What is your favorite foreign (non-US) film?
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Dog Soldiers, The Descent, Wolf Creek, Sunshine, R-Point, Dogma, Four Lions, Trainspotting, Das Boot, The Last King of Scotland, Black Sheep, Eden Lake, Creep, Leon, Ironclad, Snatch, The Bunker, City of God, Shaun of the Dead and Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. There's no real theme to that list, it's just the top shelf of my DVD collection. In bold are my top five picks of that list.
Good grief, how did I miss them?! The 1988 double-bill comes top of that list...Galletea said:
As did I, but that's beside the point. I've got both versions and much prefer the miniseries as well. There is a lot more... humanity given to the minor characters in the mini series (especially Chief, Johan and the kid with the French girlfriend) and is without doubt the best representation of life on a U-boat, sarcasm, ambivalence, claustrophobia and scraggly beards. Which reminds me... doesn't it just seem that the Chief's massive beard ('cos at the beginning of ep1 he's quite gaunt looking) appears pretty much overnight?!Shoqiyqa said:
OK, I hated Enemy at the Gates, it was a load of codswallop, the CGI was lame, historic curators have criticised the lack of historic fidelity, as reprehensible as the Soviet commissars were at the time, they weren't quite that bad, and why for the love of God did they have to shoehorn a damned love-triangle into it?! The pseudo-romance(s) in the Battle of Britain were better than that.
Anyway, I guess they could've benefited from being mini-series instead of films, though the battle of Stalingrad was notoriously in-your-face and claustrophobic since it was basically the siege of about one third of the city, so I think how Stalingrad did it was pretty much spot on. True the Eastern Front covered a few hundred thousand square kilometres, but that wasn't really the focus, and portraying it that way wouldn't've let the film be as personal as it was.
Also, I would've preferred 'shithead' occasionally! =P
If you can only find "big money blockbusters" in the US, you're clearly not looking hard enough lol.KILRbuny said:
Some amazing American films that I own (that aren't "big money blockbusters") are:
Brick.
9.
Transsiberian.
500 Days of Summer.
Requiem for a Dream.
Dr. Strangelove.
Pride and Glory.
AntiChrist (The director is Danish but it has an all American cast so I consider it American.)
Rubber. (Again, the director isn't American but the all-American cast make me consider it American).
Stand By Me. (Won loads of awards so I guess it could be considered a blockbuster.)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
Besides, what's wrong with blockbusters eh? I own:
The Road
No Country For Old Men.
The Usual Suspects.
Iron Man.
Sin City.
Full Metal Jacket.
Black Swan.
Inception.
American History X.
The Dark Knight.
It's by no means a complete list but, in my opinion, all of those are films amazing. Admittedly you might not consider some of them blockbusters (although I'm unsure exactly what you mean by the term) but they've definitely made a crap load of money in their time.
Anyway to get back on topic lol. Here's a little list of "foreign" films (including British) you should check out:
Anything by Danny Boyle because the man is a fucking genius. Sunshine, Trainspotting, 28 Days Later...everything he touches turns to gold. Although The Beach is possibly an exception.
Anything by Terry Gilliam. Not all of his films are amazing, but all of them are pretty fucking strange. In an awesome way. Time Bandits is a classic.
Severance. Say what you like about Danny Dyer, this film is great.
I Saw The Devil.
The Vengeance Trilogy (includes Oldboy). Actually, pretty much anything by Park Chan Wook.
District 9.
Bunny and The Bull.
City of God.
Gomorrah.
Rumble In The Bronx. Probably one of Jackie Chan's best films.
Drunken Master. Probably Jackie Chan's BEST film.
A Clockwork Orange.
Four Lions.
The Good The Bad and The Ugly.
Snatch.
Borat.
Ironclad.
Pan's Labyrinth.
Labyrinth (David Bowie as the Goblin King!?)
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.
The Princess Bride.
The Millennium series (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo).
Again, this is not an extensive list of crap I own, but it's what I could muster from the top of my head. There's also quite a few that other people have suggested too. There are also quite a few British films in there too, but that's because I'm English. = D
Seriously though, check out more of what the US has to offer...it can be pretty good.
I'm from England so I'll also take my own countries films out of the equasion and say Seven Samurai. Kurosawa was a god at making simple stories veyr compelling on account of the characters.
Hard Boiled gets honorable mention because I consider it John Woo's finest.
Hard Boiled gets honorable mention because I consider it John Woo's finest.
rocknroller - uk ganster movie
the castle - aus comedy about a family that is been forced off their house by the government
the dish - story about the radio telescope used to transmit the pics for apollo 11. good comedy
life of brian/holy grail - Monty python need i say more
pans labyrinth - just epic
the castle - aus comedy about a family that is been forced off their house by the government
the dish - story about the radio telescope used to transmit the pics for apollo 11. good comedy
life of brian/holy grail - Monty python need i say more
pans labyrinth - just epic
rocknroller - uk ganster movie
the castle - aus comedy about a family that is been forced off their house by the government
the dish - story about the radio telescope used to transmit the pics for apollo 11. good comedy
life of brian/holy grail - Monty python need i say more
pans labyrinth - just epic
the castle - aus comedy about a family that is been forced off their house by the government
the dish - story about the radio telescope used to transmit the pics for apollo 11. good comedy
life of brian/holy grail - Monty python need i say more
pans labyrinth - just epic
Hercules Returns, an Australian film whose flimsy plot is little more than a framing device to do a hilarious redub of an Italian superhero film. And it is glorious. (NB: Must be at least 44.4444% Australian to understand all the jokes.)
This. Pretty uninspired title there, OP.shrimpcel said:
OT: Der Untergang, a German movie about the last days of Adolf Hitler.
Oldboy, a gut-wrenching Korean thriller.
Ghost In The Shell, a Japanese cyberpunk movie, which was a great inspiration in the cyberpunk genre, and especially for the movie The Matrix.
And finally, Stalker, a movie made in the USSR.
The title may seem familiar to some of you, and that's because the movie is an adaptation of a book called Roadside Picnic, which was also adapted into videogame form, as the well known S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series. Truly an underrated classic.
