Taste of 30 Cinematic Obscurities

Three of my latest articles for Taste of Cinema focus on the last six decades and include thirty lesser-known feature and short films from all around the world: artist biopics, satirical dramas, sumptuous fantasies, arthouse experiments and more!

Part I / Part II / Part III

Still shot from La ville des pirates (Raúl Ruiz, 1983)

To spice things up, let's stretch the timeline to the last 100 years and add another 20 recommendations that might pique your interest:

1. Rapsodia Satanica (Nino Oxilia, 1917)

2. The Flute of Krishna (Martha Graham, 1926) (S)

3. House of Cards (Joseph Vogel, 1947) (S)

4. Érase una vez (Alexandre Cirici Pellicer, 1950) (A)

5. Wienerinnen (Kurt Steinwendner, 1952)

6. Hakujutsumu (Tetsuji Takechi, 1964)

7. Incubus (Leslie Stevens, 1966)

8. Kureopatora (Osamu Tezuka & Eiichi Yamamoto, 1970) (A)

9. Čudo (Đorđe Kadijević, 1971)

10. Nocturna Artificialia (Stephen and Timothy Quay, 1979) (A, S)

11. A Princesinha das Rosas (Noémia Delgado, 1981)

12. El Sur (Victor Erice, 1983)

13. Macskafogó (Béla Ternovszky, 1986) (A)

14. To athoo soma (Nikos Kornilios, 1997)

15. Le temps retrouvé (Raúl Ruiz, 1999)

16. Titus (Julie Taymour, 1999)

17. Tian bian yi duo yun (Ming-liang Tsai, 2005)

18. El cielo, la tierra, y la lluvia (José Luis Torres Leiva, 2008)

19. The Girl Behind the White Picket Fence (Stefanie Schneider, 2013)

20. Window Horses (Ann Marie Fleming, 2016) (A)

(A) stands for Animated, (S) for Short.

Still shot from Rapsodia Satanica (Nino Oxilia, 1917)