10 films I can't find anywhere!

Isn't it frustrating as a movie buff (and I mean, hopefully, a hardcore one) in this day and age to not find all the movies you'd want to see? And as one, I should mention, that isn't overflowing with cash to spend as vigorously as I would like on being a hardcore collector. In the age of DVD, hell, in the age of ebay and amazon.com, there are some movies that are either not available at all, or are available at astronomical prices that just can't really be met. There's also the other factor of some movies not available due to region bullshit, though thankfully it helps to find the Region 0 at certain times.

so, for me, here are a rough top 10 movies that I just can't seem to find. Where in the world are these movies?


1) Park Row

(Samuel Fuller's personal newspaper movie)

2) Lo Straniero

(Luchino Visconti adapting Camus' classic with Mastroianni and Anna Karina!)

3) Waltzes from Vienna

(sure, it's supposed to be a minor Hitchcock, but damnit it's a Hitchcock film about classical music, has to be some worth there!)

4) Tusk

(Alejandro Jodorowsky's obscure movie about a girl and her elephant - I'd also mention as an addendum the Rainbow Thief starring Omar Sharif and Peter O'Toole, but believe me when I say that's easier to find relatively than Tusk, I've checked)

5) Despair

(RW Fassbinder + Tom Stoppard + Vladimir Nabokov. Seriously. Even the obscure TV movies are now on netflix, it's time to give this one some new light-of-day)

6) Two Men in Manhattan

(mostly cause I'm a Jean-Pierre Melville completest, maker of the best French crime films ever; his first film too is a hard one to track but, again, easier than this one to find)

7) Face to Face

(I actually did get a bootleg of this Ingmar Bergman film starring Liv Ullmann... and couldn't watch it at all - Paramount needs to release this thing or let Criterion do some of the lifting - it's Bergman directing Ullmann as a psychiatrist going insane, how can it not be at least a little interesting! trivia bit - this is the movie Alvy and Annie are not seeing because Alvy "can't go in the middle" in Annie Hall)

8) Histories du Cinema

(it's somewhat understandable why most of us outside of Europe can't watch this - Jean-Luc Godard didn't get the rights to a lot of the material. perhaps if I do ever get a PAL converter and enough bucks to cough up I'll get the series; from what I've read it's the only truly significant piece of art Godard's produced in decades)

9) Ghosts... of the Civil Dead

(after seeing the Proposition and the Road I'm excited to see anything John Hilcoat has done, and this prison film - a major inspiration for one of my favorite shows HBO's Oz - sounds mighty fine indeed, though only available in Australia)

10) The Seagull

(hey, Sidney Lumet and Chekov, has to be kind of cool)

others I'd be interested in seeing: Orson Welles' The Other Side of the Wind; Spike Lee's Joe's Bed-Sty Barbershop: We Cut Heads; Betrayal (Pinter adaptation with Kingsley and Irons); Fuller's Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street; Claude Chabrol's Just Before Nightfall; Masaki Kobayashi's Black River; Akira Kurosawa's The Most Beautiful (it was available for a short while in an UNWATCHABLE print on Netflix); and Korey Coleman's 2 AM (of this site of course)

What are yours, if any?