If Elephant is the right movie I am thinking of then that is a really good movie. Kind of like a Columbine-esque film about two kids that shoot up they're school?

 

Yup, that's the one. I loved the film. It awesome getting to see the daily lives of all the kids involed from their standpoint. Elephant was a very deep and powerful film. I'm hardcore and it almost had me in tears when the shootings took place.

 

For something indy, but almost mainstream check out" Little Miss Sunshine.:
It is a bout a family driving to a young person's beauty contest and their coming to terms with just who and what they are along the way. The ending is quite funny.
The seven year old actress who is in the ensemble makes it work real well. She'll make you smile when all the rest of the characters are down. Definitely worth the viewing.

Like CH says, there are a lot of ways to go with indies. Pulp Fiction was an indy of sorts once. It made its inroads via film festivals. Heck I got the Japanese laser disc a year before it came out in the states!

I recently watched a cool film along the storytelling lines of Pulp fiction in that it is the stor(ies) of several characters and how they interact with each other ( or not) in the space of 1/2 hour, which brings together a series of events that has effects on all of them. It is called 11:14 and is the freshman release of a twenty six ( at the time ) year old director.

Made in 2003 with Tara Reed, and Patrick Swayse, it is still an indy with no Hollywood trappings.
Good story with a bit of comedy and tragedy mixed. Find it and watch it if you can.

CH, you'd like the graveyard sequences! And there is almost a Street Trash Junkyard-passing-of-the unit sequence too!
Spielberg was twenty six when he helmed Jaws, so the youth of a director should not be an obsticle.

 

My dad is into very much the same films I am. I recommended this one to him as he is a HUGE Columbine buff. Maybe the wrong phrasing for it. Anyway, he loved the film as well and purchased it from a local video store that sells nothing but odd films that mainstream places won't carry. Among my favorite films is KIDS and its just sad to see that the guy that played Casper is dead. Seeing films about kids/teens and the things they go through on a day to day basis and being able to identify with some of the things I have been through myself are always entertaining and insightful.

 

My buddy Jon keeps recommending Little Miss Sunshine. He says it's actually pretty dark. Dark comedies are the best. I'll have to check out 11:14. It flew under my radar so it looks like I'm off to one of my other stomping grounds, the IMDB.

 

Saw Little Miss Sunshine and enjoyed it. Pulp Fiction is also one of my favority movies of all time. Tarrantino is a great director. The Kill Bill series is awesome.

I liked the movie Kids too. I wish I could show it too my students to smack some sense into em!

 

Will do. Look out...I just might have a new hobby!

 

Larry Clark is one of my favorite directors! He is a very powerful director IMO. He falls into the you love him or you hate him category. People like you and I see the relevance, truth, and impact of of his works while his critics see him as a 60 something year old perv who makes his movies just to show naked teens. I think most of his critics don't know anything of his life, photography, or writings before becoming a director. I just watched Ken Park last week and Bully the week before. Not to long ago I got to see his segment Impaled from Destricted and I laughed my ass off. His only project that I have yet to see is Wassup Rockers. Now that you got me on him maybe I'll watch Kids and his version of Teenage Caveman. Yeah it definitely sucks about Justin Pierce. He was a good actor and on his way to a decent career when he took his life.

 

Film is my main hobby. My dream is too be the ultimate exploitation director. I am actually in the process of gathering info and studying facts to write a new screenplay. I have tried several times before to write a screenplay but gave up every time. This time I'm going to stick with it! My wife actually gave me the idea and inspiration to follow through. I love true crime films so one day I was discussing true crime films with my wife and went off on a rant about how one of the most prolific and brutal serial killers of modern times has yet get a film made about him. So my wife said to me,"Why don't you make one? You know all the facts and want to make a film.". It sunk in and now I'm gathering all the info I can. I just need to figure out how to obtain the court transcripts and hopefully somehow gain access to the crime scene photos so I can make it as realistic as possible. I want the film to be as nihilistic and brutal as he was. In other words the ultimate exploitation film!
On the average I purchase 15-20 films a month. So far this month I bought:

Dead and Buried 2 disk (OOP Blue Underground)
Intruder
Monster Special Edition 2 disk
Bully
April Fools Day
The Manson Family Unrated Directors Cut 2 disk
Deranged / Motel Hell double feature
Bad Boy Bubby
Aqua Teen Hunger Force Vol.4
The Hillside Strangler Unrated Directors cut
C.H.U.D.
Neon Maniacs
Oldboy
Magic
This Is Spinal Tap
I pre-ordered the Blue Underground release of Maniac (out 1/30/07)
The Cinemaker Box Set (to fulfill my dreams on making films)
And I'm still going because I want to expand my selection of Italian horror

Oh yeah, I traded some rare classic 70's porn DVD-Rs with an online buddy. So I have coming to me:

Hardgore
Forced Entry (1972 XXX version, not the R rated remake)
Erotic Nights of the Living Dead
Porno Holocaust

I also have a huge 70's porn collection in addition to my regular film collection. 70's porn is the best!

 

its a lotus!