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    How was there not already a thread on this?

    Eastwood does Kurosawa ... I think that says it all in 3 words. Give him another Oscar.

    I was dumbfounded ... speechless as I left the theater (on a first date no less).
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    I'm seeing it this weekend, Mr. Lime...

    A sleeper to win the Oscar for Best Picture, but a foreign language film has an up hill climb to win.

    Wasn't the last foreign language movie to win - "Life Is Beautiful"?

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      Re: Letters from Iwo Jima

      Originally posted by Authorized View Post
      A sleeper to win the Oscar for Best Picture, but a foreign language film has an up hill climb to win.

      Wasn't the last foreign language movie to win - "Life Is Beautiful"?
      Shakespeare in Love won best pic in 1998.

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        Re: Letters from Iwo Jima

        Originally posted by Authorized View Post
        A sleeper to win the Oscar for Best Picture, but a foreign language film has an up hill climb to win.

        Wasn't the last foreign language movie to win - "Life Is Beautiful"?
        No. The French Connection in 1971.

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          Re: Letters from Iwo Jima

          Both of those films are English speaking. Life Is Beautiful is in Italian and
          Letters of Iwo Jima as we all know is in Japanese.

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            Originally posted by Authorized View Post
            Both of those films are English speaking. Life Is Beautiful is in Italian and
            Letters of Iwo Jima as we all know is in Japanese.
            Duh.

            But LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL did NOT win best picture, as your previous post asserted. There have been best pictures with extended foreign language sections (GODFATHER II), but none have been entirely foreign language films. Only a few have even been nominated (Z was another).

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              Re: Letters from Iwo Jima

              Originally posted by Hairy Lime View Post
              I was dumbfounded ... speechless as I left the theater (on a first date no less).
              Been there. She must be pretty cool, if you took her to a War Drama for the first date.

              This on my movie schedule for the weekend. I'm going to go Friday, Saturday, and Sunday night to bone up on some of these Academy Award pictures.
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                Re: Letters from Iwo Jima

                Originally posted by Hairy Lime View Post
                How was there not already a thread on this?

                Eastwood does Kurosawa ... I think that says it all in 3 words. Give him another Oscar.

                I was dumbfounded ... speechless as I left the theater (on a first date no less).
                Did you go for sushi after the movie?

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                  Been there. She must be pretty cool, if you took her to a War Drama for the first date.
                  Hairy won't know for sure how cool she is unless there's a second date.

                  Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself.
                  It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime.
                  -- Potter Stewart

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                    Re: Letters from Iwo Jima

                    Originally posted by Marine66 View Post
                    Did you go for sushi after the movie?
                    Tempted, but she doesn't eat sushi! We went to an Italian wine bar instead. At least it was still an Axis power.
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                    http://www.myspace.com/confoundedfilms

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                      Originally posted by Hairy Lime View Post
                      Tempted, but she doesn't eat sushi! We went to an Italian wine bar instead. At least it was still an Axis power.
                      Axis power. Germany, Italy, and ah....Japan.

                      Good, Hairy. But, still too dry and cerebral.

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                        Please see the other thread where Haunted was lambasted for dissecting the joke. It just ruins it.

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                          I was lambasted? It didn't even sting.

                          Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself.
                          It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime.
                          -- Potter Stewart

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                            Re: Letters from Iwo Jima

                            Originally posted by Authorized View Post
                            Good, Hairy. But, still too dry and cerebral.
                            We all have our limitations.
                            http://confoundedfilms.com

                            http://www.myspace.com/confoundedfilms

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                              We went to an Italian wine bar instead.
                              Which wine did you woo her with? Hopefully red at an Italian bar. Chianti is my guess.
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