Recommend some Foreign Faves

Infernal Affairs, a great cop thriller, better than most. China

Drunken Master- legendary kung-fu flick, young Jackie Chan. China

Y Tu Mama Tambien- sexy raod movie from Harry Potter 3 director. Mexico

City of God- c'mon you really should know this one

A Tale of Two Sisters- twisty and rather scary horror. Korea

Sympathy for Mr Vengeance- Oldboy directors other film, pretty good. Korea

La Haine- French Trainspotting.

Delicatessen- Jeunet/Caro, preferred to Amelie, a lot more surreal. French

Happiness of the Katakuris- insane hybrid genre musicl/horror. Japan

Sonatine- interesting yakuza action from Beat Kitano

Zatoichi- only seen Kitano's version, cool film, overused cgi though

Street Fighter- Sonny Chiba owns

Ninja Scrolls- my fav anime
Akira- classic anime
Ghost in the Shell- interesting anime
Urotsukidoji- mental and warped

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Add:
Princess Mononoke

A Better Tomorrow
The Killer
Bullet in the Head
Hard Boiled

Kurosawa's films

Le Femme Nikita

Versus

Devil's Backbone

Tears of a Black Tiger

great flick, yep.

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y tu mama tambien ( i see many people have put it )
amores peros
todo sobre mi madre ( all about my mother - pedro almodovar)
habla con ella ( talk to her- also pedro almodovar )
la mala education ( the bad education - again )
amelie
non ho paura ( i'm not affraid - italian )
oldboy ( korean )
mar adentro ( the sea within - won the oscar this year )
goodbye lenin (german)
gegen die wand ( head through the wall - german -won berlin )
hero ( chinese )
musa warrior ( korean )
shaolin soccer (hong kong- comedy)

Indeed, great movies, great title music

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Yup, Street Fighter cool!
All I know is that you know that I know-that you know... that I won that (Exorcist DVD)!

Right?

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It's nice to see someone listed this. It was very good...and heart wrenching. Catalina Sandino Moreno was wonderful.



I'm probably the only one here that wouldn't recommend this movie. I was very disappointed with it. To each his own though.

By the way, welcome to the forums adidasss.

thnx for the welcome...and how can you not love y tu mama tambien..the way the director subtly comments on the social issues in mexico...and the last message that she gave to the guys was so deep...( i believe i went..life is like the sea...so be the waves..)

I have a huge rant in one of the other threads about my disappointment with Y Tu Mama Tambien. If i have time I'll look for it later, but I need to go soon (I'm at work). And, of course, as I was trying to write a short post to answer your question adidass, I almost started into another rant. Are you suuuure you want my opinion on this?

Gaiman is awesome! . As far as his novels I prefer American Gods to Neverwhere but both are very good. I am going to make a point to see the TV series. BTW could anyone recommend any other authors who write in the urban fantasy style or fantastical realism? (or whatever you like to call it). It seems to be kind of hard to find authors who fit into this category.

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"Like all dreamers, Steven mistook disenchantment for truth."

nope, you're NOT!

Strummer, if you liked Neverwhere, the kinda hardcore version of it would be

King Rat
by
China Miéville

http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0312...06#reader-link

a really, really great read. i just couldn't pause.

They have probably already been mentioned, but --

Hero
The House of Flying Daggers
Kung Fu Hustle

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"City of Lost Children"directed and co-written by Children Jean-Pierre Jeunet
"Delicatessan" directed and co-written by Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Anything and EVERYTHING by Ingmar Bergman especially:
Hour of the wolf, Wild Strawberries, Seventh Seal, Through a Looking Glass Darkly
"Cinema Paradiso" directed and co-written by Giuseppe Tornatore
"Europa" by Lars Von Trier
"Breaking the Waves" By Lars Von Trier
"La Femme Nikita" by Luc Besson
"The Secret of Roan Inish" directed and co-written by John Sayles

Cool thanks frog, I'll check that out sometime. Actually I've had Perdido Street Station on my bookshelf for a while waiting to be read. have you read that one? If so how would you compare it to King Rat

no that's allright...opinions about movies are subjective, even when a critic dumps on a movie it doesn't mean that someone is not going to enjoy it...i thought it was a great road movie, you didn't like it...lets leave it at that...

hei, thanx for the tip back to me! since i haven't read that one, yet! i'll check if it's available in the international bookstore here. i'll need books to accompany me to my next trip this summer anyway, and tips like that are welcome! (it means though that i still cannot compare it to King Rat, sorry!)

It's all about Trois coulers. Those are probably my favorite foreign films.

cool, if you end up reading before I do let me know how it is.

Trois Couleurs

That's fine and that's why I asked.




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Has anyone seen The Barbarian Invasions (Les Invasions barbares) (2003)?
If so, how did you like it?