Foreign Movie Recommendations

[maghy7]

The Road Home

I loved that movie too!

 

[candycane]

City of God
Amelie
Riri Shushu no subete (All About Lily Chou-Chou)

 

[northernsky]

^ shh, i was planning to rent a movie by tarkovsky today. after being verbally humiliated by a friend cause I hadnt seen anything.

do we know each other? i'm humilating others for not having seen stalker or anything by tarkowski all the time.

kieslowski is great, the three colour-trilogy, of course, and i liked przypadek [blind chance] i watched it before that what-would-have-happened-if/if-not..?-principle was kind of worn out though.

as for modern polish cinema, i recommend doskonale popoludnie [the perfect afternoon] a film about new beginnings and restaurations. i really liked the mixture of optimism and melancholy. my accompanying polish friends agreed that it's portraying the atmosphere of departure in poland very well.

what did i want to say originally? ah, yes, faust just reminded me of pane e tulipani [bread and tulips] a heart-warming italian film with licia maglietti and bruno ganz. about a house wife that is being forgotten by her husband and family in a rest stop. when she starts her way home by means of hitchhiking she suddenly decides to go to venice as she has never been there. (i LOVE that scene. a very tired and indifferent looking young man had given her a ride and although very monosyllabic tells her he was going to venice (or passing it, i don't remember) when she replies, she has never been in venice, he looks at her [one two three seconds passing] "never been to venice?!") the whole film is very sweet. without being kitschy.

 

[maghy7]

what did i want to say originally? ah, yes, faust just reminded me of pane e tulipani [bread and tulips] a heart-warming italian film with licia maglietti and bruno ganz. about a house wife that is being forgotten by her husband and family in a rest stop. when she starts her way home by means of hitchhiking she suddenly decides to go to venice as she has never been there. (i LOVE that scene. a very tired and indifferent looking young man had given her a ride and although very monosyllabic tells her he was going to venice (or passing it, i don't remember) when she replies, she has never been in venice, he looks at her [one two three seconds passing] "never been to venice?!") the whole film is very sweet. without being kitschy.

Sounds like a really good movie, this one is going straight to my netflix queue.

Thank you!

 

[calexico]

andrei tarkovsky's "solaris" and "andrei rublev"
wong kar wai's "in the mood for love" and "2046"
werner herzog's "my best fiend: klaus kinski"

anything dogme 95...
"festen" (the celebration) is a good one...

"the five obstructions" by jorgen leth / lars von trier
lars von trier challenges his mentor, jorgen leth, to remake a film of his- each time it is revisited, von trier supplies more parameters and obstructions... it's a wonderful, brilliant film that borders on sadism...

i just finished watching ingmar bergman's "scenes from a marriage" and thought it was so sharp and true. the movie relies so much on silence and subsurface emotion... i watched the theatrical version, which is 3 hours long- i wish i'd watched the tv version, which is twice that length...

here's a new one: "the triplets of bellville" is a beautifully-crafted film, both visually and musically.

contrary to faust, i love almodovar. he has such an appreciation for women... "all about my mother" is a good one to start with...

and before "amelie", please see "delicatessen" and "the city of lost children". imho, they are by far superior films... (jean paul gaultier did the costuming for "the city of lost children")


i feel i could go on forever...
have not seen "bread and tulips" but am now looking forward to it...

 

[--Princesa--]

What do you see in almodovar films? I mean, I'm spanish and I've never been able to see one of his films to the end; I just get bored... and I find them terribly depressing

Another one I'm amazed by its success is amelie... it's not bad, but neither that good, when I watched it I though it was quite stupid and I dont think that it has such a deep message...

I would like to recommend you some good spanish films but I have to recognise that all the cinema I watched, which is not too much, is basically american. Right now I just remember two spanish films that I've liked: "El espinazo del diablo" and "Juana la loca"

 

[travis_nw8]

What do you see in almodovar films? I mean, I'm spanish and I've never been able to see one of his films to the end; I just get bored... and I find them terribly depressing

almodover is an exercise in style over substance- they all seem overlong and meander- 'what have i done to deserve this?' is the perfect mix of lenth, boredom and depression...

 

[MulletProof]

do we know each other? i'm humilating others for not having seen stalker or anything by tarkowski all the time.

