Movies Unreleased in the USA- which ones haven't seen the light of day? (1 Viewer)

[Anthony Clifton]

 

[david stark]

I'm not too sure if this falls into thae hazy category that david blackwell defined. It's a foreign film, but not a foreign language film. I suspect that if it does well in europe then it will get a release in north america. If not I'll have to pick it up on dvd on one of my trips back to the uk.

 

[Chris Hopper]

Immortel (ad vitam) from France.
I cannot find any mention of a US distributor anywhere online.
:frowning:

http://www.themoviebox.net/movies/20...iler-page.html

Check it out. I have heard it is unbelievable. Unfortunately we may never get to see a domestic release.

 

[JonZ]

Heres James Bs review for Prozac Nation....
http://movie-reviews.colossus.net/mo...ac_nation.html

 

[Michael Hall]

This is one I always wondered about, actually, given it was released a short time after "American Beauty" won the Oscar for Best Picture. I figured it would have capitalized on the Thora Birch factor, but it never did show up.

The only reason I can think of off the top of my head (and I could very well be wrong) is Keira Knightley's topless scene (filmed when she was around 15 or 16 years old) being classifiable as child pornography here in the US. I know the laws are different in England and as such her parents gave her permission to do so, but this is the only reason I can think of as to why it has never shown up here. It is available in Region 1 from Canada, but I don't know how Canadian laws work off the top of my head.

And given KK's current popularity, you'd think someone would want to release it, if only for the pause button junkies.

 

[Mitch Stevens]

How dare anyone not mention KEN PARK! Ken Park was one of my favourite movies of all-time (definiteily in my top 3) that has never been released here in the US, and it's in English. The only reason it hasn't been released, is simply because America is too afraid of controverisal movies.

 

[streeter]

-Up until recently, Speaking of Sex was unreleased. It starred James Spader, Jay Mohr, Lara Flynn Boyle and Bill Murray, from the director of Wild Things. It was made a few years ago but only recently seen for the first time, I think on Oxygen or WE. It didn't look very good from the bits I saw of it.

-The film in my signature had a test run in Seattle for two weeks in 1984, and played in New York in April (introduced by Bill Murray) and in May (introduced by Zach Galligan) of this year. It would have played at the Cannes Film Festival in 1984 or 85 (it was invited two years in a row), but MGM wouldn't let it go. Shameless plug: the film is also the subject of a new book - due out next Spring - featuring new interviews with many of the people involved in the making of the film, including Peter & Dan Aykroyd, Zach Galligan, Bill Murray, Lorne Michaels, Lauren Tom, Howard Shore and many others.

-Mindhunters was made a few years back, and I saw a trailer for it in the theater a long time ago. Val Kilmer (who really only makes a cameo) even plugged it on a TV appearance recently, but even he wasn't sure if/when it would be released. I saw it in the theater in Holland a while back - it's not that bad. It was directed by Renny Harlin and stars LL Cool J. The release date has been pushed back times - I wonder if this will just end up going direct-to-video.

-Vaccuums, a STOMP movie with Chevy Chase - also hasn't seen the light of day, even though it was made about 3 years ago.

 

[John_Lee]

That was the first movie I thought of when I saw this thread. I still get misty-eyed when I go to my Netflix queue, and it's still sitting there with an 'unknown' release date.

 

[streeter]

-Madison (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0206113/) starring Jake Lloyd and Jim Caviezel.

 

[Holden Pike]

I don't know that Timothy Carey's uber-cult classic The World's Greatest Sinner (1962) ever got a true commercial release of any kind. For those of us who have seen it over the years, it's certainly indellible, and I wish an Anchor Bay or somebody could finally bring it into the light of day. But maybe never.

Not a Studio film, but one of my favorite indies seen at a major film festival but never to see release on video or even cable TV is Colin Fitz (1996). William H. Macy and John C. McGinley have small supporting roles. It's a fairly simple movie, but a good one, very well written. I'd love to see it again. I don't believe it ever had a commercial release, but made the festival circuit in the late '90s.

Too bad. But there are probably dozens of indie films that managed to wrangle a known name or two that are in similar limbo situations.

Whatareyougonnado?

 

[James Roberts]

Vitagraph (the distribution arm of the American Cinematheque) have the U.S. rights to Ken Park. Vitagraph have recently been associated with Takashi Miike's "Audition", "Happiness of the Katakuri's" and Don Coscarelli's "Bubba Ho-Tep" with MGM. Supposedly, "Ken Park" will receive a bona fide theatrical release around September 2004 (probably limited to major centers).

 

[Dan Rudolph]

All Cheerleaders Die: AFAIK, this has only been shown at festivals and hasn't received a proper release anywhere. It's notable mainly for being the first movie by writer/director Lucky McKee of May and the upcoming The Woods.