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BloodDrunK
Bangladesh2767 Posts
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Froleson
Iceland18 Posts
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Piste
6175 Posts
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crayons
Singapore65 Posts
-Homerun (local remake of 'children of heaven') -Where Got Ghost? (comedy/horror) -Money No Enough (comedy) be aware that the language in the films are rather localized x_x and the movie industry here is quite new, so not they aren't exactly blockbusters. but they are good imo | ||
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Shauni
4077 Posts
On December 20 2009 14:21 Boblion wrote: The main problem is that many foreign movies can only be found in their native language and even if they get subbed or dubbed you will lose some of the content ( the jokes and all the little subtilities ). Sometimes a foreign film can success outside of its own country ( like Infernal Affairs, Old boy or Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ) but usually they are just too subtile to be enjoyed by a foreigner. I could make a list but i'm quite sure that you would not be able to find like 95% of it. LOL I can't tell if you're serious or not. Either way, what you're saying it totally ridiculous. You can love a movie and find it fascinating without understanding the language at all. Missing a joke or two because of bad subtitles? Oh how horrifying! A good movie isn't built upon language and dialogue, even though many movies are. As for swedish movies, I don't like them at all but: Songs from the Second Floor (Roy Andersson's other movies Du Levande and En kärlekshistoria are also great movies) As someone wrote above, Lukas Moddysson's movies are worth watching, at least Lilja 4-ever, Tillsammans and Fucking Åmål. I'm more into asian movies than europeian movies to be honest. Korean filmmaker Ki duk kim is one of the best directors of present-time. His best movies are Shi-gan AKA Time, Bad Guy, Seom AKA The Isle, but all his movies are worth watching. They are definitely not movies you need subtitles for, as he doesn't like to rely on spoken words. The most famous ones are Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring and Bin-Jip. He is quite known in the western side of the world because of appreciation in film festivals and the like, yet he is ironically hated in South Korea. Japanese director Shohei Imamura is is a great, often historical, director with movies such as Kuroi Ame AKA Black Rain, Ballad of Narayama and Vengeance is Mine. To be honest I haven't seen all his movies yet, but I don't think he's made a bad movie. Another Japanese director, Shunji Iwai, has made two great movies - I've seen most of them but Swallowtail and All About Lily Chou Chou are his best. Very melancholic and grim movies. Sion Sono is a controversial japanese director, often involving difficult themes as religion & cults, suicide, media and a question of identity. Love Exposure is a genious 4 hour movie, other good movies from him are Noriko's Dinner Table and Suicide Circle. Hideako Anno is often known as an anime director, having made Evangelion and other big franchises, has also made a few good live action movies, the best being Ritual. I almost forgot Takeshi Kitano, one of Japan's most known directors. Has made good movies like Kids Return, Hana-bi and Kikujiro but his best movie is the artistic masterpiece Dolls. Thailand also has a very good director, Pen-Ek Ratanaruang. His best movie is Last Life in the Universe. I'm no expert on Chinese movies, I mostly know Taiwanese movies, as mainland ones have to be politically correct they are careful not to touch such subjects. Edward Yang (Taiwan) has made the masterpiece A Brighter Summer Day and Yi Yi is one of his more known movies. Tsai Ming-liang is one of Taiwan's best (artistic) directors. Often with a slow pace in his movies, I've only seen Bu san AKA Goodbye Dragon Inn and What Time is it There? but they were both very good. Ok there are many more but I'm done for now (I didn't include more classic directors like Bergman, Kurosawa etc because they're well known and also I'm more into present-time directors - which is not saying the past ones are worse). | ||
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only_human89
United States212 Posts
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Shauni
4077 Posts
On December 20 2009 19:34 only_human89 wrote: Why do other countries watch American movies so much? Don't you have you're own movie industries? To me it sounds wierd that foriegn movies will be considered anything non-American for the sake of this thread lol. to me it sounds wierd that you're cannot spell in your own foriegn language. Most of us hate American movies, it's just that they keep popping up in cinema, probably because of the multimillion American industry trying to kill off all other cultures. It's not us 'foreigners' fault. | ||
