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12-01-2005, 09:27 PM
one of my friends says that im so uncultured. in an effort to culture myself, i want to watch a couple of foreign films. any good suggestions for someone who considers zoolander and old school fine films?

ty in advance.

btw, its soo good to be back on twoplustwo.

WillMagic
12-01-2005, 09:31 PM
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Dominic
12-01-2005, 09:32 PM
Z
Amelie
Breathless
Ran
Alphaville
Run Lola Run
Sex & Lucia
Y Tu Mama Tambien
Toto le Hero
Seven Beauties
Tokyo Story
The Killer
Peking Opera Blues
The Hairdresser's Husband
Queen Margot


Among hunderds of others...this is just off the top of my head, so I'm sure others will jump in with their favorites....

captZEEbo1
12-01-2005, 09:35 PM
these first 2 are excellent and very modern/action packed:
run lola run
city of god

these 2 are a little sentimental so not sure if you'll like them:
life is beautiful
amelie

this one is also really action packed, modern and well done:
amores perros


go here if you want to read about them a little bit:
http://us.imdb.com/

housenuts
12-01-2005, 09:36 PM
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Z
Amelie
Breathless
Ran
Alphaville
Run Lola Run
Sex & Lucia
Y Tu Mama Tambien
Toto le Hero
Seven Beauties
Tokyo Story
The Killer
Peking Opera Blues
The Hairdresser's Husband
Queen Margot



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Good Bye Lenin!

12-01-2005, 09:37 PM
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these first 2 are excellent and very modern/action packed:
run lola run
city of god

these 2 are a little sentimental so not sure if you'll like them:
life is beautiful
amelie

this one is also really action packed and well done:
amores perros


go here if you want to read about them a little bit:
http://us.imdb.com/

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Ive seen Life is Beautiful and thought it was fantastic. Ive also been reccomended Run Lola Run. Might add that to the netfrix queue.

private joker
12-01-2005, 09:40 PM
Try "Hard Boiled" by John Woo. It's the most action-packed shoot-em-up you'll ever see. Dazzling, endlessly entertaining.

shakingspear
12-01-2005, 09:48 PM
There's a new one in theaters called Paradise Now. Very good. Check it out.

Though I suppose this only meets the "foreign" requirement. It's not a comedy by any means.

Sooga
12-01-2005, 09:49 PM
Twilight Samurai

Claunchy
12-01-2005, 09:54 PM
The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover

pryor15
12-01-2005, 09:58 PM
talk to her
the three color trilogy (blue, white, red)
the decalogue
my wife is an actress
amelie
el crimen del padre amaro
les enfants du paradis (1945)
umberto d. (1952)
yi yi
city of god
scenes from a marriage
persona
8 1/2
la strada

i'd check the summaries on imdb to make sure it's down your alley, though, some foreign films work at a different pacing than hollywood.

Dominic
12-01-2005, 10:09 PM
and I had to make a seperate post about the films of Polish filmmaker, Krystof Kieslowski:

the Three Colors trilogy (Blue, White, Red)
The Double Life of Veronique
The Decalogue

and his earlier work....

the man was a giant. My favorite filmmaker of all-time. What's beautiful about his films are what makes them so impossible to describe - they are pure emotion. One of the few who figured out how to interpret internal thoughts and emotion via an external medium.

They aren't easy, but they are incredible works of art.

Colonel Kataffy
12-01-2005, 10:16 PM
There is a chinese film called Shower you should watch. Its great.

pryor15
12-01-2005, 10:27 PM
[ QUOTE ]
and I had to make a seperate post about the films of Polish filmmaker, Krystof Kieslowski:

the Three Colors trilogy (Blue, White, Red)
The Double Life of Veronique
The Decalogue

and his earlier work....

the man was a giant. My favorite filmmaker of all-time. What's beautiful about his films are what makes them so impossible to describe - they are pure emotion. One of the few who figured out how to interpret internal thoughts and emotion via an external medium.

They aren't easy, but they are incredible works of art.

