Little Seen Films By Great Directors

This is from Listverse.  Ten films that weren't seen much, but are terrific.  I've only seen four on the list and agree with their inclusion so I'll take a shot at seeing some of the others.  The four:

The Last Waltz (1976), directed by Martin Scorcese.  The last show by The Band (with a lot of musical guests).  I used a clip from this movie in this post on Levon Helm.

Without Limits (1998) by Robert Towne (he wrote the script for Chinatown), about the 1970s  long-distance runner Steve Prefontaine.  It stars Billy Crudup (who's actually good in it) and Donald Sutherland.  The film does not follow the usual athlete story arc.

Sorcerer (1977) by William Friedkin.  Friedkin directed The French Connection and The Exorcist in the early 1970s, both of which were smash hits.  He then spent two years making this film which flopped and his career never recovered.  Larry and I saw this in a theater in the Brighton section of Boston when it was first released and were overwhelmed by the intensity and great performances (including by a truck).  Based on a renowned existentialist French film from the early 1950s, The Wages of Fear, it's the story of four hunted, desperate men who take a job transporting truckloads of nitroglycerin through near impenetrable terrain in South America.  I never understood why it didn't have more success.  Maybe it was the terrible trailer:



The Limey (1999) by Steven Soderberg.  Soderberg is very successful today having done Ocean's 11, 12 and 13 (see this post for more), along with Out Of Sight (another favorite of mine), before making some bombs recently.  However, after making a splash with his first film, Sex, Lies and Videotape he went into a long commercial slump.  This film came near the end of that downturn and stars Terrence Stamp and Peter Fonda.  It's about a recently released British criminal who comes to Los Angeles to find out how his daughter died. What seems to be a violent revenge film at the start turns into something more intriguing.  Stamp's performance is sparse and riveting and the cinematography is outstanding.