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Sentient66
United States651 Posts
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lac29
United States1485 Posts
Japanese - Tampopo - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tampopo Both are excellent movies. Tampopo will make you crave ramen. It is the best food-related movie I've seen. | ||
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only_human89
United States212 Posts
On December 20 2009 19:41 Shauni wrote: to me it sounds wierd that you're cannot spell in your own foriegn language. Most of us hate American movies, it's just that they keep popping up in cinema, probably because of the multimillion American industry trying to kill off all other cultures. It's not us 'foreigners' fault. I don't watch a lot of movies in general. And I don't think Hollywood is trying to kill off other film cultures. You don't have to watch American film's after all, so somebody is definitely going to them. Otherwise they would not be screened in other countries. That or you could just flat out boycott them lol. | ||
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Catyoul
France2377 Posts
- A bout de souffle by Godard. - the trilogy by Lucas Belvaux : Cavale (On the Run); Un couple épatant (An Amazing Couple); Après la vie (After the Life) - La double vie de véronique by Krzysztof Kieslowski - Le dîner de cons by Francis Veber is pretty hilarious French directors I recommend in general : Godard, Resnais, Truffaut, Renoir A couple of random American recommendations that should fit your taste : Cool Hand Luke, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The sting, The apartment, Fury. | ||
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Shauni
4077 Posts
On December 20 2009 20:05 only_human89 wrote: I don't watch a lot of movies in general. And I don't think Hollywood is trying to kill off other film cultures. You don't have to watch American film's after all, so somebody is definitely going to them. Otherwise they would not be screened in other countries. That or you could just flat out boycott them lol. People could boycott them as individuals, but you realize people (as in masses) doesn't always look for a taste in movies themselves but rather watch the movies that are being marketed towards them? The huge financing and influence of Hollywood corporations does that better than anything else. If we can only watch Hollywood movies at our local cinema and can only rent Hollywood DVDs, what do you think is going to happen? You think it doesn't slowly kill off other movie industries as people begin to assimilate that shit? | ||
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Horiz0n
Sweden364 Posts
Crouching Tiger, Hiden Dragon - China Hero - China Infernal Affairs - Japan the "Vengeance" serie - Korea Ong-bak - Thailand Shaolin Soccer - China (Steven Cho) kung fu hustle - China (Steven Cho) Suicide Circle - Japan The Art Of Fighting - Korea Yamakasi - France Banlieue 13 - France Nikita - France Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain - France (The Music by Yann Tiersen is Fantastic) Cidade De Deus - Brazil Kopps - Sweden Jägarna - Sweden Akira - Japan Grave Of The Fireflies - Japan | ||
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RHCPgergo
Hungary345 Posts
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kontroll Show's how people think about ticket controllers in Budapest but it's also a lot deeper than that. The thing I like about it is that it portrays the indifference of city people towards each other and also the pessimism and resignation that is so typical for a lot of hungarian people. It stands out from the usual hungarian movie scene. I think they wanted to remake it in New York, dunno what happened to that though. It's an art film full of symbols, but it's also funny and there's some action too. Was a big hit and won some prize. | ||
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Froleson
Iceland18 Posts
That´s not to say I watch few Hollywood films since there´s almost literally nothing else to watch. Example of how supply shapes demand. Well on topic, a few non-Hollywood films, "foreign" and indie, that come to mind: Half Nelson - US indie - Loved it, had a huge impact on me. Land and Freedom - UK - direct. Ken Loach, I love his stuff especially this film, being a bloody socialist myself. Pans Labyrinth and The Orphanage - Spain - Guillermo del Toro. Das Boot - Germany - Already mentioned, I vouch for it. Epic tragedy of a german U-96 U-Boat in WWII. Watch it with orginal german language for full impact.  And once again, cant really express my admiration in strong enough term for the Sergio Leoni´s spagetti westerns "A fistfull of dollars", "For a few dollars more" and "The good, the bad and the ugly" I think my point of Hollywood being monotonoeus and uncreative in style and content is best explained by contrasting Hollywood to these masterpieces of Italian cinema. Notice the difference in shooting(that is by cameras  ) and the secenes and how violence it differently portraid than in typical Hollywood. How close-ups are used to tell the story and how the build-up to the violence is more important than the violent act itself. | ||
