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Lifestyle => Sports & Entertainment => Topic started by: Darkwing Duck (The Reincarnation) on November 23, 2011, 10:27:19 PM
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whenever u ask for a list like this, it is always flooded wit american stuff.
n im tired of that,
so, i want an interesting n original list this time.
gimme the best/definite movie u've ever seen (excluding U.S.),
european, asian, scandinavian, russian, arabian, indian etc etc or whatever
help me out now, i need at least 10 titles from 10 diffrent countries
and if u are from a specific country, name the best/definite movie from your country
ill reference-check ur choice wit imdb.com, so i can c what ur workin wit 8)
id preciate it,
thanks
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i c what u did there, Petey
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talkin' artistically or for just straight up enjoyment? although i think international cinema falls into the former for being more challenging to western folk.
Tokyo Story
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dont matter, i watch everythin as long as it's great,,
even tho i do prefer arthouse when it comes to european film (especially France/1960's)
ill watch "tokyo story", thanks (ive heard about it)
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dont matter, i watch everythin as long as it's great,,
even tho i do prefer arthouse when it comes to european film (especially France/1960's)
ill watch "tokyo story", thanks (ive heard about it)
one of those movies like citizen kane where studying it more closely can enhance appreciation for what's going on. i think the dvd with this commentary is real good at going into it "Feature-Length Audio Commentary by Ozu scholar David Desser"
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Too many to list
The Beat That My Heart Skipped is one
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check georgian movies directed in last decade not the 60´s stuff.
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a list of random great movies that are not american
Good Bye Lenin! (2003) (Germany)
A Prophet (2009) (France)
Hana Bi (1997) (Japan) and a lot of Takeshi Kitano related movies are worth it
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a list of random great movies that are not american
Good Bye Lenin! (2003) (Germany)
A Prophet (2009) (France)
Hana Bi (1997) (Japan) and a lot of Takeshi Kitano related movies are worth it
Goodbye Lenin is great! A Prophet is a 5/5 film good choice. One of the few I managed to catch at the Cinema last year..
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Okuribito (Departures) - Japan, got Oscar for best foreign movie, got really good music
Pan's Labyrinth - Spain/Mexico
Zapomenuté světlo (Forgotten Light) - not so known Czech movie, but the best I've seen in a while
The Kite Runner - it's US/China movie, but it's from Afghanistan
Following - Christopher Nolan's first movie
The Thirteenth Floor - Germany, sci-fi, similar to Matrix but it's from 1999
Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away - Japanese animated
Letters from Iwo Jima - same as Flags of Our Fathers but from the view of other side, and also better
Night Watch, Day Watch - Russian sci-fi
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cool, ill check those. ;)
thanks for the replies (this should be enuff for now)
i've seen "hana-bi" and all the takeshi kitano movies tho..
and all the anime/Hayao Miyazaki-movies
i remember Okuribitio, i think i still have it on my harddrive, but ive missed it
check georgian movies directed in last decade not the 60´s stuff.
nice,
but gimme a title or titles , bro
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Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away - Japanese animated
Princess Mononoke is one of the best animes i've ever seen. i remember being blown away in the movie theater
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Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away - Japanese animated
Princess Mononoke is one of the best animes i've ever seen. i remember being blown away in the movie theater
Check out Laputa too if you haven't seen it. I love that film.
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Totoro
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Here's some of my favorite Finnish movies.
- Kummeli Kultakuume [1997]
- Häjyt [1999]
- Bad Luck Love [2000]
- Vares - Private Eye [2004]
- Rööperi [2008]
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Here's some of my favorite Finnish movies.
- Kummeli Kultakuume [1997]
- Häjyt [1999]
- Bad Luck Love [2000]
- Vares - Private Eye [2004]
- Rööperi [2008]
i remember this -- Häjyt [1999]
i think it was called "finnjävlar" in sweden, didnt really like that
Kummeli Kultakuume [1997] --- this looks fun, ill watch this
if u like finnish movies u should check this---- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0311519/
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Bang Boom Bang (Germany, don't know if there's a english-subbed version, though)
Ex Drummer (Belgium, comparable to Trainspotting maybe)
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13 Assissans
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nice,
but gimme a title or titles , bro
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1543701/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108429/ (classic) i think u can find it in english if you try, or in russian if you understand of course.
