Bogie56 Posted April 11, 2019 Author Share Posted April 11, 2019 The 1995 Chicago International Film Festival’s Best Picture Award went to this foreign language film … Maborosi (1995) Hirokazu Kore-Eda, Japan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bogie56 Posted April 11, 2019 Author Share Posted April 11, 2019 The winners of the 1995 Cannes Film Festival included this foreign language film … Underground (1995) Emir Kusturica, Serbia 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bogie56 Posted April 11, 2019 Author Share Posted April 11, 2019 This foreign language film won at the 1995 Venice Film Festival …. Cyclo (1995) Ran Anh Hung, Viet Nam 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bogie56 Posted April 11, 2019 Author Share Posted April 11, 2019 The 1995 Locarno International Film Festival foreign film winner was … Rai (1995) Thomas Gilou, France Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bogie56 Posted April 11, 2019 Author Share Posted April 11, 2019 This film won the Jury Prize at the 1995 Montreal World Film Festival … The Mussulman (1995) Vladimir Khotinenko, Russia This film won the Best Canadian Film Award at the 1995 Montreal World Film Festival … Water Child (1995) Robert Menard, Canada This film won the Most Popular Film Prize at the 1993 Montreal World Film Festival … Don’t Die Without Telling Me Where You’re Going (1995) Eliseo Subiela, Argentina Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bogie56 Posted April 11, 2019 Author Share Posted April 11, 2019 This film won the People’s Choice Award at the 1995 Toronto International Film Festival … Antonia’s Line (1995) Marleen Gorris, the Netherlands This film won the Metro Media Award at the 1995 Toronto International Film Festival … La Ceremonie (1995) Claude Chabrol, France This film won the International Critics Prize at the 1995 Toronto International Film Festival … Eggs (1995) Bent Hamer, Norway Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bogie56 Posted April 11, 2019 Author Share Posted April 11, 2019 The winner of the 1995 Nederlands Film Festival Best Picture Award … Little Sister (1995) Robert Jan Westdijk, the Netherlands The winner of the 1996 Nederlands Film Festival Best Picture Award … Long Live the Queen (1995) Esme Lammers, the Netherlands Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bogie56 Posted April 11, 2019 Author Share Posted April 11, 2019 The 1995 winner of Norway’s Amanda Award for Best Picture went to …. Eggs (1995) Bent Hamer, Norway The 1996 winner of Norway’s Amanda Award for Best Picture went to …. Zero Kelvin (1995) Hans Petter Moland, Norway The 1995 winner of Norway’s Amanda Award for Best Nordic Picture went to …. Autumn In Paradise (1995) Richard Hobert, Sweden Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bogie56 Posted April 11, 2019 Author Share Posted April 11, 2019 The winner of the 1996 Sweden’s Goteborg International Film Festival Best Picture Award was … The Atlantic (1995) Magnus Enquist, Kristian Petri, Jan Roed, Sweden Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bogie56 Posted April 11, 2019 Author Share Posted April 11, 2019 Happiness Is In the Field (1995) by Etienne Chatiliez is another delightful comedy from France starring Michel Serrault (far right). He plays a toilet seat manufacturer who is harassed by his unionist workers, tax collectors and his wife (Sabine Azema) and family. Eddy Mitchell (above centre) who won a Cesar Award for supporting actor plays Serrault's best friend who accompanies him on weekly gourmet food outings. He is very good. Escape appears to present itself to Serrault when he watches a reality tv series in which a farmer played by Carmen Maura is looking for her husband who mysteriously disappeared 27 years earlier. Serrault is a ringer for the missing husband. So off he goes to the countryside and he presents himself to Maura who accepts him as her husband no questions asked. Hmmm ... is something up? Eric Catona (above left) also appears. Football fans may remember him from his days at Manchester United. