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your favorite foreign films? (pg. 4)
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| zachias31 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Groundhog Boy
No one's mentioned Battle Royale? |
Loved the book, haven't gotten around to seeing the movie. Heard it's not great. Did you read the book? |
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| Groundhog Boy |
| quote: | Originally posted by zachias31
Loved the book, haven't gotten around to seeing the movie. Heard it's not great. Did you read the book? |
The book is better, I've read it twice. |
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| dj tek |
| quote: | Originally posted by Keryn
The Professional is one of my favorite movies probably top 5 but I have yet to see Leon. I hear the relationship is a bit different...
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The Professional is the US title of the film. maybe Leon, the French version has some scenes that were edited out on the US version ? dont know.. |
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| Keryn |
| quote: | Originally posted by dj tek
The Professional is the US title of the film. maybe Leon, the French version has some scenes that were edited out on the US version ? dont know.. |
yeah supposedly thats the case |
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| The Riddle |
So difficult to choose, but here are a few faves:
Eat Drink Man Woman
Run Lola Run
Das Boot
The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover (I know, it's technically not a foreign film but it's so damn good)
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown |
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| j_moua |
| quote: | Originally posted by kingchinc
INFERNAL AFFAIRS 1 & 2
HARD BOILED
THE KILLER |
Ooooo.... Internal Affairs 1 & 2.. If it's the same one that I'm thinking about.... It's a very good movie.... |
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| phoenixBEBE |
| quote: | Originally posted by Keryn
The Professional is one of my favorite movies probably top 5 but I have yet to see Leon. I hear the relationship is a bit different...
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DEFINITELY watch Leon -- altho i have to say, they did a kickass job of editing the U.S. Version. I watched The Professional so much before Leon that I remembered all the ambiguous parts. LEON definitely fleshes out the story and the relationship between them. IT was SUCH a treat to watch.
Man, I have to say, I think Gary Oldman makes the most PERFECT, DEVIOUS, CREEPY villian in his performance...very understated at times, very extreme at times...mann!!! :crazy: I still think its one of Natalie Portman's MOST INTENSE performance to date, considering her age at the time
I think BOTH movies are GREAT in their own right. :D But of course I own the unedited version :D
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Amelie
Like Water for Chocolate
Red-White-Blue series (with Juliette Binoche)
Unbearable Lightness of Being (not sure if its a foreign film)
Open Your Eyes (Abre Los Ojos) - original version from Spain (remade as Vanilla Sky in the U.S.)
Hard Boiled
The Killer
Hong Kong Godfather
Lee Rock
Swordsman 2
Run Lola Run
Au Revoir Les Enfants
Eat Drink Man Woman
The Wedding Banquet
A Better Tomorrow 2
Police Story 1 & 2
i have Internal Affairs 1 & 2 on my computer right now...I already watched The Departed. I can't wait to watch these and compare and contrast the two...:D |
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| Shamez214 |
Riki-OH! The Story of Riki
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| pyro264jb |
Before the Rain (1994)
Herzegovina
| quote: | | The circularity of violence seen in a story that circles on itself. In Macedonia, during war in Bosnia, Christians hunt an ethnic Albanian girl who may have murdered one of their own. A young monk who's taken a vow of silence offers her protection. In London, a photographic editor who's pregnant needs to talk it out with her estranged husband and chooses a toney restaurant. She wants permanence with her lover, a prize-winning Macedonian photographer just back from Bosnia, changed by the violence. He leaves abruptly for his village; he's not visited it in 16 years. There he tries to ignore bitter divisions between his Orthodox brethren and local Albanians, then tries to transcend them. |
Remember Me, My Love (2003)
Italy
| quote: | Appeared at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival
In a sequel of sorts to his previous film THE LAST KISS (2002), Italian filmmaker Gabriele Muccino delivers a jaundiced look at a middle-class family in crisis. Carlo (Fabrizio Bentivoglio) and Guilia (Laura Morante) are frustrated professionals who abandoned their artistic dreams when they got married some years ago. Now, as their two children have grown more independent, Carlo and Guilia explore extramarital options — he with an old flame (Monica Bellucci), she with a theater director — that may reconnect them with their dormant creative selves.
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| phoenixBEBE |
Was "Breaking the Waves" foreign?
Very odd, very disturbing but well written... |
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