Overlooked/underappreciated movies

Fun facts:

This is the only Adam Sandler film released as part of The Criterion Collection.

The first Adam Sandler movie to get a positive review from Roger Ebert.

Paul Thomas Anderson refers to this film as "an arthouse Adam Sandler film".

Anderson deliberately wanted to make a very different film after the rigors of making Magnolia (1999).

Fun facts:

The film's title comes from the ending of the tragedy Iphigenia in Aulis by Euripides.

Heart surgery scenes in the film are real. They were filmed during an operation on a real patient who was undergoing quadruple bypass surgery which Colin Farrell attended.

Colin Farrell admittedly felt nauseous after reading the script for the film.

Fun facts:

Shot in 25 days.

Included among the "1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die", edited by Steven Schneider.

Fun facts:

Included among the "1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die", edited by Steven Schneider.

Described by Quentin Tarantino as a "true masterpiece if ever there was one," in a video discussing his favorite films released between 1992 and 2009.

When the film was screened at the Rotterdam Film Festival in 2000, it had a record number of walkouts. At the Swiss premiere, someone passed out and needed emergency room attention.

Fun facts:

Filmed in 9 days.

Most of the family members in the movie are actual members of the same family, with a small number of professional actors playing various parts. (In general, the cast members with the same last names are family members.)

Director Trey Edward Shults wrote the title character specifically for his aunt, Krisha Fairchild.

Fun facts:

The screenplay for this film was featured in the 2007 Blacklist; a list of the 'most liked' unmade scripts of the year.

The film cast includes five Oscar winners, George Clooney, Frances McDormand, Tilda Swinton, Brad Pitt and J.K. Simmons and two Oscar nominees, Richard Jenkins and John Malkovich.

Interesting facts:

The Korea Media Rating Board forced Kim to recut the film for its theatrical release, objecting to its violent content. Otherwise, the film would have gotten a "Restricted" rating, preventing any sort of release in theaters or on home video.

The international cut did away a lot of sequences the director regarded unnecessary and added all the scenes banned by the Korean censor board, yet it's the Korean cut which runs longer than the international one.

Interesting facts:

Received a seven-minute standing ovation at its Cannes Film Festival premiere, on May 27, 2017. Lynne Ramsay won the award for Best Screenplay and Joaquin Phoenix won for Best Actor.