Foreign films

[tomasz1985]

Have you seen any good foreign drama lately that you can recommend?

[refriedwhiskey]

A Very Long Engagement

[Jake Schuster]

Recently seen films?

"2046"
"The Beat that my Heart Skipped"
"Look at Me"

[warrenP]

It isn't recent, but I'd recommend: "Europa, Europa."

[Joe Unidos]

I enjoyed "Rochelle, Rochelle." It's about a young girl's erotic journey from Milan to Minsk.







Or something like that. I would echo too that "2046" is worth seeing.

[dgrunert]

A Very long Engagement is wonderful. If you saw/loved Amelie, you should definitely enjoy this.

[Jake Schuster]

"The Beat that my Heart Skipped" is a remake of Toback's "Fingers" and far superior to it.

[Hairy Lime]

Secuestro Express and Kontroll are a couple I've enjoyed recently.

A Very Long Engagement and anything else in French by Jeunet or Jeunet/Caro is worth watching - Amelie, City of Lost Children, Delicatessen.

[whitenavel]

Downfall.

[NoTalentAssClown]

2046, Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, Oldboy (just released on DVD). Criterion just put out Harakiri, a wonderful Japanese samurai film from the 60's.

[s1eve]

Somersault , an Australian film.

Bittersweet Life , a Korean film.


Both available on DVD.

[Jake Schuster]

"Memories of Murder", a Korean film, available for free (I believe until tomorrow) on Comcast On-Demand.

[Jake Schuster]

Anything by Kieslowski.

[Deus Ex Machine]

The Eye
Brotherhood of the Wolf
Premonition
Dark Water

[Austen]

It's not recent, but Beat Takeshi's Kikujiro is fantastic! I think it's one of his best.
Austen.

[refriedwhiskey]

Not recent, but great, is the Hong Kong movie King of Masks.

[willwriteforfood]

Ponette (french)
The 400 Blows (german)
Run Lola Run (german- stars Franka Potente, was in Bourne Identity/Supremecy Damons Girlfriend)
The Princess and the Warrior (german- Franka Potente)
He loves me, He Loves Me Not (french - Audrey Tautou)
Amelie (french - you know who)
God is Great, I am not (french, again Audrey)
A Very Long Engagement (french - again, Audrey)
Il Mostro (Italian - Roberto Begnini)
Johnny Stecchino (Italian - Roberto Begnini)
Life is Beautiful (italian - Roberto again)
Il Professore (italian)

[Adam Isaac]

Harakiri is choice material.

KAGEMUSHA is out too. Kurosawa's return to fuedal Japan. Good movie.

As far as French Cinema goes-I'm partial to the older films, and that's a long list to try and sum up.

Watch JEAN-LUC GODDARD'S films. They're exceptional.

Try this one too: ONG-BAK. Just saw this recently, and have to recommend.

JEAN RENOIR's films are genius too. Textbooks.

[whitenavel]

I Stand Alone from Gasper Noe.

[Jake Schuster]

willwriteforfood:

"The 400 Blows" is neither recent nor German. It was made by François Truffaut.

[QuackCorleone]

The Last Life in the Universe (Pen-Ek Ratanaruang)
Thailand

Code 46 (Michael Winterbottom)
Britain

The Wedding (Wojciech Smarzowski)
Poland

Uno (Aksel Hennie)
Norway

Nobody Knows (Hirokazu Koreeda)
Japan

Control (Nimrod Antal)
Hungary

The Edukators (Hans Weingartner)
Germany

[s1eve]

The Last Life in the Universe (Pen-Ek Ratanaruang)
Thailand



Fantastic film!

[willwriteforfood]

oops.

[willwriteforfood]

Have you seen any good foreign drama lately that you can recommend?

I took this to mean have I seen any movies lately, not movies that were recent. My apologies. And I have no idea why I wrote that it was German when I knew it was French. My apologies. I wrote down the foreign movies that I've seen lately that I thought were wonderful.

