Foreign Films

A few more from the collection:

Katyn
Ran
Kagemusha
Seven Samurai
Amarcord
Farinelli
Il Divo
The Decameron
War and Peace (Bondarchuk)
Andrei Rublev
Solaris (Tarkovskiy)
Russian Ark
 
Some really good films getting recommend, but a few from my collection -

36 Quai des Orfèvres (would seriously recommend watching)
Les Chevaliers du ciel (storyline is a little iffy, but brilliantly shot)
Ichi the Killer
Das Boot
Pan's Labyrinth
Banlieue 13
Amelie
City of God & City of Men
 
If you fancy going back a few years: Les Diaboliques. And please G*d stay away from the awful Hollywood remake. All the others I can think of quickly have already been listed.


M
 
Along with most of the abovementioned..

Le scaphandre et le papillon
Lilya-4-Ever
****ing Amal (Show me Love)
Festen
Idioterne (The idiots)
Kina spiser de hunde and Gamle Mænd i Nye Biler
C'est arrivé près de chez vous
 
Mesrine : killer instinct
Mesrine : public enemy no1
A prophet
Gommorah

solid thread to be fair, gunna take you a while to go through everything though! should probably of asked for peoples favourites or them to name just one and a description :p
 
I would reccomend brotherhood and also the indian film three idiots (its worth a watch even for western audiences)

sid
 
Nothing like throwing someone in at the deep end. However, if you plan to actually like foreign films I'd leave Goddard until quite a lot later.


M

Worth watching regardless of the circumstance. Counter cinema is pretty interesting to watch, if only to show a different side to cinema.

It'd be silly to "dislike" foreign films on the basis of, well, anything really. Certainly a lot of Goddard's stuff is deliberately unlikeable, but still vital to any film fan, I feel.
 
It'd be silly to "dislike" foreign films on the basis of, well, anything really.


True, but people do exactly that sort of irrational thing. You'll notice I didn't say don't watch Godard, I said leave him until later. If nothing else it puts his work in perspective. If someone was new to reading you wouldn't start them with Joyce.


M
 
True, but people do exactly that sort of irrational thing. You'll notice I didn't say don't watch Godard, I said leave him until later. If nothing else it puts his work in perspective. If someone was new to reading you wouldn't start them with Joyce.


M

I understand your point, and I'm well aware that you said leave him to later as opposed to don't watch him at all. But I think it would be an interesting watch for anyone regardless of what their taste is.
 
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