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jask · Joined: 17 Mar 2006 Posts: 10187 Location: kamloops BC

All right this one should be hard. what is your favorite,or couple of favorite titles
I would have to say for me it is a choice between Rashomon and Crouching tiger,hidden dragon.,,,,,give me an hour and I will add another 40 or so titles!!

Lets hear your favorites

emdawgz1 · Joined: 14 Mar 2006 Posts: 7949

A few of my fav's

1. Secrets and lies. A smal brit flick. Well written and acted.

2. Kenneth Bragnah's Hamlet, and Much ado about nothing.

3. Shichinin no Samurai (Seven Samurai) Akira Kurosawa's masterpiece.

4. Nuovo Cinema Paradiso

zaphod · Joined: 16 Jun 2006 Posts: 2002 Location: Cloverdale

Vergeßt Mozart (Forget Mozart)

deals witht he investigation after his death. released one year after Amadeus. wonderful film.

**kal** · Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 1:02 am Post subject:

A couple of my favourites that haven't been mentioned yet:

1. DAS BOOT (by far my favourite foreign film, and also one of my overall favs)

2. AMELIE

Kal

Person99 · Joined: 09 Mar 2006 Posts: 4899 Location: Flower Mound, TX

I like Kal's choices.

I also have to add:
- Vita è bella, La (Life is Beautiful)
- La Femme Nakita (not great but was the film my wife and I saw at a specialty cinema on our first date)
- The Bicycle Theif
- Tsotsi
- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (had to put it in the list as it is one of my wife's fav foreign films)

jask · Joined: 17 Mar 2006 Posts: 10187 Location: kamloops BC

Kal
Das boot was the first film I remember watching on a CRT projector, I could almost smell the inside of that sub. still the best sub movie ever made!!

kschmit2 · Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 9:28 am Post subject:

ecrabb · Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 2:55 pm Post subject:

Definitely some movies here I'm going to have to check out. Tsotsi looks interesting.

Amelie was great. The color and the way it was shot was really good - should be nice in HD.

I'm not a big subtitle fan, so we don't watch a lot of foreign films... I don't know if it was even technically "foreign", but we thought Maria Full of Grace was a pretty good flick. Scary, suspenseful, but real too. I think it was a mostly Spanish audio track.

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Spotmatic · Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 2:58 pm Post subject:

What about:

- Shaun of the Dead
- Hot Fuzz

...for the lovers of English humor? I saw both this week and could not stop laughing! Very Happy

Person99 · Joined: 09 Mar 2006 Posts: 4899 Location: Flower Mound, TX

Mark_A_W · Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 5:43 am Post subject:

So any film not made in the US of A is a foreign film? Like The Matrix or last three Star Wars?

Or do you guys mean foreign language film?

Coz to me Shaun of the Dead, etc, are not foreign films.

nettwerkjohn · Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 7:44 am Post subject:

i always figured that english films weren't foreign...

heres a couple of faves of mine:

switchblade sisters (haute tension)
infernal affairs
the killer (john woo at his finest)
lone wolf and cub series
hanzo the blade series (extremely politically incorrect but great fun-kinda like a russ meyer samurai film)
the voyeur (tinto brass)
cannibal holocaust (mean spirited, but a masterpiece in "documentary" storytelling)
versus (check this out if you like hyper-stylized kinetic crazy japanese splatterstick)
azumi (as above, just toned down for those with quieter sensibilities)
ran and kagemusha (my favourite kurasawa...)

damn, this list is getting longer by the minute.

amelie,delicatessen,subway,the big blue,the fifth element (un film de luc besson...)

das boot,stalingrad,downfall

anyone seen a german comedy? how about shultz gets the blues...

but the crowning glory, the best of the best, would be:

gloomy sunday. its been showing at a arthouse cinema here in NZ for over 6 years continuously. its a masterpiece. track it down.

jask · Joined: 17 Mar 2006 Posts: 10187 Location: kamloops BC

Good point Mark
I was thinking Language originally as most of us are native english speakers, but Two hands,Rabbit proof fence,Breaking the waves,Whale rider,Dirty pretty things are all good examples of the sort of movies you might not find in your local video shop (over here!)
I really enjoy seeing movies like Open your eyes,Walking alone for thousands of miles, and Pans Labyrinth ,,,oh yeah and Hard boiled,Central station,Ran,Delicatessen,Three colours:blue,Il postino,8 1/2....

so I guess lets make it movies that are not made for english language cinema

madpoet · Joined: 30 Mar 2006 Posts: 851

Good topic!

Much Ado About Nothing is great (evin if Keanu is a bit of an odd choice). I also loved it when I saw it on stage years ago so I'm biased.

Strictly Ballroom is a classic Aussie film if you like ballroom dancing. I really enjoyed it.

Monsoon Wedding is my favorite Indian flick.

Perhaps my favorite foreign film though is the Irish flick "Waking Ned Devine"... funny as hell, and some really great people in it.

*edit* Sorry.. didn't realize we were discussing non-English flicks, though I would argue that all my films are "foreign"

emdawgz1 · Joined: 14 Mar 2006 Posts: 7949

The Academy of motion pictures arts and sciences defines a foreign film as one that opens outside of the US.

So brit films "technically" are foreign.

jask · Joined: 17 Mar 2006 Posts: 10187 Location: kamloops BC

EDIT: thread title changed to "foreign language"

papalek · Joined: 08 Mar 2006 Posts: 1536 Location: Longs SC

Pans Labyrinth. Thumbs Up

Five Stars * * * * *

And I normally hate subtitles!!

madpoet · Joined: 30 Mar 2006 Posts: 851

Le Pact de Lupes (Brotherhood of the Wolf)

zaphod · Joined: 16 Jun 2006 Posts: 2002 Location: Cloverdale

madpoet · Joined: 30 Mar 2006 Posts: 851

Forget the DVD, import the HD DVD. Just got the French release and it is stunning.