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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 -  I've also got Cinema Paridiso but have never watched it strangely. Anyone seen it? |
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Reg Smeeton
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« Reply #1 on: Friday, January 28, 2005, 23:41:57 » |
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Do American films count as foreign?
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« Reply #2 on: Saturday, January 29, 2005, 00:04:03 » |
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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!
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Amir
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« Reply #3 on: Saturday, January 29, 2005, 00:13:46 » |
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Do American films count as foreign? I realised my mistake as soon as I posted. Foreign language films if you please. |
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« Reply #4 on: Saturday, January 29, 2005, 00:16:31 » |
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shame. don't have any now!
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« Reply #5 on: Saturday, January 29, 2005, 00:17:08 » |
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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
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Amir
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« Reply #6 on: Saturday, January 29, 2005, 00:17:51 » |
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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  |
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« Reply #7 on: Saturday, January 29, 2005, 00:45:19 » |
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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!
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« Reply #8 on: Saturday, January 29, 2005, 09:54:54 » |
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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! |
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« Reply #9 on: Saturday, January 29, 2005, 10:30:39 » |
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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.
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We wanna go somewhere else. We're not threatened by people anymore. All our insecurities have evaporated. We're in the clouds now. We're wide open. We're spacemen orbiting the earth. The world looks beautiful from here, man.
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« Reply #10 on: Saturday, January 29, 2005, 13:29:01 » |
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Les Amants du Pont Neuf and Betty Blue are great (if you like slightly weird french movies)
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« Reply #11 on: Saturday, January 29, 2005, 18:11:45 » |
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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
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« Reply #12 on: Saturday, January 29, 2005, 22:00:36 » |
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Definitely reccomend Amelie, but dont watch many tbh
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« Reply #13 on: Sunday, January 30, 2005, 04:22:36 » |
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one night in paris (sounds foreign) |
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Plays in midfield and his name is Tommy Miller,
signed him from Huddersfield his name is Tommy Miller,
first touch is average but his second is a killer,
heeeeeey Tommy Miller!
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« Reply #14 on: Sunday, January 30, 2005, 09:45:30 » |
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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!
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