[Charli]

East West
Run Lola Run

Old classic, Entre Nous, but you must like Isabelle Huppert to truly enjoy that
flick. Isabelle did a few other movies as did Miou-Miou (God help me on the
spelling here). Miou-Miou was in "The Reader" which was also a quirky little flick.

Les Enfantes (is that right?)
My Mother's Castle & My Father's House (did I get that right?)

Been awhile since I've seen those last three flicks.

Charli

[Jake Schuster]

Huppert is, in my opinion, one of the great actresses. She can remain essentially still and yet convey a great deal of emotion.

By "Les Enfants" do you mean Louis Malle's "Au Revoir les Enfants" or the great "Les Enfants du Paradis"? Shot in Paris under the eyes of the occupying German forces, the film had in its cast an actor who was in the Resistance and used the shooting both to make his contacts and to escape.

[refriedwhiskey]

For a change of pace: The awesome, funny Hong Kong flick, Kung Fu Hustle.

[Deus Ex Machine]

"The 400 Blows" is neither recent nor German. It was made by François Truffaut.

And if you are looking for porn and think this sounds like a good title, you will be very disappointed :)

[Jake Schuster]

But there is a scene involving milk, another a fairground ride; and then there's always the beach...

[gesztenye]

Beat Takeshi's Sonatine and Brother - beautiful yakuza movies with minimalistic dialogues and lovely games.

[Charli]

Jake - I was refering to Louis Malle's "Au Revoir les Enfants." Made me cry.

Did you see that flick with Isabelle, the one where the women broke out in
song? Cracked me up. The movies was titled: 8 femmes.

Here at the office we'd rent foreign films and watch them during our down time.
I love the French. Their facial expressions. Their tone. Their quirks.
Especially love the actress Miou-Miou. One of the guest here at the hotel
met her and said she was a very down to earth kind of lady. Nice to hear.

Ah, the flick with Isabelle and Miou-Miou was known as "Entre Nous" but originally
titled: "Coupe de foudre."

Charli

[tabula rasa]

Slice-of-another-culture, grim foreign underground crime themes ...

CITY OF GOD (Brazil)
THE HARDER THEY COME (Jamaica)
ONCE WERE WARRIORS (New Zealand?)

[AlabamaBlackSnake]

Beat Takeshi's Sonatine and Brother - beautiful yakuza movies with minimalistic dialogues and lovely games.

are you on crack?

BROTHER is pretty much the worst movie ever made. period.

it is entirely devoid of conflict.


the entire picture can be boiled down to a series of close ups of kitano sitting around smoking, twitching his left cheek as his underlings tell him about all the retarded crap that happened since his last close up.

is your idea of a "lovely game" a 10-minute long scene of yakuza playing basketball with black gangstas in which absolutely NOTHING HAPPENS?

i saw this and wondered who wrote this decroded piece of crap....kitano


the more i watched, the more i wondered, who directed this decroded piece of crap....kitano


with so many LONG, BORING close ups of Kitano smoking, twitching his left cheek, I wondered who actually edited this decroded piece of crap....kitano


don't get me wrong, i'm not a Kitano hater by any means. it's just that BROTHER is right up there in the hall of shame with BATTLEFIELD EARTH, GIGLI, BULLET(retarded "Jewish ex-con redemption" movie w/ Tupac, Adrien Brody & Mickey Rourke).

In fact, I enjoyed Gohatto (the movie about gay samurai - i walked into the theater having no idea what i was getting into - i am told the samurai were frequently gay) Zatoichi, Hanabi, Sonatine, Battle Royale and i am a faithful viewer of some of his TV shows in Japan (the best is "Koko ga hen dayo nihonjin" which is a kind of Japanese Jerry Springer with 100 foreigners from all over the world speaking Japanese with various weird accents who then compete in debates with panel guests from different segmetns of Japanese society about controversial aspects of Japanese culture, all moderated by Kitano.)

[gesztenye]

Funny. I wish I was on crack.

I thought that calm and unemotional yakuza character says a lot about his journey and his outlook on life. No, I'm pretty sure it does and I never found it boring, there's a good amount of killings in those movies.

anyway, I just watched Infernal Affairs and I recommend it too :).