excoriator
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Post by excoriator on Mar 29, 2011 12:47:50 GMT
You might try Fellini's 'Juliet of the Spirits' (Giulietta degli spiriti) and Antonioni's 'The Red Desert' (Il deserto rosso I suppose) if you want a treat.
Both these are so visually stunning that the dialogue can be ignored completely without missing too much. The plots are hardly earth shaking anyway, and the odd reconisable italian word is all that's necessary to know roughly whats going on.
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Post by rjpageuk on Mar 29, 2011 12:49:19 GMT
I love Pan's Labyrinth, its one of my favourite ever films, although it is pretty brutal.
City of God is also a foreign language film (I think?) which is also excellent.
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Post by Ned Long on Mar 29, 2011 13:46:37 GMT
Das Boot was outstanding. Was it a film, though, or was it made for television? If we include TV, then one of the best, most watchable films on that medium has just finished on BBC 4. A Danish thriller, with sub titles. "The Killing" ran for 20 episodes. Unmissable!
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Post by Pink Betty on Mar 29, 2011 14:42:02 GMT
have just finished watching episodes 19 & 20 of The Killing - am patting myself on the back for guessing who dunnit from the off.
brilliant series.
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Post by aubrey on Mar 29, 2011 19:23:30 GMT
Don't say!!
Herzog's films are great - The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser is a good one to start with.
And Bunuel.
But there is a lovely film called The Nasty Girl about a German girl who wants to do a school project about her town during the war. It's not at all naturalistic, if that bothers you; it has things like the girl, grown, facing the camera and explaining something, and the camera panning round - not cutting - to a scene from her childhood.
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everso
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Post by everso on Mar 30, 2011 11:49:04 GMT
Now you're all making me feel bad because I don't like foreign films (except La Cage Aux Folles).  |
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Post by everso on Mar 30, 2011 11:50:08 GMT
Actually, I've been meaning to watch Das Boot (because I like war films) and the next time it's on t.v. I'll give it a try. O.K.?
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Post by mrsonde on Mar 31, 2011 0:23:20 GMT
I've just watched Mesrine - two films for the price of one there. Very good - a sort of French Bonnie & Clyde.
Das Boot was the bloody krauts, you Irish traitor!
Fassbender films!!! (Is this the worst films ever thread?)
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Post by aubrey on Mar 31, 2011 8:57:38 GMT
Despair is really good, with Dirk Bogarde. But that's in English (as I've just noticed).
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