Bogie56 Posted June 30, 2019 Author Share Posted June 30, 2019 The winner of the 2006 Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language film was … Letters From Iwo Jima (2006) Clint Eastwood, USA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bogie56 Posted June 30, 2019 Author Share Posted June 30, 2019 The 2006 winner of France’s Cesar Best Picture Award … Lady Chatterley (2006) Pascale Feran, France The 2007 winner of France’s Cesar Best Foreign Film Award was … The Lives of Others (2006) Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, Germany Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bogie56 Posted June 30, 2019 Author Share Posted June 30, 2019 The 2006 German Film Awards Best Picture was … The Lives of Others (2006) Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, Germany The 2007 German Film Awards Best Picture was … 4 Minutes (2006) Chris Kraus, Germany Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LawrenceA Posted June 30, 2019 Share Posted June 30, 2019 It must be fun typing "Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck" so many times. Makes you wish some of these directors' names were just "Bill Jones" or "Moe Smith". 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bogie56 Posted June 30, 2019 Author Share Posted June 30, 2019 2 hours ago, LawrenceA said: It must be fun typing "Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck" so many times. Makes you wish some of these directors' names were just "Bill Jones" or "Moe Smith". thank goodness for cut and paste! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bogie56 Posted June 30, 2019 Author Share Posted June 30, 2019 The 2006 winner of Sweden’s Guldbagge Foreign Film Award was … Kidz n da Hood (2006) Catti Edfeldt, Yiva Gustavsson, Sweden The 2006 winner of Sweden’s Guldbagge Foreign Film Award was … The Lives of Others (2006) Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, Germany Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bogie56 Posted June 30, 2019 Author Share Posted June 30, 2019 2 hours ago, LawrenceA said: It must be fun typing "Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck" so many times. Makes you wish some of these directors' names were just "Bill Jones" or "Moe Smith". There was a fun thread in general discussion a few years ago about strange names and DHVD's may have come up. I know that I offered Friedrich von Ledebur who played Queequeg in Moby Dick (1956) and the Chief Dresden prison guard in Slaughterhouse Five (1972). His real name was Graf Friedrich Anton Maria Hubertus Bonifacius von Ledebur-Wicheln. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bogie56 Posted June 30, 2019 Author Share Posted June 30, 2019 Denmark’s 2006 Robert Best Picture Award went to … We Shall Overcome (2006) Niels Arden Oplev, Denmark Denmark’s 2007 Robert Best Picture Award went to … The Art of Crying (2006) Peter Schonau Fog, Denmark Denmark’s 2006 Robert Best Foreign Picture Award went to … The Lives of Others (2006) Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, Germany Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bogie56 Posted July 1, 2019 Author Share Posted July 1, 2019 Italy’s David di Donatello 2005/06 Best Picture winner … The Caiman (2006) Nanni Moretti, Italy Italy’s David di Donatello 2006/07 Best Picture winner … The Unknown Woman (2006) Giuseppe Tornatore, Italy Italy’s David di Donatello 2005/06 Best Foreign Film winner … The Lives of Others (2006) Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, Germany 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bogie56 Posted July 1, 2019 Author Share Posted July 1, 2019 The 2006 winner of Spain’s Goya Award for Best Picture was … Volver (2006) Pedro Almodovar, Spain The 2006 winner of the Goya Award for Best Spanish language Foreign Film was … The Hands (2006) Alejandro Doria, Argentina Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skimpole Posted July 1, 2019 Share Posted July 1, 2019 theyshootpictures.com top 1000 movies of all time The Lives of Others Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, Germany #466 Colossal Youth Pedro Costa, France #538 Pan's Labyrinth Guillermo del Toro, Spain #541 Syndromes and a Century Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand #651 Still Life Jia Zhangke, China #658 The Host Bong Joon-ho, South Korea #752 theyshootpictures.com top 1000 movies