Favorite Foreign Film(s)!*

Nochnoi Dozor. (Night Watch)

 

English: To Sir With Love
Japan: Yojimbo
French: City of Lost Children
German: Downfall
Russian: Alexander Nevski

 

La Dolce Vita

 

Man...you picked 4 fantastic films. I just started to re-watch Wings Of Desire on Thursday and later that day Otto Sander passed away!

 

I cant pick one so it'll have to be a three place tie:



Tied with 'Suspiria' and 'Yu Tu Mama Tambien'.

 

There's an absolutely breathtaking whimsical and tragic film called The Fall that anybody who's a fan of stellar cinematography should check out.

 

I suppose that this is all relative, so is it OK if I say that "Citizen Kane" is up there too, since to me that's a foreign movie.

 

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

 

Well, I can't vote for that one, but what an amazing film. And a great portrait of the Berlin of my childhood.



Otto Sander's death was quite a loss for German cinema. Very sad.

 

The story is not much to talk about, but the images are simply stunning, beginning with the impressive opening sequence, that makes such great use of the second movement of Beethoven's 7th symphony.

 

I'll also go with three...

Wings of Desire
Le Trou (for my money, the best prison film ever shot)
The Tin Drum

 

Ikiru (Kurosawa)
Bleu (Kieslowski)
Wild Strawberries (Bergman)
Amélie (Jeunet)
Wings of Desire (Wenders)
Tokyo Story (Ozu)
Nights of Cabiria (Fellini)
Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Schnabel; an American director but a film in French)

In recent years I've seen and quite liked The Boy with a Bike, Dogtooth and Poetry.

Yep, I'm a barrel of laughs!

 

Kolya

 

USTEDES LOS RICOS, or practically anything with Pedro Infante shot during the Golden Age of Mexican cinema.

 

Most of my favourite films are European, I definately preferred them to the American films.

1. Three Colours Red
2. Pandora's Box
3. The Double Life Of Veronique
4. Belle De Jour
5. Sweetheart (Toutes Peines Confondues)
6. The Girl With The Suitcase
7. Raise The Red Lantern
8. Diary Of A Lost Girl
9. Knife In The Water
10. The Magnificent Cuckold

 

Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
Life is Beautiful

 

M
400 blows
City of lost children
Rififi
Seven samurai

 

Children of Paradise is one of them for sure. Others would include Jules and Jim, I Vitelloni and L'Avventura.

 

Der Tunnel
Vozvrascheniye (The Return)
Le dîner de cons
Mesrine: L'instinct de la mort
Der Baader Meinhof Komplex
Mesto vstrechi izmenit nelzya
Pusher
Max Manus

 

The Tin Drum
Das Boot
Downfall

 

Coppola's The Godfather

Favorite non english speaking: I don't know. Don't think I've watch a foreign non english speakin movie more than one time.

Bergman's Fanny and Alexander is foreign for most of you and it is my favorite non english movie although it is not foreign for me...

The last "foreign" movie that left a big mark was The Argentine "The secrets in their eyes" so I'd go with that

 

Black Cat White Cat
Swallowtail Butterfly