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Your Favourite Foreign language Film
Posted by Tiger33 • 8/12/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: foreign-films, movie remakes
Whats the best foreign language film you have watched recently?
For me its 'The Chaser' Korean Film
Its soo good in fact that hollywood have already commissioned a remake - (by the same team which created the infernal affairs remake - Departed)
Also honorable mention to Public Enemy No 1 - fantastic french film (couldnt believe it was a true story too)
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Well, "foreign" would depend on where you're from, so every film from anywhere would fit this thread.
I saw "the host" recently, a north korean horror movie. Not the greatest film I've seen, but it was entertaining.-
I hated that movie. Ugh. -
I was just going to say that foreign to me would be American films but the last one I saw was a dud- "Nothing but the Truth" about a journalist who refuses to give up her source even though it puts several lives at risk.
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Yojimbo is a particular favourite of mine.
Not watched any recently.-
Kurosawa fan?
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Godard's Made in USA - an oldie I just saw recently:
www.cinemathequeontario.ca/filmdetail.aspx?filmId=1506&GrpId=0 -
I didn't see that many of his films, but I liked the ones I saw. The last one I saw was Dodesukaden, I think. The theatrical use of colours in it is great.
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Claire-have you seen Sanjuro? The sequel to Yojimbo? It's wonderful, too. -
Ok, you just reminded me of the Japanese cartoon TOTORO- what a great movie.
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I will have to ask the dad what ones I have seen, I was forced to watch them and I am loathe to admit to him that I actually loved them
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That French one with the gun and the kids
or that Brazilian one with the kids and the gun.-
I take it you like guns and kids cookingasshole ;-)
O Dodesukaden
one of the few Kurosawa films I have not watched.
(good point about the thread title - hehehe but given that most people on this area communicate in english I was kinda hoping all the replies would be NON-ENGLISH LANGUAGE MOVIES)
Another good movie i watched was Suspect X
great story but seems to end all too soon?
Suspect X is based on the Japanese novel Detective Galileo
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Nikita -
Andrei Roublev (Tarkovsky)
(@Tiger33 Sorry: I don't know Russian, AND I don't know how to write Cyrillic characters in b.c.)
Incidentally, Kurosawa fans: could one of you please tell me the name of the (excellent) Kurosawa film that is based on a Maxim Gorky novel? I've been idly wondering this for a couple of years now (since I saw the damn thing); and for some reason have never found out. If only there were some kind of global network or 'web' of information that I could access at the quick of a button...
On the other hand, given that I've resisted looking the thing up for so long now, it would be nice if one of you could tell me...
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The Lower Depths
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I love watching Chinese and Korean Movies but I won't forget the first foreign movie I've seen was - Life is Beautiful (Italian)-
I loved IL POSTINO
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kung fu hustle. i must have seen it 30x and still laugh til the end.-
OMG --- I didn't even think about this - THIS IS - without a doubt one of the best comedy flicks anywhere... Like Roger Rabbit in Martial Arts with Jackie Chan"esque" comedy and fun!
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favorite my ass (i loveeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee that psycho) i make everyone i know watch it.
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Have you seen Shaolin Soccer? That one also is a lot of fun.
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recent: After the Wedding-Suzanne Bier
not so recent: Wild Strawberries-Bergman
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My favorite foreign film is director Wim Wenders' 1987 ‘Wings of Desire’. It is a wonderful German film directed just before the fall of the Berlin Wall. It was later remade as an American film ‘City of Angels’ starring Nicholas Cage and Meg Ryan. It is a celebration of physical life, which we take for granted, from the perspective of a pair of angels, one who wishes to experience the joy and pain of human existence. Some will love this movie; others will be bored to tears.-
Great movie, Davedol! Very poetic. I loved it, too.
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Nothingprofound, those I encouraged to give the movie a try didn’t get it. Maybe it was the subtitles and the black and white mixed with the occasional color. I don’t know, but it is a hidden treasure. And yes…it is very much like poetry.
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One that comes to mind is: "Like Water for Chocolate"
A romantic fable from Mexico about a young woman who discovers that her cooking has magical effects. She falls in love with this guy but her family says he must marry the older sister. Her sadness and hurt is so deep that she starts to infect all of her cooking to where all who eats it can feel her heartbreak with the same intensity.
It all end badly but its a great movie.-
Ooh, I loved this one.
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I soooo love that movie. Especially that part when they ate that cake and starts crying. I also love the French film 'Betty Blue'.We have European film festival held yearly here and there were so many films I watched 2 years ago that brought tears to my eyes. I wish I could go back to Manila once again for a short time to watch EFF
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I like "Hum Di De Chuke Sanam". A Bollywood production with Aishwarya Rai when she was younger and not too big a star yet. It was a fun movie. A bit campy in some parts, but the ending was heart wrenching and sweet at the same time. Long movie, but good. -
The Galilee Eskimos 2006 (in Hebrew).
A kibbutz in Galilee was sold off, to pay debts, and all the kibbutz members left. But they forgot their parents and grandparents, the very pioneers who had originally built the kibbutz in the 1940s. These 12 elderly people sat in their hostel, waiting patiently for breakfast but they have been deserted. At first the elderlies were overwhelmed and depressed, but then they remembered their old skills.. and organised themselves beautifully. They even remembered their old love affairs from the 1940s.
As I age, I will remember this film more and more. -
Motorcycle diaries (Spanish). I simply loved it and the lead actor is gorgeous! -
I loved the movie...The White Balloon
It's Persian -
Salaam Bombay -
honorable mention - recent films
Live of Others - German
o and its been remade!! damn hollywood -
So many! Viy is my number one favorite, then I would choose Pans Labyinth, Amelia, lots of old soviet films are my all time favorite though.-
Amelie is a great French film.
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NP: I love "Wild Strawberries".
Davedol: have you seen "Far away, so close"? (sequel to Wings of Desire? Do you think it compares favourably or unfavourably to "wings of desire" (which I also like very much). -
Oh, and by the way: thanks N.P! I've just found your shout and realised that "The Lower Depths" was, in fact, the Kurosawa film. I stupidly thought you were just listing another favourite foreign film (and that it was one I hadn't heard of).
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My favourite is the Italian language film 'Cinema Paradiso'. One of the most wonderful films I've ever seen. 'Il Postino', also Italian, comes a close second. -
Fifth Element .. definitely! (from the foreign country of USA - said the Canadian) ///
But, maybe for the majority of non-Canadians out there .. this one was pretty good..
"Last Night" (Don McKellar)
www.imdb.com/title/tt0156729/
It's about 6 hours before Y2K and the world was supposed to End. It's really captivating, even post-Y2K .. could be applied to any end-of-the-world scenario (2012?) -
So many films, so little time . . .
Bergman's "Magic Flute"
"My Life as a Dog"
and many, many French films, from the serious ones of Godard, Truffaut and Resnais to "Le Diner des Cons"
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