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03-16-2013, 05:12 PM
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Re: The Foreign Film Thread.
A Bittersweet life & The Man from Nowhere. I highly recommend these films.
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03-23-2013, 11:17 PM
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Re: The Foreign Film Thread.
Liked Wong Kar-Wai's The Grandmasters. Great action scenes, touching lead performances by Tony Leung, Zhang Ziyi (her best in a while) and Zhang Jin as the villain.
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03-30-2013, 11:11 AM
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Re: The Foreign Film Thread.
Enjoyed Hou Hsiao-Hsien's The Boys from Fengkuei. Youths who have just graduated spend their time drinking, fighting, one falling in love and losing his girl, while waiting for compulsory military service. Nostalgic, pain, remembrance. Very good.
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04-21-2013, 05:46 PM
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Re: The Foreign Film Thread.
Yee Chin-yen's Blue Gate Crossing. Carefully made, light coming-of-age story about a young girl trying to decide between her male best friend and her may-or-maybe not destined girlfriend.
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04-26-2013, 07:36 PM
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Re: The Foreign Film Thread.
I recommend 3 fantastic films from the late great French director Louis Malle (from his early French period) : "The Thief of Paris" (with a young Jean Paul Belmondo in great form), "Murmur of the Heart", and my favorite "Lacombe Lucien."
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04-27-2013, 09:09 PM
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Re: The Foreign Film Thread.
Just rewatched Vittorio De Sica 's "Marriage Italian Style" with Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni. Great film and Mastroianni with his pencil-thin moustache looks just like "Mandrake the Magician" and made me think of his abandoned film based on the comic that Fellini and him wanted to do
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05-03-2013, 11:17 AM
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Re: The Foreign Film Thread.
Going through Edward Yang. That Day, On the Beach really does deserve a region 1 release. Modernism without showing off, totally natural. Taipei Story, about a young woman fleeing her past -- and Taipei's -- is underrated even by his fans. A Brighter Summer Day really does deserve a place on those best-of-the-past-quarter-century lists it and Yi Yi are starting to pop up on.
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05-06-2013, 08:32 AM
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Re: The Foreign Film Thread.
Add Yang's Mahjong to the underrated list. Funny crime drama that plays like something Tarantino might have written early in his career if he was soaked in Taiwanese culture.
Enjoyed Jia Zhangke's Xiao Wu. An especially low-level pickpocket doesn't manage to move on after all his friends have graduated to legit jobs or higher levels of crime, and he pays the consequences for it as China regains Hong Kong and cracks down on crime. Very funny film, until you think about all the implications of what you've just seen, and then it turns somewhat shocking.
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05-06-2013, 08:06 PM
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Re: The Foreign Film Thread.
^ Thanks for the infos, Childeroland. I haven't heard of a lot of the films you mention in this thread and you sure know a lot about Foreign films and Asian Cinema in particular
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05-06-2013, 09:48 PM
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Re: The Foreign Film Thread.
No problem, though I always feel like I'm trying to catch up on stuff I've missed, with Asian and other cinema (French, neorealism, etc).
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05-16-2013, 12:50 PM
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Re: The Foreign Film Thread.
i would like to recommend two argentine (my country) movies that both have universal acclaim:
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06-04-2013, 11:02 PM
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Re: The Foreign Film Thread.
Just rewatched "Le Professionel" with Jean Paul Belmondo on Netflix, really fun old school French action movie with a Belmondo in great form.
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