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Title: Foreign films Post by: Amir on Friday, January 28, 2005, 23:10:26 Anyone out there got any good recommendations?
Amir's incredibly short review is.... Amelie - good La Haine - superb Il Postino - snore City of God - top La Vita É Bellé - sublime Delicatessen - ok Taxi - fun Amores Perros - 8) I've also got Cinema Paridiso but have never watched it strangely. Anyone seen it? Title: Foreign films Post by: Reg Smeeton on Friday, January 28, 2005, 23:41:57 Do American films count as foreign?
Title: Foreign films Post by: Sussex on Saturday, January 29, 2005, 00:04:03 City of God is the cats whiskers.
After the success of City of God they made two series for TV and over 35 million Brazilians tuned in. It's now out on DVD over here, it's called City of Men, and it's superb. A warning for the less cultured among us - it's subtitled! Title: Foreign films Post by: Amir on Saturday, January 29, 2005, 00:13:46 Quote from: "Reg Smeeton" Do American films count as foreign? I realised my mistake as soon as I posted. Foreign language films if you please. Title: Foreign films Post by: Johno on Saturday, January 29, 2005, 00:16:31 shame. don't have any now!
Title: Foreign films Post by: Simon Pieman on Saturday, January 29, 2005, 00:17:08 i thought that "open your eyes" the original spanish (subtitled in english) version of "vanilla Sky" was good. Haven't seen vanilla sky but apparently it doesn't compare.
Run Lola Run is another clever film. Again subtitled as it's in a foreign language (german) but still managers to keep you gripped Title: Foreign films Post by: Amir on Saturday, January 29, 2005, 00:17:51 Quote from: "Sussex Red" City of God is the cats whiskers. After the success of City of God they made two series for TV and over 35 million Brazilians tuned in. It's now out on DVD over here, it's called City of Men, and it's superb. A warning for the less cultured among us - it's subtitled! Did you see any of the Cocaine series on C4, Sussex? I think it was the second one, in the Santa Maria favela in Rio. A gang member got shot and chopped up over £170 he owed the gang. His uncle ze tried to help him but he didn't listen :( Title: Foreign films Post by: sonicyouth on Saturday, January 29, 2005, 00:45:19 I've had City of God on DVD for ages, forgot about it until you posted this.
Amelie's excellent, I also enjoyed Nikita, Les Rivieres Pourpres, Run Lola Run and Le Grand Bleu is excellent. I'm a bit of a Jean Reno fan! Title: Foreign films Post by: Sussex on Saturday, January 29, 2005, 09:54:54 Quote from: "Amir Khan" Quote from: "Sussex Red" City of God is the cats whiskers. After the success of City of God they made two series for TV and over 35 million Brazilians tuned in. It's now out on DVD over here, it's called City of Men, and it's superb. A warning for the less cultured among us - it's subtitled! Did you see any of the Cocaine series on C4, Sussex? I think it was the second one, in the Santa Maria favela in Rio. A gang member got shot and chopped up over £170 he owed the gang. His uncle ze tried to help him but he didn't listen :( I taped it but haven't watched it yet Amir. Will make that a priority this weekend. Sonic, if you've got the DVD make sure you also watch the documentary thats in the extras 'News from a private war'. It's pretty hard hitting stuff to see it all happening for real. "This is the Brazillian Goodfellas. You won't see a more dazzling, compelling or emotionally affecting movie. Fight and you'll never survive, run and you'll never escape". Too fucking right. My favourite film of all time! Title: Foreign films Post by: faringdingdong on Saturday, January 29, 2005, 10:30:39 Well Das boot is excellent, better when it's not dubbed over and just subtitled, one of the best World War two films ever made in my view.
Title: Foreign films Post by: Zurich Red on Saturday, January 29, 2005, 13:29:01 Les Amants du Pont Neuf and Betty Blue are great (if you like slightly weird french movies)
Title: Foreign films Post by: oxford_fan on Saturday, January 29, 2005, 18:11:45 city of god
city of men the motorcycle diaries amores perros y tu mama tambien la haine all superb foreign films which i've seen Title: Foreign films Post by: reeves4england on Saturday, January 29, 2005, 22:00:36 Definitely reccomend Amelie, but dont watch many tbh
Title: Foreign films Post by: Whits on Sunday, January 30, 2005, 04:22:36 one night in paris 8) (sounds foreign)
Title: Foreign films Post by: kaufman on Sunday, January 30, 2005, 09:45:30 ireversible staring monica bellucci (like memento starts at the end etc)
fantastic film very fucked up and has the infamous 13 minute rape scene which is very uncomfortable to watch! battle royal (one of my favourite films ) the goverment is fed up with youth ruining the country so send a different classroom of kids every few weeks to a deserted island gives them each a rucksack with some weapons and basically the last one alive gets to go home. So just imagine if your tutor group at school was sent to an island and you had to kill all of them to get home again ! they also have necklaces which explode and kill them if they stay in one area for too long! it's very very funny! sick but genius! Title: Foreign films Post by: Dazzza on Sunday, January 30, 2005, 17:14:07 Hotel Rwanda, which my brother has aquired on DVD and Itchi the Serial Killer.
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