Last great Foreign Film you saw
 

Gotta go with Mother, your picks?

Medianeras, an argentine independent movie, thought it was amazing!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntVyIw2n3jw&feature=related

The Artist, and two of my other favorites from earlier this year are Incendies and Even the Rain.

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Mysteries of Lisbon.

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Trollhunter :rotfl:

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Also, The Chaser was really good, alot of south korean films i watched lately have been fantastic.

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Dead Snow

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I saw the Italian film named Cinema Paradiso which is really good movie to watch. You will get idea about the Italian culture and the lifestyle in the movie. This is Oscar winning movie must watch for everyone.

Akira Kurosawa's "High and Low" and "The Bad Sleep Well".
Two classics from one of the greatest filmmaker of all time.

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amerros perros - won best foreign film award! - (mexican film)
In english - love's a bitch

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I like "in a better world" which won this years OSCAR for best foreign movie. The twoDanish boys who acted difficult parts were excellent

Tough to remember exactly what foreign films I ve watched recently. A safe bet would be "13 Assassins".

Don't like the foreign tag. International would feel more appropriate. I guess it's Pusher 2 for me. Adored it.

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International includes domestic...so foreign is appropriate.

I feel like pulling a Holden and doing a feature on the Detroit Film Theater's upcoming season but that would be expensive...we'll see. Andrei Rubilev, Le Havre, The Mill and the Cross, a Moscow Swan Lake ballet, Jiro Dreams of Sushi, soooooo many good choices.

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In the last month?

Lola (1961)
The Young Girls of Rochefort
Mississippi Mermaid
Belle de Jour
Viridiana
Sansho the Bailiff
A Town Called Panic
Diary of a Chambermaid (1964)

Yep, I've been on a Bunuel and Deneuve kick. I also watched Repulsion and Hustle.

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BUNUEL!!!! The Detroit museum showed a double feature of two of his lesser known stuff from his Mexico era, still great. Where the hell did you find Diary of a Chambermaid?

Also yay on Sansho.

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Criterion has the Diary of a chambermaid, if im not wrong.

Sansho the bailiff? Woot woot woot!:D How was it?

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Which Bunuel? I saw almost all of Bunuel's '50s output by renting VHS tapes from Tower Records in the 1990s.

I rented Diary of a Chambermaid from Blockbuster.com.

Sansho the Bailiff was a spiritual film and got very powerful at the end. It reminded a bit of Ugetsu, but I need to rewatch that one. Now, let me ask this. What do you think of the "character" Sansho? Pretty enigmatic, huh?

Yeah but it's one of the more expensive out-of-prints from what I remember. Didn't think Blockbuster would carry that either.
They were Mexican Bus Ride and Illusion Travels by Streetcar

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I almost thought nobody around here has watched Sansho...

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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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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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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

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WTF are you talking about, Moses?

Here, let me put that in quotes for you so people will know you saw this movie and are refering to one of the lines from it.
That mofo was one bad dude.

Once Were Warriors - rented from wherever. You'll see one fight scene you probably won't forget.

The virgin spring

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I saw the devil. Absolutely beautiful tragic film on every level, why can't Hollywood make films like these.............

Because the point is to make huge amounts of money and, therefore, they need to appeal to the the most people. Also as the overseas, largely non-English speaking, audience is very important now, action/broad comedies with simple dialogue and easy to follow plots are the order of the day. It's also why the action stars (Arnie, Sly, JCVD, etc) were able to keep churning out the films, regardless of quality or success in the domestic market.

Burnt By The Sun: a great Russian movie about Stalinist Russia.

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Lol I know that an agree with you, just expressing my frustration. Only takes a film studio with balls to make a film like that then maybe I would spend my money on them. But hey I'm happy to keep watching fantastic world cinema films.

The Barbarian Invasions

Dead Man's Bluff - a gritty Russian Mafia movie.

Just saw Revanche. What a great film.

I agree with you on this one. Hot Viena brothel escape flic.