I wanted to rent The Mirror last night. but ended up getting Sacrifice instead. I watched the beginning this morning...maybe it's the heat but I found it so...saturated. I still need to finish it, though. which makes my input a little less than irrelevant here.

 

[MulletProof]

werner herzog's "my best fiend: klaus kinski"

 

[i_<3_chanel]

calexico triplets of belleville!
absolutely adorable.

 

[maghy7]

Whatched Tsotsi this past weekend, what an excelent movie!

Also bought Osama and Russian Ark, has anybody seen any of this? Russian Ark never heard before but read that was an unedited film, made in a 90-minute steadicam shot and had to have it just for that.

 

[*Sunrise_Serena*]

I would definitely recommend all Pedro Almodovar movies!
I them all, also not to forget a very old one from him Live Flesh which is one of my faves and the first I saw from him...definitely worth seeing!

Other than that

Y tu Mama tambien (And your mother too) with Gael Garcia Bernal and Diego Luna (might be different from what you expect..at least i've felt that way..but it's a great movie..very honest )

Wasabi with Jean Reno (I'm not sure whether it's foreign or not but I believe so, It's just a great movie to enjoy yourself and laugh a lot for 2 hours )

The Motorcycle Diaries with Gael Garcia Bernal (about the one and only Che Guevara with amasterclass performance from Gael...Amazing movie )

Nicotina with Diego Luna
City of God
Amorres perros with Gael Garcia Bernal again
and Amelie

 

[city girl]

the spanish apartment and its sequel russian dolls. great movies for anyone feeling lonely and lost

 

[chinie]

Remember me my love - Italian
Malena - Italian
8 1/2 - Italian
Love me if you dare - French
Amelie - French
Cleopatra - Spanish
Motocycle Diares - Spanish
The house of flying daggers - Japanesse
Bad education - Spanish

 

[truebluejen]

Amelie, Motorcycle Diaries, Bad Education, Italian For Beginners, Run Lola Run, and Liliya 4-ever

 

[FashionJunkie]

- Tais Toi - French (maybe the best comedy ever!!!!)
- Absolument Fabuleux - French (it's a movie based on Absolutely Fabulous)
- Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi - Japanese (Spirited Away: english title) i have no words for this movie....FANTASTING!!!
- Shichinin no samurai - Japanese ( Seven Samurai: english title) one word (well two)...Akira Kurosawa

 

[make_me_whole]

clean-french.it's such a touching movie.it stared by maggie zhang.i love this movie

 

[Zen]

Clara et Moi....I just watched that movie not long ago and OMG two of
the most beautiful looking french actor/actress in this film. Oh...and
the movie wasn't so bad....lol

 

[TKO]

Remember me my love - Italian
Malena - Italian
8 1/2 - Italian
Love me if you dare - French
Amelie - French
Cleopatra - Spanish
Motocycle Diares - Spanish
The house of flying daggers - Japanesse
Bad education - Spanish

House of flying daggers is a great movie. Its also chinese, not japanese

 

[Whitelinen]

What do you see in almodovar films? I mean, I'm spanish and I've never been able to see one of his films to the end; I just get bored... and I find them terribly depressing

Another one I'm amazed by its success is amelie... it's not bad, but neither that good, when I watched it I though it was quite stupid and I dont think that it has such a deep message...

I love Almodòvar, but I think his films are one of the things you either like or not...but what I see in his films is life. I don't get it why do you think they are depressing, of course they are many times about depressing subjects, but in the end I find them positive and warm - they make you smile and think of positive thoughts, you feel "cleansed" and free, if only for a second. Rough things happen in his films, but that's a part of life isn't it? I also find his perception about women interesting, and the cinematography is delicious. I do admit a lot of his films feel boring at the beginning...but all of a sudden you realise how the film has consumed you and your thoughts for an hour or two.

But I agree with you about Amelie. It was a sweet and entertaining film, but it seems it is thought to be the best French film of all times...which it clearly isn't. And there definetily isn't a deep message involved!

But why is this thread about "foreign films"? I'm Finnish, and to me even Hollywood films are foreign. So what is this thread about? Foreign films in who's point of view? The Americans?