Does anyone here watch Foreign Films?
Have you ever?
If so, which one(s)?

I do. My favorite FF so far is "Amelie." Despite the fact that it's French, it's a great movie. It's a little weird-that's probably why I like it.

I've seen "Belle Du Jour," some old friench film starring Catherine Deneuve, I've seen... "All About My Mother," which was a Spanish film..damn good.. "Amorres Perros" is another..although it was released here..so..I dont' know if that counts. I dunno, anything from another country counts as "foreign," so I'd say a whole lot.. since my family is Mexican and all.. but those are the notable ones I remember seeing. Seen "Run Lola Run" about a million times, but who hasn't? I have yet to see "Amelie" and "Y tu Mama Tambien" though.

Any french new wave is great, amelie borrows a lot from that movement. My two FNW faves are:
Breathless (or A Bout de Souffle)
The 400 Blows
Check out these filmmakers: François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Claude Chabrol, Jacques Rivette and Eric Rohmer, they're the core of FNW.

The french trilogy Blue, White, and Red, are three MUST see films. AMAZING!!! They're in french, but made by a polish film maker by the name of Kieslowski.

If you like action films, John Woo's hong kong films are must see:
The killer
Hard Boiled
A Better Tomorrow

Two great classic Japanese film makers:
Kurosawa (Seven Samurai, Ran)
Ozu (Good morning, Tokyo Story)

A very interesting modern Japanese film is Audition by Takashi Miike. But be warned, it's extremely disturbing to a lot of people.

And of course a large part of the surrealist movement (he worked with Dali) is Luis Bunuel. His most famous movie is Un Chien Andalou or The Andalusian Dog in english. It was very controversial at the time.

I could go on, I love foreign film.

A few of my faves

:The 400 Blows

Seven Samurai

Rashmon [another Kurosowa film]


M [Fritz Lang]

Grand Illusion [ Jean Reniour]

8 1/2 [ Federico Fellini]

The Virgin Spring [Igmar Bergman]

Farewell My Concubine [forget the flimmaker's name]

I'll come up with more later.

I did love Amelie and I think it got shafted at the Oscars [it should have been nominated for Best Actress as well]

Good movies TT. Farewell My Concubine is by Chen Kaige.

I forgot to mention if you liked Amelie, you need to see City of Lost Children also by Jean-Pierre Jeunet.

Hmmm...

Le Boucher by Claude Chabrol
Diabolique by Henri Clouzot
Birumano Tategoto by Kon Ichikawa
Nosferatu by F. W. Murnau
And the greatest of all time: Metropolis by Fritz Lang

Buena Vista Social Club :)



awesome cuban jazz ;)

Scott-
Isn't that more of a documentary?

Thanks for the imput. I'll look into all these films. ;)

Oh, the one film I regret watching: Ferinelli. It was only good for the music; the rest was...how you say...Crap!

Hey Monkey, I did a little research to get you dates and stuff, these are all great movies:

Ingmar Bergman:
The Seventh Seal -Swedish 1956
Persona -Swedish 1966
Smiles of a Summer Night -Swedish 1955
Luc Beson: (made the professional and 5th element)
La Femme Nikita -French 1990
Subway -French 1985
Lars Von Trier:
Breaking the Waves -1996 (in english)
Dancer in the Dark -2000 (in english)

Ladri di Biciclette (The Bicycle Thief)-Italian 1948
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari -German 1919
Grand Illusion -French 1937
Raise the Red Lantern -Hong Kong (not action) 1991
Shower -China 1999
A Pure Formality -French 1994 (Roman Polanski)

want more?

Y Tu Mama Tambien-Mexican
A man and a woman-French (Has shelby Mustangs in it!!!):eek: :cool: :D

Originally posted by Redfield
Scott-
Isn't that more of a documentary?




yah i gues....you cought me ;)

I've seen some amazing documentaries, they're still considered films. Scott, BVSC is worthy of this thread.

I do watch a lot of them. Some of them are good and some are way overrated. I love foreigh war movies especially.

Stalingrad was really good.

Das Boot was good.

I like a lot of the old Samuri movies from Japan

I liked Ran, Seven Samuri.

There was this really good Violent Japaneese Comedy, I think its name was The Night Before but I dont remember the exact title. Its about this guy who wakes up the next movie hung over and he tries to piece together what happened to him the night before. As the story unfolds he is in a lot more trouble than he realized before. It turns out he got drunk and was on a crime spree. In the end of the movie he finds himself the target of a manhunt.

I also like a lot of really bad cheesy kung foo flicks. You know, the ones where the lips move and the speech does not match. I really get a good laugh from those.

I recnetly saw tow sewwedish films that I loved:Under The Sun and Together.

I don't recall the names of the filmmakers.

Under The Sun takes place in 1956 about a middle-aged farmer who lives alone [and has never been with a woman] who takes an ad in a newspaper for a housekeeper.

He has a friend [who has met Charlie Parker,Greta Garbo and the Sun Records Elvis Presley] that exploits him and who is concerned this woman will mean the end to his meal ticket

Interstesting film with great performances.

Together takes place in 1975 in a commune , while not overseas I was around during that era and it brought back lots of memories.

Interesting study of all the various personalities involved.