Favorite small/indie film?

[Fixated]

I'm really into lesser known modern movies, so it's hard for me to pick one. I'd go with Igby Goes Down or Snatch (which is really just British, not indie).

[midnight mouser]

1. Snatch was good, but...

I'll watch anything with Parker Posey! Best in Show, House of Yes are my favorites!

mm

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

3. I LOVED Best in Show!

One of the funniest films I have seen :D

My all time favorite indie film, however, is Pow Wow Highway..produced by George Harrison.

[Nailzberg]

25. WooHoo! PowWow Highway.

One of my profs wrote that screenplay, and she was way cool, so I get all giddy when I hear it mentioned.

[dawgman]

2. Bottlerocket owen and luke wilson at their best done by the same

people as Rushmore and Royal Tannenbaums.
It is hilarious.

[frylock]

10. dignan was such a great character!

[On the Road]

4. Igby Goes Down was Great

But there have been a bunch over the last few years. Does Adaptation count? That would be my recent fave.

In a very different vein, I also liked that Eskimo film, The Fast Runner.

[thebigidea]

5. John Waters' "Multiple Maniacs"

George Kuchar's "HOLD ME WHILE I'M NAKED"
Ray Dennis Steckler's "The Incredibly Strange Creatures That Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies"
Ed Wood's "The Sinister Urge"
Svankmajer's "Alice"
Harry Smith's "Heaven and Earth Magic"
Godddddddard's "Alphaville"

answers not valid in 5... 4... 3... 2... 1... answers invalidated now. have a nice day.

and the number one small movie of all time, ever:

David Lynch. "Eraserhead." all others are merely a distraction.

[mitchum]

8. Good call on the Kuchar

[SnowGoose]

6. Foreign could count as indie (just because of the budget difference)

OK, how can I resist?

Toto the hero (the greatest movie ever made by a human being) to borrow the words of another great movie: Living in Oblivion (a showpiece for Steve Buschemi).

Leolo (French Canadian)

Flushed (fun and *very* American)

Donnie Darko

Baraka

Ok, that'll do for now.

[Kellanved]

7. In that case

Comedian Harmonists ("real" story about a pre WW2 band in Germany.)
Sonnenallee (comedy about he GDR)
Good Bye Lenin (about a woman, who believes to be in the GDR after years of coma.)

[DrBB]

13. Donnie Darko--yeah, I'll second that

Very Philip K Dickian.

[mitchum]

9. "Scorpio Rising" Kenneth Anger

People have been stealing from this seminal work for forty years.
Kenneth Anger is far more than just a lurid gossip maven.

[frylock]

11. drugstore cowboy

[DrBB]

12. Six String Samurai! And Leningrad Cowboys Go America

Love that one. Post-apocalyptic alternate future in which the Russians have taken over everywhere in the US except Las Vegas, where Elvis is the King, and has just died. Six String Samurai must fight his guitar-playing way to Las Vegas to become the successor to Elvis. Great fun, really whacky.

Similar sensibility to Leningrad Cowboys Go America--another fave. Dig them haircuts! And their version of Born to Be Wild is supreme.

[Forkboy]

28. Leningrad Cowboys is freakin hilarious!!

"How much for car?"
"800 dollars"
"But thats all we have"
"I know,thats why I said it."

I could watch the movie anytime anywhere!

[DrBB]

14. And for Sci Fi weirdness: Tetsuo the Ironman

...and the sequel, Tetsuo II: Body Hammer.

Weird shit, man. Very very weird shit.

[Midwest_Doc]

15. Lantana

[Maddy McCall]

16. Box of Moonlight OR maybe Buffalo 66

Box of Moonlight with Sam Rockwell was a really cool anti-establishment movie.

Buffalo 66 with Vincent Gallo was rather dark, but had an unexpectedly sweet ending. I now have a huge crush on Gallo. He's ugly sexy.

[Capn Sunshine]

18. I LOVED Buffalo 66

???can't remember the ending???

[Maddy McCall]

21. He was going to shoot the guy

who had framed him and sent him to prison, and then he was going to commit suicide, but then he left the titty bar where he was going to do this, and walked across the street to a pastry shop.

He bought the girl who was in the hotel room a heart-shaped cookie and went back to the room.

I can't remember the line he kept using when they were making the photos in the booth...telling her to act like a wife. It was a funny catch phrase and I busted up over and over.

A great movie. I keeper--I think I'll order it.

[Capn Sunshine]

23. Wait, I remember a shooting at the titty bar???

the he's shot by the bouncer? were there multiple endings or was that a dream sequence?

I LOVED the visit to the parents BTW

[Tikki]

17. "Stranger Than Paradise".......

...James Jarmusch's 1984 film.

[TheBigGuy]

19. The Comittments (..but really, there are so many)

indy movies are usually pretty good. Its hard to pick a fave, but I always liked The Comittements.

[Capn Sunshine]

20. TREE'S LOUNGE

Steve Buscemi vehicle.

Also
"PECKER"
John Waters --"Hey! No teabagging, dammit!"

REPO MAN
highlight of Western civilization

Welcome to the Dollhouse
very cool grrrls life

[LanternWaste]

22. Nasty Girl

Good enough time for my second post, I guess (whoopee!)

Nasty Girl.

Stop drooling, it's not porn.
Small film from Germany. Came out about ten or eleven years ago. Follows the maturation of a girl from a small German town who in the early 80's and, ever so slowly, begins to find out that the Town Elders and Leaders were complicit in the Holocaust. She begins to dig furhter and further into the story and begins to get shunned from her family, friends and even her husband for "not leaving things alone".

And therin ends my second post :)

[Nailzberg]

24. Living in Oblivion

Man, that movie was non-fiction if you ask me.

[NightTrain]

26. My Life's in Turnaround

n/t

[matt819]

27. Mai's America

by Marlo Potras

[Forkboy]

29. two picks

the aforementioned Leningrad Cowboys Go America and Man Bites Dog.

[Kat45]

30. A few: Night on Earth, esp the Roberto Begnini segment,

The Search for One-Eyed Jimmy, and
Kiss Me Guido -- both were so funny

Puberty Blues, Australian, an early Bruce Beresford film, was an excellent girl's coming of age film