LawrenceA Posted September 19, 2019 1964 Hamlet, Grigoriy Kozintsev, USSR - 8/10 Charulata, Satyajit Ray, India - 8/10 Three Outlaw Samurai, Hideo Gosha, Japan - 8/10 Diary of a Chambermaid, Luis Bunuel, France Adventures of Zatoichi, Kimiyoshi Yasuda, Japan Seduced and Abandoned, Pietro Germi, Italy Intentions of Murder, Shohei Imamura, Japan Attack and Retreat, Giuseppe De Santis, Italy Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, Sergei Parajanov, USSR Cruel Gun Story, Takumi Furukawa, Japan Assassination, Masahiro Shinoda, Japan The Soft Skin, Francois Truffaut, France Red Desert, Michelangelo Antonioni, Italy Hercules Against Rome, Piero Pierotti, Italy I've also seen: Death Ray of Dr. Mabuse, Hugo Fregonese & Victor De Santis, West Germany Gertrud, Carl Theodor Dreyer, Denmark Black Sun, Koreyoshi Kurahara, Japan Hercules, Prisoner of Evil, Antonio Margheriti & Ruggero Deodato, Italy All These Women, Ingmar Bergman, Sweden Nadja in Paris, Eric Rohmer, France - (short) Diamonds of the Night, Jan Nemec, Czechoslovakia War of the Zombies, Giuseppe Veri, Italy 3 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gershwin fan Posted September 19, 2019 Black Sabbath (1963) Mario Bava, Italy- 5/10- three horror stories are narrated by Boris Karloff. A prostitute stalked by the ghost of a former lover, a ring haunted by its owner and my favorite story - the elderly vampire who seeks to get revenge on his family. This Bava film is a fun way to spend a couple hours. A fun fact too is that the band got their name from this film. 3 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
LawrenceA Posted September 20, 2019 1965 Tokyo Olympiad, Kon Ichikawa, Japan - 9/10 Simon of the Desert, Luis Bunuel, Mexico - (short) 8/10 I Knew Her Well, Antonio Petrangeli, Italy - 8/10 Zatoichi's Revenge, Akira Inoue, Japan Subarnarekha, Ritwik Ghatak, India Zatoichi and the Doomed Men, Kazuo Mori, Japan Yoyo, Pierre Etaix, France Pleasures of the Flesh, Nagisa Oshima, Japan Man Is Not a Bird, Dusan Makavejev, Yugoslavia Le Bonheur, Agnes Varda, France I've also seen: Ironfinger, Jun Fukuda, Japan Pearls of the Deep, Vera Chytilova & Jaromil Jires & Jiri Menzel & Jan Nemec & Evald Schorm, Czechoslovakia Marco the Magnificent, Denys de La Patelliere & Raoul Levy & Noel Howard, Italy/France The Moment of Truth, Francesco Rosi, Italy Hercules the Avenger, Maurizio Lucidi, Italy 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Princess of Tap Posted September 20, 2019 On 9/13/2019 at 3:51 AM, CoraSmith said: I didn't keep a separate list for this, but here are some films I discovered recently: High and Low (1962) by Akira Kurosawa is a thriller about a kidnapping, but at the same time it's a portrayal of different layers of Japanese society. The title has a double meaning: the house of businessman Gondo lies literally on a hill, but it also refers to higher and lower classes. During the search for the driver's kid we see laborers, a garbage man, junkies and young peopple at a rock 'n' roll party. The bald policeman looks like a Japanese Kojak. The Women on the 6th Floor (2011) by Philippe Le Guay is also about class, but this time the poorer people live higher. After a quarrel with his wife a Parisian businessman in the 1960s (Fabrice Luchini) finds out he feel better in a small room on the sixth floor among the Spanish working women. Something starts to blossom between him and the young Spanish maid Maria (Natalia Verbeke). Cora, I don't know how you came up with this combination but these are two of my favorite actors. Different times, different places, different styles, different languages, but absolutely intriguing. I never got to see Toshiro Mifune in person, but I did attend a one-man Bravura performance of Fabrice Luchini once in Paris. His energy explodes on a stage so much that they cannot capture in a movie. Cora, I often look at your selections, and before now, I should have told you how much I have enjoyed your contributions to this thread. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
LawrenceA Posted September 20, 2019 1966 Nayak: The Hero, Satyajit Ray, India - 8/10 Here Is Your Life, Jan Troell, Sweden - 8/10 Le Deuxieme Souffle, Jean-Pierre Melville, France Wings, Larisa Shepitko, USSR Zatoichi's Pilgrimage, Kazuo Ikehiro, Japan The Man Who Had His Hair Cut Short, Andre Delvaux, Belgium The Big Gundown, Sergio Sollima, Italy Young Torless, Volker Schlondorff, West Germany Law of the Border, Lutfi Akad, Turkey Thirst for Love, Koreyoshi Kurahara, Japan An Angel for Satan, Camillo Mastrocinque, Italy Daimajin, Kimiyoshi Yasuda, Japan A Report on the Party and Guests, Jan Nemec, Czechoslovakia Black Girl, Ousmane Sembene, Senegal/France Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?, William Klein, France I've also seen: Violence at Noon, Nagisa Oshima, Japan Django Shoots First, Alberto De Martino, Italy For a Few Extra Dollars, Giorgio Ferroni, Italy Emotion, Nobuhiko Obayashi, Japan (short) The Taking of Power by Louis XIV, Roberto Rossellini, France 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
