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Posted on 6/10/09 at 11:46 am to Afreaux
Good list except for Life is Beautiful. Thought it was, in a way, insulting. The Holocaust can be fun!!! Seriously, though, my main complaint is that it is maudlin. And Roberto Benigni annoys the crap out of me and he robbed Nick Nolte of the Oscar that year.
Posted on 6/10/09 at 3:02 pm to BamaMan45
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Bus 174 is a very interesting Brazilian film dramatization about a bus hijacking in Rio de Janeiro. To me, it was amazing how the Brazilian police, SWAT, and media handled the whole situation.
I just watched this yesterday, I think Enrique recommended it to me last year. Pretty powerful stuff.
Posted on 6/11/09 at 1:44 pm to lpd1975
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Oldboy (Korean - mindfrick)
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Understatement
I just watched this for the first time.... fricking insane.
Posted on 6/18/09 at 11:40 pm to cobrew
I won't post the trailer for this great movie I recently saw, and I won't offer plot details. The less you know about the film, the more you will enjoy it. For Netflix subscribers, you can watch it online:
Los Cronocrímenes (TimeCrimes)
Ebert gives it 4 out 5 stars. If you thought indie flicks like Primer were fairly unpredictable, I'd say that this one has it beat as the film progresses.
Los Cronocrímenes (TimeCrimes)
Ebert gives it 4 out 5 stars. If you thought indie flicks like Primer were fairly unpredictable, I'd say that this one has it beat as the film progresses.
Posted on 6/18/09 at 11:49 pm to Afreaux
Run Lola Run
Casshern
I bet I got a couple of people's attention with that pic.
Casshern
I bet I got a couple of people's attention with that pic.
This post was edited on 6/18/09 at 11:52 pm
Posted on 6/18/09 at 11:51 pm to Afreaux
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Afreaux
i'll try that one out.
Posted on 6/18/09 at 11:54 pm to Afreaux
Only one I've seen that you listed is "The Orphanage". I saw it like a year ago I think. Was pretty good
Posted on 6/19/09 at 3:11 am to CAD703X
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Run Lola Run
Good movie, surprised I didn't list it.
Posted on 6/19/09 at 5:18 am to Afreaux
I enjoy watching The Tin Drum.
Posted on 6/19/09 at 8:10 am to Beachtiger
Saw Vengeance Is Mine a couple of days ago. Very brutal and the sex scenes are all tense. Serial killer movie that doesn't try and explain why.
Posted on 6/19/09 at 5:51 pm to Afreaux
U have good taste in films Afreaux. Do u have a multiregion dvd player? Many simples will not sit thru a movie w subtitles and its their loss.
Posted on 6/19/09 at 5:55 pm to CAD703X
I loved Run Lola Run. Another great film is Dead-On (original title is Gegen Die Wand). The film is pretty much half in German and half in Turkish. It won a lot of awards at the Berlin Film Festival, and the director, Fatih Akin, has gone on to a lot of success on the European independent film circuit since then.
Has anyone else seen it?
Has anyone else seen it?
Posted on 6/20/09 at 6:24 am to LSUGradATL
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U have good taste in films Afreaux. Do u have a multiregion dvd player? Many simples will not sit thru a movie w subtitles and its their loss.
I have a regular DVD player, most of the movies that I purchase or watch will function in it.
I'm a fluent Spanish speaker, so I'll watch many of the Latin-American films with the subtitles off. But since many of them have words or phrases specific to the country it was filmed in, I still need them. Secuestro Express is a great example, even Venezuelans I know need the subtitles.
Posted on 6/20/09 at 4:52 pm to Afreaux
Cinema Paradiso is excellent if you have never seen it. It won the Oscar for best foreign film.
Posted on 6/20/09 at 7:14 pm to Drunken Clams
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Cinema Paradiso is excellent if you have never seen it. It won the Oscar for best foreign film.
I saw it when I was young, good movie.
Another good older flick is Il Postino.
Maria Grazia Cucinotta
Posted on 6/21/09 at 12:28 am to Afreaux
Great list. I really can't add too many more "classics" to it, so I'll mention some that are just fun, with a few exceptions.
Hara Kari - Japanese great samurai film
The Killer - Hong Kong - John Woo and Yun-Fat Chow, can't beat these two together.
A Better Tomorrow 1 and 2 - see above.
Hard Boiled - Hong Kong. Also JW and Y-FC, but to me the epitome of early 90's action films the world over.
A Tale of Two Sisters - Korean - Remake just came out on DVD, horror.
Evil - Swedish - Boy's prep school before WW2. Good movie.
Nightwatch and Daywatch - Russian. First two parts of trilogy that is just weird. I liked them, not all will however. Has to do with supernatural beings.
City of Violence - Korean - Revenge flick.
Most of these are not the typical "artsy dramatic" movies mentioned so far, just some good foreign films to pass the time. All of them I've enjoyed.
Hara Kari - Japanese great samurai film
The Killer - Hong Kong - John Woo and Yun-Fat Chow, can't beat these two together.
A Better Tomorrow 1 and 2 - see above.
Hard Boiled - Hong Kong. Also JW and Y-FC, but to me the epitome of early 90's action films the world over.
A Tale of Two Sisters - Korean - Remake just came out on DVD, horror.
Evil - Swedish - Boy's prep school before WW2. Good movie.
Nightwatch and Daywatch - Russian. First two parts of trilogy that is just weird. I liked them, not all will however. Has to do with supernatural beings.
City of Violence - Korean - Revenge flick.
Most of these are not the typical "artsy dramatic" movies mentioned so far, just some good foreign films to pass the time. All of them I've enjoyed.
Posted on 7/9/09 at 8:42 pm to magildachunks
Another recommendation for those of you who enjoyed Brazilian movies such as City of God and Carandiru.
Picture City of God, told through the eyes of BOPE (the hardcore guys that do the work regular Brazilian police can't handle).
Elite Guard trailer (English)
Extended trailer (Portuguese)
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Tropa de Elite (Elite Squad) is a semi-fictional account of the BOPE, the Special Police Operations Battalion of the Rio de Janeiro Military Police. It is the second feature film and first fiction film of director José Padilha, who had previously directed the acclaimed film Bus 174. The script was written by Academy Award-nominated screenwriter Bráulio Mantovani (screenwriter for City of God), based on the book Elite da Tropa by sociologist Luiz Eduardo Soares and two former BOPE captains, André Batista and Rodrigo Pimentel.
Picture City of God, told through the eyes of BOPE (the hardcore guys that do the work regular Brazilian police can't handle).
Elite Guard trailer (English)
Extended trailer (Portuguese)
Posted on 7/9/09 at 8:49 pm to Afreaux
Le Pacte des loups (Bortherhood of the wolves)
And
Che - (The story of Che Gueverra in two parts)/(portayed by Benecio del Torro)
And
Che - (The story of Che Gueverra in two parts)/(portayed by Benecio del Torro)
Posted on 7/9/09 at 8:53 pm to Afreaux
Set the DVR next Tuesday on Sundance Channel starting at 1pm is a three movie block of Jean-Pierre Melville movies.
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