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'.
Room (2005)
4.8/10
Director: Kyle Henry
Starring: Cyndi Williams, Ken Bradley, Alexandra Kiester
Julie Barker (Cyndi Williams) is tired of her dull life, and in her mind she has haunting repetitive visions of a cavernous room illuminated by a high... Read more
Rosalie Goes Shopping (1989)
6/10
Director: Percy Adlon
Starring: Alex Winter, Brad Davis, Judge Reinhold, Marianne Sagebrecht
Bavarian-born Marianne Sagebrecht ('Bagdad Cafe') has settled with American husband Brad Davis in Stuttgart, Arkansas. She's become obsessed with spen... 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
Round Midnight (1986)
7.4/10
Director: Bertrand Tavernier
Starring: Francois Cluzet, Dexter Gordon, Sandra Reaves-Phillips, Lonette McKee, Herbie Ha...
Bertrand Tavernier's exquisite homage to jazz - the moving story of a black jazz musician (sax great Dexter Gordon) in 1959 Paris, struggling to creat... Read more
Rushmore (1998)
7.7/10
Director: Wes Anderson
Starring: Seymour Cassel, Olivia Williams, Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray
A rebellious teenager (Jason Schwartzman), too involved with his extracurricular activities to bother with studies, befriends a depressed, middle-aged... Read more
Safe (1995)
7.2/10
Director: Todd Haynes
Starring: Xander Berkeley, Peter Friedman, Julianne Moore, James LeGros
This thought-provoking tale of modern-day alienation stars Julianne Moore as an L.A. housewife who develops allergic reactions to everyday household c... Read more
Saint Jack (1979)
7.1/10
Director: Peter Bogdanovich
Starring: Ben Gazzara, Denholm Elliott, James Villiers
Ben Gazzara portrays a small-time pimp with big dreams working the pleasure palaces of Singapore in this stunning drama of political corruption and in... Read more
Saint-Ex (1990)
5.4/10
Director: Anand Tucker
Starring: Bruno Ganz, Miranda Richardson, Janet McTeer
This arty British effort attempts to pay homage to distinguished and fanciful French author Antoine de Saint-Exupery via a sort of tone poem. Those fa... Read more
Salo, or The 120 Days of Sodom (Blu-Ray) (1975)
6/10
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Starring: Paolo Bonacelli, Giorgio Cataldi, Uberto P Quintavalle, Aldo Valetti
Nazi-Fascist Northern Italy, 1943-44. Four senior members of government, aided by henchmen and Nazi soldiers, kidnap a group of young men and women. T... Read more
Satantango (1994)
8.5/10
Director: Bela Tarr
Starring: Peter Berling, Janos Derzsi
Internationally acclaimed filmmaker Bela Tarr's epic rendering of Laszlo Karsnahorkai's novel about the decline of Communism in Eastern Europe, is a u... Read more