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2010/12/10 21:31:41
Subject: Favourite pretentious / Arty / Foreign movies
Obviously inspired by the other thread.
I really recommend for everyone here El Topo
Man of the year is also good, Amores Perros, City of God
Most Takeshi movies (though I even liked Brother)
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2010/12/10 21:40:57
Subject: Re:Favourite pretentious / Arty / Foreign movies
Decent foreign films?
Ok, sometimes they get it right.
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2010/12/10 21:44:18
Subject: Re:Favourite pretentious / Arty / Foreign movies
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2010/12/10 22:01:59
Subject: Favourite pretentious / Arty / Foreign movies
All well worth a watch IMO, but the latter and the premier are both quite "strong" in parts with regards to what they depict.
"City of God" was ace as well, and "The Horde" was kind of fun in a dumb zombie killing way.
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2010/12/10 22:08:15
Subject: Favourite pretentious / Arty / Foreign movies
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n'oublie jamais - It appears I now have to highlight this again.
It is by tea alone I set my mind in motion. By the juice of the brew my thoughts aquire speed, my mind becomes strained, the strain becomes a warning. It is by tea alone I set my mind in motion.
2010/12/10 22:10:25
Subject: Favourite pretentious / Arty / Foreign movies
A movie that's not played at the cinema or available in blockbusters. I don't personally like the word pretentious just needed a concise term.
Gonin
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2010/12/10 22:15:29
Subject: Favourite pretentious / Arty / Foreign movies
Ahtman wrote:Almost all the movies here have played at a cinema.
Not the ones I posted, inside their own country doesn't count.
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2010/12/11 05:49:58
Subject: Re:Favourite pretentious / Arty / Foreign movies
Minnesota, land of 10,000 Lakes and 10,000,000,000 Mosquitos
Actually a very interesting movie - I love a good movie about the other side of the law. Wish I could track down Lupin III, though - fantastic anime series, that was.
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Kal'reia Sept Tau - Farsight Sympathizers Da Great Looted Waaagh! The Court of the Wolf Lords
Actually a very interesting movie - I love a good movie about the other side of the law. Wish I could track down Lupin III, though - fantastic anime series, that was.
You can get Castle of Cagliostro on DVD. It was directed by Hayao Miyazaki.
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Ahtman wrote:Almost all the movies here have played at a cinema.
Not the ones I posted, inside their own country doesn't count.
I'd be willing to bet at least 2/3 on your original posts did show in the US. Not in major chains, but in art house theaters that show independent and foreign movies. Though some of the larger chains will have theaters that show them as well. We have one United Artist Theater here that usually has one or two foreign films. I really don't know what to list as the list would be to long and I don't know what I would prune to make it an acceptable length. For modern cinema anything by Wes Anderson, Paul Thomas Anderson, and the brothers Coen are up on top of the list. As for Foreign I guess, just a quick off the top of my head list of recent movies:
Bronson
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
Let The Right One In
Ichi the Killer
In the Loop
The Kings Speech
Dirty Pretty Things
A Woman, A Gun, and a Noodle Shop
and of course:
Oh, I lmost forgot one of my favorite recent westerns coming out from Australia:
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Amidst the mists and coldest frosts he thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees the ghosts.
2010/12/11 09:07:35
Subject: Re:Favourite pretentious / Arty / Foreign movies
The majority of the above are all classic examples of foreign cinema and not 'Attempting to impress by affecting greater importance, talent, culture, etc., than is actually possessed'
Change the title to remove the word pretentious, it's some what misleading
2010/12/11 10:00:12
Subject: Favourite pretentious / Arty / Foreign movies
Mr. Burning wrote:The majority of the above are all classic examples of foreign cinema and not 'Attempting to impress by affecting greater importance, talent, culture, etc., than is actually possessed'
Change the title to remove the word pretentious, it's some what misleading
You're right.
Unfortunately, the onlyreally pretentious movies I know are not foreign movies...(at least for me)
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Peter Wiggin wrote:Birth of a Nation. Regardless of what you feel about the content, it was the template for modern cinema.
Is that the kkk movie? I'm sort of interested but am too white to buy it. If I'm not on a watch list already that could be the final straw.
I don't think Birth of a Nation is on any watch list. Due to it's age and historical significance if it was on a list half of all college students would be flagged.
Amidst the mists and coldest frosts he thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees the ghosts.
2010/12/11 19:50:27
Subject: Favourite pretentious / Arty / Foreign movies
Nearly anything done by Akira Kurosawa. I also love "Grave of the Fireflies" (an anime flick), and "Girl on the Bridge" (probably my favorite French film).
80 Minitures.
2010/12/11 20:10:48
Subject: Re:Favourite pretentious / Arty / Foreign movies
The Undying Spawn of Shub-Niggurath 
Kal'reia Sept Tau - Farsight Sympathizers 
Da Great Looted Waaagh! 
The Court of the Wolf Lords 
80 Minitures. 