foreign films

And his best acting was in the movie = TOTAL ECLIPSE.

 

one of my favorite foreign films of all time is french.....

The City Of Lost Children

so incredible I don't have to type anything else

 

I watched a good movie last night...it wasn't a horror,but it was French. It was called Gazon Maudit(French Twist). It wasn't a classic by any means,but it was really interesting and original.

 

i like the japanse samurai movies with toshibo mifuni .

 

I'm from NZ...we do make other movies here apart from Lord of The Rings (though that comes as a shock to some people).

For horror - well, PJ set such a high mark with his splatter horror stuff, like brain dead/dead alive, meet the feebles and Bad Taste that most are still trying to live up to.

most NZ movies fit into the heading 'cinema of unease' (or so said my NZ cinema lecturer). It's not horror, but it's not gooey happy either...it's, yeah, uneasy. Open, wild spaces and/or dark story lines.

but yeah some of the all time greats:
The Piano
Once Were Warriors
Heavenly Creatures
An Angel At My Table

some more recent (but great) ones:
In My Father's Den
Rain
Whale Rider
Scarfies

 

Moonbeam,have you ever seen The Price of Milk? It's one of my favorites and it's made in New Zealand.
There are a couple of good Aussie movies,that I know of....The Cars That Ate Paris and Welcome to Woop Woop.

I would definitely love to see more movies from NZ or Australia,but I don't even know what to look for,if I could find them.

 

yeah I have seen, it's great. other movies in that vein (i.e. less dark then the like of Once Were Warriors or Heavenly Creatures) - um, have you seen Magik and Rose? That's quite cool too.

and there's a heap of short films here too - one, called 'two cars, one night' was up for an oscar. It's brilliant.

 

Nope,I havn't seen that one..but I'll look for it. I love those movies that are less predictable,they have a more interesting storyline,something to think about.

 

Switchblade Romance I thought was an absolutely great french horror. Exellent storyline and great twist I didn't see coming. I would truly reccomend it too anyone

 

hehe, thats an alternate title to haute tension

 

I catch at least a few foreign films each month. In a small town, it's a challenge to do even that sometimes.

The last foreign film I saw was an Israeli movie, Walk on Water. Has anyone else seen it?

 

Strange, It must be just Britain and Ireland that got that title.

Thanks for pointing that out to me

 

As far as I know those are the only places where it was titled Switchblade Romance. Whatever though, I love that movie!!!
Other good foreign films are I'm Not Scared, City of God and Layer Cake. OMG was Layer Cake excellent!!! And if you want to consider them foreign horror, check out the Ginger Snaps movies. Canadiens need to pump out more horror, I love those movies!

 

haha, well i cant really consider gigner snaps as foreign horror, since theyre from here, but the first one was good (havent seen the 2nd).
for more canadian horror (more suspense i guess) check out 'cube' and 'cube 2: hypercube', the 2nd of course not being nearly as good as the first. infact, i think there might even be a third, prequel

 

i think most british films such as Mean Machine, Layer Cake, Chopper, Ali G in Da House, Football Factory, ect are fucking great. I love em more than most American movies.

 

I love world film. Especially anything from Tartan, particularly Tartan Asia.

 

good french movies:
try françois truffaut (les 400 coups, tirez sur le pianiste, le dernier metro...)
Jean Pierre Melville (le Samouraï, Le cercle Rouge)
Claude Chabrol (la cerémonie, la demoiselle d'honeur, if you want "scary")
Henri Georges Clouzot (les diaboliques, l'assassin habite au 21, + that movie with yves montand about 2 guys carrying nitroglycerine in a truck on a rocky road)
Bertrand Blier (Les valseuses, tenue de soirée)

for nowadays best:
Leon (Besson. the rest sucks)
Delicatessen, la cité des enfants perdus (caro et Jeunet)
Dobermann (Jan Kounen)
La Haine (Kassovitz)
L'auberge espagnole, Les Poupées russes, Le péril Jeune... (Klapish)
Gadjo Djilo (...? )
36, quai des orfévres (olivier Marshall)
Nid de guêpes (florent Emiliano siri)
Caché, La Pianiste (Michael Haneke)...

Some are funny. some are scary. All are excellent.
the best country for inovative movies is Korea. Kim ki duk is a genius. have a look.

What is "tartan"?

 

Great French films? NO mention so far (unless I missed 'em) of....

Jean-Paul Rappeneau's - Cyrano de Bergerac (1990)
Claude Berri's - Jean de Florette (1986) / Manon des sources (1986)
Luc Besson's - Grand bleu, Le (1988) - I think somebody did mention "Léon (1994)"
Isn't Michael Radford's "Postino, Il (1994)" a French/Italian co-production?

Others...

Roberto Benigni's - Vita è bella, La / "Life Is Beautiful" (1997)
.. is exactly that.

and to fulfill the horror quotient...

Peter (Lord Of The Rings) Jackson began his career with the VERY cheap & cheerful "Bad Taste (1987)" in his native New Zealand.

 

City of God and Layer Cake were TOP NOTCH!!!!!

 

I'm a film student, and I love foreign films. I don't think I could survive in a little town where you don't get to see foreign films in a theater.