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07-05-2006, 02:33 AM
|  | ThankYouSirDavid! | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: C'Era Una Volta Il West
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| |  Let's have a thread for FOREIGN MOVIES!
name your favorites, ask people which ones are good, complain about the overrated ones, whatever! classic, obscure, anything. lets talk movies! |
07-05-2006, 04:15 AM
|  | ShortOrderCookOnABender | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: reading
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| | | goodbye lenin!
in german with english subtitles. one of my favourite films ever. hilarious and sad and touching and a coming of age movie all at the same time. plus i love 20th century history so the post-cold war setting and the way in which different characters adapted to the new germany made it all the more interesting. |
07-05-2006, 04:33 AM
|  | i love you zizou. | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Everything Counts
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Originally Posted by badbadllama goodbye lenin!
in german with english subtitles. one of my favourite films ever. hilarious and sad and touching and a coming of age movie all at the same time. plus i love 20th century history so the post-cold war setting and the way in which different characters adapted to the new germany made it all the more interesting. | i really need to see this.
ive been watching a load of foreign movies lately, mostly spanish and french. and a couple of british. too bad some films are only on region2 dvd. i had to watch 'la haine' on vhs. a black and white film on vhs looks like MUD traveling down your screen  |
07-05-2006, 04:34 AM
| | ThankYouSirDavid! | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: C'Era Una Volta Il West
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Originally Posted by badbadllama goodbye lenin!
in german with english subtitles. one of my favourite films ever. hilarious and sad and touching and a coming of age movie all at the same time. plus i love 20th century history so the post-cold war setting and the way in which different characters adapted to the new germany made it all the more interesting. | yeah, i saw that recently! i liked it, i wasnr expecting it would be so bittersweet. i spent a little bit of time in the post-wall east as a kid, and my family is from there. alot of the details as well as larger political concepts were familiar to me. |
07-05-2006, 04:57 AM
|  | Running Blind | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Frozen Garden
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| | | big appreciation for Japanese Horror movies... they kick the mainstream american movies' ass!
The Ring movies, Audition, Dark Water, The Grudge, Battle Royale etc etc
awesomeness! |
07-05-2006, 05:11 AM
| | ShortOrderCookOnABender | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: reading
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Originally Posted by Tangerine alot of the details as well as larger political concepts were familiar to me. | yeah, i studied the cold war and its ramifications in quite a lot of detail at GCSE, and i have *extremely* vague memories of hearing about the berlin wall when i was tiny. so it was great to watch a film which was historical but at the same time familiar. as opposed to, say, a 2nd world war film which i can't relate to in the same way. |
07-05-2006, 05:50 AM
|  | Registered Member | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Sexford,Ireland
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| | | Japanese film is amazing....Kurosawa,Miike Takashi eg. Audition, Ran etc.
Korean film is speedily breaking through to western audiences and prime examples of korean talent include...Sympathy for Mr.Vengeance(Old Boy and Lady Vengeance), A Tale of Two Sisters etc etc. |
07-05-2006, 06:29 AM
|  | Betch | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Canterbury
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| | 2046 - Really makes you think, its like this complicated story of this man who writes storys failing at love. Takes a few times of watching it to really appreciated it (In the Mood for Love is also good, more simpler!) House of Flying Daggers - Oh wow I adore this film, Zhang Ziyi is bliss. Its like a Romeo & Juliet film sort of but with opposing gangs with daggers  Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon - Without a doubt my joint favourite film (Other being Girl Interrupted, but thats not foreign), its the most fantastic tale of a few different storys revolving around eachother, and visually its spectacular. Spirited Away - A very cool animated film which makes you feel that you want to be 9 yrs old again! Very complicated to explain if you havent seen it, its just good - go buy it! |
07-05-2006, 06:33 AM
| | jesus doesn't love you. | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: toxic wasteland
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| | | Eh...I hate the way anything film outside h'wood is suddenly "foreign".
But anyways, I'm a lover of Pedro almodovar films. I would recommend Bad Education to people new to his films, as it is his most recent (excluding Volver - yet to be released).
Or, if you dont like gay sex *cough*, then I say watch Live Flesh - it's one of the less risque of his films but it's got a lot of plot twists to keep you griped.
Tie Me up, Tie Me Down is classic Almodovar - a bizzare love story that should just not work but it does; you'll also see Antonio Bandres before he went all hollywood/sold-out/shit.
My favourite of his work has to be What Have I Done To Deserve This?
Almodovar aside, I love Amores Perros. It's one of the best movies I've ever seen.
If you want an English "foreign" film, then I say watch 60s classic The Servant.
And who could forget Amelie - yes, it has a fuck load of hype around it but I think it's warranted. It's a great and unique movie. Plus, Audrey Tautou is a great actress (she's also very good in Dirty Pretty Things)  |
07-05-2006, 06:57 AM
|  | love-joy diver. | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: tombland
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Originally Posted by fingersox... Almodovar aside, I love Amores Perros. It's one of the best movies I've ever seen. | i loved that movie too! almodovar is one of my favourite directors  |
07-05-2006, 08:41 AM
|  | Registered Member | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Christchurch, New Zealand
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| | Tsotsi. Won the oscar for best foreign language film this year. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0468565/
Very nice film about a gangster who has to grow up when he is accidently left caring for a baby after a theft. |
07-05-2006, 09:24 AM
| | Registered Member | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: winnipeg
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| | | city of god is an amazing movie! it's probably one of the best movies i've ever seen. |
07-05-2006, 10:04 AM
|  | had a dad is fkn GRAND! | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: bucks, uk.
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| | | Somersault
The Ketchup Effect
Amelie
They're all pretty good coming of age movies, too. |
07-05-2006, 10:54 AM
| | disintegration | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: daydream nation
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| | | das experiment
lilya 4 ever
a very long engagement
i really really want to see goodbye lenin too and Tsotsi.
i like foreign *thumbs up* |
07-05-2006, 11:00 AM
|  | bitch. | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: pittsburgh
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| | | Maria Full Of Grace. [Maria Llena De Gracia Eres]
The Ocean Inside. [Mar Adentro]
<333 |
07-05-2006, 11:31 AM
|  | We're Going to Be Friends | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: VIC
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| | | Au revoir, les enfants
Life Is Beautiful (La Vita È Bella)
and yeah Goodbye Lenin! |
07-05-2006, 11:39 AM
| | Post-Rational | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Displaced
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| | Bad Education
Les Pact de Loups (Brotherhood of the Wolf)
Malena
Run Lola Run (Lola Rennt)
The Princess and the Warrior
Irreversible
El Sexo y Lucia
Ichi the Killer
Voces Innocentes (some love for the home team!)
Goobye Lenin was beautiful. It really depressed me though, both the personal and political aspects.
Y tu Mama Tambien |
07-05-2006, 11:42 AM
| | jesus doesn't love you. | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: toxic wasteland
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| | | ^^ i used to own y tu mama tambien - a great movie. but i sold it! most things with gael garcia bernal are fantastic though. |
07-05-2006, 12:25 PM
|  | Santanico Pandemonium | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: DC
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| | | there was a long ass thread on this a few months ago. people gave their recommendations and the country the film came from. |
07-05-2006, 09:18 PM
| | God Damn The Sun | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: oh?
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| | | The Devil's Backbone by Guillermo del Toro. It is such a great film. | | Thread Tools | | | | Display Modes |  Linear Mode | 
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