LawrenceA Posted September 21, 2019 1967 Dragon Inn, King Hu, Taiwan/Hong Kong - 8/10 Zatoichi Challenged, Kenji Misumi, Japan - 8/10 The Living Corpse, Khwaja Sarfraz, Pakistan Zatoichi's Cane Sword, Kimiyoshi Yasuda, Japan Requiescant aka Kill and Pray, Carlo Lizzani, Italy Zaotichi the Outlaw, Satsuo Yamamoto, Japan Mouchette, Robert Bresson, France A Colt Is My Passport, Takashi Nomura, Japan Gods Forgives...I Don't!, Giuseppe Colizzi, Italy The Two of Us, Claude Berri, France Django Kill...If You Live, Shoot!, Giulio Questi, Italy I've also seen: Marketa Lazarova, Frantisek Vlacil, Czechoslovakia The Young Girls of Rochefort, Jacques Demy, France La Collectionneuse, Eric Rohmer, France 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her, Jean-Luc Godard, France 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gershwin fan Posted September 21, 2019 Shock Troop 1917 (1934) Hans Zöberlein, Germany- 7/10- this film is about a shock troop of German soldiers who fight during WWI against French and Scottish soldiers at battles in Flanders (Champagne, Cambrai). It is based on Zöberlein's own memoir "Der Glaube an Deutschland". The film has shades of All Quiet on the Western Front and is quite good. The acting is a bit stale and theater like as is common of films of the time but the effects are great and used real explosives, machine guns, tanks, etc. that had actually been used during WWI only a few years earlier. The film is a constant barrage of the sound of real munitions exploding which helps create the dark WWI atmosphere. There is a similar scene to Paul's death from All Quiet in this film but the bonus is that it is a British soldier so the film really gets you to feel for the fallen soldiers on both sides. The film is recommended. 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
LawrenceA Posted September 21, 2019 1968 The Great Silence, Sergio Corbucci, Italy - 9/10 Kuroneko, Kaneto Shindo, Japan - 8/10 Memories of Underdevelopment, Tomas Gutierrez Alea, Cuba Samaritan Zatoichi, Kenji Misumi, Japan Stolen Kisses, Francois Truffaut, France Teorema, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italy Snake Woman's Curse, Nobuo Nakagawa, Japan Run, Man, Run, Sergio Sollima, Italy I've also seen: Frankenstein's Bloody Terror, Enrique Lopez Eguiluz, Spain Death By Hanging, Nagisa Oshima, Japan Gatling Gun, Paolo Bianchini, Italy L'enfance Nue, Maurice Pialat, France House of Evil, Juan Ibanez & Jack Hill, Mexico The Snake People, Juan Ibanez & Jack Hill, Mexico 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
LawrenceA Posted September 21, 2019 1969 Goyokin, Hideo Gosha, Japan The Milky Way, Luis Bunuel, France/Italy The Color of Pomegranates, Sergei Parajanov, USSR Double Suicide, Masahiro Shinoda, Japan Cemetery Without Crosses, Robert Hossein, France/Italy Love Is Colder Than Death, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, West Germany I've also seen: My Night at Maud's, Eric Rohmer, France Cremator, Juraj Herz, Czechoslovakia Dillinger Is Dead, Marco Ferreri, Italy Katzelmacher, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, West Germany 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
LawrenceA Posted September 21, 2019 1970 Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion, Elio Petri, Italy - 8/10 Zatoichi Goes to the Fire Festival, Kenji Misumi, Japan - 8/10 The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, Vittorio De Sica, Italy Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo, Kihachi Okamoto, Japan Bed and Board, Francois Truffaut, France Ucho/The Ear, Karel Kachyna, Czechoslovakia The Vampire Doll, Michio Yamamoto, Japan Companeros, Sergio Corbucci, Italy I've also seen: The Forbidden Photos of a Lady Above Suspicion, Luciano Ercoli, Italy Donkey Skin, Jacques Demy, France Claire's Knee, Eric Rohmer, France Assignment Terror, Tulio Demicheli & Hugo Fregonese & Antonio Isasi-Isasmendi & Eberhard Meichsner, Spain Baal, Volker Schlondorff, West Germany 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
