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| Life is Beautiful. This one is Italian, and it's actually better to watch it in Italian and read the subtitles- the dubbed English version loses something, IMO. The ending always makes me cry, which I hate to do, but this movie is just that beautiful. | |
YAY!! This gets my vote. I also cried like a baby during this movie!
I like Melody, sometimes called With Love, Melody, a British film from the early 70s. Andy ordered it from a guy in China for me off ebay. I have it on DVD now. My grandparents took me to see it in Atlanta at the Fox Theater when I was 12 or 13. The soundtrack is all Bee Gees except for Teach Your Children Well by CSN& Y. Mark Lester and Jack Wilde from Oliver star in it. It's a delightful charmer.
I like Aguirre: The Wrath of God and Werner Herzog's other films.
I like The Chalk Garden. I am assuming it's a British film with John and Hayley Mills and Deborah Kerr.
I love a lot of the 60s British mod films such as Georgy Girl and Alfie. Help! and A Hard Day's Night.
I love Muriel's Wedding from Australia. I love the movie Walk About also from down under. Werner Herzog made a movie in Australia called Where The Green Ants Dream that was wonderful. My family loves the movie Archer with a small part played by a younger Nicole Kidman.
Red (Pretty dark haired girl who I am too lazy to look up)
Irene Jacob - and how meltingly beautiful she is. My nominees for fav. foreign films (avoiding repeats) are:
Wong Kar Wei - In the Moof for Love (Hong Kong)
Michael Hanecke - Funny Games (Germany)
Fridrik The Fridrikson - Cold Fever (Iceland)
Zhang Yimou - Not One Less (China)
Abbas Kiarostami - Through the Olive Trees (Iran)
Mike Leigh - Secrets & Lies (England)
Ray Lawrence - Lantana (Australia)
Walter Salles - Central Station (Brasil)
Sally Potter - Orlando (England)
Nikita Mikhalkov - Burnt by the Sun (Russia)
Lars von Trier - Breaking the Waves (Scotland)
Atom Egoyan - Exotica (Canada)
Retour de Martin Guerre, Le << http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084589/
Europa Europa << http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099776/
We of the Never Never << http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084893/
Beautiful Thing
Evil Force, I hate to say it, but I woulda liked it more without that blasted Mama Cass Soundtrack! The gay bar scene in the movie mirrored my first experience.
- Preston
Chrissy - I love Habla Con Ella too - especially that totally beautiful B&W scene with the tiny little man.
I am also into Korean horror under the Asia extreme label - especially A Tale of Two Sisters and The Audition
Battle Royal - a shocking violent futuristic Japanese version of Lord of the Flies
Malena - which I only watched recently starring Monica Belucci sporting with my favourite composer for the film score - Ennio Morricone
Brotherhood of the Wolf - excellent French horror
He Loves me He Loves me Not - French psychological thriller starring Audrey Tatou - its like the dark side of Amelie if you there were to be an alternative ending.
I'm only new to the joys of foreign movies - so thats all I can think of thus far!
Crumpet
Im with you on the Japanese extreme Films .Battle Royale was absolutely fantastic...no.2 wasnt quite as good but still ok.
Audition is a fine film.As is Boiling point.I like the Gonin Films too.
A great German Film was Tin Drum made in the 70,s .
Thesis a very good Spanish whodunnit...
Also Soldier of Orange from the Netherlands.
fleaman uk
always pleased to find a horror afficianado. my other half can't stand them - I feel he might be a bit more apreciative if he concentrated a little more on the female leads esp in the Jap/Korean movies.
Hey fleaman uk,
A great German Film was Tin Drum made in the 70,s .
Another film I adored when it was new - and I was a jaydub at the time, still devout, even!!! But then, I had adored the book - the parts I actually understood - when I read it in my early teens.
Netty, I also liked Life is Beautiful, when I finally got around to seeing it. The title plus the concentration-camp setting put me off; it would be such an easy theme to do badly. All the backstory was great, too; by the time the family was actually picked up by the Nazis you could see why the hero reacted the way he did - it was perfectly natural to him.
gently f eral
Lars von Trier - Breaking the Waves (Scotland)
Yes, yes, yes. That one really got to me. Everything Chrissy said plus Like Water for Chocolate.
