The Foreign Film Thread.

gwynplaine · 12-15-2009, 06:52 PM

Your favorite Foreign Films. Here are a few of mine.

_ Lives of others.

_ Memories of Murder.

_ Cyrano de Bergerac.

_ La Strada.

_ Grand Illusion.

_ Wages of fear.

_ Talk to her.

_ Seven Samurai.

_ The Tin Drum.

_ Aguirre.

[A] · 12-15-2009, 06:57 PM

..and by foreign you mean "not from the US"

Talk to Her.. is that spanish one..? Can't go wrong with Almodóvar (most of the time..)

Here's a not-so-classic one: Let the Right One In

gwynplaine · 12-15-2009, 07:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by [A]

..and by foreign you mean "not from the US"

Talk to Her.. is that spanish one..? Can't go wrong with Almodóvar (most of the time..)

Here's a not-so-classic one: Let the Right One In

_ Lol, yes.

_Yeah, my favorite Almodovar movie.

_ Good one. Let The Right One In = Instant Classic

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Max J Power · 12-15-2009, 10:20 PM

Can't say I'm that well versed in foreign films, but here's some I like a lot:

Cowboy Bebop: The Movie
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Hero
Kung Fu Hustle
Le Samourai
Les Choristes
Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro
M
Rashomon
Spirited Away

bullets · 12-18-2009, 11:39 AM

Let the Right one In
Pan's Labrynth
Hero
Curse of the Golden Flower
Time and Tide
Seven Samouri
Gojira
District b-13

X-Woman · 12-18-2009, 12:23 PM

I'm a fan of Italian cinema. A few of my favorites are....

La Dolce Vita, directed by Federico Fellini

Seven Beauties, by Lina Wurtmuller

Life is Beautiful, by Roberto Benigni

And then there's this:

Quote:

Originally Posted by gwynplaine

_ La Strada.

This is also Federico Fellini. And to me it wins the award for being The Most Depressing Movie That I Have Ever Seen In Any Language. It is sooooo sad. Wow.

gwynplaine · 12-18-2009, 08:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by X-Woman

I'm a fan of Italian cinema. A few of my favorites are....

La Dolce Vita, directed by Federico Fellini

Seven Beauties, by Lina Wurtmuller

Life is Beautiful, by Roberto Benigni

And then there's this:

This is also Federico Fellini. And to me it wins the award for being The Most Depressing Movie That I Have Ever Seen In Any Language. It is sooooo sad. Wow.

Yes, sad and beautiful. I really like Fellini's early movies like "I Vitelloni", "Il Bidone", "La Dolce Vita", "8 1/2".
And speaking of great italian movies I also love "Bread and Chocolate" and "Profumo di donna" (poorly remade as "Scent of a woman" with Pacino).

X-Woman · 12-18-2009, 09:20 PM

I haven't seen those movies but I want to. Another great Italian movie is Two Women, an early Sophia Loren movie. I forgot the director but I know it was based on a book by Alberto Moravia. I've also seen all of Lina Wurtmuller's movies. Giancarlo Giannini was great in them and he's one of my favorite actors.

And thanks for the info on Scent of a Woman. I didn't know it had started out as an Italian flick with the title Profumo di Donna. Interesting. I saw it when it came out and I thought it was alright. Not great, but it was OK.

gwynplaine · 12-18-2009, 09:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by X-Woman

I haven't seen those movies but I want to. Another great Italian movie is Two Women, an early Sophia Loren movie. I forgot the director but I know it was based on a book by Alberto Moravia. I've also seen all of Lina Wurtmuller's movies. Giancarlo Giannini was great in them and he's one of my favorite actors.

And thanks for the info on Scent of a Woman. I didn't know it had started out as an Italian flick with the title Profumo di Donna. Interesting. I saw it when it came out and I thought it was alright. Not great, but it was OK.

. Vittorio De Sica.

Awesome actor.

X-Woman · 12-18-2009, 09:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by gwynplaine

. Vittorio De Sica.