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bogie56 Posted April 12, 2019 Author Share Posted April 12, 2019 The 1995 winner of the Ghent International Film Festival Best Picture Award was … Cyclo (1995) Ran Anh Hung, Viet Nam 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bogie56 Posted April 12, 2019 Author Share Posted April 12, 2019 The 1995 winner of the Cairo International Film Festival's Best Picture Award was … The Flor Contemplacion Story (1995) Joel Lamangao, Philippines Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bogie56 Posted April 12, 2019 Author Share Posted April 12, 2019 The 1995 winner of the Asia Pacific Film Festival Best Picture Award was … A Young Woman Named iso Yu (1995) Sylvia Chang, Taiwan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bogie56 Posted April 12, 2019 Author Share Posted April 12, 2019 The Best Picture winner of the 1995 Golden Horse Film Festival was … Summer Snow (1995) Ann Hui, Hong Kong 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bogie56 Posted April 12, 2019 Author Share Posted April 12, 2019 The 1996 International Film Festival of India Best Picture winner was … Blush (1995) Shaohong Li, China Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bogie56 Posted April 12, 2019 Author Share Posted April 12, 2019 **Announcement** Tomorrow on Saturday, April 13 we will do a week of catch-up review. I am going to be travelling during this week and away from my computer for spells and as you may have seen I do have lots to post. So, I hope everyone doesn’t mind. If anyone wishes to fill some time by posting about any foreign films from years pre 1995 that they have seen since their original postings that would be good. I have about a dozen that I have seen since posting about those years. 1996 will begin on Saturday, April 20. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bogie56 Posted April 13, 2019 Author Share Posted April 13, 2019 Here are a few more late additions from films that I have recently seen or revisited … 1955 La Grande Speranza/Torpedo Zone (1955) Dullio Coletti, Italy [I saw a dubbed version] Apart from the most obvious it had many elements that reminded me of Das Boot (1981). And it was quite inventive especially in editing with its limited budget. Lois Maxwell, aka Miss Moneypenny stars! 1956 Crime and Punishment (1956) Georges Lampin, France starts out good buts gets more boring as it goes. With Jean Gabin. 1958 Mysteries of Black Magic (1958) Miguel M. Delgado, Mexico low budget horror with some good exterior camerawork 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bogie56 Posted April 13, 2019 Author Share Posted April 13, 2019 1959 Samurai Saga (1959) Hiroshi Inagaki, Japan Toshiro Mifune plays Cyrano. His nose is fat rather than long. Not bad. 1962 4. Harakiri (1962) Masaki Kobayashi, Japan this moved up a few spots when I viewed it again. Really good. Chushingura (1962) Hiroshi Inagaki, Japan Another 47 Ronin. soon becomes overlong and boring but ends well Amphibian Man (1962) Vladimir Chebotaryov, Gennadly Kazanskiy, Russia pretty wacky film that has some similarities to Guillermo del Toro’s The Shape of Water (2017). The Russian recreation of a Mexican town with extras wearing sombreros is pretty funny. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LawrenceA Posted April 13, 2019 Share Posted April 13, 2019 Here are the few that I've seen since the last update, divided by how I rated them: 8/10 Der Verlorene (1951), Peter Lorre, West Germany Classe Tous Risques (1960), Claude Sautet, France Late Autumn (1960), Yasujiro Ozu, Japan 7/10 The Devil's Eye (1960), Ingmar Bergman, Sweden The Naked Island (1960), Kaneto Shindo, Japan 6/10 Stromboli (1950), Roberto Rossellini, Italy The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1956), Jean Delannoy, France The Last Days of Pompeii (1959), Mario Bonnard, Italy The Minotaur (1960), Silvio Amadio, Italy Samson (1961), Gianfranco Parolini, Italy 5/10 Liane, Jungle Goddess (1956), Eduard von Borsody, West Germany The Day the Earth Froze (1959), Aleksandr Ptushko, Finland/USSR Hannibal (1959), Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia, Italy