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I think the only foreign film I've seen is Amelie. It was so long ago that I don't even remember what it was about!I'm also interested in some recommendations!
The only foreign film I can remember watching was Battle Royale which I really liked. I immediately put the book on my TBR list after seeing it.I tried watching Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon but I can't stand watching dubbed movies. Subtitles I don't mind but dubbed movies are so annoying.
There are so many foreign films that I want to see: Amelie, Old Boy, Let the Right One In, Pan's Labyrinth, Nobody Knows...
Maybe one of you could help me with the name of a certain film? It's a French film that came out maybe a couple years ago-I remember seeing the previews for it on TV a lot. It's about a woman who had been in prison for years and had just gotten out and was staying with her sister, who had no idea that her sister had ever been in prison. I can't remember the title. Do you all remember this movie?
P.S. Here's a great site that lists 25 good foreign films and it even has a trailer for each of them:
http://www.pastemagazine.com/blogs/li...
I agree Jamie! Audrey Tatou is a great french actress. He loves me He loves me not is so good, and crazy! Hors de prix (Priceless) is really good. Another good one is L'auberge espagnole (The Spanish apartment), and Coco. I LOVEEEE Paris, je t'aime it is one of my all time favorite french films.
I also like Bollywood films!
Kayla, the movie you are thinking of is "I've Loved you So Long" (French title: Il y a longtemps que je t'aime) HIGHLY recommended. It's soooo good.French is my major, so there are a lot of other French movies I enjoy.. so here's a few (trying not to repeat any already mentioned on this thread): To Be and to Have, The Class, The City of Lost Children, The Valet, Ponette, Seducing Dr. Lewis, My Best Friend, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Delicatessen, Ma Vie En Rose, The Closet... and there's a ton others I have in my netflix queue that I'll get around to eventually.
As for other foreign films, I really like: Run Lola Run, Pan's Labyrinth, The Orphanage, and The Devil's Backbone
Jenna wrote: "Kayla, the movie you are thinking of is "I've Loved you So Long" (French title: Il y a longtemps que je t'aime) HIGHLY recommended. It's soooo good.French is my major, so there are a lot of othe..."
That was exactly what I was looking for. Thanks, Jenna! And I remember seeing Run Lola Run in my AP English class in high school. It's an amazing movie. I loved it.
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I love foreign films so much! Especially French ones. The 400 Blows is one of my favorite movies, but I also love Jules & Jim, The Bicycle Thieves (not French), To Be and To Have as Jenna said, The Passion of Joan of Arc, and as Jamie mentioned the Three Colors trilogy. They're all just so beautiful and complex and earnest.
This thread makes me so happy! I'm glad to know I'm not the only 20-something out there that watches foreign films :) I don't have a favorite foreign genre, but I tend to lean toward Spanish and French films. I also love old movies (black & white '40s - '60s), but I'll save that for another thread ;)Jessica, I loved "L'auberge Espagnole"! There's actually a sequel to the movie called "Russian Dolls," which is pretty good.
"Como Agua Para Chocolate" and "Amores Perros" are both a beautifully tragic Spanish movies.
As for French movies, "And God Created Woman" is also one of my favorites -- it features the gorgeous Brigitte Bardot. Of course anything that Audrey Tatou is in is good -- "Amelie," "He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not..."
Well, I think anything that Louis Garrel plays in is magic. He's, apparently, just as charming in real life as he is in French Cinema. I think most cinemaphiles are familiar with his role in The Dreamers, directed by Bernardo Bertolucci (great filmmaker, directed The Last Tango in Paris). It seems like you enjoy the more light-hearted films so I suppose you might enjoy Love Songs (Les Chansons D'Amour); most of the films Louis Garrel plays are controversial in American society. If you want to go that route then (and I encourage that you do ^_^), you should really watch The Dreamers or Ma Mere. I heard Regular Lovers is really nice and it seems so pleasant because his father directed it and his mother is in the film as well. I have an affinity for french cinema as well, it is my favorite. The Triplets of Belleville is ridiculously good. There is also 'Love Me If You Dare' which is a universal one everyone likes. If you haven't checked out other films from Jean-Pierre Jeunut (the director of Amelie) you should ^_^. Most anything from the French New Wave era is glorious!
If you want to see something from another country, haha, this I have a few you might like. 2046, is a Chinese film, it is really futuristic and just pleasant to watch. It is part of a trilogy, but you don't have to watch them in order to understand the last one. The director, Kar Woi Wong, has a lot of films that I enjoy. I think any film by Ingmar Bergman is good, if you want to check out any German classics. I Am Love seems really good, if you like Italian films and Tilda Swinton.
Amores Perros (the one that Anastasia recommended) is great. Gael Bernal Garcia is an incredible actor. Again if you want something more light-hearted, you should watch Science of Sleep (Gael is in that one).
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I could go on, but I think I've listed enough XD
Jenna: 'La cité des enfants perdus' is one of my favourites too. I'm not American, so I watch 'foreign' films all the time. :P Every single film I watch has subtitles, so that doesn't bother me at all.