of the 21st century Pan's Labyrinth Guillermo del Toro, Spain #30 The Lives of Others Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, Germany #31 Colossal Youth Pedro Costa, France #47 Syndromes and a Century Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand #53 Still Life Jia Zhangke, China #60 The Host Bong Joon-ho, South Korea #89 Volver Pedro Almodovar, Spain #134 Letters from Iwo Jima Clint Eastwood, United States #152 Black Book Paul Verhoeven, Netherlands #294 Bamako Abdeerahmane Sissako, Mali #300 Offside Jafar Panahi, Iran #359 Climates Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Turkey #437 I Don't Want to Sleep Alone Tsai Ming-liang, China (Taiwan) #474 Paprika Satoshi Kon, Japan #497 Woman on the Beach Hong Sang-soo, South Korea #499 Private Fears in Private Places Alain Resnais, France #588 Summer Palace Lou Ye, China #602 Serras da desordem Andrea Tonacci, Brazil #617 Lady Chatterly Pascale Ferran, France #622 Exiled Johnnie To, China #626 Reprise Joachim Trier, Norway #650 Daratt Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, Chad #659 Quei loro incontri Jean-Marie Straub/Daniele Huillet, France #699 Apocalypto Mel Gibson, United States #711 12:08 East of Bucharest Corneliu Porumboiu, Romania #721 Opera Jawa Garin Nugroho, Indonesia #729 Flanders Bruno Dumont, France #753 Zidane: a 21st Century Portrait Douglas Gordon/Philippe Parreno, France #874 Lage Raho Munna Bhai Rajkumar Hirani, India #914 Days of Glory Rachid Bouchareb, France #933 Rang de Basanti Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra, India #940 Honor de Cavalleria Albert Serra, Spain #960 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bogie56 Posted July 1, 2019 Author Share Posted July 1, 2019 The winner of the 2006 Polish Film Best Picture Award was … Saviour Square (2006) Joanna Kos-Krauze, Krzysztof Krauze, Poland The winner of the 2006 Polish Film Awards Best European Film was … Volver (2006) Pedro Almodovar, Spain The winner of the 2007 Polish Film Awards Best European Film was … The Lives of Others (2006) Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, Germany 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bogie56 Posted July 1, 2019 Author Share Posted July 1, 2019 The 2006 winner of Russia’s Nika Best Picture Award was … The Island (2006) Pavel Lounguine, Russia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bogie56 Posted July 1, 2019 Author Share Posted July 1, 2019 The 2006 Canadian Film Award winner … Bon Cop, Bad Cop (2006) Erk Canuel, Canada [I haven’t seen this. It may be a true bi-lingual movie] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bogie56 Posted July 1, 2019 Author Share Posted July 1, 2019 In 2006 the Australian Film Institute’s Best Picture winner was one shot in its native aboriginal language … Ten Canoes (2006) Rolf de Neer, Peter Sjigirr, Australia 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bogie56 Posted July 1, 2019 Author Share Posted July 1, 2019 The 2005/06 winner of Mexico’s Ariel Best Picture Award was … Mezcal (2006) Ignacio Ortiz, Mexico The 2006/07 winner of Mexico’s Ariel Best Picture Award was … Pan’s Labyrinth (2006) Guillermo del Toro, Spain 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bogie56 Posted July 1, 2019 Author Share Posted July 1, 2019 The winner of the 2007 Cinema Brazil Best Picture Award was … The Year My Parents Went on Vacation (2006) Cao Hamburger, Brazil The winner of the 2007 Cinema Brazil Best Foreign Film was … The Lives of Others (2006) Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, Germany 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bogie56 Posted July 1, 2019 Author Share Posted July 1, 2019 The Awards of the Argentinian Academy or the Premios Sur are presented by the Argentinian Academy of Cinematography Arts and Sciences. They began in 2006 but a previous incarnation of the Awards ran from 1941 through 1955 when it ended during the country’s political coup. I have not been able to find those records. The 2007 winner of Argentina’s Premios Sur Best Foreign Film Award was … The Lives of Others (2006) Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, Germany 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bogie56 Posted July 1, 2019 Author Share Posted July 1, 2019 The 2006 winner of Japan’s Academy Award was … Hula Girls (2006) Sang-il Lee, Japan The 2007 winner of Japan’s Foreign