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Great films in foreign languages
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Aquedita
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Message 9 of 60

23 March 2009 at 9:20am | IP Logged

unzum wrote:

Kikujirou is a fantastic film. Funny, touching and a great introduction to Beat Takeshi if you've never seen any of his films before. It's lacking in the violence that usually characterises his films and it's a really nice feel-good film. It's basically about this kid's summer and how he ends up going on a road trip with this ex-yakuza.

Ikiru by Akira Kurosawa is also fantastic. In a way, it's kind of in the same genre as 'It's a Wonderful Life', except more realistic and so more affecting. It's about a Japanese office worker who finds out he has stomach cancer and what he does with the last six months of his life. It sounds depressing but it isn't, it's more ... life-altering and so human. It's also a fantastic period piece, depicting Japan post-WWII.

Kikujirou was quite fine, but my favorite Kitano's movie would have to be "Dolls". No contest.
And if it's about Kurosawa - I think the best one from the ones I've seen so far was "Rashomon", but I liked "Ran" for quite a long time.
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Toufik18
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23 March 2009 at 1:18pm | IP Logged

Cidade de Deus is an awwesome movie and you won't regret watching it
La Vita E Bella (Life Is Beautiful) Very nice Italian movie
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pesahson
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23 March 2009 at 3:28pm | IP Logged

Here are some recommendations from Eastern Europe :)
The Saragossa Manuscript. One of few polish movies that foreigners may enjoy.
Closely Observed Trains, a czech movie based on Bohumil Hrabal's great novel. The movie got the Oscar award in 1965. Anything made by Jiri Menzel is worth checking out really.
Grbavica from a bosnian director Jasmila Zbanic.

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Pyx
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23 March 2009 at 6:47pm | IP Logged

Der Untergang (the Downfall) is one of the few recent good German movies
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Yukamina
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23 March 2009 at 6:50pm | IP Logged

I don't know what language it's in, but I really enjoyed the movie Luna Papa. The language sounds really neat... even though I don't intend to learn it, I enjoyed hearing it.
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ericspinelli
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23 March 2009 at 8:09pm | IP Logged

たそがれ清兵衛 (Tasogare Seibei/Twilight Samurai) by 山田洋次 (Yamada Yoji) is another well done film. If you like that, I would recommend the loosely connected sequels, 隠し剣鬼の爪 (Kakushi-ken, Oni-no-Tsume/The Hidden Blade) and 武士の一分 (Bushi-no-ichibun/Love and Honor). Each of them won at least one Japanese Academy Award; Tasogare swept them and was nominated for an Oscar as well. If you watch them in Japanese, get ready for some sweet 山形弁!
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Zeruiah
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26 March 2009 at 3:01am | IP Logged

As others have said, anything by Akira Kurosawa (though don't believe that all of his films are masterpieces--they just tend to be better than 99.8% of the scheisse out there).

For French, I recommend Jean-Luc Godard films, especially his lesser-known works; Bernard Abbou's 400 blows (I haven't seen any other films by him); Le Deuxième Souffle, and other films by that director, Jean-Pierre Mellville, like Les Enfants Terribles.

In Russian, the only good film I've seen is Ivan's Childhood, but I've only seen about three Russian films anyhow.

Goodbye Lennon is the only German-language film I've seen.

Danish learners have the short, sweet feature film The Perfect Human and its documentary, The Five Obstructions. I've seen them both and I can vouch for them.

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