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SirGlinG
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
Sweden933 Posts
December 20 2009 16:50 GMT
#61
Shauni pretty much sums up what I've got to say. Anything Roy andersson or Bergman, from the last year definitly Let the right one in.
Not my chair. Not my problem. That's what I say
7mk
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Germany10157 Posts
December 20 2009 16:54 GMT
#62
On December 20 2009 18:12 freelander wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 20 2009 14:09 rytas wrote:
Just a few swedish films I can come up with on the spot:

Evil Ed
Så som i himmelen (As in heaven)
Fucking Åmål, other swedes will prolly flame me now cuz it's a "fjortis-film" :D
Nattbuss 807
Let the right one in. <- I haven't actually seen it myself yet but I keep hearing good things about it so I take my chances here


wow "Let the right one in" is a really fucked up movie
I mean who the fuck makes a movie like that.

Though it's a very good one.


It's based on a book

On December 20 2009 19:22 Shauni wrote:


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.



cool list
A few days agoI finally managed to dl love exposure after having read about it a while ago but then I found out that a local "alternative" theatre is gonna play the movie on the 2nd and 3rd of january, really looking forward to that.

Btw if so. is gonna look for love exposure, make sure you dont end up watching the trailer for the korean movie "love exposure"... I was really confused when I saw the trailer of some shitty sex and the city like love movie bullshit.




Some German movies I've liked (I dont watch many though I must admit)
some of them were already mentioned:

Das Leben der Anderen - got an Oscar over Pan's Labyrinth, very good movie
Lammbock - If you like getting stoned, and want a good comedy about it watch this
Das Boot - Classic

Anything by Werner Herzog, his latest movies have been english though (like Grizzly man, great documentary)
beep boop
Velr
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
Switzerland10697 Posts
December 20 2009 16:54 GMT
#63
oh..

"Home" is also pretty good albeit a little *slow*...
KissBlade
Profile Blog Joined October 2004
United States5718 Posts
December 20 2009 17:04 GMT
#64
Another vote for Ip Man.
REDBLUEGREEN
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Germany1903 Posts
December 20 2009 17:14 GMT
#65
On December 21 2009 01:09 CoL_Drake wrote:
90% of the german movies in this tread sucks as hell ^^

or maybe your movie taste just sucks as hell....
Piy
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
Scotland3152 Posts
December 20 2009 17:35 GMT
#66
UK

-Trainspotting
-Anything by Mike Leigh, in particular Abigails Party (TV film) and, well...Vera Drake is the most famous I guess, but all good.
- Theres a movie called "My Brother Tom" which I'd call one of my top10 favourite films, but its very hard to find anywhere, even in UK (might be on google video though I think)
- Monty Python films.
- Four Weddings and Funeral and The Full Monty. Among the best British comedies.
- Once
- In the Loop
My. Copy. Is. Here.
lgd-haze
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Sweden547 Posts
December 20 2009 17:41 GMT
#67
I strongly suggest "Let the right one in" if you're into subtile non-stereotpyical vampire movies.

+ Show Spoiler +
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Flying Tushin!!
Jibba
Profile Blog Joined October 2007
United States22883 Posts
December 20 2009 17:44 GMT
#68
On December 21 2009 00:54 Shauni wrote:
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On December 20 2009 22:21 Jibba wrote:
On December 20 2009 19:41 Shauni wrote:
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.
What the fuck?

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.


I don't know what country you reside in but in our movie theatres in Sweden there are definitely a lot of Hollywood movies, and you'd have to go to film festivals to see more than a few foreign movies (except Swedish movies) at a theatre. People are sheep and they want to see what's most easily available to them. They are just being brainwashed into believing American cinema is the best while Americans themselves can perhaps be more conscious of their own country.

Fatih Akin is a nice director yes, I've seen Head-On and some other of his movies. Head-On has a certain rawness to it, even when speaking of love, which I found refreshing.

I'm in Turkey, and American cinema/tv is better than Turkish cinema/tv, but I don't think they're watching it simply because of marketing. Most of the kids here watch it on Megavideo, not tv. You're right that the general public makes questionable choices, but it's the same as in the US and I don't think it's simply because of cultural imperialism. Shows like Mad Men and Friday Night Lights get plenty of publicity and are pushed like crazy, but most people just don't watch them. I'd criticize the public, not "multi-million dollar American entertainment industry" for that.
ModeratorNow I'm distant, dark in this anthrobeat
Boblion
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
France8043 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-12-20 17:48:10
December 20 2009 17:46 GMT
#69
On December 20 2009 19:22 Shauni wrote:
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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.


Well people have different definitions of what a good movie is. Personal tastes you know ... which depends quite a lot of your culture and ... of your country.
As i said some foreign movie can achieve blockbuster status but still ... there a lot more who can't not because they are worse but because they have less exposition or because it is hard to identify oneself with the characters or the situation if you aren't born in the very same culture ...

For example i have recommanded here a couple of times "Man bites dog" and all the American people who watched it said it was meh and not funny.
Why ? Because they don't get the jokes, all the references and the hilarious Belgian accent.
I really wonder how you can translate the joke about the petit Grégory for example. How could you get it if you are not French or Wallon ?

And yea before you make your answer " but is just one joke blablabla ", i just want to point out that i don't want to write about every small references you won't get in every French movie i liked.