Film Academy Award was … Letters From Iwo Jima (2006) Clint Eastwood, USA 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bogie56 Posted July 1, 2019 Author Share Posted July 1, 2019 The winner of China’s Golden Rooster Award for Best Picture of 2007 was … The Knot (2006) Li Yin, Taiwan The winner of China’s Golden Rooster Award for Foreign Film of 2007 was … The White Silk Dress (2006) Luu Huynh, Viet Nam Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bogie56 Posted July 1, 2019 Author Share Posted July 1, 2019 South Korea’s Grand Bell Best Picture Award of 2007 went to … Family Ties (2006) Tae-yong Kim, South Korea Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bogie56 Posted July 1, 2019 Author Share Posted July 1, 2019 The 2006 Hong Kong Film Award for Best Picture went to … After This Our Exile (2006) Patrick Tam, Hong Kong Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bogie56 Posted July 1, 2019 Author Share Posted July 1, 2019 The 2006 winner of the Africa Movie Academy Best Picture Award was … Sitanda (2006) Izu Ojukwu, Nigeria Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LawrenceA Posted July 1, 2019 Share Posted July 1, 2019 A few words on some of my top choices: Triad Election is director Johnnie To's sequel to the previous year's Election. It centers on Simon Yam's newly elected triad crime boss and his efforts to retain his precarious position, as well as on Louis Koo's younger triad member who longs to retire from the life. Like the previous film, the focus is more on character than action scenes. Yam, who started out in some of Hong Kong's lousiest films, further illustrates what a first rate actor he became in middle age. Exiled is also from Johnnie To, and it also deals with the criminal underworld. It deals with rival pairs of triad enforcers, one duo assigned to assassinate a mob boss, the other two charged with protecting him. The quartet find themselves working together as their various illegal enterprises become entangled and more complicated. The movie is filled with veteran Hong Kong actors, with the stand-out being Anthony Wong as the oldest of the hitmen. He imbues his character with quiet dignity and gravitas. Dog Bite Dog is an especially brutal crime thriller/action flick from Hong Kong, centering on a Cambodian assassin (Edison Chen) clashing with a Hong Kong cop (Sam Lee). The plot is nothing new, but the execution under director Soi Cheang is taut, with graphic, painful fight scenes that are more interested in splintered bones and gushing blood than typical martial arts displays. Wolfhound is a high-fantasy action film about battling tribes of barbarians and druidic mysticism. This was one of the biggest-budgeted films ever made in Russia up to that time, and it shows, although there's still a slightly lunkheaded goofiness about the film that keeps it in B-movie territory. That may sound like an insult, but it's not, and I enjoyed the movie much more than I expected to. 13: Game of Death is a Thai thriller about an average Joe named Phuchit (Krissada Sukosol Clapp) who gets a call on his cell-phone directing him to complete a series of tasks in exchange for a big money payout, all part of some game or contest. The financially-desperate Phuchit agrees, but as the tasks become increasingly difficult, illegal and immoral, he finds that if he tries to quit the consequences will be deadly. Like many Thai movies, the balance between farcical comedy and grim seriousness will seem off to many Western viewers, but I enjoyed the film, and an American remake is currently in pre-production. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arsan404 Posted July 2, 2019 Share Posted July 2, 2019 Under the shadows of two better known Spanish movies, Pan's Labyrinth and Volver, azuloscurocasinegro (Dark Blue Almost Black) is an excellent Spanish drama directed by Daniel Sánchez Arévalo, with good performances by **** Gutiérrez, Antonio de la Torre, Marta Etura, and Raúl Arévalo. I saw Mezcal by chance, a look at the lives of people who think they have no future. A depressing but well made movie. I liked Cansada de Besar Sapos (Tired of Kissing Frogs), a romantic comedy from Mexico, directed by Jorge Colón, with Ana Serradilla, Ana Layevska (I still have a crush on her), and Juan Manuel Bernal. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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