Foreign Cinema - Favourite film

[Trufflehound]

Touche. Where is NSC's 'film critic' when the conversation moves off blockbusters?

Spielberg never made a film in Swedish so he's unlikely to be looking in this thread.

 

[Man of Harveys]

Touche. Where is NSC's 'film critic' when the conversation moves off blockbusters?

To be fair, Cheltenham may be partly to blame for his silence. But when he gets back....oooh, it's gonna be "Oh yes Yank film Spielberg film it must be shit so says NSC which everyone knows is always right" etc etc.

My good friend Garth might even be grumpier than normal after losing money on gambling...ooh he's gonna be MADDER than MAD.

I THINK ET IS THE BEST FILM EVAH

 

[Trufflehound]

To be fair, Cheltenham may be partly to blame for his silence.

Is that still going? I thought all the horses died yesterday.

 

[ben andrews' girlfriend]

Goodbye Lenin or Etre et Avoir are my 2 faves

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Bertolucci's Novecento (1976), released in the UK as 1900 and in the US as Nineteen Hundred.

5 hours, 18 minutes in the Italian version. Cut to 4 hours, 5 minutes for the Americans and split into two parts.

I saw the uncut Italian version in Brighton, presumably as a Brighton Festival event, back in the seventies.

 

[aftershavedave]

Bertolucci's Novecento (1976), released in the UK as 1900 and in the US as Nineteen Hundred.

5 hours, 18 minutes in the Italian version. Cut to 4 hours, 5 minutes for the Americans and split into two parts.

I saw the uncut Italian version in Brighton, presumably as a Brighton Festival event, back in the seventies.

a fantastic film sadly unavailable on dvd. i watched it many years ago, the pig scene is memorable.

donald sutherland i believe

 

[Barrel of Fun]

I saw "The Scent of the Green Papaya" at the Duke of York. Dr Buck took us for a school trip. It was dubbed from madarin to polish, with Vietnamese subtitlles. Four hours long!! That is the worst one I have seen

 

[CP 0 3 BHA]

Diva - winning combination of French chic, quirky humour and opera all wrapped up as a great thriller.

Jean-Jacques Beineix went on to also make "Betty Blue", a very dark film but one of the mos erotic opening few minutes you'll see outside of a porn film.

 

[Trufflehound]

Jean-Jacques Beineix went on to also make "Betty Blue", a very dark film but one of the mos erotic opening few minutes you'll see outside of a porn film.

You mean something happened after the opening scene? I didn't notice... (must have gone blind)

 

[Stoaty Ferret]

Le Femme Nikita - Superb Luc Besson thriller. Fell in love with Anne Parillaud. Something very erotic about seeing her in that little black dress and holding a gun.

Honourable mention for Cinema Paradiso which is tad nostalgic but fantastic nonetheless and L'Appartement.

 

[Albion Dan]

The american version of The Ring is MUCH better than the Jap version. FACT!!!!!

And I saw the Jap one first!

My fave foreign films:

City of God, Amores Perros, Motorcycle Diaries, Battle Royale, Audition.

 

[Hatterlovesbrighton]

Delicatessen
Das boot
House of the flying daggers (does that count) - Much better than the overrated crouching tiger hidden dragon

 

[Pevenseagull]

I'm going for

Lagaan

not entirely foreign language as the British toffs (the stinkers) speak English


a joy, I'm tellin' yah

 

[Lord Bracknell]

I saw "The Scent of the Green Papaya" at the Duke of York. Dr Buck took us for a school trip. It was dubbed from madarin to polish, with Vietnamese subtitlles. Four hours long!! That is the worst one I have seen

Sounds a bit like the screening of the John Ford classic, How The West Was Won, that I once saw in Naples. Dubbed into French, with Italian subtitles.

 

[A Melbourne Albion Supporter]

Krzysztof Kieslowski was a master

1. Double vie de Véronique
2. Three Colours: Blue, White & Red
3. The Asterix films

 

[Vicar!]

The one and only Amelie for me..........

Vicar

 

[Gully]

Not seen many foreign language films that immediately spring to mind, did see "All about my mother" by Pedro Almodovar, very good film and pretty sad too. Also saw a Danish film many years ago and got by with the Dutch sub-titles (bear with me on this, it wasn't a porno flick), about young love and relationships. I haven't a clue what it was called, it was a beautifull film and easy enough for me to follow despite it being shot in a language I know nothing of and having to make do with reading subtitles in my second.

 

[Garry Nelson's Left Foot]

The american version of The Ring is MUCH better than the Jap version. FACT!!!!!

And I saw the Jap one first!

I was already to question your sanity when I read the above...

Then i saw this:

"My fave foreign films:

City of God, Amores Perros, Motorcycle Diaries, Battle Royale , Audition."

And realised that it's a game of opinions...

Battle Royale is the GREATEST film EVER.

 

[Garry Nelson's Left Foot]

Oooh, those pictures are quite big. They weren't that big on the site I got them from...

Shall I remove them?

 

[Theatre of Trees]

Downfall, Delicaressan, Jean de Floret. The original Godzilla films of the 60s were great post pub viewing.

Don't think we'll see Kev on this thread either.