Favorite/Least Foreign Film

[calf]

Faves:
Life is Beautiful
The Gods Must be Crazy

[MrMastodonFarm]

Originally posted by fotze@Oct 19 2004, 03:49 PM
Hate:
Any movie by Lars von Trier

I will quickly second that. Have you seen Dogville fotze? Worst peice of trash I have seen in a long time.

My favourite foreign film I would have to go with Goodbye Lenin right now. Very good movie.

[ah123]

Favourites (so far):

Unbearable lightness of being (the book by Milan Kundera is even better than the movie)
Babette Blue (nominated for an Oscar long time ago)
Amelie (loved the camera angles)

[troutman]

I liked "Run Lola Run". When I met my wife, she was living in Berlin.

[FlamesAddiction]

My favourite is probably "Open Your Eyes".

The Hollywood adaptation called; "Vanilla Sky" starring Tom Cruise is also quite good.

[octothorp]

Run Lola Run
Crouching Tiger
the original Insomnia
Delicatessen

[Displaced Flames fan]

Anyone ever see an Austrian (it might be German) film called, Funny Games?

[Ro]

Off the top of my head, some great ones:

Repulsion - Best creepy movie I've ever seen
Amelie
Ikiru - So good...New DVD reissue is great
City Of God
The Bicycle Thief
Y Tu Mama Tambien
Zaitochi
No Man's Land
Brotherhood Of The Wolf
The Station Agent
Hard Boiled
Tokyo Drifter
The Killer


After some research, also these:

Talk To Her
The Barbarian Invasions (Canadian French - foreign to me!)
Three Colours Trilogy (Red/White/Blue)
L'Avventura

Didn't Like As Much As I Thought I Might, But Still Good:

8 1/2
La Strada
The 400 Blows
The Seventh Seal

Overrated:

Can't think of too many right away...usually, I rent foreign flicks after a recommendation or a good review I read, so I don't see too many crappy ones. Here's some I've seen that aren't worth seeing again (using my imdb.com list):

Osama
Dogville
Kolya
Cinema Paradiso
Satryicon
Like Water For Chocolate
Any Truffaut/Godard film
Jules And Jim

[FlamesAddiction]

Man, I saw this one film from the Czech Republic before really late at night on Bravo. It was a few years back and was the most bizarre thing I have ever seen.

From what I remember, the lead guy was a priest, and I think the only actual human. The rest of the characters were maniquins (sp) or marienette (sp) puppets. I can't remember the story, and it was far too wierd to follow. All I remember was that he had sex with one of the puppets and then it turned into satan. It was the creepiest movie.

Anyone see that one?

[Andrew]

CITY OF GOD is my fav.... that movie is amazing. See it if you haven't

[Agamemnon]

No one picks the Triplets of Belleville?

Amazing soundtrack, amazing.

Also Amelie.

[FlamesAddiction]

City of Lost Children (from France I think) was another pretty interesting movie.

[lucid]

French:
- Les Invasions Barbares
- La grande séduction ("Seducing Dr. Lewis." I loved this one... very funny!)
- Le placard (The Closet) (Not great... but funny enough. Sometimes it loses a bit in the translation)
- La révolution française. Any history buffs out there might like this... running time is 360 minutes, at it does an excellent job in chronicalling the french rev. I believe it was filmed in both English and French, though I've only seen the French version myself.

Italian:
- Ricomincio da tre
- Mediterraneo
- Life is Beautiful
- Pane e tulipani (Bread and Tulips.) Didn't like this one.

There are more that I can't think of right now.. the names will no doubt come to me as I write midterms tomorrow!

I'm still waiting to see Amelie and Triplets of Belleville (I'm a little behind)

[JiriHrdina]

Krystof Koslawski (sp?) Three Color Series (particularly Red) was incredible, as was his Double Life of Vernonique.

[blackgold]

Originally posted by Ro@Oct 20 2004, 02:00 AM
Off the top of my head, some great ones:

Repulsion - Best creepy movie I've ever seen
Amelie
Ikiru - So good...New DVD reissue is great
City Of God
The Bicycle Thief
Y Tu Mama Tambien
Zaitochi
No Man's Land
Brotherhood Of The Wolf
The Station Agent
Hard Boiled
Tokyo Drifter
The Killer


After some research, also these:

Talk To Her
The Barbarian Invasions (Canadian French - foreign to me!)
Three Colours Trilogy (Red/White/Blue)
L'Avventura

Didn't Like As Much As I Thought I Might, But Still Good:

8 1/2
La Strada
The 400 Blows
The Seventh Seal

Overrated:

Can't think of too many right away...usually, I rent foreign flicks after a recommendation or a good review I read, so I don't see too many crappy ones. Here's some I've seen that aren't worth seeing again (using my imdb.com list):

Osama
Dogville
Kolya
Cinema Paradiso
Satryicon
Like Water For Chocolate
Any Truffaut/Godard film
Jules And Jim

The Station Agent is good, but it isn't foreign.

Fave: Das Boot, The Interview

Hate: Can't think of any right now

[Oxygen-Supply]

like and Own
Run Lola Run (very cool)
Das Experiment
TAXI 1 (Very good movie, to bad the USA remake is VERY BAD)
TAXI 2
TAXI 3
Das Tunnel (I ;_; )
GoodBye Lenin (Movie of the year)
The Princess and the warrior (very good story)

Like and want to own
Kops (Funny as hell)

[MrMastodonFarm]

I hope I'm not the only one who went "what the hell" at mileflames emoticon usage.

[Ro]

Originally posted by blackgold@Oct 19 2004, 09:29 PM
The Station Agent is good, but it isn't foreign.

Oops. My bad. Although you could say it is foreign. Just not non-English dialogue. Whatever.

[Oxygen-Supply]

Originally posted by MrMastodonFarm@Oct 20 2004, 05:17 AM
I hope I'm not the only one who went "what the hell" at mileflames emoticon usage.

Sorry my brain is mush, midterms suck

I needed some fun

[dangler22]

Run Lola Run
iCHI THE kILLER
City of God
El Mariachi
Battle Royale
-too many martial arts and hong kong shoot em ups to mention.

thats all i can think of off the top of my head. I am guilty of not watching enough foreign films.