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Post by Aussielover on Mar 19, 2009 22:57:28 GMT
Your favourite European films? Actors?
I love French cinema - especially the comedies. They're so well done and transcend any language barriers. If you haven't seen these, I can recommend them: Après Vous, Le Placard, Un Sens des Affaires (just to get started). Comic Tragic: The Man Who Loved Women
Your recommendations?
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Post by Aussielover on Mar 19, 2009 23:01:51 GMT
I would be remiss if I didn't name these as well:
La Cité des Enfants Perdus
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Delicatessen
and by the same director (Jean-Pierre Jeunet), Amélie (but I think everyone's probably seen that one.)
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Post by tillystar on Mar 20, 2009 9:37:13 GMT
I love, love Amoldovar's films.
My very favorite is La Mala Education. Gael Garcia Bernal is pretty brilliant in it, as well as being as beautiful as ever as both a man and a woman. It is a very touching film.
My other favorite of his is Hable con ella.
Which reminds me, Kerouac - you mentioned a Spanish film a while ago that you said was even more scary than the Orphanage. Can you remind what it was please? Was it a creepy one rather than gore like the Orphanage? I kept meaning to ask as I thought the Orphanage was one of the best horror films I have been in years, maybe ever.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 20, 2009 9:49:18 GMT
Hmmm... Spanish filmmakers have been making so many quality horror movies lately that I'm not sure which film I might have mentioned.
REC, for example, is very scary. (It's called REC because it is one of those new films done entirely through the POV of a video camera.)
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Post by Deleted on Mar 20, 2009 9:55:20 GMT
English teaser trailer
Spanish trailer
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Post by tillystar on Mar 20, 2009 9:55:46 GMT
Great thanks, I have added it to my list on Lovefilm already!
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Post by auntieannie on Mar 20, 2009 20:58:27 GMT
I get confused with countries... was about to mention "El Laberinto del Fauno" ...but Guillermo del Toro isn't european!
I like Danny Boyle's films and also the silliness of "Shaun of the dead" and "Hot Fuzz".
I remember "Il Postino" and "Cinema Paradiso". "La vita e bella" made me cry like a professional cryer/lamenter.
Films with some kind of quiet poetry, where nothing much happens are my favourites.
I even enjoyed "Quand j'étais chanteur / The singer" a film where Gerard Depardieu plays a has-been singer in a provincial town.
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Post by hal2000 on Mar 20, 2009 21:44:23 GMT
Goodbye Lenin is a very pleasant film if you have not already seen it.
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Post by Aussielover on Mar 21, 2009 4:22:01 GMT
auntieannie, loved those Italian films, myself.
I know that some people think he's cliché, but I love Fellini. His films are gritty and surreal all at the same time - like you've just walked into a painting, or your own dreams. They're colourful and full of life - I just love them!
hal, I'll have to check that out. I do remember it got good press when it was released.
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Post by auntieannie on Mar 22, 2009 17:10:17 GMT
oh, yes! Goodbye Lenin is great!
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Post by hwinpp on Mar 25, 2009 7:42:11 GMT
I like French movies, quite a few of them, anyway. Every couple of years German Public Television has reruns of Louis de Funes flics, I usually try to catch them.
British movies are usually ok, I quite like some of the Wim Wenders or Werner Herzog stuff.
I'm not a big fan of dramas.
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 25, 2009 15:42:46 GMT
My knowledge of European films is seriously deficient. Inspired by this thread, I'm trying to remedy that. Last night I finally saw "The Bicycle Thief" and now understand why it's considered such a good movie. I'd become wary of Italian films after seeing "Bitter Rice", which only made me want to guffaw at its hokeyness.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 25, 2009 18:23:09 GMT
Be careful, Bixa. If you start to appreciate European films, it becomes difficult to appreciate most of the American ones, unless you are a special effects freak.
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 26, 2009 2:33:50 GMT
No worries there ~ I was never enough of a movie freak, even as a kid, to be hooked on only one kind of movie. Truly, I am almost pure!
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Post by tigronette on Mar 26, 2009 12:16:47 GMT
It's strange the way you refer to European cinema as each country has a quite distinctive flavour to me. At the moment I'm liking a lot of Austrian cinema (lots of stuff about uncomfortable truths behind closed doors).
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Post by Aussielover on Mar 27, 2009 3:37:08 GMT
kerouac, that is so true. American films have begun to look lame in comparison. I can't remember the last film I saw with a really good story line. Possibly it was Diving Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood, which was done 7 years ago. Criminy!
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Post by auntieannie on Apr 5, 2009 15:46:27 GMT
I am wondering if we can "catalogue" the films of Luc Besson as french?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 5, 2009 15:59:02 GMT
He promised not to direct any more, thank god. Actually, there always remained a European feel to his movies, even the American ones like 'The Fifth Element' -- the tone and the storytelling are not the same, but no, they are not French films.
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Post by auntieannie on Apr 9, 2009 19:15:29 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Apr 9, 2009 19:22:00 GMT
Oh, I liked it, but I have a weak spot for sappy movies.
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Post by auntieannie on Apr 10, 2009 17:31:55 GMT
Just saw "Happy go lucky" . really refreshing. Which reminded me of "Grow your own". I love these little british comedies, full of tenderness!