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I'm havin a think, will post some more later
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A few off the dome...but you maybe seen some
Klopka (Serb film)
Raise The Red Lantern
Cache aka 'Hidden'
Wings of Desire
Down By Law
Le Dernier Combat
Scene At The Sea
Les Amants du Pont Neuf
Bullet In The Head
Fallen Angels
Nil By Mouth (UK)
Warm Water Under A Red Bridge
A Self Made Hero
Read My Lips
The Geisha (Hideo Gosha film)
When My Father Was Away On Business
Tokyo! (for Michel Gondry's segment)
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The Notebook.
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Mr Bean
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aight aight, i got it. i got it :o
thats enuff, gimme some time so i can watch the shit (not everythin, but most of it)
A few off the dome...but you maybe seen some
Klopka (Serb film)
Raise The Red Lantern
Cache aka 'Hidden'
Wings of Desire
Down By Law
Le Dernier Combat
Scene At The Sea
Les Amants du Pont Neuf
Bullet In The Head
Fallen Angels
Nil By Mouth (UK)
Warm Water Under A Red Bridge
A Self Made Hero
Read My Lips
The Geisha (Hideo Gosha film)
When My Father Was Away On Business
Tokyo! (for Michel Gondry's segment)
i dont think ur a dummy when it comes to film, William. so ill c what u workin wit
thanks 8)
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Have you seen Battle Royal? It's a Japanese movie based on a population of too many kids, and they end up selecting classes of kids every year to put onto an island, where at the end of 3 days must be only 1 survivor.
Cool movie, and besides City of God, was one of the few subtitled movies I got into and could watch with ease
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yea, seen both of em. classics 8)
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Boring answer probably but I always loved The Departed. Road to Perdition was another dope flick. City of God of course. The Godfather pt 1. Goodfellas. Heat was ill too. Raging Bull. Kill Bill. Carlito's Way, Donnie Brosco.
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Boring answer probably but I always loved The Departed. Road to Perdition was another dope flick. City of God of course. The Godfather pt 1. Goodfellas. Heat was ill too. Raging Bull. Kill Bill. Carlito's Way, Donnie Brosco.
Hahahah, i guess you didn't read the first post?
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someone mentioned Kitano earlier, but pretty much all of his films have to seen, amazing. definitely my favourite contemporary Japanese director.
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Boring answer probably but I always loved The Departed. Road to Perdition was another dope flick. City of God of course. The Godfather pt 1. Goodfellas. Heat was ill too. Raging Bull. Kill Bill. Carlito's Way, Donnie Brosco.
Hahahah, i guess you didn't read the first post?
lmao I skimmed it
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I've tried a lot of spanish spoken movies that are considered great (Cronos, Espinazo del Diablo, Timecrimes, Sin Noticias de Dios and probably a few more) and none of them really stood out as anything special. So yeah, just throwing some titles for you to research yourself
Oldboy is really the first thing that comes to mind when people discuss non U.S. cinema, surprised nobody mentioned it so far (or maybe someone did but I didn't notice). Never watched it myself, 'cause that language is painful to my ears. Appologies to the asian fellows in here. Watching it dubbed in another language is, unfortunately, just as annoying.
Russian cinema is supposedly ill too. Never watched anything, but a friend of mine whose opinion I respect very much said that Stalker blew him away.
Bergman is also a name usually associated with quality. Seventh Seal and Persona, for starters
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I've tried a lot of spanish spoken movies that are considered great (Cronos, Espinazo del Diablo, Timecrimes, Sin Noticias de Dios and probably a few more) and none of them really stood out as anything special. So yeah, just throwing some titles for you to research yourself
Oldboy is really the first thing that comes to mind when people discuss non U.S. cinema, surprised nobody mentioned it so far (or maybe someone did but I didn't notice). Never watched it myself, 'cause that language is painful to my ears. Appologies to the asian fellows in here. Watching it dubbed in another language is, unfortunately, just as annoying.