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exeprime
United Kingdom643 Posts
4 luni, 3 saptamâni si 2 zile - won the Golden Palm at Cannes in 2007, I personally disliked it even though it really *is* a good movie, it's just... uncomfortable to watch, in a way. It's slow-paced and minimalistic (on purpose), and while that makes for good "art", it's not very entertaining at all. Good movie, I found it hard to enjoy though. Filantropica - another good romanian movie, but very different from 432, a lot more light-hearted and stuff. As for other foreign movies, City of God is brilliant and if you enjoy that definitely watch Tropa de Elite - also brazilian, very similar style, but at the same time quite different. Well worth a watch. Aaaaand... another movie I totally love, but it's a bit less popular I guess - Emir Kusturica's Black Cat, White Cat, it's a serbian movie (I think) but it deals with a gipsy community - a lovely comedy / romance that's surreal but feels extremely vivid and authentic at the same time. Definitely the kind of "love it or hate it" movie though. | ||
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FortuneSyn
1826 Posts
AWESOME MOVIE. Watch it. it's about a brazilian special police unit that fights in favelas, it's about how fucked up it is when a rich kid buys weed at a local favela in rio and helps murder a kid the next day, it's about corruption, it's about a situation that's so fucked up that it's almost necessary to act inhuman. | ||
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odeSSa
Sweden198 Posts
Lilja 4-ever. (Lukas Moodysson). http://akas.imdb.com/title/tt0300140/ Tillsammans (Lukas Moodysson). http://akas.imdb.com/title/tt0203166/ Fucking Åmål (Lukas Moodysson). http://akas.imdb.com/title/tt0150662/ Fanny och Alexander (Ingmar Bergman). http://akas.imdb.com/title/tt0083922/ This movie is one of my favorites, watch it at Christmas and see the 5 hour version! Nattvardsgästerna (Ingmar Bergman). http://akas.imdb.com/title/tt0057358/ Sjunde Inseglet (Ingmar Bergman). http://akas.imdb.com/title/tt0050976/ a great classic Smultronstället (Ingmar Bergman). http://akas.imdb.com/title/tt0050986/ Some classic comedies: Att angöra en brygga (Tage Danielsson). http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058926/ Släpp fångarna loss, det är vår! (Tage Danielsson). http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073720/ Äppelkriget (Tage Danielsson). http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068025/ Mannen som slutade röka (Tage Danielsson). http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068916/ hilarious! Picassos äventyr (Tage Danielsson). http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078084/ this one might be hard to get for foreigners though Ronja Rövardotter (Tage Danielsson). http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088015/ Great adaption of Astrid Lindgrens classic tale, for children and adults alike. | ||
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VioleTAK
4315 Posts
Sjunde Inseglet sounds really nice, I'll def watch it. Bin-jip (Korean) +1 from me, amazing movie. and Låt den rätte komma in is nice and dark. I'm a big fan of old Japanese samurai movies, but I got a feeling a lot of people around here are as well, and that repeating the same names is not necessary :-) I recommend the 1954 Miyamoto Musashi trilogy. And all six 1970s movies of Lone Wolf and Cub for great fun :-) | ||
Jibba
United States22883 Posts
On December 20 2009 19:41 Shauni wrote: What the fuck?to me it sounds wierd that you're cannot spell in your own foriegn language. Most of us hate American movies, it's just that they keep popping up in cinema, probably because of the multimillion American industry trying to kill off all other cultures. It's not us 'foreigners' fault. I'm abroad right now and you know why foreigners like shitty movies like Gamer and bad TV shows like How I Met Your Mother? It's not because the American entertainment industry tries to kill off other cultures; it's because mass culture here wants to see them. I've met more people who like them here than I ever have in the US. The myth of dependency theory is that it's a one way street. The American shows don't get the prime time slots, and they make up a minority of what's in the theater yet they still get more viewers, especially online. Gegen die Wand/Head On (technically German, but about Turks and by a Turkish-German director, so they take credit for it.) Yol Günese Yolculuk Günesi Gördüm Head On is the only one I'd consider great, compared to movies from the US/France/Italy, etc. Turkish movies are ok, but they tend to be overdramatic because the public flocks to it. | ||
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