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Post by JoshWay on May 5, 2006 11:38:04 GMT -5
Oh yeah, and Amelie! And A Very Long Engagement, for that matter.
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Post by ashkenaz on May 5, 2006 12:16:34 GMT -5
Well since other people were listing Italian films i am a huge Italian film fan.
Lucio Fulci: City of the Living Dead (AKA The Gates of Hell) Zombie 2 (Aka Zombie) The Beyond (Considered his best)
Dario Argento: Suspiria Tenebre Opera
Miscelanous i Just remembered: Let Sleeping Corpses Lie Nosferatu (the original 1922 silent or the 70's remake with Klaus Kinski, both are incredibly good) Beyond the Darkness (AKA Buio Omega) Demons Demons 2 and as i said before Old Boy (This movie is one of my all time favs)
Yeah i know they are all mostly horror films. What can i say, i love horror and splatter films.
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Post by Emperor Cupcake on May 5, 2006 23:31:30 GMT -5
Yeah, I'll second any Lucio Fulci movies, Cemetery Man (Italian/French co-production, although it's in English) and Man Bites Dog, which I saw a long time ago but remember being hilarious. I also liked Bertolucci's The Dreamers (mostly in English), The Eye (Chinese/Thai), Uzumaki (Japanese), oooh, and I can't remember the name of it, but there was this German film about a teenager who raped and killed little boys. It just came out a few years ago. I'll have to go look it up -- it was disturbing, but really good.
Okay, it's called The Child I Never Was (Ein Leben Lang Kurze Hosen Tragen). It came out in 2002.
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Post by ijon on May 8, 2006 2:52:04 GMT -5
I'd second a number of the above, but especially City of Lost Children.
I'd also add a Czech film called Dark Blue World about some of their expat pilots flying for the RAF during WWII.
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Post by lisalovelace on May 8, 2006 8:16:12 GMT -5
I like an older movie called Belle De Jour. It is about a woman who is bored with her husband and life in general. She becomes a prostitute in a french brothel from 2-5 everyday. She does this without her husband(who is a doctor)knowing. She is living out a fantasy and a double life.
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Post by Chuck on May 8, 2006 8:43:30 GMT -5
Lisa, I LOVE Catherine Deneuve in that film! She is exquisite!! VERY good film.
Have you ever seen Violette? A french film with Isabel Huppert as a good young catholic girl who is a good girl by day, and prostitute by night. She eventually poisons her father. It's not the act that's so shocking, but the reason why! (I will NOT give it away!)
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Post by Emperor Cupcake on May 8, 2006 19:01:37 GMT -5
Lisa, I LOVE Catherine Deneuve in that film! She is exquisite!! VERY good film. Have you ever seen Violette? A french film with Isabel Huppert as a good young catholic girl who is a good girl by day, and prostitute by night. She eventually poisons her father. It's not the act that's so shocking, but the reason why! (I will NOT give it away!) I love Catherine Deneuve too, and I love Belle de Jour. And I adore Isabelle Huppert, but I haven't seen Violette -- maybe I should go add it to my Netflix. I also liked her in Ma Mere and The Piano Teacher.
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Post by soundandvision on Jun 25, 2006 22:41:35 GMT -5
Do British movies count? If so, "The Third Man". If not, "Seven Samurai" and "Ikiru" top my list. What he said...
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Post by donmac on Jun 26, 2006 8:19:35 GMT -5
A lot of great foreign-language films have been mentioned, so I won't repeat those but will add to the list Europa Europa. It's based on a true story about a Jewish boy who tries to survive WWII by pretending to be German (even going so far as to join the Hitler Youth).
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Post by Mr. Atari on Jun 26, 2006 19:07:24 GMT -5
I just saw "M" again this weekend.
Man, what an amazing film. Lang puts on a clinic on sound design. His use of silence throughout the film is amazing.
He invented the crime drama, the serial killer genre, and tells an amazing story of mob mentality.
Peter Lorre gives one of the best acting performances ever.
And perhaps most amazingly, this thing was made in 1931.
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Post by Chuck on Jun 26, 2006 20:13:26 GMT -5
There's a brand new print of Belle de Jour that's going to be at the Music Box in Chicago. It should be making the rounds to an art house near you!
And Mr. A: Peter Lorre had just come from doing a Brecht play (Mann Ist Mann I think) when he was cast by Lang. I would have loved to have seen him on stage.
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Post by Waldo Jeffers on Jun 26, 2006 23:02:17 GMT -5
The Seventh Seal... watch it
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Post by mrsphyllistorgo on Jun 27, 2006 15:08:30 GMT -5
If you'd like to get something a little lighter but still wonderful, an amazing New Zealand film called Desperate Remedies. The closest I can get to describing it is an especially florid romance novel on acid, with all kinds of sex and clothes clothes clothes! You will not believe the costuming. I met a girl who was an extra in a big party scene and she told me the dress she wore is now in a museum--and that was just an extra's costume! LOVE this film!
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Post by losingmydignity on Jun 27, 2006 16:37:58 GMT -5
Belle De Jour is Bunel's best film....very cool. Just wanted to throw that in.
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Post by BuddhaJ on Jul 3, 2006 11:16:34 GMT -5
Run Lola Run Amelie The Motorcycle Diaries A Very Long Engagement Y Tu Mama Tambien
A couple more German films ... roughly translated ...
The Experiment Dreamship Surprise (so...freaking...funny)
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