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From: del@wuphys.UUCP (Dave de Lake)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: Re: Obscure films
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Date: Tue, 12-Feb-85 10:49:16 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb 12 10:49:16 1985
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> REFERENCES:  <3744@ucla-cs.ARPA>
> 
>  >I'm talking hard core obscurity here,  films that you've seen
>  >which you suspect almost no one else (at least in America)
>  >has.  Stuff you catch at film festivals, or in university
>  >collections, or on one week releases disguised as cheap
>  >exploitation films.  
>  
> Stuff that is unavailable where most people live, unfortunately.  My
> best access to obscure films, without a day long trek to NYC, is PBS
> and they have not shown as much of late as they used to.  I went
> into the city to see an uncut THE LEOPARD, which was decent but flawed
> so I won't include it in this discussion, but rarely have high enough
> expectation on a rare film (other than a genre film of some sort; I do
> go in to see films like WICKER MAN, LAST WAVE, CHUSHINGURA) to
> really go after it.
>  
What about "Dersu Ursela"?  Has that made it to the
U.S.  It is a fantastic Soviet film with good direction
and great scenery of Siberia.  I saw it in Denmark
with Danish subtitles.  From what I could understand of
it, the plot seemed a bit too intellectual and subtle to be popular or
ever even be shown in the U.S., although I wouldn't be
suprised if it made it to NYC or LA (...of all the
least intellectual places....)


	Dave
	@Compton Sanitarium