Foreign Films & cult films

• Cameron

  14 Apr 08, 21:59

  Hi everyone :)

  i'm a great fan of foreign films, so does anyone here have anything good to recommend?

  A few that i really like are Das Boot (Germany), Broken Wings (Israel), Blind Shaft (China), Crying out love in the centre of the world (Japan), Love me if you dare (France), Monsieur Shlomi(Monaco) etc

  How about cult films? any must-watch?

• soleachip

  14 Apr 08, 22:20

  Russian Dolls and the prequel to it.

• stellazio

  14 Apr 08, 22:21

  love me if you dare is hilarious..

• hisoka

  14 Apr 08, 22:24

  hmmz will av come in and intro some of those japansese show's he's so fond off?
• the Bear

  14 Apr 08, 22:45

  a few movies i enjoyed watching:

  =>  Savage Nights or Le Nuits Fauves
  a bisexual man who is HIV-positive learns about love in a madly destructive passionate woman

  => Clerks
  the misadventures of two store clerks with dead end jobs.. a laugh until you hurt insane comedy..

  => Go Fish
  friends try their damnest to get their single friend hooked up... thing is.. they're all lesbians.. hilarious date movie, only lesbian

  => Tetsuo - The Iron Man
  a salaryman runs over a metal fetishist and he starts mutating.. and the madness starts...

  => Eraserhead
  weirdass movie about this dull man, his weird and horrible girlfriend and his mutant child

  => This Is Spinal Tap
  a "Rockumentary" about a fictitious rock band, the ups downs and stupidity on the road...

  => Freaks
  a circus midget marries a woman and his friends find out she's only out to get his inheritance.. freaky as hell

  => Plan 9 From Outer Space
  called the worst movie ever made, it was so bad it was hilarious..

  => A Clockwork Orange
  so.. is enforced "good" as evil as naturally occuring evil?

  ... and so many more

• soleachip

  14 Apr 08, 23:05

  Originally posted by the Bear:

  => A Clockwork Orange
  so.. is enforced "good" as evil as naturally occuring evil?

  ... and so many more

  who represents the enforced "good?"

• the Bear

  15 Apr 08, 07:57

  Originally posted by soleachip:

  who represents the enforced "good?"

  
  the establishment of course... Alex is "treated" in such a way that he loses his free will.. even if that free will is ultraviolence..

  so.. is an enforced "good" good at all?

• BadzMaro

  15 Apr 08, 07:59

  Night watch and Day watch.

  Grindhouse ?  he he

   

• JJxJJ

  15 Apr 08, 08:47

  Andaman Girl

   

  Strange Crime

• elindra

  15 Apr 08, 09:33

  I would intro hindi films if you are interested :P

  It's no longer like the Hindi flims of yore these days

• sebosebo

  15 Apr 08, 10:47

  Artschool Confidential, Donny Darko, Cashback, Clerks, Mallrats, Into The Wild, Napoleon Dynamite. Simon Pegg films is well known now like Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and Run Fat Boy Run but i still love it.

  and hv been watching old sch horror like Dario Argento lately...totally kickass

• Cameron

  15 Apr 08, 11:32

  Thanks for all the recommendations :)

  yep i enjoyed all Kevin Smith's, and Stanley Kubrick's too.

  elindra, the closest i get to hindi was Deepa Mehta's Water, and it was really good!

   

   

   

• Cameron

  15 Apr 08, 11:37

  so.. is an enforced "good" good at all?

  now what i personally feel is that the "good" itself is very subjective. I'd say no.

  as much as we want to live in a no crime society, we don't want to live in a 1984.

   

• elindra

  15 Apr 08, 11:40

  Originally posted by Cameron:

  Thanks for all the recommendations :)

  yep i enjoyed all Kevin Smith's, and Stanley Kubrick's too.

  elindra, the closest i get to hindi was Deepa Mehta's Water, and it was really good!

   

   

   

  His films are very good and very controversial!

   

  For something not that controverisal but good too you can try movies like Eklavya: The Royal Guard or even some brainless Hindi movie like Neal & Nikki  or their version of Action movie Dhoom (I think it's better than Dhoom 2)

  Or any Shahrukl Khan movie but then I would be being bias here

• elindra

  15 Apr 08, 11:46

  Oh ya there is also Pan's Labyrinth by Guillermo del Toro which I enjoyed  though it gave me nightmares :x

• the Bear

  15 Apr 08, 11:47

  Originally posted by elindra:

  Oh ya there is also Pan's Labyrinth by Guillermo del Toro which I enjoyed  though it gave me nightmares :x

  
  you want to watch Tetsuo... you know you wanna

• elindra

  15 Apr 08, 11:50

  Originally posted by the Bear:

  
  you want to watch Tetsuo... you know you wanna

  
  I DO NOT

• the Bear

  15 Apr 08, 14:06

  Originally posted by elindra:

  
  I DO NOT

  
  okay then.. what about Freaks?

  or Eraserhead?

• elindra

  15 Apr 08, 14:20

  Originally posted by the Bear:

  
  okay then.. what about Freaks?

  or Eraserhead?

  
  Too freaky for me :x

  And if I have nightmares it means MPB cannot sleep properly too

• the Bear

  15 Apr 08, 14:21

  Originally posted by elindra:

  
  Too freaky for me :x

  And if I have nightmares it means MPB cannot sleep properly too

  i think if you make MPB watch Eraserhead, he'll not want to have cubs anymore

• elindra

  15 Apr 08, 14:24

  Originally posted by the Bear:

  i think if you make MPB watch Eraserhead, he'll not want to have cubs anymore

  
  He just started bugging me for cubs again :x

  Kept cooing to me that awww that little girl is so cute or that little boy is so cute -_-"

  I told him Piggy and Gulper are extremely cute too :x

• the Bear

  15 Apr 08, 14:46

  clicky here only if you dare => Eraserhead Pics

  

• maurizio13

  15 Apr 08, 15:00

  most films by Zhang Yimou are quite nice.

• soleachip

  15 Apr 08, 23:58

  Originally posted by sebosebo:

  Artschool Confidential, Donny Darko, Cashback, Clerks, Mallrats, Into The Wild, Napoleon Dynamite. Simon Pegg films is well known now like Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and Run Fat Boy Run but i still love it.

  and hv been watching old sch horror like Dario Argento lately...totally kickass

   

  Cashback was pretty quirky and humourous. Left a deep impression!

  Thumbs up for Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz too!

• stellazio

  16 Apr 08, 00:02

  i enjoyed watching Les Choristes during one of my french lessons..very meaningful show..