What's the last foreign film you've seen?

[Starbucks Anarchist]

I saw "Nights of Cabiria" yesterday -- the first Fellini film I've seen, too. :thumbsup:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050783/

[mainegreen]

1. Quasi-foreign: the Kite Runner.

Afgan author, afgan story, afgan actors, US financed.

Fucking amazing movie though.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

2. My dad loves the book.

I haven't read or seen it, though.

[crim son]

45. Agreed.

Usually movies I've seen just fall out of my head within hours of leaving the theater. That movie keeps coming back to me. Two thumbs up.

[yellowdogintexas]

67. just watched it tonight. Loved it. Loved the book. Kaleeim Housseni is an amazing author nt

[fizzgig]

3. i had a foreign movie night a few nights ago

watched amelie, zus and zo (dutch film and positively fantastic http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0245157/) and mostly martha (a superb german film http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0246772/). no reservations, which had catherine zeta-jones in the lead, is a remake of this movie. i haven't seen the remake yet, but i will, if only because i'm a masochist.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

5. Nights of Cabiria had that Amelie kind of feel to it.

Different story, but similar tone, and it's 50+ years old and in black and white. :P

[fizzgig]

34. i'll put that on my list

:D

[Symarip]

4. Hot Phuzz

It was deep, man. Real deep.

[AlCzervik]

6. The Battle of Algiers.

:hi:

[Starbucks Anarchist]

11. On my Netflix queue for awhile.

:hi:

[AlCzervik]

16. Really excellent film, please let me know how you like it.

:toast:

[Starbucks Anarchist]

19. I will.

I'm trying to mix up what I watch -- foreign/domestic, old/new, etc.

One of the best new ones I've seen is Before the Devil Knows You're Dead. Have you seen it?

[AlCzervik]

21. no but i did see it at Hollywood video, when i get back next week i will rent

it for sure, thanks for the rec.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

24. Definitely worth it.

Sidney Lumet + Phillip Seymour Hoffman = awesome.

Though the opening scene is a bit too much Hoffman. :scared:

Wait, who the hell goes to Hollywood Video anymore? :P

[Ekirh]

66. Fuck yes

Mom bought that for my birthday last year . . . just a random foreign film she thought I enjoy. And she was right.

[RevolutionaryActs]

7. Technically it was Spirited Away - since I re-watched it last weekend

Before that it was Saawariya
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0758053/


Which was just fantastic. A Moulin Rouge like Bollywood movie. :loveya:

[Starbucks Anarchist]

10. Ironically, I hate Bollywood.

I'm a bad Indian. :P

[RevolutionaryActs]

28. How can you hate Bollywood?

That's like hating... um.... KITTENS! :think:


Stop hatin' on the kittens you heartless bastard. :P

[Starbucks Anarchist]

32. Kittens are the devil's rejects.

:hide:

[RevolutionaryActs]

41. Blasphemer!

And in the Lounge no less? Have you no shame? :o

[Starbucks Anarchist]

43. They are the Olive Garden of the animal kingdom.

[RevolutionaryActs]

44. hahahahahaa

You win. That was funny. :rofl:

[bicentennial_baby]

15. Ha! I won!

I'D LIKE A JOB PLEASE!!! :bounce:

[RevolutionaryActs]

27. Well you were the first to vote and the first to reply.

So yeah... :silly:

[likesmountains 52]

8. 4 Months, 3 Weeks , 2 Days..a woman trying to get an abortion in Romania

[Darth_Kitten]

9. What the Kitten Saw.....

:)

[vard28]

12. Let's see

that would be Ratitoulli.

That is all. :popcorn:

[sakabatou]

13. Steamboy

[many a good man]

14. Salome

[MikeNearMcChord]

17. Aguire The wrath of God

Boy that movie kicked Ass, it turned me into a Kinski fan. I got a couple more of his films to watch.

[mitchum]

37. The greatest movie ever made

[ThomCat]

18. The Lives of Others.

It is an awesome film that I'm still recommending to people. :)

[Starbucks Anarchist]

20. Still need to see it.

:hi:

[ThomCat]

23. If it's ever showing in a second run threater somewhere

I'd happily see it again with you. That would be a good excuse to hang out. :)

[Starbucks Anarchist]

25. Of course.

:D

[Schema Thing]

22. two thumbs up

[likesmountains 52]

26. I loved that also..

[MikeNearMcChord]

30. May I recommend "Goodbye Lenin" to you all

The Germans do make some good movies

[ThomCat]

31. Of course you may.

:)

When did "Goodbye Lenin" come out?

[MikeNearMcChord]

48. It came out in 2003, It is a bittersweet story

about a son's love for his mother, in about the time of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the reunification of Germany. It will touch you. :D :hug:

[Starbucks Anarchist]

33. Speaking of German films, I saw "M" recently.

Everybody needs to see that movie.

[devilgrrl]

40. That's a great one too!

Yes, everyone must see it. :thumbsup:

[Starbucks Anarchist]

42. It created or foreshadowed many common techniques and styles.

And it's well-done as a story, too.

[Ekirh]

65. And that is one of them.

Very Good film.

