Filmed in Tibet and shot in 1986. This film in English is called "The Horse Thief" and Scorsese has stated on "Siskel & Ebert" that this is the best film of the 1990's.

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Telling moment: when contemplating emigration, the sole valid choices are England and Canada.

It's nearly impossible to convey the potency of this film. The scalding-hot lesbianism shown (more adventurously than Jean-Claude Brisseau) is a hydrogen-bomb critique of India's social diffidence.



His poor bereaved father lives on (latest picture: Mongol).

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The scalding-hot lesbianism shown

That's the best kind, too.

Encounter at Raven's Gate

anyone mention

Plunkett & Maclean?

A great deal of fun and adventure, Liv Tyler in period costume...I loved it and I kick myself often for not making my ex give me our copy.

+1, loved it. Dirty, messy, violent, funny, noisy... awesome.

Yay for Krull (4 pages back)

A Kevin Burns* doc strings Krull into the same sentence as Zardoz (as yet unmentioned here).



Forgive me.

And, overshadowed by a Star Wars movie and that Keanu "wire fu" one, it's 1999's:



* Of the three eminent "Burns" documentarians: Ken, Kevin and Ric.

I posted that Sean pic a long time ago for some other reason. I can't remember why, I think I was trying to restore someone's sight.

I quite like Zardoz.

It's aggravatingly indelible. Zardoz the movie -- dark scifi, right?

dark scifi, soft core porn, whatever.

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It's aggravatingly indelible.

Actually, I have trouble remembering anything about it, other than stuff I have been reminded of since (see above picture).

Then again, same goes for Krull, which I vaguely remember enjoying when I was a teenager.

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It's aggravatingly indelible. Zardoz the movie -- dark scifi, right?

Sean Connery is in a kind of post-apocalyptic world where a big floating head encourages people to fight.

He stumbles on a matriarchal society and gets trapped in a bubble while watching porn.

He finds out some truths along the way.

Watched this again last night. Brilliant at times.

Very important to underscore "at times".

Easily takes Most Novel Spaceship award.

I like it, there is something profound going on there.

I think this is a movie that will be somehting of a classic in ten or twenty years.

People just didn't get it.

I liked it, too. And Mansell, as always, shines brighter than Xibalba.

It's original and comprehensively imagined, nearly guaranteeing it an aedicula in the temple of film.

My (minor) subjective aversion might be its sorrow. A truly black-dark picture.

Oh, I don't know that it was dark, it implies Eternal Return at the end. That's not dark as such.

Not to get into Nietzsche vis a vis Kundera but...

You made me look up that thar' aedicula.

Interesting.

of matters of opinion, people have no choice but to argue.

sometimes, consensus is reached, for a briefest interval of time

"Cookers" gets my vote as a great overlooked film. Well acted and really creepy.

Also loved "Session 9" but I think that's already been mentioned.