CineMaven Posted March 5, 2010 Share Posted March 5, 2010 Two of my absolute tip-top favorites are from le cinema francaise. I love the story telling of "Elevator to the Gallows" and "Quai Des Orfevres." Do you have any favorite foreign films? I'll tell you mine if you more of mine...if you tell me yours. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
scsu1975 Posted March 5, 2010 Share Posted March 5, 2010 Le Beast de Yucca Flats Link to post Share on other sites
jcbjcb Posted March 5, 2010 Share Posted March 5, 2010 Il mondo maraviglioso dei tupperwares Link to post Share on other sites
HollywoodGolightly Posted March 6, 2010 Share Posted March 6, 2010 > {quote:title=jcbjcb wrote:}{quote} > Il mondo maraviglioso dei tupperwares We have a winner! Link to post Share on other sites
cmvgor Posted March 6, 2010 Share Posted March 6, 2010 *Tampopo*, ...but with considerable affection also for *Elivator To The Gallows*. Link to post Share on other sites
jcbjcb Posted March 6, 2010 Share Posted March 6, 2010 Are you still the best? If you are, try this one: Connect Cornel Wilde with Orson Welles, two steps. Link to post Share on other sites
jcbjcb Posted March 6, 2010 Share Posted March 6, 2010 Cinemaven, here are some good foreign films that I strongly recommend; O Cangaceiro (1953, Brazil) The first Brazilian film to become internationally known is a poetic adventure played and directed with a lot of energy. The director is Lima Barreto. Particularly striking is the pulsating music derived from folk theme. Plein Soleil (1959, France) Entertainingly suspenful film noir with the most beautiful color photography of the Italian and French Riviera. Directed by Ren? Cl?ment. De Eso No Se Habla (1994,Argentina) An old man falls in love with an adolescent dwarf, against the wishes of the latter's arrogant, domineering mother. A poignant drama directed with gusto by a great female director, Mar?a Luisa Bemberg. I Soliti Ignoti(1958, Italy) One of the funniest film I have ever seen about a group of incompetent thieves planning an elaborate robbery of a pawn shop. The delightful comedy of errors was directed by Mario Monicelli. Los Santos Inocentes (1984,Spain) Exploited workers on the estate of a wealthy family in Franco's Spain of the 1960 have to cope with personal problems. Directed by Mario Camus. I will be adding to this preliminary list later on. Link to post Share on other sites
CineMaven Posted March 6, 2010 Author Share Posted March 6, 2010 Would you consider that the best SCSU? It isn't even foreign...and can you really call it a film??? Link to post Share on other sites
scsu1975 Posted March 6, 2010 Share Posted March 6, 2010 > {quote:title=CineMaven wrote:}{quote} > Would you consider that the best SCSU? It isn't even foreign...and can you really call it a film??? Well, it seemed foreign to me. Maybe it should be placed in the "Documentary" since it was mainly narration. Link to post Share on other sites
jcbjcb Posted March 6, 2010 Share Posted March 6, 2010 Of all the films made by Kurosawa the one I like the most is Derzu Uzala and is scheduled for March 30 at 8PM EST. Link to post Share on other sites
CineMaven Posted March 6, 2010 Author Share Posted March 6, 2010 You have a point there mon professeur. I'll do just that. Link to post Share on other sites
ValentineXavier Posted March 7, 2010 Share Posted March 7, 2010 There are so many foreign films among my favorites, it would be very difficult to pick a best one. Fellini, Bunuel, Kurosawa, Mizoguchi, Cocteau, Lindsay Anderson, all among my favorite directors. I like those films mentioned so far, except the Tupperware one... Link to post Share on other sites
jcbjcb Posted March 10, 2010 Share Posted March 10, 2010 If you like tango and would like to know what "really" happened to Carlos Gardel I recommend Doble o Nada (Tango Are for Two) from Argentina, directed by Jaime Chavarri. Link to post Share on other sites
kingrat Posted March 11, 2010 Share Posted March 11, 2010 From France alone, my favorites would include: The Wages of Fear Children of Paradise Forbidden Games The Mother and the **** Les bonnes femmes Un couer en hiver The Fire Within (Le feu follet) Jules and Jim It occurs to me that this is not the jolliest list of films! By the way, Plein Soleil (aka Purple Noon) is based on Patricia Highsmith's novel The Talented Mr. Ripley. These two are fun to watch together. Alain Delon and Maurice Ronet or Matt Damon and Jude Law? Then again, why choose? Link to post Share on other sites
LittleAbner Posted March 16, 2010 Share Posted March 16, 2010 I like "Sanjuro" and "Wild Strawberries" and "La Dolce Vita". And "L'Eclisse" for the unique ending. Not to mention "Ordet"! I really can't pick a best. Too many great ones. Edited by: LittleAbner on Mar 16, 2010 2:36 AM Link to post Share on other sites
LittleAbner Posted April 15, 2010 Share Posted April 15, 2010 How about Jean Renoir's Rules of the Game. Made in that year of great movies: 1939. Edited by: LittleAbner on Apr 15, 2010 2:05 AM Link to post Share on other sites
phroso Posted May 5, 2010 Share Posted May 5, 2010 A couple of my favorites: CINEMA PARADISO and THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG. Link to post Share on other sites
