Foreign Cinema - Favourite film

[Goodfella]

Les Enfants Du Paradis (1945-France)
Fitzcarraldo (1982-Germany)
Diva(1981-France)
A Bout De Souffle(1960-France)
Cinema Paradiso (1989-France)
The Tin Drum(1979-Germany)
City Of God(2002-Brazil)
Pixote(1981-Brazil)
Little Otik(2000-Czech Republic)
Closely Observed Trains(1966-Czechoslovakia)
Tears Of The Black Tiger(2000-Thailand)
Belleville Rendez-Vous(2003-France)
Tsotsi(2005-South Africa)
Man With A Movie Camera(1929-Russia)
The Vanishing(1988-Netherlands)
Delicatessen(1991-France)
Aguirre Wrath Of God(1972-Germany)
Santa Sangre(1989-Mexico/Italy)
The Tree Of Wooden Clogs(1978-Italy/France)
The Battle Of Algiers(1965-Algeria/Italy)
La Dolce Vita(1960-Italy/France)
Fanny And Alexander(1982-Sweden)
Betty Blue(1986-France)
Paris,Texas(1984-France-W.Germany)

And probably many more that i cannot think of at the moment.

 

[Garry Nelson's Left Foot]

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

I don't know. I reckon he's probably seen the Italian Job.

 

[Padders]

No Mans Land - top film

 

[Biscuit]

City of Gods
La Haine
Afro Whores do FRANCE

 

[Cian]

My nomination is La Haine. Probs my favourite film of all time.

Beaten me to it, was going to mention your avatar status text in relation to it and all

Honourable mention to Carandiru.

 

[Juan Albion]

So is this a foreign cinema thread or a foreign language cinema thread?

 

[Cian]

So is this a foreign cinema thread or a foreign language cinema thread?

Foreign language:

The film you pick, must be principally in a different language

English language commercial cinema is mostly homogonised to the point where an English movie is much the same as a US one which is the same as an Irish one which is... you get the picture.

 

[Stat Brother]

Run Lola Run.
Quality. Shame there were no gratuitous bap shots though.

Have too agree with the 1st reply to this threat.

(Bit of a result I now don't have 2 read 3 pages)

 

[NMH]

My Life as A Dog
City of The Lost Children
Nicholas and Alexandra (I think was the title - Bergman)

 

[Stumpy Tim]

Close between The Bicycle Thief & Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (starring my future Aunt )

 

[Trufflehound]

Nobody's mentioned Wings of Desire yet either...

 

[Wardy]

La Hane

 

[Basil Fawlty]

The Pianist and Downfall.

 

[Motogull]

Agree with Man Bites Dog and Delicatessan. Was El Mariachi foreign?

 

[aftershavedave]

Was El Mariachi foreign?

does it sound like a tried and trusted english film?

btw: the pianist is sentimental rubbish imho

 

[coventrygull]

Betty Blue

The worst has got to be "Anatomy of Hell" vile

 

[McShane79]

The Spanish film Abre Los Ojos (Open Your Eyes) was profound, moving, brilliantly acted, and gripping.

Besides switching the action from Madrid to New York, the Amercian version was an exact shot-for-shot remake. But they put Tom Cruise in the lead role and called it Vanilla Sky and it managed to be none of the above (good soundtrack though).

Totally agree with what you've said above. I saw Vanilla first and liked the general idea, but the Spanish original is far, far better.

Others I like a lot are:
Battle Royale (haven't seen the second but everyone says it's shite)
Run Lola Run (got this as I thought it was a great idea for a film and it had the chick from the Bourne Identity).
Amelie (not bad, although fairly soppy)
Seven Samurai (Classic. Nuff said.)
Hero (enjoyed this the most out of the recent batch of films from the far east)
The Seventh Seal (Mad film - not 100% I got it all, but had to watch it for the legendary game of chess at the start with Death)

 

[Barrel of Fun]

Any more?!

I rather enjoyed Lower City. Nothing much happens, but well scripted and well shot, with some sterling performances.

 

[fire&skill]

 

[skipper734]

Monsieur Hulot's Holiday. Not much language but definitely French. Jacques Tati.