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| FrostBlast Diglot Senior Member Canada Joined 5090 days ago 168 posts - 254 votes  Speaks: French*, English Studies: Spanish, Russian, Swedish, Icelandic | Message 41 of 60 09 March 2011 at 7:41pm | IP Logged |
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http://www.criterion.com/
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| RMM Diglot Groupie United States Joined 5218 days ago 91 posts - 215 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Italian, Spanish, Ancient Greek, French, Swedish, Japanese | Message 42 of 60 22 August 2011 at 12:24pm | IP Logged |
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Most of my favorite foreign films by language:
German: -Der blaue Engel (The Blue Angel) (Von Sternberg) -Das Testament des Doctor Mabuse (Lang) -Der Untergang (Downfall) -Himmel über Berlin (Wings of Desire) (Winders) -Europa, Europa -Das Boot (Peterson) -Fitzcarraldo (Herzog) -M (Lang) -Metropolis (silent) (Lang) -Nosferatu (silent) (Murnau) -The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (silent) -Anna Christie (Feyder) Italian: -The Bicycle Thief (De Sica) -Umberto D (De Sica) -Cinema Paradiso (Tornatone) -La Traviata (Zefirelli) -La vita è bella (Benigni) -Amarcord (Fellini) -La strada (Fellini) French: -Le regle du jeu (The Rules of the Game) (Renoir) -La grande illusion (Renoir) -Liliom (Fritz Lang) -The Earrings of Madame de… (Ophüls) -Jules et Jim (Truffaut) -Au Revoir Les Enfants -Carmen (Rossi) -Amelie -Joyeux Noël -La vie en rose -The Diving Bell and the Butterfly -Shoot the Piano Player (Truffaut) -La Bete Humaine (Renoir) -Beauty and the Beast (Cocteau) Spanish: -The Devil’s Backbone (Del Toro) -Pan’s Labyrinth (Del Toro) -El espiritu de la colmena (Erice) -El ángel exterminador (Buñuel) Swedish: -Wild Strawberries (Bergman) -The Seventh Seal (Bergman) -Through a Glass Darkly (Bergman) -Smiles of a Summer’s Night (Bergman) -Scenes from a Marriage (Bergman) Japanese: -The Burmese Harp (Ichikawa) -Ikiru (Kurasawa) -Nobi (Fires on the Plain) (Ichikawa) -Ugetsu Monogatari (Mizoguchi) -High and Low (Kurasawa) -Seven Samurai (Kurasawa) -The Bad Sleep Well (Kurasawa) -Tokyo Story (Ozu) -Early Summer (Ozu) -Porco Rosso (Miyazaki) -My Friend Totoro (Miyazaki) -Letters from Iwo Jima (Eastwood) Russian: -Dersu Uzala (Kurasawa) Czech: -Kolya Portuguese: -City of God Edited by RMM on 22 August 2011 at 12:27pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| TixhiiDon Tetraglot Senior Member Japan Joined 5455 days ago 772 posts - 1474 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese, German, Russian Studies: Georgian | Message 43 of 60 04 September 2011 at 1:42pm | IP Logged |
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Apologies for reviving a rather ancient thread, but I have just watched a great
multilingual movie and thought it was worth sharing with the forum, especially for anyone interested in the Caucasus. The movie is called "Trip to Karabakh", and it is a Georgian film with the original title გასეირენება ყარაბაღში. It is the tragicomic story of two bored youths who travel from Tbilisi to Azerbaijan on a drug deal and take a wrong turn on the way, ending up bang in the middle of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. There's lots of talk about who likes who and who hates who among the three Caucasus states and their malevolent big brother Russia, and for language learners the film is a treat as it is in approximately 40% Georgian, 40% Russian, 10% Armenian, and 10% Azeri. It also happens to be a funny, sad, entertaining film, and what's more, it's available in its entirety on Youtube here Edited by TixhiiDon on 04 September 2011 at 11:57pm 6 persons have voted this message useful | |
| thatguyjae Newbie United States Joined 4785 days ago 7 posts - 9 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 44 of 60 17 October 2011 at 4:30am | IP Logged |
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The best Spanish Language film I watched recently was "La Soga".
