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The UItimate Foreign Film Thread
The goal of the this thread is for everyone to post their favorite foriegn films, because I hate to think of how many great films Ive never heard of. Hopefully, this thread will be bumped often.
Best Foreign Film Oscar Nominations and Winners a very long engagement Ameile Chungking Express In The Mood For Love Days of Being Wild 2046 OldBoy Sympathy for Mr. Vengence Sympathy for Lady Vengence A Tale of Two Sisters Bad Guy Spring Summer Fall and Winter Breathless The Road Home Ju Dou Raise the Red Lantern Hero House of Flying Daggers Hidden Tigger Crouching Dragon Y Tu Tambien Amorres Perros See the Sea Swimming Pool |
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Underground:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114787/ Its the story of a people, a humanist film made from love and borne out of grief. House of Flying Daggers?!?! I'd give that film like 1/5 |
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Aight get ready for some pawnage. I have been watching tons of foreign films for the last few years.
I will get ready and put alot of effort into this thread. I will list it prolly from best to worst, include year, and possibly give breif 1-2 setance review for a selected portion. Check back later when I am ready. Feel free to shoot PM's, movies are prolly my favorite material thing in life. |
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Ladri di biciclette (1948) aka The Bicycle Thief
All of the Sergio Leone westerns oh, and for sheer fun (along the same lines as battle royale but not as good) Juyuso seubgyuksageun (1999) aka Attack the gas station! among those listed so far, Spring summer winter fall.. and spring is the best of those most likely to escape your notice. I don't remember off the top of my head now, but I assume City of God was on someone's list b/c I don't think that's a movie OOT slept on. |
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Der Untergang
Traudl Junge (Lara), the final secretary for Adolf Hitler (Ganz), tells of the Nazi dictator's final days in his Berlin bunker at the end of WWII. 8.5 out of 10 on IMDB |
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OP, check out Curse of the Golden Flower if you haven't already, not as much action as Hero or HOTFD but so gorgeous.
Also, you may want to check out Akira Kurosawas stuff, very dry but really awesome if you like that kinda thing. |
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nights of cabiria
a short film about love ikiru the red circle butley (british movies count as foreign?) destiny (1921) chinese roulette crazy love (1987) that obscure object of desire |
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Pan's Labyrinth The Seven Samurai Yojimbo [/ QUOTE ] I find Kagemusha and Ran to be just as powerful. Kurosawa's use of color in a samurai film rivaled his use of shots and his scripts in his earlier work - he had years to storyboard the movies and did an incredible job. rb |
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Underground: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114787/ Its the story of a people, a humanist film made from love and borne out of grief. House of Flying Daggers?!?! I'd give that film like 1/5 [/ QUOTE ] That's probably my favorite movie of all time. Others mentioned that I think are great: In the Mood For Love, The Lives of Others, Amelie, A Very Long Engagement, Amores perros and Raise the Red Lantern. Not so great in my opinon: Y tu mamá también, Battle Royale and Ran A bunch of asian movies mentioned that I haven't seen yet but would like to eventually. Some of my favorites: Festen/The Celebration The City of Lost Children Anything by Kieslowski who hasn't been mentioned yet, especially of course his Trois couleurs trillogy. Europa Lilja 4-ever Some may not enjoy him but I'm gonna say almost anything by Almodovar as well. Especially: Carne Tremula and Hable con ella Tierra Au revoir, les enfants Tesis Delicatessen Fear X and some Michael Haneke movies: Caché which is the most accessible and La Pianiste and Code inconnu as well. |
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City of God
Fanny and Alexander Fitzcarraldo Nosferatu Rififi Traffik The General(1998) the last two are UK and Ireland, does that count? |
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This is one of my favorite Thai films. Depressing but somehow makes me feel good. the two sisters in the film are so ridiculously hott IMO too.
http://imdb.com/title/tt0345549/ |
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I think this thread already hit on my favorites, but redundancy never stopped me.
