Unfortunately foreign cinema isn't really discussed much on this forum, but I was just wondering what all of your favourite foreign, non-English films may be.
Personally I feel that Oldboy is not only the best foreign film ever made, but also one of the best films ever made. Period. I am also a huge fan of Kurosawa's works, most notably Seven Samurai, Yojimbo and Ran and love a good Jackie Chan movie. Shinjuku Incident, which is finally released on DVD in February, completely blew me away. A big fan of Takeshi Kitano as well; Kikujiro is my favourite movie of his. Fumihiko Sori's Ping Pong is another of my all time favourites. A special mention to Yoji Yamada's The Twilight Samurai as well. Moving out of Asia now - I'm also a huge fan of the Swedish horror-romance Let The Right One In. Del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth is another fantastic foreign film, along with The Good, The Bad and the Ugly and many other Sergio Leone westerns.
They're most of my favourites, what about yours?
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Your Favourite Non-English Films?
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erm crouching tiger hidden dragon, hero and house of flying daggers.
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Leone, Let The Right One In (which, funnily enough, I'm about to watch now on Blu), Pan's Labyrinth, Inglourious *******s (joke), Oldboy, Inside, Martyrs.
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Damn, I totally forgot about House of Flying Daggers. Love that film.
Originally Posted by preposterous
No Kurosawa, Misawa?
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Don't own any Kurosawa flicks for some reason (on DVD). Have a couple of VHS bootlegs but no VHS player anymore. Haven't seen them in YEARS. But yes, Ran and The Seven Samurai are a couple of my foreign film favourites. I could go on and on and on really.
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run lola run
i love the film.
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29-01-2010, 09:58 PM #7
I like that film about that general (Chinese) and he grows old and he faces a massive enemy on his own at the end
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Can't say I've seen many, but it would probably be a Jackie Chain one. I hate Crouching Tiger, it bored me sooooo much. A film came on the TV the other day and I just started watching it. Most of it was in Italian with subs but it was almost as if I didn't even realise it wasn't English, just thought that was kind of cool. Think it was called Heaven.
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You should really check out some more foreign films, they offer a perspective Hollywood just can't offer. If you haven't seen Oldboy stop what you are doing, go to the place nearest to you that sells DVDs and buy it. If the shop is closed steal it. Oldboy must be watched. Originally Posted by Sergio
Last edited by Neversoft; 29-01-2010 at 10:29 PM.
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Let The Right One In and City of God. Two incredible foreign language films.
It saddens me that not many people would watch a subtitled movie, a lot of them are better than Hollywood movies.
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