LawrenceA Posted September 21, 2019 1971 Zatoichi Meets the One-Armed Swordsman, Kimiyoshi Yasuda, Japan Lake of Dracula, Michio Yamamoto, Japan Mon Oncle Antoine, Claude Jutra, Canada I've also seen: The Fifth Cord, Luigi Bazzoni, Italy Short Night of Glass Dolls, Aldo Lado, Italy WR: Mysteries of the Organism, Dusan Makavejev, Yugoslavia Trafic, Jacques Tati, France Bad Man's River, Eugenio Martin, Spain Isle of the Snake People, Juan Ibanez & Jack Hill, Mexico Alien Terror, Juan Ibanez & Jack Hill & Jose Luis Gonzalez de Leon, Mexico 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gershwin fan Posted September 21, 2019 News From Home (1977) Chantal Akerman, Belgium/ USA - 1/10- Akerman films clips of NYC and reads over them the letters she received from her parents while she lived there. Christ, this was pure torture. I hope to never see another Akerman film again. 1 2 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
LawrenceA Posted September 21, 2019 1972 Don't Torture a Duckling, Lucio Fulci, Italy The Blood Spattered Bride, Vicente Aranda, Spain One-Armed Boxer, Jimmy Wang Yu, Taiwan/Hong Kong I've also seen: Zatoichi at Large, Kazuo Mori, Japan Zatoichi in Desperation, Shintaro Katsu, Japan The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, West Germany Who Saw Her Die?, Aldo Lado, Italy The Cannibal Man, Eloy de la Iglesia, Spain Red Psalm, Miklos Jancso, Hungary 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
LawrenceA Posted September 21, 2019 1973 Turkish Delight, Paul Verhoeven, The Netherlands The Holy Mountain, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Mexico Zatoichi's Conspiracy, Kimiyoshi Yasuda, Japan Count Dracula's Great Love, Javier Aguirre, Spain Hunchback of the Morgue, Javier Aguirre, Spain I've also seen: The Loreley's Grasp, Amando de Ossorio, Spain Beach of the War Gods, Jimmy Wang Yu, Hong Kong/Taiwan Tattooed Dragon, Wei Lo, Hong Kong A Man Called Tiger, Wei Lo, Hong Kong A Virgin Among the Living Dead, Jess Franco & Pierre Queret & Jean Rollin, Belgium 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
LawrenceA Posted September 21, 2019 1974 Going Places, Bertrand Blier, France - 8/10 Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, West Germany I've also seen: Evil of Dracula, Michio Yamamoto, Japan Street Law, Enzo G. Castellari, Italy Blue Eyes of the Broken Doll, Carlos Aured, Spain Tendre Dracula, Pierre Grunstein, France The Night of the Sorcerers, Amando de Ossorio, Spain 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
LawrenceA Posted September 21, 2019 1975 Manila in the Claws of Light, Lino Brocka, Philippines - 8/10 The Mirror, Andrei Tarkovsky, USSR Cops vs Thugs, Kinji Fukasaku, Japan Deewaar, Yash Chopra, India The Four of the Apocalypse..., Lucio Fulci, Italy I've also seen: Satanico Pandemonium, Gilberto Martinez Solares, Mexico Fox and His Friends, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, West Germany The Werewolf and the Yeti, Miguel Iglesias, Spain A Dragonfly for Each Corpse, Leon Klimovsky, Spain Exorcismo, Juan Bosch, Spain The Sword & the Claw, Natuk Baytan, Turkey 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
LawrenceA Posted September 21, 2019 1976 Master of the Flying Guillotine, Jimmy Wang Yu, Taiwan/Hong Kong Yakuza Graveyard, Kinji Fukasaku, Japan The Big Racket, Enzo G. Castellari, Italy Keoma, Enzo G. Castellari, Italy 1977 Soldier of Orange, Paul Verhoeven, The Netherlands - 8/10 Stroszek, Werner Herzog, West Germany Ceddo, Ousmane Sembene, Senegal The Heroin Busters, Enzo G. Castellari, Italy 1978 The Bloodstained Shadow, Antonio Bido, Italy The Pyjama Girl Case, Flavio Mogherini, Italy Brawl Busters, Jeong-yong Kim, South Korea 1979 Vengeance Is Mine, Shohei Imamura, Japan Fascination, Jean Rollin, France 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
LawrenceA Posted September 21, 2019 1980 Spetters, Paul Verhoeven, The Netherlands I've also seen: Challenge of the Tiger, Bruce Le & Luigi Batzella & Richard Harrison, Hong Kong/Italy Human Beasts, Paul Naschy, Spain/Japan White Cannibal Queen, Jess Franco & Francesco Prosperi, Italy/Spain 1981 Circle of Deceit, Volker Schlondorff, West Germany I've also seen: Night of the Werewolf, Paul Naschy, Spain Diva, Jean-Jacques Beineix, France These last three fall into a nebulous classification, as they are cheap and poorly made, yet extremely entertaining and bizarre, so I would still recommend them to fans of outrageous cinema. For Your Height Only, Eddie Nicart, Philippines Mystics in Bali, H. Tjut Djalil, Indonesia The Warrior, Sisworo Gautama Putra, Indonesia 1982 Shaolin Temple, Hsin-Yen Chang, China/Hong Kong 1983 Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence, Nagisa Oshima, Japan/UK/New Zealand - Over half of this was in Japanese, the remainder in English. 1984 The Devil's Sword, Ratno Timoer, Indonesia 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nakano Posted September 22, 2019 (edited) Im Labyrinth des Schweigens 2014 Le Labyrinthe du Silence German film with French subtitles showed at 2 American festivals as Labyrinth of Lies, not released in the USA, limited release in Canada.Very good film story happens between 1958 and 1963,there in no timeline per se.Prosecutor starts a case on Nazis by fluke,discover nobody in Germany is aware of Auschwitz,was not really aware himself...very good story based on real people and facts.8/10 Edited September 22, 2019 by nakano 3 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
