Posted on 12/19/2009 2:01:18 PM PST by randita
I really enjoyed the responses from last week's "What Are Your Favorite Movies Made Before 1950?" thread (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2406295/posts).
So here's another movie topic - favorite foreign language films of any era. (Hey, we need a pleasant distraction from the debacle going on in DC!)
If you know the date or even decade of the film and the language, please include it.
Thank you and enjoy!
This particular movie was about a murder or more than one outside of Seoul, but with a cop from Seoul. Maybe he had been disgraced in the big city or something? I dunno, I think I saw it on one of the movie channels we use to have.
I really should try remembering the names of these movies. lol.
Missed your reply before I asked again-Thanks!
Was going to see if anybody mentioned “Babette’s Feast”. Great movie.
La Femme Nikita (French)
Babette’s Feast (Swedish?)
Oh forgot this one, its on youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNbARAgU6po
Viy a Russian movie based on this short story http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viy_%28story%29
very surreal... limted budget but very good I thought.
El Mariachi (Spanish)
DAS BOAT
Stalingrad, The Lives of Others, Goodbye Lenin (Germany)
Katyn (Poland)
Amelie (France)
Pan’s Labyrinth (Spain)
Kolya (Czechoslovakia)
“Goodbye Lenin” 2003 Germany
Thanks for reminding me of that one. Also Agnieszka Holland’s “Europa Europa”
Wajda’s “War Trilogy” is good as well.
City of God[Brazil]
Mountain Patrol[Tibet]
Blackboards[Iran]
The Clay Bird[India/Pakistan]
Now, come on here. I can’t possibly be the only Monsieur Hulot fan on this thread. “Play Time” was a work of flipping genius! “Mon Oncle” was a joy!. And even a complete philistine would like “Les Vacances de M. Hulot”.
Les Choristes (the Chorus, French 2004)
Great choice! “The Island” (Russia, 2008) is fantastic
I will add a couple more foreign ones:
“Repentance” (Georgia, 1984) (Soviet Republic at the time)
“The Color of Paradise” (Iran , 1999)
“Ivan the Terrible” (Soviet Union, 1944)
“Weeping Camel” (Mongolia, 2003)
Yes, forgot about that one.
Das schreckliche Mädchen (German) 1990
The Sorrow and the Pity (French) 1969
Have you ever seen the Russian movie, “The Chekist”? What a dark and depressing film. Makes me even more happy that the abomination called “The Soviet Union” is no more.
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