[devilgrrl]

39. An E X C E L L E N T film! Two thumbs way WAY UP!

:thumbsup::thumbsup:

That was my last foreign picture too. :-)

[Kat45]

63. That's the last one I saw too.

I was also recommending it to people. :hi:

[ThomCat]

68. Hi, notmyprez!

:hi:

You have to wonder how different the story would have been if it was set in the US today or in the near future. We're getting to the point where we monitor people far more thoroughly, and it's much harder to evade that surveilance. :(

[yellowdogintexas]

69. that was an excellent movie. I bought it when Hollywood had their Going Out of Business Sale

it is another movie that stays with you.

[GCP]

76. That's one of the best ever

Fantastic film. Such a pity Ulriche Muhe died just after it was released.

[Swede]

29. El Espinazo del diablo

It was well made,but I can't say it was enjoyable. Strangest ghoststory movie I've ever seen.

[ForrestGump]

35. This week, I've watched one foreign film with English dialog and one American film with non-English

language:

For A few Dollars More (Sergio Leone)

Letters From Iwo Jima (Clint Eastwood, Sergio's buddy)

[Archae]

36. Akira.

Subtitled.

'Nuff said.

[mitchum]

38. Where The Green Ants Dream

[u4ic]

46. Eagle vs Shark

A quirky, low budget Kiwi film.

The last foreign language film I saw was the Danish film "Shake It All About".

[Connonym]

47. Pan's Labyrinth

awesome

[Starbucks Anarchist]

50. I have to see Hellboy first.

Same director. :hi:

[Connonym]

53. funny you mentioned that

because now I want to see Hellboy!

The imagination in the cinematography is stunning. I'm really excited to see what Hellboy looks like.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

54. The new one looks nice, but I have to see the old one first.

It looked about as good.

[Connonym]

56. I have it waiting at the top of my Netflix queue

now if I could just figure out where the kids put the damned envelope to mail the old DVD back...

[tigereye]

49. Persepolis

incredible film - great animation and story.

[Graybeard]

51. Lilja 4-ever.

Wonderfully well done film about a 16 yr old girl in Estonia who gets caught up in sex slave trafficking.

(On the DVD of The Bourne Supremacy the director said he chose this actress because he had seen her play the lead in Lilja 4-ever. He was right, she's great.)

[MnFats]

52. "The Devil's Backbone" Spanish in subtitles. very strange, very good...

It's 1939 and Franco is about to subdue all of Spain. The orphan children of dead Republican soldiers are sent to a remote orphanage where they try to avoid contact with the Nationalists, who will surely slay them.
They are cared for by a sweet older couple and a few others populate this film.

To complicate matters, there is a ghost. He is trying to tell the boys something but they're terrified of the ghost...

i found it very interesting and provocative.


the title, by the way, is a slang reference to Spina Bifida.



on edit: it was on one of the cable stations just last night; it's still fresh in my memory.
see this one

[vixengrl]

55. Within the past year I'veseen "Pan's Labyrnth"

It was an emotional movie, for me--I cried. But I was bowled over by the effects and the story, and I really just liked it. The end was brutally sad. The ending made me cry a lot

[EFerrari]

57. I love that movie.

It's my favorite Fellini film. :)

Haven't been seeing much except documentaries lately, though. The last one I saw, The New Rules of War, was made by a Dane and a Swede, iirc.

http://www.atmo.se/zino.aspx?articleID=14861

[Starbucks Anarchist]

58. I understood the "Felliniesque" concept pretty quickly into the movie.

He struck me as a happy David Lynch or a sad Frank Capra. ;)

[Shine]

59. Good question!

Let's see, I think it was "Y Tu Mama Tambien" :thumbsup: Sexy little flick and poignant, too.

:hi: Starbucks Anarchist! :loveya:

Good to see ya, bud!

[Starbucks Anarchist]

60. Hey!

:hi:

I saw that one recently. I loved "Children of Men," (same director) so I thought I'd check it out.

[Shine]

61. Oh, I didn't know it was the same director. "Children of Men" was intense!

:hi: :hug:

We'll probably see "Dark Knight" this coming w/e. Our teenager has already begun active lobbying in that arena. :D

I'd like to see more foreign movies.

[Zavulon]

62. Un zoo la nuit, A.K.A. Night Zoo.

I found a VHS copy at a garage sale for a buck.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094210/

[Ekirh]

64. The Lives of Others. . .

Really liked it.

[yellowdogintexas]

70. before tonight, I think it was " The Band's Trip" which is a great movie. nt

[Fire Walk With Me]

71. Probably "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly".

Although I've watched Akira and other anime since then.

[Skittles]

72. The Counterfeiters

it was about concentration camp folk being forced to produce counterfeit money and how one of them talked enough of the others into balking at getting it done because he had the foresight and courage to understand it could help Germany win the war - unbelievably AWESOME film

[ghostsofgiants]

73. Man, if you're watching Fellini, you have to watch 8 1/2

Lsast foreign film I watched, I think, was Hiroshi Teshigahara's Pitfall. But I watch a lot of foreign films so I can't guarantee the accuracy of that.

http://www.criterion.com/asp/release.asp?id=393

[nuxvomica]

74. El Orfanato

It's a pretty good ghost story and I was pleasantly surprised by the appearance of Geraldine Chaplin as a medium.

[Callalily]

75. Raise the Red Lantern

[terrya]

77. I re-watched "8 Women" the other night.

Francois Ozon is a wondeful director, imo.