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!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070506/
aka ‘Bread and Chocolate’ - Hilarious, and it only works with the subtitles - or if you know Italian. The dubbed english version stinks.
There’s also ‘Swept Away’.... Not so much for the movie, but for back in the day - my eye’s popping out - when Dana Kersey of Channel 38 in Boston showed the whole thing, uncut and with no commercial interruption on UHF....
Paraphrasing here... “You rich people have a fancy word for everything...”
Scandanavia-"Inheritance" and "After the Wedding" are two of the best movies I have ever seen.
Germany-"Lives of Others", "The Tunnel", "The Counterfeiters" and "Das Boot" are all GREAT
China-Epics by the guy who did the opening ceremony of Olympics "Hero", "House of Flying Daggers", "Curse of the Golden Flower" are amazing. I loved John Woo's "Red Cliff"
Korea-Tae Guk Gi (Korean war drama) is excellent. "Oldboy", "Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance", and "Sympathy for Lady Vengeance" are great flicks but are waaaaayyy out there. Korean are an acquired taste.
Japan-"Audition" is the sickest horror/thriller movie I have ever seen. No denying Miike's genius. I hate horror but the misses loves it.
Yes, so agree with you, THE COLOR of PURPLE. Touching and poignant. The boy was the one who really was alive.
Felt as though I understood Farsi. Looking forward to watching it again.
I love Babette’s Feast.
It was a Danish film and was in Danish and French.
The famous chef was from France.
The two sisters that gave her refuge were Danish.
Just saw “The Lives of Others” recently. This film was made when other “Ostalgie” (nostalgia for the old DDR) films were being made. This was called the “Anti-ostalgiekino)
La Belle Noiseuse
Raise the Red Lantern
Belle de Jour
"Of course, taking British English as a foreign language...."
I Know Where I'm Going!
A Canterbury Tale
Black Narcissus
Age of Consent
The Red Shoes
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
Separate Tables
Sirens
Our Man in Havana
Tarkovsky’s “Andrei Rublev”...one of the greatest pieces of epic moviemaking.
Not necessarily in that order
Oh anything Kurosawa.
Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter... and Spring
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0374546/
Korea
This film takes place in an isolated lake, where an old monk lives on a small floating temple. The wise master has also a young boy with him that teaches to become a monk. And we watch as seasons and years pass by.
Most excellent film. Landscapes and plot great.
Das Boot (1981)
The Color of Paradise was a meditation on what the generations owe each other. The film maker was a member of a generation carelessly squandered as cannon fodder in the decade-long war with Iraq, by their venal elders. Amazing touches -- the father's broken mirror. The play of light across the face of the old grandmother, and on the seeing hand of the lad, in the final scene of the movie. In the end, who gets to 'see' the face of God?
My Muslim friends tell me that the original title was "the color of God."
The Green Room - 1978.
Russia-"12" (their version of 12 angry men) and "Night Watch"
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