Lucino Visconti's Death In Venice

Time Regained (Raoul Ruiz, 1999)

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I'm no expert on Chilean director Raoul Ruiz or Marcel Proust, but I do believe that I understand them both much better after watching this epic film, basically covering the entirety of Proust's life. The film is fractured in that the time frames are constantly changing, and I can understand why it may confuse some people, but the film is so lush, so well-acted and so floridly-directed that the pure cinematics will have to draw you in, and if you feel the need to give up (hopefully not) before the ending, I suggest going to the final scene because it has a very simple way of understanding this movie, and dare I say it, almost any movie, at least if it's about someone you recognize as a human being. The cast includes Catherine Deneuve, Emmanuelle Beart, Victor Perez, Marie-France Pisier (R.I.P.), John Malkovich and various actors playing Proust. The real fun for a film freak is to watch Ruiz's technique which uses all sorts of sleight-of-hand, including freeze frames, moving platforms to increase viewer disorientation, extreme long shots with dozens of characters, visual, literary and musical motifs, filters to accentuate which time frame we're seeing and just a general overall command of almost anything which could be considered avant-garde but plays out as a way to reveal rather than to mask.

Donkey Skin (Jacques Demy, 1970)

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A lush, "realistic" Charles Perrault (Cinderella) fairy tale with the luscious Catherine Deneuve as both a Queen who dies too young and her daughter who plays the central character here. Demy makes another musical with Deneuve and composer Michel Legrand, following their popular The Umbrellas of Cherbourg and The Young Girls of Rochefort. This one has Jean Marais (the Beast from Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast) as the King, Delphine Seyrig as the Princess's Fairy Godmother (literally the Lavender Fairy) who has an axe to grind with the King, and Jacques Perrin makes a somewhat eccentric Prince Charming who sees the Princess (known as "Donkey Skin" when he sees her) for what she truly is and not a scullery maid. The cinematography is gorgeous, the color scheme is witty and various plot points are very strong, including the use of the Donkey. I won't mention anything else so as not to spoil it, but this is a very adult-themed G-rated flick.

Two Women (Vittorio De Sica, 1960)

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This is a latter-day neorealist classic from De Sica, just as good (or better) than his The Bicycle Thief and Umberto D., focusing on a mother (Sophia Loren) and her twelve-year-old daughter (Eleonora Brown) trying to make it throughout Italy during WWII. Jean-Paul Belmondo follows up his Breathless breakthrough here playing a sympathetic Communist who's attracted to Loren. Without any noticeable use of makeup to glamorize her here, Sophia Loren is as beautiful as she's ever been on screen, and what's more, she deserved her Oscar for Best Actress of 1961, no matter how hard it may be for you to believe that someone speaking Italian got an Oscar for such a major category over 50 years ago. Although it may seem to be something of a spoiler, most plot synopses do reveal that the film is about a gang rape suffered by the mother and her daughter and how it affects their relationship and their lives. Perhaps that makes it easier to understand how powerful the film truly is.

Yes, Two Women. Love Sophia. A timeless story about strength and suvival of the human spirit. One of the best actresses and one of the most beautiful women of her time.

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Lone Wolf And Cub: Sword Of Vengence

I guess now you are hooked, as there are five more of those.

As you apparantly like Shion Sono, check ou my review of his Cold Fish. You may find that movie interesting.

Not really. I have the second in the series and I'll certainly watch that and then I'll probably just see them as and when I get the chance for free.

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Flowers of War (2011)

At 2 1/2 hrs its a little too long to sustain my interest. Pro: The cinematography. Con: A horrific account of the Nanking massacre becomes a spectacle in some action sequences.

Still waiting to see that. The most horrific account of the Nanking Massacre I've seen is- Black Sun: The Nanking Massacre

The Power Of One

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Watched this amazing film again from Carl Theodor Dreyer, on criterion edition dvd:

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The Passion of Joan of Arc

The Stoning Of Soraya M

Pedro Almadovar's " Talk To Her ".

Did you like it?

It's hard not to love anything by Pedro Almadovar, always a fantastic story teller. Talk To Her was especially good.

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Tyler1 - Have you seen his latest one, The Skin I Live In - excellent film. Not my favourite from the director though.

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Nope. In fact the only Almodovar film i've seen was Volver, which was decent. I'm not sure if i should watch Talk To Her, given the lavish amount of praise it garnered.

I'm not sure I get you. You really watch or don't watch movies based on what others say about them?:rolleyes:

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Watch Talk to Her. It's really good and would be just based on the X-rated silent movie parody. Of course, I've seen all his features, except the last one. Still...

Recently watched Gattaca.

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Great flick.

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Gattaca counts as foreign? Oh yeah, you're a Canuck.

Alright. Given that you saw all of his films, whats your favourite Almodovar film?

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My Faves:

Talk to Her
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!
Matador
All About My Mother

... but I'd recommend more.

