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Now that mass media has proliferated around the world its easy to find foreign films at any local video store. So I'm asking what are your favorite foreign films and what genre are they?
Mine are going to be "Shawn of The Dead" for comedy and "Life is Beautiful" tragedy/comedy.
Pan's Labyrinth is a fantastic film. Very heart breaking.
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Automatically Appended Next Post: No, your movies are foreign to me and mine are foreign to you, as well as any movie from ballywood is foreign to both of us.
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I think in keeping with the original post, the idea is to mention movies that you wouldn't
have seen/heard about without the easy access to information about said movies.
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"...he could never understand the sense of a contest in which the two adversaries agreed upon the rules." Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
Eat Drink Man Woman In Bruges Snatch Layer Cake Lock Stock and Both Barrels Das Boot Ran, Seven Samurai (all the usual suspects there) The Professional The host (hokey as hell but loved it) Emperor and the Assassin
I need to get me to the foreign film section, and stat!
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halonachos wrote:Now that mass media has proliferated around the world its easy to find foreign films at any local video store. So I'm asking what are your favorite foreign films and what genre are they?
Mine are going to be "Shawn of The Dead" for comedy and "Life is Beautiful" tragedy/comedy.
Do I get to count US films as foreign? Some of my favourite foreign (real foreign not US) movies are:
Downfall
Stalingrad
Das Boot
Astérix et Obélix contre César
Les visiteurs
Most of those I've really liked have been mentioned already, Ghibli especially. Another that hasn't which I love for the story is..
House of Flying Daggers.
edit - there is another one thinking on it, can't remember its name, buts its on my DVD harddrive so I can check later, an amazing film, anyone into martial arts films needs to watch it if they haven't already.
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Heard mixed things about this. Some have described it as the most beautiful film they have ever seen but at least one of my friends described it a "trite, sugar coated, mockery of the suffering of the holocaust" or words to that effect.
Some of my favorites are:
Stalingrad
Internal Affairs
Nikkita
Seven Samurai
Hard Boiled
Downfall
"And if we've learnt anything over the past 1000 mile retreat it's that Russian agriculture is in dire need of mechanisation!"
Foreign film normally means films in a foreign language to your own, because otherwise people end up listing almost all the same movies they'd list in a favourite movies list. As an Australian there's maybe 5 Australian movies in my favourite 100, at best. And what about stuff like The Fifth Element, US star, in English but a very French production.
Anyhow, my favourite non-English language movies;
Akira
City of Lost Children
The Killer
Old Boy
Goodbye Lenin
Das Boot
Stalingrad
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Pan's Labyrinth
Amelie
The Devil's Backbone
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Adam Smith, who must have been some kind of leftie or something.
I wasn't a fan of Pan's Labyrinth in the fact it was needlessly gory when it did not need to be for the story. But thats a common problem now days. lcukily was saw it on DVD and could run through the icky bits.
Automatically Appended Next Post: I should add the original Nosferatu. Still one of the creepiest movies ever made.
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I disagree that there is one considered definition of foreign film because I've seen experts debate it. For the porpoise ( ) of this thread I'm going with movies primarily funded and made outside ones native country starring mostly native actors. Even so it can still be difficult to draw a clearly distinction sometimes.
The Proposal
Priscilla Queen of the Desert
Chopper
Wings of Desire
Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
M
Eat Drink Man Woman
Brotherhood of the Wolf
Pretty much anything by: Kubrik, Hitchcock, Lean, Kurosawa
Amidst the mists and coldest frosts he thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees the ghosts.
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Godzilla (B&W version) and Godzilla vs. King Kong.
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I like the Death Note live action, (which got me hooked on the anime), Battle Royale, Studio Ghibli's films (all, my favourite is Princess Mononoke) and Azumi. I, too liked Oldboy. Apocalypto was fantastic as well, but I'm not sure it counts as foreign.
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Oldboy was originally a Japanese comic book and was also made into a Japanese movie, but it was the Korean adaptation that received the most acclaim and was even endorsed by Quentin Tarantino (I believe).
Frazzled wrote:I wasn't a fan of Pan's Labyrinth in the fact it was needlessly gory when it did not need to be for the story. But thats a common problem now days. lcukily was saw it on DVD and could run through the icky bits.
Automatically Appended Next Post: I should add the original Nosferatu. Still one of the creepiest movies ever made.
I disagree about Pan's Labyrinth. The very premise of the film is steeped in blood with
its themes (Birth, Revolution, Tyranny) and in its material (fairy tales, especially the
disturbingly older fairy tales that involve the sacrifice of children).
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Bashing someone's hands in with a hammer was unneeded to the storyline, seriously.
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Dumplings. I think it was made in Taiwan, though I may be wrong. Not so gory, but a really gruesome premise with a twist that I dare not reveal, because I'm evil.
) of this thread I'm going with movies primarily funded and made outside ones native country starring mostly native actors. Even so it can still be difficult to draw a clearly distinction sometimes.