Awesome actor.

Yes! ::slaps self on forehead:: Thanks for saving me the trouble of looking it up. And yeah, he was one of the great actors from those old days.

gwynplaine · 12-20-2009, 08:31 PM

_ Visconti's Death In Venice.

_ The Dinner Game.

_ Man Bites Dog.

_ Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast.

_ Going Places.

etc...

X-Woman · 12-20-2009, 11:06 PM

La Cage Aux Folles.

**C. Lee** · 12-20-2009, 11:26 PM

A couple of quick ones I think of....

Jean de Florette
Manon of the Spring

gwynplaine · 12-22-2009, 07:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by C. Lee

A couple of quick ones I think of....

Jean de Florette
Manon of the Spring

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Great movies. Daniel Auteuil is really good in them.

_ Kagemusha.
_ La beaute du diable.
_ Spoorloos.
_ Old Boy.
_ Un Prophete.

gwynplaine · 12-26-2009, 08:13 PM

_ Miracle in Milan.

_ Jean Renoir's Rules Of The Game.

_ H.G. Clouzot"s Le Corbeau and Les Diaboliques.

_ The Cabinet of Dr Caligari.

_ Rene Clair's La Beaute Du Diable.

_ Purple Noon.

Aesop Rocks · 12-20-2009, 11:44 PM

The only forum film I've ever seen is [Rec] but I also loved it.

Schlosser85 · 12-26-2009, 10:35 PM

Der Untergang/Downfall

gwynplaine · 12-27-2009, 01:11 PM

^

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_ Das Boot.

Hobgoblin · 01-01-2010, 05:30 PM

Der Untergang (Downfall). A German film about Hitler's last days in the bunker.
Tora! Tora! Tora!

gwynplaine · 01-01-2010, 06:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Hobgoblin

Der Untergang (Downfall). A German film about Hitler's last days in the bunker.
Tora! Tora! Tora!

Great Film, too bad the director, like many foreign directors before him, didn't succeed commercially and artistically with his Hollywood transition so far.
A lot of foreign directors do their best work in their native language, I still much prefer John Woo's Chinese movies to his American ones and I'm glad that Almodovar never succumbed to the call of Hollywood.
On the other hand others, like Verhoeven in his day, have done great work in America as well. So I suppose there are really no rules.

Mister H. · 01-02-2010, 08:30 AM

Army Of Shadows
The Last Emperor
Oldboy
Let The Right One In
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Downfall
Bloody Sunday
Le Samurai
Sympathy For Lady Vengeance
Repulsion

gwynplaine · 01-02-2010, 04:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mister H.

Army Of Shadows
The Last Emperor
Oldboy
Let The Right One In
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Downfall
Bloody Sunday
Le Samurai
Sympathy For Lady Vengeance
Repulsion

Jean Pierre Melville FTW !
Good List.

Dark Victory · 01-02-2010, 04:42 PM

A lot of good films have been listed.

Hopefully Gasper Noe's Enter the Void will be a classic. It recieved some enthusiastic responses at Cannes.

gwynplaine · 01-02-2010, 06:18 PM

Gaspard Noe is a indeed a very talented director. I really liked "Carne" and "Seul contre tous", but after all that I heard about "Irreversible", I could never bring myself to watch it. And I'm not particularly faint of heart

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gwynplaine · 01-02-2010, 07:06 PM

_ Godard's Breathless.
_ The Seventh Seal.
_ The 400 Blows.
_ M.
_ The Cabinet Of Dr Caligari.

12-15-2009, 06:52 PM	#1
gwynplaine L'homme qui rit. Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 7,563	The Foreign Film Thread. Your favorite Foreign Films. Here are a few of mine. _ Lives of others. _ Memories of Murder. _ Cyrano de Bergerac. _ La Strada. _ Grand Illusion. _ Wages of fear. _ Talk to her. _ Seven Samurai. _ The Tin Drum. _ Aguirre. __________________ Laugh now, laugh later.

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