Art House Cinema
Art House films are critically-acclaimed movies that don't necessarily cause a stampede at the box-office. These so-called 'minor' works are generally seen only at Film Festivals or a few selective theatres, but they stay in the mind, for better or worse. Below is a list of films in Alice's Collection that for one unexplained reason or another, generally didn't quite get the exposure they may have deserved when originally released.
Enjoy finding many of cinema's 'gems' in this section.
Right: Peter Greenaway's 'The Baby Of Macon'.
The Good German (2006)
6.1/10
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Starring: George Clooney, Cate Blanchett, Tobey Maguire, Beau Bridges, Tony Curran, Leland...
Soderbergh's ode to the 1940s' post-war noir was shot authentically on equipment used at the time, and is based on the best-selling novel by Joseph Ka... Read more
Paterson (2016)
7.4/10
Director: Jim Jarmusch
Starring: Adam Driver, Golshifteh Farahani
Writer-director Jim Jarmusch often explores existential themes, but theyve perhaps never been so beautifully unadorned as they are in Paterson, a dec... Read more
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)
7.5/10
Director: Andrew Dominik
Starring: Casey Affleck, Zooey Deschanel, Mary-Louise Parker, Brad Pitt, Sam Rockwell, Sam...
A realistic view of the overly romanticised Jesse James, casting Brad Pitt as the psychopathic outlaw and Casey Affleck as the infatuated and volatile... Read more
Gerry (2001)
6.2/10
Director: Gus Van Sant
Starring: Casey Affleck, Matt Damon
Two friends, both named Gerry, pull off the highway to hike on a wilderness trail. Their casual decision to go off the main path has dire consequences... Read more
Career Girls (1997)
7.2/10
Director: Mike Leigh
Starring: Katrin Cartlidge, Lynda Steadman, Kate Byers
Mike Leigh's follow-up film to 'Secrets and Lies' focuses on two former students:Citrus tongued young spike Hannah (Katrin Cartlidge) and Eczema-ridde... Read more
Nuts In May (1976)
6.6/10
Director: Mike Leigh
Starring: Roger Sloman, Alison Steadman, Sheila Kelley
A middle-class couple who never abandoned their '60s counterculture ways go on a camping vacation, but their rigidly odd lifestyle is rubbing their fe... Read more
Smoke (1995)
7.4/10
Director: Wayne Wang
Starring: Harvey Keitel, William Hurt, Forest Whitaker, Stockard Channing, Ashley Judd, Gi...
Harvey Keitel, William Hurt and Forest Whitaker star in this off-beat comedy gem set in a New York cigar shop involving the intertwining lives of it's... Read more
Colour Me Kubrick (2005)
Director: Brian W Cook
Starring: John Malkovich, Jim Davidson, Richard E Grant, Peter Bowles, Marisa Berenson, Ly...
In the mid-'90s, Englishman Alan Conway conned many people into believing that he was reclusive American director Stanley Kubrick, despite the fact th... Read more
Orphans (1997)
7.1/10
Director: Peter Mullan
Starring: Rosemarie Stevenson, Stephen McCole, Gary Lewis, Douglas Henshall
Three brothers and their handicapped sister convene in their hometown of Glasgow for their mothers funeral. The siblings later seperate to each deal w... Read more
Cul-de-sac (1966)
7.2/10
Director: Roman Polanski
Starring: Francoise Dorleac, Donald Pleasence, Lionel Stander, Jacqueline Bisset, Jack Mac...
A distinctly macabre comedy/thriller in which two gangsters (Lionel Stander and Jack MacGowran) are on the run, and seek refuge at an island castle of... Read more