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Old 06-04-2011, 11:13 AM
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For all the time spent discussing wether Piranha 3D or the latest Saw movie is worth seeing (I can tell you that without actually seeing them) it is a shame that genuine movies are dismissed as being boring or pretentious or a waste of time (this is not constructive critisism). Shame on you.
Genuine movie? What on earth is a genuine movie? I am a fan of classic Hollywood of the 30s and 40s, and grumpily complain about modern films, but I would never try and tell anyone what was or wasn't a genuine movie. Movies are movies; there are different types of movies, and some are a lot better than others, but they are all genuine movies.
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Old 19-04-2011, 07:15 PM
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Let The Right One In is a quite thoughtful horror. Affecting
Loved it, hated the US remake
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Old 14-07-2011, 10:55 PM
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"Pan's Labyrinth", "The Devil's Backbone" and "Io non ho paura". Still love the last one even after studying it for my Italian A Level.

Oh, and "Let The Right One In".
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Old 29-09-2011, 07:31 PM
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I'd never watched a foreign language film before, not because I'm narrow-minded but because the thought of having to concentrate on reading the subtitles instead of feasting on the detail of the film really did not appeal to me. There have been many foreign films I've wanted to watch. However as part of my film studies course at college we have to study "world cinema." We started with "City of God". I can only say: What a film! The subtitles didn't put me off at all and the story was original and appealing! I have one downer. Film studies is, of course, a lesson... and notes are required in lesson. So I lean down and start taking notes, on looking back up I see I've missed half of the conversation.... and it's hard to catch back up to be honest! But I shall be watching more foreign films! First on the list Girl with the dragon tattoo and Pan's Labyrinth. Other suggestions?
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Old 11-10-2011, 02:09 AM
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I'm a newcomer to the Forum, and joined up because for as long as I can remember I've had a passion for cinema and look forward to discussing it with other members.
My recommendations for anyone with little experience of World Cinema would be to go back to some of the classics: Marcel Carne's magnificent Les Enfants Du Paradis; Le Corbeau, Les Diaboliques, The Wages Of Fear and Quai Des Orfevres, by Henri-Georges Clouzot; Truffaut's sequence of films about Antoine Doinel, beginning with The 400 Blows and ending with Love On The Run; Louis Malle's Zazie Dans Le Metro and Le Souffle Au Coeur; Max Ophuls' La Ronde, Madame De...., Le Plaisir and Lola Montes; Luchino Visconti's Ossessione, The Leopard and Rocco And His Brothers; Grigori Chukrai's beautiful and very moving Ballad Of A Soldier.
I think the most important thing when approaching any area of Cinema which is unfamiliar to you is to keep an open mind, but to realise that the old cliche is true, that one man's meat is another man's poison.
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Old 13-11-2011, 01:19 AM
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I'd never watched a foreign language film before, not because I'm narrow-minded but because the thought of having to concentrate on reading the subtitles instead of feasting on the detail of the film really did not appeal to me. There have been many foreign films I've wanted to watch. However as part of my film studies course at college we have to study "world cinema." We started with "City of God". I can only say: What a film! The subtitles didn't put me off at all and the story was original and appealing! I have one downer. Film studies is, of course, a lesson... and notes are required in lesson. So I lean down and start taking notes, on looking back up I see I've missed half of the conversation.... and it's hard to catch back up to be honest! But I shall be watching more foreign films! First on the list Girl with the dragon tattoo and Pan's Labyrinth. Other suggestions?
Hi. Jeez.
Are you into old films, or just the newer ones.
I'll presume you are not narrow minded that way either.
The comedies of Jacques Tati.
particulary
La jour da fete
mr hulot's holiday
mon once

the films of akira kurosawa, jean paul melville, ingmar bergman,
korean movies are very popular at the moment, and asian cinema in general.
the films of francois truffaut
check out this list
http://multilingualbooks.com/foreignvids-top100.html
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