It's a great movie about corruption in The Dominican Republic, very powerful! I also really enjoyed "Sin Nombre", haven't seen it in a couple of years but was a good watch. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Iolanthe Diglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 5632 days ago 410 posts - 482 votes Speaks: English*, DutchC1 Studies: Turkish, French | Message 45 of 60 17 October 2011 at 9:54am | IP Logged |
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I watched the Chilean film Machuca yesterday and it was pretty good.
For Dutch films I recommend Turks Fruit, Simon and Zwart Boek. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| montmorency Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4819 days ago 2371 posts - 3676 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Danish, Welsh | Message 46 of 60 17 October 2011 at 6:18pm | IP Logged |
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French: There are literally :-) a bazillion great French films out there, but a
couple stand out for me: "La Nuit Americaine" ("Day for Night") - Truffaut "Les Parapluies de Cherbourg" - Jaques Demy, Music by Michel le Grand oh yes, and "Rififi" and if you can find it: "Jeux Interdit" One of the many interesting French actors for me was the late Lino Ventura. Often typecast as a gangster or policeman. Also (again, just some of many): Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jeanne Moreau, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Philippe Noiret, Alain Delon, Jean Gabin, Catherine Deneuve, Simone Signoret. Also the late Yves Montand was a not half- bad actor. And I suppose we can't leave out Gérard Depardieu. Look up their films in IMDB. German Also some great German films, some of which have already been mentioned, but I'll add: "Jenseits der Stille" "Effi Briest" (Fassbinder) "Die Welle" EDIT:(plus almost anything else by Fassbinder, Werner Herzog, and the German films of Wim Wenders). Dutch/German: "The Black Book" Danish/German: "Flammen and Citron" Italian: "La Dolce Vita" "Cinema Paradiso" Spanish Almost anything by Pedro Almodóvar, most recently seen: "The Skin I live in" From other directors: "Y Tu Mamá También" "The Motorcycle Diaries" "Bombón: El Perro" Edited by montmorency on 19 October 2011 at 2:24pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| paisley Groupie United States Joined 5703 days ago 59 posts - 60 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Mandarin | Message 47 of 60 17 February 2012 at 4:24am | IP Logged |
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Chinese. i know these are pretty well known, but just in case someone hasn't seen them yet.
Farewell my Concubine (Kaige Chen) with Leslie Cheung To Live (Zhang Yimou) Red Sorghum (Zhang Yimou) (all 3 star Gong Li) and course, Raise the Red Lantern, starring, lol, Gong Li. (Zhang Yimou). Edited by paisley on 20 February 2012 at 4:09am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| TixhiiDon Tetraglot Senior Member Japan Joined 5455 days ago 772 posts - 1474 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese, German, Russian Studies: Georgian | Message 48 of 60 20 February 2012 at 2:29am | IP Logged |
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I've discovered another great multilingual film from the Caucasus. Again it is a
Georgian production, with the title გაღმა ნაპირი (The Opposite Bank). It's about a young boy called Tedo, who is a refugee from the war in Abkhazia and lives a semi-feral life on the streets of Tbilisi. He decides to travel back to Abkhazia to find his dad, and encounters both kindnesses and cruelties on the way. Georgian is the main language of the film, but there is also a considerable amount of Russian and quite a bit of Abkhazian, a language I had never heard before. As for availability, like most Georgian films it can be found very easily on the Internet. Not an ideal situation, I know, but other than a trip to Tbilisi or until the founding of Amazon.ge or its equivalent, it's unfortunately the only choice anyone interested in Georgian films has. Edited by TixhiiDon on 20 February 2012 at 10:42am 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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