The Foreign Film Thread...

Has anyone seen the Swedish film, Let the Right One In? Much better than the book. And the photography is beautiful!
 
gabe said:
Has anyone seen the Swedish film, Let the Right One In? Much better than the book. And the photography is beautiful!
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Mentioned at least twice already on the thread, so there's at least two of us have seen it :thumbs:.. it's a great film, just the right amount of creepiness and a very photographic style of cinematography from what I can remember..
 
Nothing new just another vote for Kurosawa films although no one's mentioned 'The Hidden Fortress' yet which I quite liked.


I agree, Day watch and Night watch too....good films :thumbs:
 
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Some great films mentioned so far.

I also like My Life As a Dog by Lasse Hallström, After The Wedding by Susanne Bier, Delicatessen by Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet (directed Amelie)

and quite a few more that I can't remember the names of right now.

Oh yeah...

Goodbye Lenin by Wolfgang Becker
Run Lola Run by Tom Tykwer
and many of Hayao Miyazaki's films
Cinema Paradiso by Giuseppe Tornatore
Il Postino by Michael Radford
 
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Alastair said:
Mentioned at least twice already on the thread, so there's at least two of us have seen it :thumbs:.. it's a great film, just the right amount of creepiness and a very photographic style of cinematography from what I can remember..
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Another very evocative vampire film is Nosferatu. One of Klaus Kinski's best roles!
 
Right here's my list;
Amelie
A very long engagement
Le diner du cons (Brilliant comedy)
Apres vous (Comedy)
Bellville Rendez-vous (Animation)
Star (Russian ww2 film)
Pans Labryrinth
Black cat white cat
Kontroll (Czechoslovakian comedy set on the metro )
The red ballon (French)
Flight of the red ballon (French)
Angela (French)
Life is beautiful (Italian ww2 holocaust film)
Mic Macs (French comedy )
The city of lost children (French )
 
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The red ballon (French)
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Good choice! No dialogue though, so not exactly foreign language, although it is obviously a French film. Given the absence of dialogue it's astonishing how moving it is.

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Flight of the red ballon (French)
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And another good choice, of course it's bound to be good, Juliette Binoche is in it :D

Saw both of these on a double bill at "The cube" in Bristol, a volunteer run cinema. Tea in a china cup with saucer, home made cake on a proper plate with a proper fork to eat it :thumbs: and the projecter broke part way through prompting the projectionist to come down into the cinema to explain what was going on to the assembled dozen or so people :lol:
 
Jodhaa Akbar. It'll change your opinion on Indian cinema for the better. Beautiful film. Makes Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon look decidedly pale.

Goodbye Lenin! is a great indie film from Germany.

Host is also a good one, South Korean I think.
 
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Just watched Jules et Jim by Trauffaut. Really love it. Trauffaut was such a wonderful director!
 
Irreversible really did my head in. One to watch, but only once. I don't think I could ever watch it again.

City of God is another must see.
 
Finally watched Pan's Labyrinth this week, superb film.
 
I've seen a couple of Iranian films recently on Amazon Prime that were both worth watching, both very different but give an insight into Iranian life back in the 1980s and more recently.

The Stoning of Soraya M (made in 2008 set in the 1980s) is a fairly typical selfish guy wants divorce to marry younger... it has probably the most harrowing sequence of any film I've ever seen.

About Elly is made in 2012 and is hard to describe, a weekend away for an extended family where a bit of match making goes wrong.
 
Excellent thread nice to see it revived:)
my favourites are the Kurosawa films esp Seven Samurai
also the Korean films like Old Boy
and Hong Kong cop films like Infernal Affairs another one that was remade by Hollywood
When we rented Troll Hunter I expected it to be rubbish but it was great fun
I'm also a fan of Anime
the Cowboy Bebop series is definitely worth watching
 
Watched Ida yesterday. Stunning cinematography. Love the choice of aspect ratio and the framing is breath taking.
 
Angela's and Mediterraneo are worth a look and also La Grande Vadrouille if you like farce's staring that doyenne of French actors Terry Thomas (yes). I also like a number of the Japanese Studio Ghibli cartoons. Sub titles don't bother me if the film's good. Probably the only DVD's we buy now are foreign language ones as all the English language ones appear on TV at some point.
 
Surprised to see nobody has mentioned No Mans Land.
 
As well as Jean de Florette and Manon des Sources, I really enjoyed I've Loved You So Long. Oh and Amélie and La Vie en Rose.

There were tons of others I remember watching growing up but I forget what they're called. My uncle used to record them all off the television and then put them in cases on his shelves. I always remember gazing at the dozens and dozens of videos in their lounge when we used to visit him and my aunt
 
I recommend a lovely Korean film called 3 Iron. Totally beautiful in every way.
 
Watched The Eternal Zero on Netflix today, excellent film about a Japanese WWII pilot. Totally not what I was expecting.
 
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