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'.
Pull My Daisy (1959)
6.5/10
Director: Robert Frank
Starring: Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg
Pull My Daisy is a collectable object containing Robert Frank's famous film of 1959 on DVD; a text booklet with an introduction, the transcript of the... Read more
Suture (1993)
6.6/10
Director: David Siegel, Scott McGehee
Starring: Mel Harris, Dennis Haysbert, Sab Shimono, Dina Merrill
A unique, creepy, independently produced psychological thriller about Vincent (Michael Harris), suspected of murdering his father, who hatches a schem... Read more
The Thin Red Line (Blu-Ray) (1998)
7.6/10
Director: Terrence Malick
Starring: Ben Chaplin, Elias Koteas, George Clooney, Jared Leto, Jim Caviezel, John C Reil...
In 1942, Private Witt (Jim Caviezel) is a U.S. Army absconder living peacefully with the locals of a small South Pacific island. Discovered by his com... Read more
Drowning By Numbers (Blu-ray) (1988)
7.2/10
Director: Peter Greenaway
Starring: Bernard Hill, Joan Plowright, Juliet Stevenson
An ironic black comedy that celebrates the English obsession with game playing and their love of wit, verve and the multi-layered linguistic and picto... Read more
Gloria (Blu-ray) (1980)
7.1/10
Director: John Cassavetes
Starring: Gena Rowlands, John Adames, Buck Henry, Julie Carmen
John Cassavettes creates a powerful, tension-filled story about an ex-gun moll and showgirl on the run from the mob protecting the son of neighbours w... Read more
Palindromes (2004)
6.8/10
Director: Todd Solondz
Starring: Ellen Barkin, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Stephen Adly-Guirgis, Emani Sledge, Valerie...
Todd Solondz' new film begins with the funeral of his beloved 'Welcome to the Dollhouse' character, Dawn Wiener. Touching on the same raw-nerve subje... Read more
Evolution (Blu-ray & DVD) (2015)
6.1/10
Director: Lucile Hadzihalilovic
Starring: Roxane Duran
The only residents of young Nicholas' sea-side town are women and boys. When he sees a corpse in the ocean one day, he begins to question his existenc... Read more
Inserts (Blu-ray) (1975)
6.3/10
Director: John Byrum
Starring: Bob Hoskins, Jessica Harper, Richard Dreyfuss, Veronica Cartwright
In the golden days of silent films, genius director Boy Wonder (Richard Dreyfuss) is king of the silver screen. But when talkies take over Tinseltown,... Read more
Life is Sweet (1990)
7.5/10
Director: Mike Leigh
Starring: Alison Steadman, Jim Broadbent, Claire Skinner
Another slice of working-class life focusing on an endearing couple and their iconoclastic twin daughters - one of whom is waist-deep in self-loathing... Read more
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1990)
Director: Tom Stoppard
Starring: Gary Oldman, Tim Roth, Richard Dreyfuss, Iain Glen
Playwright Tom Stoppard has scripted and directed this film version of his own highly successful stage comedy about two minor characters in Shakespear... Read more