So my advice is that people should only watch foreign "mainstream" movies or blockbusters ( People have made some nice lists so far ). Some movies are only accessible if you are deeply immersed in country X culture and i would definitly not recommend this kind of films to the average TL teenager who might find it uninteresting.

Another example of a very good mainstream foreign film:
Good Bye Lenin !
fuck all those elitists brb watching streams of elite players.
rytas
Profile Joined February 2009
Sweden116 Posts
December 20 2009 17:46 GMT
#70
On December 20 2009 23:13 Manit0u wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 20 2009 14:09 rytas wrote:
Just a few swedish films I can come up with on the spot:

Evil Ed
Så som i himmelen (As in heaven)
Fucking Åmål, other swedes will prolly flame me now cuz it's a "fjortis-film" :D
Nattbuss 807
Let the right one in. <- I haven't actually seen it myself yet but I keep hearing good things about it so I take my chances here


Dude... How could you forget about Ondskan? It even got Oscar nomination for the best foreign film in 2004.

Show nested quote +
On December 20 2009 23:01 aqui wrote:
Fitzcarraldo (German) - Klaus Kinski, total nutcase, total genius , its about a man who wants to build an opera house in the jungle. You gotta see this, its brilliant^^.

Das Leben der Anderen (German) - about a stasi agent who gets absorbed by the lives of people he is wiretaping. I did not see it but it is supposed to be very good according to some friends, it won an Oscar and has an imdb rating of 8.5.


Lola Rennt was also a great movie

But now back on topic.
Good polish movies to watch:

Dekalog (you can also check other works by this director, the Three Color series: Blue, White, Red; The Double Life of Veronique; Short Movie About Killing etc.)
Dzień Świra

This are all deep movies, but what we do best is comedies.

Seksmisja
Kiler
Chłopaki Nie Płaczą

I have also provided the IMDB links so you can check out the english titles there.


I suppose Ondskan didn't quite do it for me, it's not a bad movie obviously so it could go on the list, but I completely forgot about it, it's not very special to me...
Hold position Underground Conquerors is a bitch.
lgd-haze
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Sweden547 Posts
December 20 2009 17:52 GMT
#71
I'm not into anime or manga at all, but every film of Hayao Miyazaki leaves me with a warm, fuzzy feeling.
I strongly suggest watching Mononoke-hime and Sin chirihiro no kamikakuzi(Spirited away, 100% sure I spelled the original name wrong)


Flying Tushin!!
Sulli
Profile Blog Joined November 2009
Canada236 Posts
December 20 2009 18:02 GMT
#72
I'm gonna recommend a Japanese flick.

Aruitemo aruitemo (2008) (aka "Still Walking" and "Even If You Walk and Walk")

I thought it was beautiful moviemaking.
Monsen
Profile Joined December 2002
Germany2548 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-12-20 18:23:39
December 20 2009 18:16 GMT
#73
I enjoyed watching the danish movies of Anders Thomas Jensen very much.
Always with a serious backgroud, they never fail to make you wet your pants.

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Adams Apples

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Flickering Lights

"In China they eat dogs" is also tremendously funny I hear (same director).
11 years and counting- TL #680
zoast
Profile Joined February 2007
United States91 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-12-20 18:29:39
December 20 2009 18:17 GMT
#74
I'm also not really big into anime either but the japanese film "memories" is awesome.. it's 3 short stories originally written by katsuhiro otomo (who directs the last segment himself) (of akira fame).
(<-playlist link)
only other one I know of off the top of my head is the italian horror film "cemetary man"
I dont like stuff that sucks
omfghi2u2
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
United States831 Posts
December 20 2009 18:31 GMT
#75
Not sure if these were already mentioned.

Old Boy(korean) - vengence movie
Host(korean) - monster movie
Friend(korean) - sort of like a gang movie
Silmido(korean) - military movie
Der untergang(german) - last days of hitler in his bunker
my sassy girl(korean) - cute chick flick
taegukgi brotherhood of war (korean) - korean war movie, very epic
deotrip
Profile Joined October 2007
Germany119 Posts
December 20 2009 19:27 GMT
#76
On December 21 2009 01:10 Geo.Rion wrote:
I'm a Hunarian from Romania

My favorite Hungarian movie is Kontroll, as for romanian films, idk, Train of Life was quite good, altough that's a common project. 4 months 3 weeks and 2 days is said to be one of the best recently.


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0449573/
i watched this romanian movie recently. was very good.
deotrip
Profile Joined October 2007
Germany119 Posts
December 20 2009 19:28 GMT
#77
On December 21 2009 02:14 REDBLUEGREEN wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 21 2009 01:09 CoL_Drake wrote:
90% of the german movies in this tread sucks as hell ^^

or maybe your movie taste just sucks as hell....


agree
deotrip
Profile Joined October 2007
Germany119 Posts
December 20 2009 19:31 GMT
#78
one of my all time favorite movies is a british movie called "dead mans shoes" - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0419677/

havent seen it mentioned in this thread. youve gotta watch it its amazing!
lgd-haze
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Sweden547 Posts
December 20 2009 20:03 GMT
#79
El laberinto del Fauno is probably one of my top movies ever. I think it's spanish.

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Go watch it now!
Flying Tushin!!
Nosmo
Profile Joined August 2008
Canada210 Posts
December 20 2009 20:22 GMT
#80
Good Bye Lenin! and Les Choristes are two of my favourite foreign movies.
Killer next Bonjwa//Much is also good//Savior what happened//Fuck yeah, Nal_ra!
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