.
Smart choice, this is a masterpiece film.
It's worth noting that Ace in the Hole is also based on amalgamations of true events that also became what we now would call media circuses.
It's a great morning when Cinema Cartography drops 💙😁
A town called Panic is absolutely fabulous. My kids loved it. I'd love to see it again
After Hours is an absolute classic Scorsese flick! So many good selections here; some I know, others I don't. Keen to check them out. Thanks for the video!
Omg! I fondly remember watching a town called panic when i was a kid and have been wondering about it recently and since i forgot the name i couldn’t find it so it feels insane seeing it here
Panique au village !!!
I also loved An elephant sitting still, though I get why this one is a bit under the radar (themes and length + the director's death)
Apocalypse is Mel Gibson's best work. I also like a film called Savior but most people have not heard of it.
You had me at the poster for Panique au Village...
And.. I refuse to watch it dubbed. The gibberish french is part of the fun.
After Hours was really enjoyable. Maybe because I lived that club scene in Soho in NYC in the 80's. I love the Give him a mohawk scene with the Bad Brains on the soundtrack . Bravo, Martin
I have been contemplating You Were Never Really Here very much lately, even just before the video was uploaded. The film is terrific on all fronts. Lynne Ramsey put her viewers right in the head of Joe. This is a film that makes you actively participate in its world rather than dumbing you down with passive consumption. With striking imagery, the film is a visual masterpiece!
"I've got a frog in my hand
Like an electric torch
I was surfin' the river
With a boat on each foot"
-Surfin' frog Dionysos
nice one man, love your crews vid's.
I didn’t expect to say it, but besides the first and last I’ve seen these - although I suppose underrated doesn’t suggest unknown - underrated though I agree.
What a great Thanksgiving gift. A video from this channel tastes just as good as that holiday meal. Cheers!
An Elephant Sitting Still was/is fantastic. The bleakness you so perfectly describe feels not only like a general feeling for humanity, but also specifically in modern China, for those unable to move upwards in society, but who've lost the anchoring in belief in a system; that belief has been supplanted with a big hole; the same hole Americans fill with dollars. A hard film to watch but also a mesmerising one; I struggle to imagine a film I'd rather add to the Criterion Collection.
I own all of A Town Called Panic, movie, specials, and the episodes. It's a good time, and NOT in English
Living in Oblivion made me realize I couldn't be a filmmaker, after I fell in love with film, at a young age.
A town called panic isn't an isolated project, there is also La Buche de noël and probably other shorts by the same guys.
Thank you for posting. Seriously, it’s like when you eat food that actually tastes real these days. That’s how it feels when you post.
describing mel gibson as ‘a history of being controversial’ is a heck of a take.
I think Phoenix deserved his Oscar, for You Were Never Really Here.
The thing about Apocalypto is, that (from a historical viewpoint) the movie does not make any sense at all. I recommend checking out the Apocalypto Episode by History Buffs, he shows why the movie (from a historical viewpoint and a historical chronology) doesn't make a lick of sense. That is a huge turnoff for me.
Excellent choices. I know several of these and I'd agree-- --APOCALYPTO!!! A masterpiece that should be far better known, and you sum it up perfectly. I"m going to seek out LIVING IN OBLIVION now, so thanks for that one. 3:10 TO YUMA, a nice surprise to see on your list. ACE IN THE HOLE too. I think AFTER HOURS is becoming well known since Criterion issued on blu-ray (it's not a big fave for me, but does have some good scenes), I also liked YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE, a film that seems ignored now, despite its star's reputation. For somewhat recent recomendatoin I'll mention NIGHTCRAWLER (2014) a riveting study of immorality in the media age, with a strong performance by Jake Gyllenhaal....Thanks for this video...I hope you continue!!
Excellent work man
I thought for the longest time I was the only person to ever see a town called panic. I can't understand why it's not more well know
I wish you people were on letterboxd!
The problem with Apocalypto is that it is very historical inaccurate. Because you can’t have the Mayan collapse and have the Spanish coming at the end of the film. That just doesn’t make sense because the Mayan collapse happened I think 200 or so years before the Spanish arrived.