LawrenceA Posted September 22, 2019 1986 Matador, Pedro Almodovar, Spain 1995 The Flower of My Secret, Pedro Almodovar, Spain This brings me up to date with the foreign-language films that I've seen. If you're interested in my thoughts on these films , write-ups for most of them can be found in the "I Just Watched" thread in General Discussions. I wouldn't really recommend searching them out though, as I had little of note to say, nor did I express it in an interesting or compelling manner. Empty blather for the most part, but if you're still reading this, you've probably already come to that conclusion yourself. Anyway, they're there. If I see more foreign-language movies during this break in the thread, I'll add them. 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gershwin fan Posted September 24, 2019 The Bloody Battle of Taierzhuang (1986), Guangyuan Yang, China (mainland) - 6/10- this movie is about the Nationalist efforts in the Battle of Taierzhuang in the 1930s. It is notable because this is the first film from the mainland to show the Nationalists and Kai-Shek in a somewhat positive light, although they are depicted as disorganized and clueless. In one scene, a Nationalist general is even put to the firing squad for letting Shandong province fall to the Japanese. The acting is a bit stiff as are most mainland Chinese films of the 1980s but the film is a decent retelling of the Chinese struggle against the Japanese in this era. This is also one of the first mainland films to be screened in Taiwan. 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
LawrenceA Posted September 24, 2019 Grave of the Fireflies (1988), Isao Takahata, Japan - 7/10 Animated film that follows a boy and his younger sister who are left orphaned during the waning days of WWII. They struggle to survive among the increasing scarcity of resources and a seemingly uncaring and cruel world, while the boy also tries to keep his sister's spirits high and childish joy intact. This is a very highly regarded film in many circles, and while I thought it was reasonably well done, I also felt it wallowed a bit in sentimentality and was very manipulative in the final act. It comes in a close second behind The Plague Dogs as the most depressing animated film that I've ever seen. 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
LawrenceA Posted September 25, 2019 Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!, Pedro Almodovar, Spain (1989)* - 7/10 Ricky (Antonio Banderas) is released from a mental asylum where he's spent the last 7 years. He's been declared healthy by a judge, but Ricky immediately sets out to kidnap movie star Marina (Victoria Abril), with whom he's in love, in order to force her to love him. Also featuring Loles Leon, Maria Barranco, Rossy De Palma, and Francisco Rabal. Almodovar's controversial film, which contributed to the MPAA establishing the NC-17 rating, has been decried as misogynistic by some. I rather regarded it as the director's send-up of rom-com conventions, where the male half of the couple often acts in ways that would be considered unbalanced and creepy if done in real life. It can also be taken as Almodovar's exaggerated take on heterosexual romances and marriages, where the woman is "kept" and eventually falls for her captor, despite the craziness of that notion. The leads are very good, as is Leon as Abril's sister, and Rabal as an ailing director raging at the dying of the light. * Most sources cite this as a 1990 release, as does the sleeve on the Criterion DVD cover. However, IMDb lists it as a 1989 release, citing the premiere as taking place in December of '89. 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Arsan404 Posted September 26, 2019 1 hour ago, LawrenceA said: * Most sources cite this as a 1990 release, as does the sleeve on the Criterion DVD cover. However, IMDb lists it as a 1989 release, citing the premiere as taking place in December of '89. Almodóvar screened the movie in Madrid on December 1989 before its official release in 1990. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