Russian cinema is supposedly ill too. Never watched anything, but a friend of mine whose opinion I respect very much said that Stalker blew him away.
Bergman is also a name usually associated with quality. Seventh Seal and Persona, for starters
Devils Backbone (Espinazo del Diablo) is very good, and so is The Orphanage (Del Toro produced it) ... I find his stuff generally overrated.
Stalker is not one I've seen yet, Andrei Tarkovsky is a master though so you'd expect it to be superb.
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eazye
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"timecrimes", looks very cool, ill check it. thanks 8)
not schooled on spanish stuff, but ive seen some of it - "Te doy mis ojos" and "La fiesta del chivo" are my favorites from Spain
my favorite shit is primarely stuff from France (1960's and earlier)/independent or mainstream and (of course) Scandinavia (preferably Sweden) --- all the stuff that influenced the american filmmakers during the the reordering of Hollywood in the late 60's. i like asian shit too
yea, "Oldboy" is a cool movie, but i liked "thirst" more for some reason.
russian movies are boring as fuck (and i usually like boring movies). i liked "Stalker" tho, which u mentioned (but it was too long).. i prefer "solyaris", another classic russian flick (kind of like the same sub-genre "russian science fiction"). higly recommended
Swedish director Ingmar Bergman is probly the "greatest" filmmaker from Scandinavia,, but either u love or hate his movies (no in-between), definitely not for everyone
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Stalker is really boring if you ask me, I had to convince myself to watch the whole movie
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amores perros
the motorcycle diaries
like water for chocolate
la nina de la mochila azul
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I Would recomend this movie: The lion of the desert. I promiss you wont waste your time.
It is an arabic movie with american actors... and not the least actors: Anthony Quin, Olver reed...
It is a historical accurate movie about one of arabs hero's of the past fighting Colonial Italy.
Here is an HD version, because the movie is a little hard 2 get http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c530IvfJBPI
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high tension
wolf creek
shaun of the dead
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Werner Herzog's "Even Dwarfs Started Small"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSDC_LXfBcE
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If you really watched Werner Herzog films, I doubt you'd spend your days trolling Internet forums
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Hunter S Thompson's fear and loathing, best book & movie
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Hunter S Thompson's fear and loathing, best book & movie
Co-sign! At least the best funny movie.
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Honorable mentions:
"Leolo" by Jean-Claude Lauzon(R.I.P)
This is one of my all time favorites.
"Urga, Close to Eden" by Nikita Mikhalkov
"The Quince Tree Sun" by Victor Erice.
Also "The spirit of the beehive" by Erice is great.
"La Haine" by Mathieu Kassovitz
"Steam of Life" by Joonas Berghäll and Mika Hotakainen
Finnish documentary, great stuff.
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Hunter S Thompson's fear and loathing, best book & movie
the first time i seen this movie i was on acid...shit was intense i watched it the next day and got a total different meaning etc from the whole movie.
i love this flick
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"Urga, Close to Eden" by Nikita Mikhalkov
sounds like NIK's brother in a gay porno
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"Urga, Close to Eden" by Nikita Mikhalkov
sounds like NIK's brother in a gay porno
soundin a lil chamesque there, wouldnt ya say?
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More honorable mentions:
"Burnt by the Sun" by Nikita Mikhalkov
"Black cat, white cat" by Emir Kusturica
"Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring" by Ki-duk Kim
"Le Grand Bleu" by Luc Besson
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"Urga, Close to Eden" by Nikita Mikhalkov
sounds like NIK's brother in a gay porno
lol
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high tension
wolf creek
shaun of the dead
high tension was really Illogical.... how could she be hit by the car of her alter ego when she was the dude all the time.
It was rather unbelievable movie with a twist which was ridicilous.
but for horror fans it was pobably only the gore that counts.
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I feel ya, but it's a horror movie lol.. Not exactly expected to be realistic. The twist was still good tho.
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I feel ya, but it's a horror movie lol.. Not exactly expected to be realistic. The twist was still good tho.
If you like horror movies with a good twist, may I suggest Martyrs.
Don't read anything about it, just watch.
It will sure as hell leave you with a WTF feeling.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1029234/?ref_=sr_1
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