Turkish Cinema is very underrated. Here is some masterpiece of Turkish Cinema:
"Eşkiya" (1996)
"Aşk Filmlerinin Unutulmaz Yönetmeni" (1990)
"Gölge Oyunu" (1993)
"Ağır Roman" (1997)
"Ahhh Güzel İstanbul" (1966)
So the second half of Apocalypto is a Rambo Flick! Love the Film one of the most nerve wrecking ones
I Imagine there's only room for so many, so all sins forgiven but several Others that are *Sinfully* Underrated are A Ghost Story, Brimstone, Let the Sunshine In, Empire of Light, Never Gonna Snow Again, A Very Long Engagement, Enemy, The Whistlers, Broken Circle Breakdown, Goode Luck To You Leo Grande, 3000 Years of Longing, Monday, and American Fable.. .
Allen Sunshine is the most underrated film of 2024.
What are the names of some of the films that were shown in the intro?
I just saw the 1977 movie sorcerer...wow that was dark.
Saw "You were never really here", didn't like it, but don't remember why. Should check it again.
Aftery hours and ace in the hole are forgotten?
what movies are the first and second frames from? ty
My underrated films would be Three Thousand Years of Longing, Speed Racer, Where is Anne Frank?, Asteroid City, Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, Michel Gondry's Green Hornet, Alien Resurrection, The Matrix Sequels (just any of them), War Horse, Panic Room, Avalon, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Speilberg's AI, I Am Not Madame Bovary and The Fountain.
You picked some good films and many of them are properly rated.
I adore the movie a town called panic, it is so funny and artistic at the same time.
*_After Hours,_* *_Taxi Driver_* and *_Bringing Out the Dead,_* three psychotically entertaining and deranged studies of nighttime New York by Martin Scorsese --- all masterpieces.
Add to this:
*Storytelling* (2001) by Todd Solondz.
*Knight of Cups* (2015) by Terrence Malick
*Intolerable Cruelty* and *Burn After Reading* by the Coen Brothers
The Return (russian) underated
My mind returns to Apocalypto every couple of years and it refuses to stop thinking about it until I experience it again.
No offense but the original title ‘Panique au village’ might be translated as ‘Panic over the city/town’ to my understanding of French. Just a reminder and no big deal at all!❤🎉😊
A few more to add to my list.
Have i seen “at home among strangers” 1974?
Love Liza
most underrated films never. more like un-read.
De Patrick.
You should watch the , animated, film flow and loss robot
Apocalypto is one of those movies I consider to be a masterpiece. If you watch the BTS and how gigantic the organization was, you gain another respect for this kind of filmmaking.
Absolutely INCREDIBLE work by Mel Gibson!
Apocalypto is not historically authentic but it is popular with modern Mayas as a fun watch. Your lack of scholarship on the subject is unfortunately common.
Long Days Journey Into Night by Bi Gan
Apocalypto is a movie with such a problematic political perspective on history and mesoamerican cultures, that for me watching it was only rewarding on a visual/technical level.
Thank you ~ I was looking for this comment. It looks pretty, but it's basically an extended, high-brow version of the worst parts of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
It's a commentary on civilization and power hierarchies not a history documentary... If you get caught up on technical inaccuracies you are failing to see the forest through the trees. You can't limit your view of art to a critical lens. You must also meet art on its own terms and see what it's trying to do.
@@ZanarkandIsntReal I mean, I get it but I think we should also have a critical view on the power relations that are in between the narrative and the usage of certain cultures in certain contexts, mainly because the reality is that mayan culture is still present to this day and addressing these topics without being careful in how they are represented, can lead to a very "exotizised"representation that can be offensefull to a community of people that have been structurally lessen. For me, it is important to address these issues. Its like if I make a story about "love and lust" and I use a black american context from the 1920s to tell my story but I represent the characters in an offensive, stereotipycal way and justify this representation by saying that the story if not about the characters, but about the topics. I get is not meant to be a historical piece, but I think it is necessary to question the implication of certain representations.
@@hesilets3015 well what exactly do you find offensive about the movie?
@@ZanarkandIsntReal I'd recommend having a look at the History Buffs episode about "Apocalypto", he shows why the movie is - from a historical viewpoint - highly probelamtic (also thus provides a disservice to this rich culture).
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Apocalypto tripled it's budget in box office receipts and did much more on home video. A massive amount of people saw it and it earned near universal critical acclaim. I'm not sure you know the meaning of the word underrated.
First 15 seconds, me every time
after hours sucks
Remember that time Cinema Cartography made a video saying they enjoyed Joker part durrr? yeah.. hard to take them serious after that, huh? Wonder what the like to dislike ratio is on that video. That sucks because I like this Channel. But after admitting you liked it, and its not subjective before you say that, I turned the video off. 1:30 in. I cannot believe you would honestly say that and expect people to take you serious after that
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