traceyk65 Posted June 4, 2010 Share Posted June 4, 2010 I think "Au Revoir mes Enfants" is a wonderful film. I loved the story and the look of the film is just gorgeous. Others I enjoyed: Fannie and Alexander Wild Strawberries Le quai des brumes Le Jour se l?ve Mephisto (1981) Link to post Share on other sites
AllTheLovelyStars Posted July 24, 2010 Share Posted July 24, 2010 THE EXTERMINATING ANGEL, if you haven't seen it check it out it is on DVD now. FORBIDDEN GAMES (French) this film has always stuck with me Link to post Share on other sites
tcolmena Posted November 24, 2010 Share Posted November 24, 2010 'Cinema Paradiso' and 'Mujeres al Borde de un Ataque de Nervios' ('Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown'). Wow! What a interesting forum! Where else would I have felt the need to look up 'Il Mondo Maraviglioso dei Tupperware' and 'Le Bete de Yucca Flats'? Link to post Share on other sites
ccmiller1492 Posted January 14, 2011 Share Posted January 14, 2011 It would be impossible for me to pick just one, so here are my favorites: EL LAZARILLO DE TORMES (1960) FABIOLA (1949) Le Diable au Corps (1946) SENSO (1954) Il Gattopardo (1963) to name just a few Link to post Share on other sites
nitratefiend Posted February 10, 2011 Share Posted February 10, 2011 I know some may disagree violently with me, for various reasons, but noone has mentioned Pasolini yet. His "Gospel according to Saint Matthew" is for me not only one of the great films but one of the most moving retellings of the Passion in all art (which would include Bach's). Both in this and in its purposely rudimentary camera technique, it is the polar opposite of a Hollywood retelling of this story and puts the focus squarely on the words of Christ as related by Matthew. "Hawks and Sparrows" is another one I really enjoy, with the great Tot?, a simple story, and again simple camera work supporting some incredible twists and ironies. But its appeal may be less than universal given Pasolini's attempt in this film to marry, all'italiana, Catholicism and Communism, whether with a capital or a small "c." Link to post Share on other sites
incasting Posted April 10, 2011 Share Posted April 10, 2011 Being Italian, I tend to love films from my own heritage,but the ones I would love to see again,never seem to be shown. FABIOLA of course,the one and only film made by the Italians at Cinecitta before MGM got there for BEN HUR. I would give anything to see, ANNA with Silvana Mangano. This film was condemned,when I was a boy,because it was about a nun's past life, ,but my older brothers sneaked into the theater and I saw it. Funny, how two of the songs from it became popular on The Hit Parade at the time,El Negro Zambon (Anna) and Non Dimenticar, which was even recorded by Nat King Cole,who had a hit record of it! One of the waitress at the night club in the film, is played by a very young Sofia Loren in a blond wig! I still have the old 78RPM of the MGM record of the two songs, released with Silvana Mangano's dubber doing the vocals. I'll never understand why in an Italian film,the dubber is singing for Silvana Mangano..... in Spanish! You can find these two songs from the film on YouTube and they have always been in Spanish for some odd reason! MADONNA OF THE SEVEN MOONS, an interesting film and ROMA ORE 11,this film scared the hell out of me as a child. It starts off with several hundred women all applying for a single job in war torn Rome in an old building. They are waiting on an old spiral stairway,one women attempts to push her way to the head of the line and ............. The rest I'll keep to myself just in case they ever show this film again! Edited by: incasting on Apr 10, 2011 3:32 AM Link to post Share on other sites
laffite Posted April 4, 2012 Share Posted April 4, 2012 Having not the slightest idea of what may be the most well made foreign film of all time I can happily forget about that?but after having watched Smiles of a Summer Night for probably the third or fourth time in my life, I am quite bowled over (this time) and would like to dare nominate this film as the best foreign comedy ever made, at least that. Most foreign film lovers have seen this, it?s a recognized gem; appealing actors all who do a great job (the women are unbelievably attractive, each in their own way), and a screenplay for the ages, wordplay at it?s best. There is a short scene with the actress and her mother that is so good that it produces a dazzling effect. But the standard is evident throughout. Move over, Oscar Wilde. But the idea of ?well-made? is what makes me bring the film here. There is a sort of Classical convention present, the comedy of manners, of love, where those who are married, those who are not, those who have mistresses, those who do not, those who have neither and would fain have something, those who indulge too freely but (maybe) would like to settle down, get what they want and the little story ends without a loose end in sight. There is a sense of construction from beginning to end, like a good piece of music without a single false note. The best foreign comedy ever made?maybe. Link to post Share on other sites
tlovesgarfield Posted October 20, 2012 Share Posted October 20, 2012 Anything by Bunuel, but especially *Tristana* and *Belle De Jour* for Deneuve fans. And because of Halloween, Spanish filmaker Erice's, *Spirit of the Beehive*, which has a Frankenstein clip Link to post Share on other sites
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