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^ Thanks. Talk To Her will be at the top of my "to-watch" list. :)

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It's complex but not snooty. The Silent Movie scene is spectacular.

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A Sepration(جدایی نادر از سیمین)

Did you see Bad Educaton?

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Definitely see All About My Mother - one of his most perfect films and my favourite from the director. The other I recommended above is worth seeing too, one of his most disturbing films.

Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles

Imagine if they installed surveillance cameras in every nook and cranny of your house and tracked all your movements for 2 or 3 months. I think you'd be utterly shocked to discover how much of your life reduces into predictable behaviors and timed routines.
The first part of this film looks exactly like that, this Belgian woman's life has been reduced to it's essence, so much so, her chores and habits almost become ritualistic. Then in the second part of the film---she keeps her spending money in vase on the living room table---she drops some money inside and forgets to replace the cover: that one gesture creates at kind of mild dissonance and physic turmoil that throws off her entire life off-kilter. A dazzling character study.

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I'm with the middle three here. I've just not been able to get into Almodovar since the early 90's. Still, looking forward to seeing The Skin I Live In though. It's the first film of his that's interested me for a long while.

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The Mirror (1975), the cinematography is pretty spectacular.

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I saw this Danish film a few days ago, called Submarino. It won a couple awards. Found it in the new release section at Blockbuster.

I don't know that I would want to see a film about the Nanking Massacre, if it's that graphic. What I read is disturbing enough. Most people aren't even aware of this sad chapter in history, because of cover-ups and downplaying of the events.

I think you'll find lots of people have :)

The Thief

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I've fallen behind in this thread.

Queen Margot - Sprawling, entertaining French saga centering around the St. Bartholomew Day's Massacre and its aftermath. Fascinating film with an all-star cast, filled with sex, violence and court intrigue.

A Propos de Nice - Jean Vigo's first film is definitely my fave, seemingly inspired a bit by Clair's Entre'Acte (which I watched immediately after). This one is a heady combo of French travelogue, tricky editing and a form of dadaism. The opening scenes foreshadow the beginning of West Side Story. It's found on Criterion's The Complete Jean Vigo

Iron Monkey - Wonderfully funny and action-packed trifle, directed and choreographed by the man responsible for the fights in The Matrix and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Several scenes seem to be homages to the Three Stooges!

Let the Right One In - I watched this again after seeing The Shining so I could accurately vote in our current tourneys. The highlight of this film for me is obviously the tenderness between the two young main characters. Sure, it's got some horror goods with some weird, disgusting scenes, but the heart of the movie is how two outsiders come together to basically form a loving family.

Every Man For Himself and God Against All - Herzog's "mature" version of a German historical response to Truffaut's similar The Wild Child, which is another factual film about a mysterious discovery of a feral human being. The film begins slowly but gets more involving as the strange "actor" Bruno S. gradually reveals Kasper Hauser's inner humanity. Herzog again uses the soundtrack to his advantage, but he was indeed lucky to find Bruno S., who gives a powerfully-innocent-and-honest performance.

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"Alright, but you got those... them words up there to help follow the story along?"
"It's subtitled, yes."

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That's such a damn cute mini-movie. "Turkic?"

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you just saw old boy!? About time. One of the best movies ever made imho.

Cast away on the moon. pretty good, maybe on teh good/great border.
13 assassins, i would put the film as great action samurai flick. Really an awesome retro kickback.
The skin I live in.
girl with the dragon tattoo.

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I like "in a better world" which won this years OSCAR for best foreign movie. The twoDanish boys who acted difficult parts were excellent

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@ sarah f

I thought that yankeeboy was sarcastic when he said he enjoyed 'Climates'. :D Here's another foreign movie quirk.

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Two good ones I saw recently

Wild Strawberries & Diabolique

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I watched Das Boot last night. Amazing film...

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The last great foreign language movie I saw was The Raid, I think it has fully reinvigorated the action genre, recent movies like Expendables and anything Statham is in could learn a lot. Also saw The Artist and was blown away by how much I liked it.

Movies I still have to see:

OldBoy
Ong Bak
Infernal Affairs (think it is a trilogy)

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And not sure if this would count as foreign since it was made by Clint Eastwood but i twas all in Japanese and that's Letters from Iwo Jima. Absolutely loved it, way better than the American side of the tale (can't even remember what that was called).

These are all rewatches: Intacto, Sangre de mi Sangre and La Nana. The first two are really good and the last one is excellent.