Foreign films

[BigFatMeanie]

Oh, I've also seen Life is Beautiful (Vita è bella) once and I liked it but it's one of those movies like Schindlers List that you can only see once. Too depressing/powerful/graphic/ to see a second time around when you already know the plot.

[BarbaraGordon]

I agree. Life is Beautiful is what I meant when i listed Beautiful Life earlier (I think I got confused with the title of Beautiful Mind.)

It was a great movie, but I woudn't want to see it again.


If you want another depressing one you can see Au Revoir, Les enfants.

[OhioBlue]

I know I've already said this about twenty times on this and other boards, but if you haven't seen the following movies yet and you don't mind reading subtitles, add them to your netflix queue right now:

TaeGukGi (The Brotherhood of War)--ties w/ Private Ryan as best war movie I've ever seen
Lagaan (Once Upon a Time in India)
The Road Home, Hero, House of Flying Daggers (all Yimou Zhang films)
Kung Fu Hustle, Shaolin Soccer (Stephen Chow)
Kikujiro
Jibeuro (The Way Home)
Whale Rider--many have probably already seen this
Diarios de Motocicleta--ditto
Maria Llena de Gracia
Salaam Bombay (India)
Together (esecially if you like classical music)

And Jay, I saw Rashomon too and had the same reaction you did. Seven Samurai and Ran are other Kurosawa films that I'd recommend instead.

[OhioBlue]

Originally Posted by FarrahWaters

We seem to be in a movie list frame of mind today. I can't remember if we've done a foreign film list.

My favorites:
Eat Drink Man Woman
Seven Samurai

Honorable Mention:
Amelie
Tampopo
Crouching Tiger/Hero/House of Flying Daggers-- all the martial arts eye candy

Eat Drink Man Woman is on my short list of movies to see.

[BigFatMeanie]

Originally Posted by BarbaraGordon

If you want another depressing one you can see Au Revoir, Les enfants.

I've seen that one too. Hmm, maybe my foreign movie exposure isn't so limited after all.

[MikeWaters]

I like House of Flying Daggers a lot.

But it was poorly received in Chinese-speaking countries. Good thing tinny dialogue doesn't matter in subtitles!

[tooblue]

The Bridge on the River Kwai
La Gloire de mon père
Le Château de ma mère
Le Grande Bleu (the Big Blue, same director as 5th element)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Strictly Ballroom
Billy Elliot
The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain
Bend it like Beckham
About a Boy
Captain Corelli's Mandolin
Chariots of Fire
Notting Hill (quite possibly my all time favorite romantic comedy)

[FarrahWaters]

I forgot, I also liked Shall We Dance-- the original Japanese, I never saw the Richard Gere remake.

[Surfah]

I like Tooblue's Hugh Grant romantic comedy picks:
About a Boy
Notting Hill
Yimou Zhang movies as noted by OhioBlue
Whale Rider
Once Were Warriors
Ong Bak - This guy makes Jackie Chan look silly
Battle Royale
El Norte

[OhioBlue]

Originally Posted by tooblue

The Bridge on the River Kwai
La Gloire de mon père
Le Château de ma mère
Le Grande Bleu (the Big Blue, same director as 5th element)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Strictly Ballroom
Billy Elliot
The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain
Bend it like Beckham
About a Boy
Captain Corelli's Mandolin
Chariots of Fire
Notting Hill (quite possibly my all time favorite romantic comedy)

Chariots of Fire is one of my all-time faves.
That one and a lot of others of your list are movies I wouldn't think of as foreign films per se, but they are movies I like a lot, and that I own.

BTW, you have some sort of man-crush on Hugh Grant?