Films worth watching...

The best films you've never seen as listed in "Never Coming to a Theater Near You" by Kenneth Turan

To name a few:

• "Ronin"
• "Heavenly Creatures"
• "Proof"
• "High Fidelity"
• "Spirited Away"
• "Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey"
• "The Third Man"
• "Pipe Dream"
• "Dry Cleaning"
• "East Side Story"

"It sounds like parody," says Turan of this film, which is about the socialist musicals of the USSR and Iron Curtain countries: films with titles such as "Tractor Drivers" and "No Cheating Darling," made under the supervision of allegedly humorless apparatchiks. Stalin was actually a fan of the musicals.

"There is stuff at which your jaw just drops, and yet they were hugely popular," says Turan. "It's an interesting corner of film history."