Favorite foreign film?

[Grenouille]

Ikiru, which Criterion needs to hurry up and release on Blu-Ray.

 

[Duck]

Let me know what you think? Personally I find it every bit as good as Se7en.

Just finished it. Freaking loved it. Korea sure knows how to make one hell of a revenge movie. This surpasses Se7en by far. This is up their with Old Boy imo.

 

[fosing]

i like asian horror flicks. the ring, the grudge, the eye, shutter...most of which hollywood re-made.lolz

 

[meth head]

Just finished it. Freaking loved it. Korea sure knows how to make one hell of a revenge movie. This surpasses Se7en by far. This is up their with Old Boy imo.

Glad you loved it. Had a feeling you would. I have recommended it to a few friends now and they have all said the same thing. I am a huge Se7en fan so for me it is on par but that's a huge compliment. I certainly prefer ISTD over Old Boy but that's not to say I don't love Old Boy as I do.

 

[Duck]

Glad you loved it. Had a feeling you would. I have recommended it to a few friends now and they have all said the same thing. I am a huge Se7en fan so for me it is on par but that's a huge compliment. I certainly prefer ISTD over Old Boy but that's not to say I don't love Old Boy as I do.

I think Old Boy is still my favorite just for the fact that ending had much more impact on me. Though ISTD ending was brilliant. I loved the fact that he made

Spoiler

he made the killers family find out about his death the same way he found out about his fiancée death. By seeing the head being rolled in front of them.

also that cab scene was so brutal and intense.

 

[eighthsamurai]

la reine margot, ikiru, zatoichi, hana-bi, seven samurai, ip-man, ghost in the shell, amores perros, lagaan, 13 assassins, the raid, summer wars, goemon, the good the bad and the weird... too many to list.

for those who listed 13 assassins, anyone seen miike's follow up "hara-kiri"? different style of movie, but that scene... hard to watch

 

[noisetrigger]

Roshamon for me. Kurosawa best work. Not Seven Samurai, not Yojimbo, Sanjuro but Roshamon.

Love the REC series too.

 

[Porko Rossi]

Das Boot
Battle Royal
Vampire D Hunter
Audition (very disturbing !)

The lives of others-
Shallow Grave (scottish !)

 

[eighthsamurai]

Audition (very disturbing !)

people threw up in the cinema where i watched this. one started, then about 3 people followed. it was like that barf scene in stand by me.

 

[Star Puffs]

Jean de Florette + Manon des Sources
Karakter
Aimée & Jaguar
Twilight Samurai
Volver
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

 

[devilof76]

The Seventh Seal.

la reine margot

Absolutely.

My favorite is We The Living (Noi Vivi/Addio, Kira, 1942).

 

[eighthsamurai]

Twilight Samurai

that's a great movie... vastly underrated.

 

[wofford29]

Just went through my collection and here is what I own...

A Very Long Engagement
Amelie
The Secret In Their Eyes
All About My Mother
Talk To Her
Volver
Bad Education
Broken Embraces
The Skin I Live In
The Orphanage
The Devil's Backbone
Pan's Labyrinth
Amorres Perros
Maria Full Of Grace
Rudi y Cursi
Like Water For Chocolate
Babet's Feast
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Summer Hours
The Seventh Seal
Revanche
Seven Samurai
Che
Motorcycle Diaries
The Counterfeiters
Lives Of Others
Downfall
I Saw the Devil
Man from Nowhere
Mother
Gomorrah
After the Wedding
Dogtooth
Tell No One
Le Haine
Let The Right One In
4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days
Eat, Drink, Man, Woman
City Of God
Lust, Caution
The Sea Inside
The Chaser
A Prophet
A Better Life

 

[Duck]

Just went through my collection and here is what I own...

A Very Long Engagement
Amelie
The Secret In Their Eyes
All About My Mother
Talk To Her
Volver
Bad Education
Broken Embraces
The Skin I Live In
The Orphanage
The Devil's Backbone
Pan's Labyrinth
Amorres Perros
Maria Full Of Grace
Rudi y Cursi
Like Water For Chocolate
Babet's Feast
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Summer Hours
The Seventh Seal
Revanche
Seven Samurai
Che
Motorcycle Diaries
The Counterfeiters
Lives Of Others
Downfall
I Saw the Devil
Man from Nowhere
Mother
Gomorrah
After the Wedding
Dogtooth
Tell No One
Le Haine
Let The Right One In
4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days
Eat, Drink, Man, Woman
City Of God
Lust, Caution
The Sea Inside
The Chaser
A Prophet
A Better Life

How is Downfall? I have it sitting around somewhere, but never taken the time to watch it.

 

[wofford29]

It's an interesting watch with one of the best performances you'll ever see.

 

[Bullseye]

Dutch - The Black Book
French - Ridicule & Three Colours Trilogy
German - Das Boot & Downfall
Russian - War and Peace (1965), The Battleship Potemkin and Solaris
South African - District 9
Australian - Mad Max
Brazilian - City of God
Italian - La Dolche Vita
Canadian - Videodrome
New Zealand - Lord of the Rings
British - 39 Steps, The Third man, LoA

 

[eighthsamurai]

i guess american flicks count as foreign if you're not from the US... in that case, my favourite foreign movie is the muppets take manhattan. definitely.

 

[breakersrevenge]

too many to list!!....

a few here..

Lust, Caution
Any Studio Ghibli
Big Blue
Delicatessen
Cinema Paradiso
Mediterraneo

yea, I love my foreign films, when i was a student, I used to visit my local independent cinema a lot, I know all the people by the 1st names, Think I watched around a movie a week there, best £1.50 ever spent!!

Broadway Cinema is still going today!!

 

[eighthsamurai]

wasn't big blue your favorite film full stop, mr. shin?

i forgot il postino and the city of lost children. and run lola run. not a masterpiece or anything but fun

 

[Porko Rossi]

people threw up in the cinema where i watched this. one started, then about 3 people followed. it was like that barf scene in stand by me.

Can't believe people spewed ! I was seriously disturbed and freaked out though....

The pie eating competition scene in Stand By Me is brilliant.