Some other good ones: Der Untergang, Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain (though that one always makes me a little sad for some reason), Mariken (a Belgian/Dutch film based on a famous medieval tale), La vita è bella, Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari (a silent film from 1920 - Tim Burton totally stole 90% of his ideas from this one) and Pantserkruiser Potjomkin.
Nikki, do you watch a lot of American movies?
I also love Amelie, and Il y a longtemps que je t'aime was a fantastic movie, from what I remember. I've been meaning to watch the Three Colors trilogy for ages...I have Bleu, but keep forgetting to watch it. Last week I watched this really odd animated french movie called A Town Called Panic. It was pretty funny. Oh, I also LOVE the movie, and soundtrack from, Les Choristes. And I watched Etre et avoir twice for french class, and it's soo cute.
Jen: of course, most films are American. :) It's probably around 50% American, 50% non-American. I don't watch that many films though, I usually get bored about halfway through.
It would be extremely hard for me to come up with a list of foreign films I've watched.. it would end up a novel! I'm most familiar with Japanese and Korean movies. And I really love the actor Tadanobu Asano.Favorites would have to be Last Life in the Universe (JP), Spirited Away (JP), Acacia (KR), I'm a Cyborg But That's OK (KR), Bright Future (JP), Purple Butterfly (CN), Eat Drink Man Woman (CN), and Dumplings (CN).
I loved Amelie as well :) It's such a cute little movie.
Ahhh I totally forgot Miyazaki movies!! Loveeee Howl's Moving Castle, My Neighbor Totoro, and all the other Miyazaki films. I haven't actually seen Spirited Away (I know, it's awful), but I plan to.
La Vita E' Bella is very popular and I enjoy it immensely. I also watched the Italian Pinocchio - I enjoyed it because I could understand the Italian language used (I suppose it's made for children), but I otherwise wouldn't reccommend it.I enjoyed "The Kite Runner" because it was extremely similar to the book, if a little too fast-paced. I'm not sure what my reaction would have been if I hadn't read the novel first.
"Kabul Express" was a fairly decent movie, although not fabulous. It has a good plot and more potential than I thought it made use of.
"The Color of Paradise" was a good movie.
Oooh I love foreign films! My university has a really good program and they show 3 different films multiple times during the week, so I've gotten to see a lot. Some of my favorites were Amelie (seems to be many people's favorite), I've also seen a few Italian films because my hubby is an Italian minor. Il Postino and Notte di Cabiria are both great. Water is a beautiful film set in India (not Bollywood, though).
lately, i love Millenium's Trilogy so much awesome
It's not a film, but I love the Danish tv series 'Forbrydelsen' ('The Killing'). I have 3 episodes to go, I can't wait to finally know the answers to all the mysteries. Apparantly they're going to/have made an American remake. I really don't understand why Americans make remakes so often instead of just showing the original.
Nikki - have you ever seen the tv series 'de Bokkenrijders'? I remember really liking it when I was a kid and now have it on dvd :)
Daisy: no, I'd never even heard of it. I watched a trailer on Youtube and it does look good. My favourite tv-show growing up was 'Kulderzipken'. I still really love it to be honest. :D
Today I watched Micmacs, and I loved it. It's the same guy who made Amelie, City of Lost Children, Delicatessen... Basically, I think he's a god.
I don't mind remakes so much as when the movie/series is dubbed. That's so annoying! Especially with more well known actors, because I know what they should sound like.Almost all the movies and series I watch have subtitles, all a part of being non-American. You get used to it pretty fast.
I love watching foreign films. Since I'm a huge francophile, I'm also partial to french films. Some of my faves are Joyeux Noel, Paris Je T'aime, Les Choristes, Au Revoir Les Enfants, and 2 Days in Paris. Also, The Edukators and La Vita é Bella.And if you guys love the books, I definitely recommend The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (the swedish version, of course!).
I know this is an old thread but I thought that I would add that the tendancy to remake sucessful foreign stuff is not just an aversion to subtitles but possibly a lack of understanding/appreciation of other culture and humour? Humour is difficult to translate, even when you speak the same language.Last year our (New Zealand) most successful tv drama finished after six seasons. During that time three remakes have been attempted, one by the UK and two by the US - all three flopped. It didn't translate so well but remakes were attempted over the original New Zealand, english speaking version anyway. I guess without an understanding of New Zealand culture maybe the show didn't make bundles of sense? I can see that.
And I can think of several examples where in New Zealand we got both the British and American versions of the same movie/tv show - thinking The Office, Death at a Funeral, Mean Machine which turned into The Longest Yard - all which were much more entertaining in their original British version, and in my view the US versions not worth the time spent watching.
As an after thought, it is also interesting that this thread equates foreign films with films not in English - Though I did notice someone slip in The Wind that Shakes the Barley, awesome film, though pretty intense.
I really loved Amelie (and really anything else Audrey Tatou is in--Happenstance, God is Great But I'm Not, He Loves Me.. He Loves Me Not, A Very Long Engagement). I also really loved The Three Colors Trilogy. I know their are others that I've seen but I can't recall them right now. I'd really love some new recommendations. I have a slight leaning towards French films but I really want to expand my taste.