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i agree with every word in this post.

12-01-2005, 10:31 PM
i'm obsessed with perception and memory, so these might not be for you, but:

Wandâfuru raifu

japanese film about the afterlife. very, very good.

L'Année dernière à Marienbad

this is my favorite film ever. it's about a woman who meets a man who she had an affair with last year at the same resort she's currently visiting with her husband. or she didn't. and her husband knows. or he doesn't. and some other stuff happens. or it doesn't.

squeek12
12-02-2005, 12:58 AM
Infernal Affairs...nothing groudbreaking, but I just saw it and it was one of the best cops and robbers movies I have ever seen.

OtisTheMarsupial
12-02-2005, 02:17 AM
First, Zoolander and Old School ARE fine films.

Second, the lists above are good. Also try Krieger und die Kaiserin, Der (The Princess and the Warrior). It's one of my all time favorite movies. A very bizarre love story with Franka Potente (from Run Lola Run) with a bit more of a plot than Lola. Her chin dimple is cute.

diebitter
12-02-2005, 02:22 AM
To ease you in: Brotherhood of the Wolf
Seven Samurai
La Haine
Betty Blue

(I could do loads, but if you don't dig these, you ain't gonna watch any more)

fluxrad
12-02-2005, 02:26 AM
Maria Full Of Grace
Das Boot
The Pianist
La Haine (Hate) - My personal favorite.
Akira
Ringu (If you haven't yet seen The Ring, you should see this first)
Brother (technically, this is domestic but it was written and directed by Beat Takeshi)
City Of God
Ghost In The Shell


I also second:

Amelie
Y Tu Mama Tambien
Run Lola Run
Hard Boiled

shant
12-02-2005, 02:29 AM
http://www.dfi.dk/dfi/undervisning/haine/hadet_03.jpg

La Haine

fluxrad
12-02-2005, 02:30 AM
I swear I thought I was the only guy who'd seen La Haine before.

A few years ago a friend of mine gave it to me for Christmas. I was the happiest guy in town.

shant
12-02-2005, 02:34 AM
We had a very cool film teacher in hgh school who opened us up to it. Great film, but as Ms. Frenchy confirmed, we are missing out on some stuff in the translation.

wildzer0
12-02-2005, 02:40 AM
A few movies that are sort of considered arty and culture like but are still entertaining:
I Stand Alone (Germany) It follows a depressed, angry out of work butcher while we hear his inner monologue as he plots suicide and murder. Great movie.

Tetsuo the Iron Man (Japan) Classic super artistic film from the early 80s with an insane soundtrack that influenced people like Darren Aranofsky among others.

Man Bites Dog (France) - A documentary crew follows serial killer through his day and ends up involved in the crimes.

Salo: 120 Days of Sodom (Italy) Really interesting, extreme and political allegory that uses a Marquis De Sade story to illustrate the fascism going on in Italy when the film was made.

Macdaddy Warsaw
12-02-2005, 03:22 AM
I'll just point you towards the films of Jean Renoir. Personally, my favorite director, his camera movements are so fluid and dynamic, it makes watching the film fun. Watch The Grand Illusion and Rules of the Game. Rules of the Game is one of my favorite movies, but Grand Illusion is a little more accessible since the story isn't about high culture and instead about war.

Sightless
12-02-2005, 03:29 AM
KONTROLL (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0373981/)

a very good Hungarian movie.

ClockWyze
12-02-2005, 03:39 AM
Life is Beautiful..

if you haven't already seen it

IronDragon1
12-02-2005, 03:43 AM
I'm noticing a real dearth of "classics" here so:

-Ikiru (http://imdb.com/title/tt0044741/)

-The Seventh Seal (http://imdb.com/title/tt0050976/)
-Jules et Jim (http://imdb.com/title/tt0055032/)
-Metropolis (http://imdb.com/title/tt0017136/)
-The 400 Blows (http://imdb.com/title/tt0053198/)
-Cinema Paradiso (http://imdb.com/title/tt0095765/)

And to fuel rampant ethnocentrisim:
-To Live (http://imdb.com/title/tt0110081/)
-In the Mood for Love (http://imdb.com/title/tt0118694/)

12-02-2005, 03:45 AM
No Man's Land

pryor15
12-02-2005, 04:17 AM
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-Jules et Jim (http://imdb.com/title/tt0055032/)
-The 400 Blows (http://imdb.com/title/tt0053198/)


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that whole antoine donel series is fantastic. plus, the last metro and some of the godard films are worth watching.