Les Bonnes Femmes (1960), Claude Chabrol, France Slaughter of the Vampires (1964), Roberto Mauri, Italy 4/10 Adam and Eve (1956), Alberto Gout, Mexico The Monsters Demolisher (1962), Federico Curiel, Mexico 3/10 The Loves of Hercules (1960), Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia, Italy 2/10 Santa Claus (1959), Rene Cardona, Mexico 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YabbaDabba Posted April 13, 2019 Share Posted April 13, 2019 1. La Ceremonie (1995) Claude Chabrol, France 2. Antonia’s Line (1995) Marleen Gorris, the Netherlands 3. Nelly and Monsieur Arnaud (1995) Claude Sautet, France 4. Les Miserables (1995) Claude Lelouch, France 5. The Flower of My Secret (1995) Pedro Almodovar, Spain 6. La Haine (1995), Mathieu Kassovitz, France 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sukhov Posted April 13, 2019 Share Posted April 13, 2019 Maitresse - Depardieu and a dominatrix start a relationship and things do not go smoothly. Very disturbing, unsimulated sex scenes. 5/10 Morgan, the Pirate- cheesy swashbuckler with a Welsh pirate fighting everyone in his path. Meh. 4/10 Beyond Good and Evil -Italian retelling of the life of Friedrich Nietzsche as he grapples with a world around him he sees as weak and pathetic. Nietzsche tries to woo Lou Andreas-Salome while developing a good criticism of the slave mentality he sees around him (this would later become the eponymous book "Beyond Good and Evil). 7/10 Waiting Women - Some women wait around for their husbands and tell stories of their lives with them, ranging from hilarious to depressing. 8/10 Come Drink With Me -a martial artist woman rescues her brother from bandits. 7/10 Ten Tigers of Kwangtung - Some more martial arts fare with pretty much every big martial artist from the 70s in it. 7/10 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LawrenceA Posted April 13, 2019 Share Posted April 13, 2019 And another one: Take Aim at the Police Van (1960), Seijun Suzuki, Japan (6/10) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bogie56 Posted April 14, 2019 Author Share Posted April 14, 2019 1963 6. Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai (1963) Tadashi Imai, Japan Quite amazing for its time and I would say one that will probably stay with you. The Curse of the Crying Woman (1963) Rafael Baledon, Mexico. Gothic horror from Mexico. It’s the sort of thing I loved when I was 12. 1970 6. Witchhammer (1970) Otakar Vavra, Czechoslovakia If Miller’s The Crucible is an allegory about a Communist witch hunt this Czechoslovakian film is that times ten. Recommended. 1971 4. Demons (1971) Toshio Matsumoto, Japan. If you like bloodthirsty Japanese films this may be for you. A Ronin seeks revenge when he is taken to the bank by a geisha and her real lover. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bogie56 Posted April 14, 2019 Author Share Posted April 14, 2019 1973 10. Hanzo the Razor 2: The Snare (1973) Yasuzo Masumura, Japan Starring Shintaro Katsu of Zatoichi fame. Here Katsu plays a police officer trying to stamp out corruption at the highest levels in period Japan. His interrogation techniques are a scream! Quite good. The Wanderers (1973) Kon Ichikawa, Japan. A so-so semi-comic film about three loser Ronin as they scramble to earn enough to eat. The action sequence are done to comic effect. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bogie56 Posted April 14, 2019 Author Share Posted April 14, 2019 1978 Centre Forward (1978) Kil-in Kim, Chong-Song Pak, North Korea Surprisingly technically proficient but that is about as far as it goes. Very repetitious tale of young man who is not good enough to make the National Soccer team. The message driven home with a hammer is that hard work will overcome anything. The question of talent doesn't even enter the picture! 1979 10. Aunt Alejandra (1979) Arturo Ripstein, Mexico. A decent gothic witch tale by Ripstein who guest guest programmer, Guillermo del Toro happens to be featuring at TIFF this spring. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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