May 3, 2015 The whole trilogy was made in French/Polish co-production but separately Blue along with Red are French and White is 95% Polish. We cool?
May 3, 2015 Nice. This thread has given me a lot to watch. I mainly watch Japanese/Korean films. The Vengeance Trilogy is great (Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, Oldboy and Sympathy for Lady Vengeance) I have a collectors box of it that has a full size hammer that's a bottle opener. Pretty awesome. Both The Raid films are great. Killers is good also.
May 3, 2015 pre hollywood era john woo movies, a better tomorrow 1-2, the killer, hard boiled and so on
May 3, 2015 Again, not trying to discredit them. Only left Poland out for Red and Blue out of convenience, same for a lot of the other countries that helped make the others I listed. I would have put Poland if White was on the list.
May 3, 2015 When you say Foreign i just take it as Non English language film, so stuff like Letters From Iwo Jima would qualify. Mine would be like this 1. Caché (2005, French) 2. Il Gattopardo (1963, Italian) 3. Seven Samurai (1954, Japanese) 4. In The Mood For Love (Cantonese, 2000) 5. Hable Con Ella (Spanish, 2002) 6. Le Cercle Rouge (1970, French) 7. Bicycle Thieves (1948, Italian) 8. The Downfall (2004, German) 9. La Mala Educacion (2004, Spanish) 10. Relatos Salvajes (2014, Spanish) Others i love: The Great Beauty, Rififi, Army of Shadows, Spirit of the Beehive, Earrings of Madame de..., Ikiru wow, it was harder than expected
May 3, 2015 Close-Up (Kiarostami, 1990) - Iran The Spirit of the Beehive (Erice, 1973)- Spain Ikiru (Kurosawa, 1952) - Japan Solaris (Tarkovsky, 1972) - Russia Vivre Sa Vie (Godard, 1962) - France Persona (Bergman, 1966) - Sweden Il Posto (Olmi, 1961) - Italy A Man Escaped (Bresson, 1956) - France Woman in the Dunes (Teshigahara, 1964) - Japan L' Avventura (Antonioni, 1960) - Italy
May 3, 2015 The label "foreign films" is kinda weird to me because I feel like it stems from the mindset that American films are canon and everything else is secondary. Because of it you get people saying things like "I'm not a fan of foreign films" as if there are any similarities that tie together every film not made in America. I know that's not the intent of this thread I just wanted to share some thoughts on it.
May 3, 2015 I usually take it to mean "non-English" and therefore subtitled. A lot of people can't stand to read constantly during a film. They view film as something enjoyable and therefore should require little effort on their part. I feel like having subs really affects what I can and can't take in. I might miss some of the nuances in camera work or other visual qualities. Regardless, if you already think critically while watching film, it's not much of a hinderence. I don't think an arduous watch is synonymous with boring or joyless.
May 3, 2015 what about polish from the 90s, russian from the 70s, chinese from the 00s, soviet from the 20s, French and Italian from the 50s/60s. !! Stan. :P Kieslowski is top 2 director. I think of Three Colours as a primarily French but technically International series. Red White Blue are the colours of the French flag, Kieslowski spent most of his time during 93/94 in France, and White is a comment about returning to Poland, it was also completed last despite its placement in the trilogy. I live in Canada, so America I guess is foreign to me :P It's actually weird cause even here Canada is actually considered foreign and america is considered canon/genre/what vahn said. Just to throw out some names on the top of my head that haven't been mentioned Man With a Movie Camera (Vertov) The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer) A Time to Live and a Time to Die (HHH) City of Sadness (HHH) Apu Trilogy (Ray) All Tarkovsky, All Bresson, All Kieslowski, All Bergman The Blue Kite (Zhuangzhuang) Spirited Away (Miyazaki) Kaagaz Ke Phool (Dutt) Umberto D (De Sica) Sansho the Bailiff (Mizoguchi) Rome Open City (Rossellini) Rosetta (Dardennes) The Trial (Welles) Late Spring (Ozu) Grave of the Fireflies (Takahata) Forbidden Games (Clement) Syndromes and a Century (Weerasethakul) Mauvais Sang (Carax) Journey to the West (Liang) Playtime (Tati) Rashomon (Kurosawa) Rocco and His Brothers (Visconti) L'eclisse (Antonioni) Sans Soleil (Marker) Strike (Eisenstein) I'll leave it at that
May 6, 2015 Not at all what I expected. More of a marital drama with the politics merely extending the motif. Very depressing. The choreography is excellent through and through.