12-02-2005, 04:21 AM
No one has mentioned
The Bicycle Thief

I saw this movie in my film class and I was just thrown off over how amazing it was. De Sica is one greatest filmmakers. This is a film coming out of the Italian Neo-Realism period. You should also check out films coming from the French New Wave, such as the Godard's films as someone mentioned.

AlexHoops
12-02-2005, 05:25 AM
I liked Lola Rennt. Run Lola Run was the American release I think.

KaneKungFu123
12-02-2005, 05:44 AM
www.unseenjapan.com (http://www.unseenjapan.com) nsfw

diebitter
12-02-2005, 05:56 AM
Wages of Fear is pretty awesome too, but if you're new to foreign, you can skip the first 20-30 minutes to when the guys are actually in teh trucks (yeah, yeah, film blasphemy, I know).

mike l.
12-02-2005, 05:57 AM
everyone on this forum should avoid eric rohmer the second greatest filmmaker ever. it would be a shame for his art to be tainted by y'all's glassed-over eyes.

RunDownHouse
12-02-2005, 10:09 AM
Goodbye Lenin is not getting nearly enough love here.

AngryCola
12-02-2005, 10:23 AM
I've heard the Japanese film "Batoru rowaiaru (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0266308/)" ("Battle Royale" in English) is very good. But apparently it is quite difficult to get in the US due to its mix of violence and teens.

captZEEbo1
12-02-2005, 10:38 AM
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everyone on this forum should avoid eric rohmer the second greatest filmmaker ever. it would be a shame for his art to be tainted by y'all's glassed-over eyes.

[/ QUOTE ]my night at maud's and boyfriends and girlfriends are both amazing.

Oh yeah, I just remembered Battle Royale (2000) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0266308/) ....basically the whole 9th grade class is taken to an island and it's a fight to the death. Kill Bill: Vol 1 has some parts inspired from it, and features one of the girls from the movie:
http://killbill.movies.go.com/images/wallpaper/gogoyubari_800.jpg


edit: bah, cola beat me to it !

AngryCola
12-02-2005, 10:47 AM
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Kill Bill: Vol 1 has some parts inspired from it, and features one of the girls from the movie:

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Yeah, Kill Bill has one scene that was inspired by Battle Royale. It's basically an homage to one of Chiaki Kuriyama's (Go-Go) scenes in BR. It shouldn't be too hard to guess which one.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v431/AngryCola/battleroyale.jpg

captZEEbo1
12-02-2005, 10:51 AM
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edit: bah, cola beat me to it !

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Barely! /images/graemlins/grin.gif

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When I go to OOT, I just open up all the threads that I plan on reading at once (and usually forget to refresh by the time I get to the end of the list), that's why there's a 15 minute delay haha

SL__72
12-02-2005, 11:29 AM
Korean Cinema is "so hot right now" in the words of one of your two favorites... www.koreanfilm.org (http://www.koreanfilm.org) has seriously become a place I go to fill up my netflix queue (ok, not fill up as it is over 400 already, but find good new movies anyway)

Tae Guk Gi, best war "FILM" made in the last decade imo. (I had to emphasize film because that statement becomes false when you include band of brothers)

Oldboy, twisted, lots of action, completely original story, very good movie.

Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring. A great film. Stunningly beautiful cinematography. Definately not action packed, but the writing and acting are supurb. I have honestly never talked to someone else who has seen this movie even though I suggest it to everyone. Everyone is missing out /images/graemlins/frown.gif