Oldboy - just saw this, because of a similar thread. thanks for the hook up 2plus! Battle Royale - maybe my fave foreign film City of Lost Childern Secuestro Express - This is the chit if you're into drug-action movies. City of God Y Tu Mama Tambien ...and of course, the Godzilla movies rule forever. |
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The Decalogue
It's listed as a TV series - but it's not made like a TV series. Every feeling in the human spectrum is on display here - and somehow despite using the Ten Commandments as a backdrop, it is rarely preachy. Das Boot I don't think I saw this listed by anyone - fantastic film about a German U-Boat during World War II. It's been released in formats from 2˝ hours to 6 hours - however long it is, it's probably worth it. Terrific thriller; how Wolfgang Petersen ended up making Hollywood dreck after this film, I'm not sure. Andrei Rublev For very pretentious people only - but if you stay with it, the ending is transcendent. A lot of scenes will have little explanation and it's tough to follow. |
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Why does Goodbye Lenin! never get mentioned in these?
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I am surprised to not see The Best of Youth yet. Meglio gioventů, La [/ QUOTE ] td, a good call. the best film of the decade |
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The Decalogue It's listed as a TV series - but it's not made like a TV series. Every feeling in the human spectrum is on display here - and somehow despite using the Ten Commandments as a backdrop, it is rarely preachy. [/ QUOTE ] ...and one of the best films of any decade |
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les quatre cents coups
belle de jour |
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Au revoir, les enfants [/ QUOTE ] That's the only book I've read in French. How about Taxi? I am scandalised to see it only got 6.6 on IMDB. |
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No Ki-duk Kim love here?
I think all of hes films are very good Pretty much the same goes for Emir Kusturica |
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Wim Wender's:
Until the End of the World (awesome soundtrack too) Wings of Desire (watch closely... it will reveal "god" - it's that fk'n good!) Kieslowski: Double Life of Veronique 3 Colors, Red, White, Blue Decalogue Goddard: Breathless Masculin Feminin My Life to Live Contempt Fellini: 8 1/2 La Dolce Vita Truffaut Shoot the Piano Player The 400 Blows |
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In China They Eat Dogs - Pretty cool Danish movie, about a guy who works at a bank and gets robbed but knocks out the robber.He then discovers why the robber needed the money and trys to make things right again. Very black humor.
Adam's Apples - Also a Danish movie (no I am not Danish). Tagline from IMDb: A neo-nazi sentenced to community service at a church clashes with the blindly devotional priest. Das Experiment - German movie about simulating a prison with average people. Very good and intense movie. Audition - A movie by Takashi Miike. Matando cabos - Spanish: "A dark, offbeat comedy about a group of Mexico City teens embroiled in a kidnapping involving a retired wrestling legend and a parrot." Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter... and Spring - South Korea: "This film takes place in an isolated lake, where an old monk lives on a small floating temple. The wise master has also a young boy with him that teaches to become a monk. And we watch as seasons and years pass by" Lammbock - German stoner movie. The machinist - Don't know if it qualifies as foreign. It's in english and with Bale, but a great movie. Killing Words - Very cool spanish film. If you want to get the most out of this film, you better don't know anything about it. |
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Joint Security Area
The rest of Park's vengeance trilogy is worth watching, though not as good as Oldboy. Sympathy For Mr. Vengeance Lady Vengeance An absolutely brilliant bit of entertainment is the South African cop turned bank robber flick Stander English count? I liked Dead Man's Shoes |
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What about Hable con Ella (Talk to her), directed by Pedro Almodovar? Not exactly unknown or underrated, but certainly one of my favourites. Check it out if you haven't seen it yet.
http://www.amazon.com/Hable-Ella-Talk-RE...3184&sr=1-2 Edit to add another: Nobody Knows, a (I think) Japanese film, really liked that: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/nobody_knows/ |
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Les Enfants du Paradis
Hadn't seen it mentioned yet. One of my top 10 of all time, featuring one of my favorite performances. Jean-Louis Barrault mimes, sings, and acts his ass off in this gem. Please please plz check it out. |
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