Undefended is posted every Friday. All Film Fisher writers are given a prompt and respond with a list of five items, none of which are explained or rationalized. This week…

…the five greatest films which practically no one has seen. What are those films which have slipped through the cracks? Those films you always want someone’s opinion about, but practically nobody has ever seen them? 

Sean Johnson:

1. Coffee and Cigarettes

2. The Fall

3. Into Great Silence (documentary)

4. Synecdoche, New York

5. Belle Epoch

 

Joseph Gross:

1. True Stories

2. Super

3. The Fall

4. If a Tree Falls (documentary)

5. Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai

 

Joshua Stevenson

1. Beeswax

2. Clifford

3. Noah Baumbach’s Kicking and Screaming

4. Attack the Block

5. Rick and Morty

 

Sheffield Leithart:

1. The Fall

2. Scorched

3. Senna (Documentary)

4. Castle in the Sky

5. Mud

 

Alison Sailer Bennett:

1. Just Add Water

2. Amelie

3. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

4. The Seven Beauties

5. The Hebrew Hammer

 

Christian Leithart:

1. The Fall

2. Scorched

3. Monsoon Wedding

4. The World’s Fastest Indian

5. Cats Don’t Dance

 

Kanaan Trotter:

1. Ace in the Hole

2. God Grew Tired of Us (documentary)

3. The Devil Came On Horseback (documentary)

4. Wait Until Dark

5. Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind

 

Jon Paul Pope:

1. Ace in the Hole

2. A Serious Man

3. Brief Encounter

4. Hedgehog in the Fog

5. Hands on a Hardbody

 

James Banks:

1.Night of the Hunter

2. Empire of the Sun

3. The Insider

4. Eastern Promises

5. Casino

 

Joshua Gibbs:

1. Sans Soleil

2. Stalker

3. The Staircase

4. Dark Days (Documentary, dir. Marc Singer)

5. Wages of Fear

 

Remy Wilkins:

1. Junebug

2. Rachel Getting Married

3. George Washington

4. Creation

5. Secrets & Lies

 

Thomas Banks:

1. The Horseman on the Roof

2. Belle Epoque

3. Everyone Says I Love You

4. The Spitfire Grill

5. Manon of the Spring