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Post by Jazz on Apr 10, 2009 21:38:22 GMT
I liked Les Choristes very much. I love Gerald Jugnot in this and in two other films, Monsieur Batignole (great!!! which Jugnot also directed) and in Boudu, with Gerard Depardieu. Boudu is I think more obscure, but very good. It is based on the original, Boudu Saved From Drowning, by Jean Renoir, 1932.
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Post by Jazz on Apr 10, 2009 22:05:50 GMT
I have seen many, many foreign films and it isn't easy to be specific.
French film: ( a mere beginning)... I enjoy the work of Daniel Auteuil in almost any film he is in. He was born in 1959 in Algiers to parents who were both opera singers. My favorites are
Manon of the Spring and,
Jean de Florette.
and later,
Dialogue avec mon Jardinier
36 Quai des Orfevres
Le Placard (The Closet)....I love this film and have seen it about 5 times, it is great...all about a man who pretends to be gay in order to keep his job. Gerard Depardieu plays a great secondary role. I also love the work of Depardieu.
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Post by Jazz on Apr 10, 2009 23:02:29 GMT
German film. These are just a few, very eclectic.
Before 1950,
The most outstanding is Metropolis, a silent film directed by Fritz Lang in 1927. This is a great film. As I watched Persepolis, a recent excellent animated French film, I was oddly reminded of Metropolis. It stands today as a remarkable film.
The Blue Angel, directed by Joseph von Sternberg, 1930 with Marlene Dietrich. Unforgettable.
Two documentaries by Leni Riefenstahl, Triumph of the Will, 1938 and, Olympia , the 1938 olympics. The power of her documentary film making was so great that she was never allowed to film in Germany after the end of WW2.
Germany Year Zero, 1948, dir. by Roberto Rossellini.
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After 1960,
The Marriage of Maria Braun, with Hannah Schygulla, 1979. I've never forgotten it.
Mephisto, with Klaus Maria Brandauer...my absolute favorite Geman actor. Here, he is an actor in Nazi Germany, trying to survive. Complex.
Run, Lola, Run, a 1998 thriller with three different endings.
The Lives of Others, 2006. Excellent... this film suceeded in Germany despite the reluctence to discuss the excesses of the east German totalitarian regime.
Mostly Martha, 2001...in a sense, lighter. It works on several levels, the sensuality of food, the romantic interplay between Martha and the Italian chef, the deeper exploration of how Martha, happily single (well, relatively happy), comes to deal with her friend's daughter who now lives with her after a tragic car accident. Essentially, Martha, after years of isolation, begins to understand love in a full sense...with the young girl and with her lover.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 28, 2009 16:26:04 GMT
"It gives you the desire to grow old." Lovely article about Agnès Varda and her films.  |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 28, 2009 16:44:10 GMT
Agnès Varda's auto documentary Les Plages d'Agnès is one of the finest movies that I saw last year.
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Post by hwinpp on Jul 6, 2009 8:58:46 GMT
German film. These are just a few, very eclectic. Before 1950, The most outstanding is Metropolis, a silent film directed by Fritz Lang in 1927. This is a great film. As I watched Persepolis, a recent excellent animated French film, I was oddly reminded of Metropolis. It stands today as a remarkable film. The Blue Angel, directed by Joseph von Sternberg, 1930 with Marlene Dietrich. Unforgettable. Two documentaries by Leni Riefenstahl, Triumph of the Will, 1938 and, Olympia , the 1938 olympics. The power of her documentary film making was so great that she was never allowed to film in Germany after the end of WW2. Germany Year Zero, 1948, dir. by Roberto Rossellini. ___________________________________ After 1960, The Marriage of Maria Braun, with Hannah Schygulla, 1979. I've never forgotten it. Mephisto, with Klaus Maria Brandauer...my absolute favorite Geman actor. Here, he is an actor in Nazi Germany, trying to survive. Complex. Run, Lola, Run, a 1998 thriller with three different endings. The Lives of Others, 2006. Excellent... this film suceeded in Germany despite the reluctence to discuss the excesses of the east German totalitarian regime. Mostly Martha, 2001...in a sense, lighter. It works on several levels, the sensuality of food, the romantic interplay between Martha and the Italian chef, the deeper exploration of how Martha, happily single (well, relatively happy), comes to deal with her friend's daughter who now lives with her after a tragic car accident. Essentially, Martha, after years of isolation, begins to understand love in a full sense...with the young girl and with her lover. Try and get 'Schtonk'. A persiflage of the story surrounding the discovery of the Hitler diaries. Hilarious! |
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Post by Jazz on Jul 10, 2009 2:28:46 GMT
Thanks Hwin. I had never heard of Schtonk, but will try to find it. I looked it up on google and it sounds great.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 10, 2009 2:46:12 GMT
I thought 'The Lives of Others" a very powerful film. Frightening. Would see it again.
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Post by cigalechanta on Jul 10, 2009 3:37:26 GMT
I met Agnes Varda here a few months ago at Harvard where they showed her films. She said she is now into making art rather than films which I find sad. Her films like the Vagabond are so intense.
a lovely tiny woman,
I like most of the new wave films and also met Trouffaut and
Goddard(sp?)there in previous years, She was the most open.
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