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 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

Memories of murder
the chaser
i saw the devil
bittersweet life
mother
the life of others
the downfall
the secret in their eyes
spring fall then spring
oldboy
the man from nowhere
^^classics

 

May 2, 2015

Three Colors: Red (1994, Krzysztof Kieslowski) - France
Martyrs (2008, Pascal Laugier) - France
Enter the Void (2009, Gaspar Noé) - France
Three Colors: Blue (1993, Krzysztof Kieslowski) - France
Kairo (2001, Kiyoshi Kurosawa) - Japan
Suspiria (1977, Dario Argento) - Italy
Solaris (1972, Andrei Tarkovsky) - Russia
Memories of Murder (2003, Joon-ho Bong) - South Korea
Oldboy (2003, Chan-wook Park) - South Korea
Eyes Without a Face (1960, Georges Franju) - France

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Top 10 ^^

 

May 2, 2015

What are your favorite foreign films?
Made these a while back:

 

May 6, 2015

There were a lot of references to Russian corruption throughout the whole movie but I understand where are you coming from. It is probably a lot of more difficult for all the people outside of Eastern Europe to catch all the nuances just like it is, for instance for me, to understand all the cultural/political aspects of American movies. Titular Leviathan was a metaphor for the whole Russian political system, including pervasive corruption and other social pathologies. The every decision they've made, every slug of vodka they've drunk was pretty much influenced by it. Over and above, the place where they shot this movie indicates how much Russia is isolated from the rest of the world. There is absolutely no hope, there's no future for the people who live there. People's lives are as colorless as the landscapes captured in this movie. On the one hand it's beautiful, but on the other hand it's very depressing just like you said in the previous post.

Objectively speaking, I think it should've have won the Oscar for the fact alone that it was financially supported by the Russian ministry of culture where in fact the message of this movie says "f--- the government". f---ing brilliant lol

EDIT: You probably know about everything what i've written, because you're one of the smartest guys on this site, but I really had a need to type it. lol

 

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

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