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Itchi the killer, great movie..

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I really enjoyed Detective Dee and The Mystery of the Phantom Flame but not sure I'd class it as a 'great' film, so I'll say 13 Assassins.

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a separation

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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.

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Buffet Froid, director Bertrand Blier's cracked Bunuelian nightmare from 1979. I own it and have seen it about eight times now, but it never fails to deliver laughs, smiles and WTF?s. Gerard Depardieu and the director's father Bernard lead a solid cast in a movie which inspired several later "nightmare comedies", but this one has to be the most unpredictable.

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I've seen all of Blier's films from the '70s and '80s, but for some reason, I haven't seen anything after those decades. I'd also highly recommend Going Places and Get Out Your Handkerchiefs, but all his "earlier" films have their charms.

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Thanks. I'll have to check it out sometime.

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http://www.filmimpressions.com/.a/6a...7eab970b-500wi

I watched The Edge of Heaven (2007), a humanistic film set in Germany and Turkey. Fatih Akin (Head-On) directs with a nice combo of poetic visuals and plot development while keeping all the characters' idiosyncracies in sharp focus. There were a couple of plot points I didn't understand but the overall effect was that I was witness to watching real people's lives depicted by a filmmaker who knows his stuff. If he really wanted to, I think that Akin could easily make popular films involving similar multi-cultured people in almost any country. I'd like to see him try an English-language flick, but I'll watch his movies no matter what language they're in.

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For me, I would have to say that Certified Copy was really great. There are a couple of fantastic twists in the film but the things these characters are talking about is just really really interesting. The way we think of "original" and "copy" or "fake" are examined really well and make you question how you feel about originality.

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Let's see. In the last little while I've seen The Cranes are Flying, Dodes'ka-den, Caotica Ana, Bob le flambeur, New Women, The Story of the Fox, The Color of Pomegranates, The Music Room, Amigo (directed by an American, John Sayles, but filmed in the Philippines in Tagalog, Spanish, and English), The Red Tent (Soviet-Italian co-production mostly in English), The Artist, and Street Angel.

My favorites were The Cranes are Flying (1958) and Street Angel (1937), but two of the most interesting to me were The Color of Pomegranates and The Red Tent.

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" I Saw The Devil "

I gave this a . Idiosyncratic and actually, meaningless.

Great flic and I enjoyed Head On, as well. Check out Fratricide. I think you will like it.

Probably Takeshi Miike's best film. I highly recommend When The Last Sword Is Drawn, if you like Samurai movies. An old time favorite is Sword Of Doom.

Tyrannosaur. Easily. But on a technicality. I'm not sure what is meant by "foreign". Tyrannosaur is a great great film, but I would rank Incendies slightly better. However, I am presently living in Canada and Incendies is a Canadian film, so it technically isn't "foreign" for me. If you are using "foreign" to describe films not made in the U.S., the I would Incendies, followed by Tyrannosaur. I was very surprised that neither of these were even mentioned yet in this thread.

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Battle Royale is my fave film of all time, but I suppose I saw Zatoichi more recently and it was quite good, also Oldboy gets a mention

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Nice choice, really enjoyed that film.

Jules and Jim (French)

It's not the last one I've seen, but desrves to be mentioned, especially since not too many of you have seen it: a movie from New Zeland.
This one if for you Nausicaa: Once Were Warroirs