mudskipper Posted December 27, 2010 Share Posted December 27, 2010 For lovers of foreign films that are classics or new...Anything goes, but the films should at least be critically significant or acclaimed from any country or language...Please avoid trashy movies...(I realize trashy is a subjective term, but at least the film should have some value.)....I'll start : Question: What is the title of the poignant film-- about a schoolteacher and her pupils--- that won over "The Seven Samurai" and Akira Kurosawa for Best Picture and Best Director during the 1955 Mainichi Film Concourse Awards (similar to the Oscars in Japan at that time)...It stars Hideko Takamine in a brilliant performance... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudskipper Posted December 29, 2010 Author Share Posted December 29, 2010 Correct, Six....A beautiful film.....Your thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lavenderblue19 Posted December 30, 2010 Share Posted December 30, 2010 Not too knowledgable in this arena either, but here's one that comes to mind Fame has unfortunate consequences for a beautiful blonde actress. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lavenderblue19 Posted December 31, 2010 Share Posted December 31, 2010 The press and fans hound her. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudskipper Posted December 31, 2010 Author Share Posted December 31, 2010 "Notting Hill"..with Julia Roberts and Hugh Grant ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lavenderblue19 Posted December 31, 2010 Share Posted December 31, 2010 Sorry, French film. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudskipper Posted December 31, 2010 Author Share Posted December 31, 2010 "A Very Private Affair" with Brigitte Bardot ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lavenderblue19 Posted January 1, 2011 Share Posted January 1, 2011 *A Very Private Affair* is Correct. Bardot, Mastroianni and Louis Malle directed. Every few years TCM shows this film. I won't do a spoiler, but the ending is always a shock. Great work Mr. Skip, the thread is yours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudskipper Posted January 1, 2011 Author Share Posted January 1, 2011 Thanks, Lavender...Next: A knight returning from the Crusades plays chess with Death, during the time of the plague, in this allegorical movie by a very famous director. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudskipper Posted January 3, 2011 Author Share Posted January 3, 2011 Clue: ...Swedish Classic.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudskipper Posted January 5, 2011 Author Share Posted January 5, 2011 Ingmar Bergman's classic...Your thread, Six. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cujas Posted January 6, 2011 Share Posted January 6, 2011 Don't know anything much about Chris Rock--but Kurowsawa made *The High & The Low* in 1963, starring Toshiro Mifune. A Police drama-mystery. It was one of my favorites. I loved how the director used an Elvis Presley tune in a climatic scene--so cool! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cujas Posted January 7, 2011 Share Posted January 7, 2011 Man returns after many years to find he has been pronounced legally dead and his wife has remarried. Hint: movie is not from the Golden era. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudskipper Posted January 10, 2011 Author Share Posted January 10, 2011 "The Return Of Martin Guerre "...? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cujas Posted January 12, 2011 Share Posted January 12, 2011 I knew you'd guess that one-- They said this guy was dead, but he, the same person returns. Hint: the same actor played Martin Guerre as the main character for the answer to the question--the movie is the name of a man--2 hints! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudskipper Posted January 12, 2011 Author Share Posted January 12, 2011 A later film---"Colonel Chabert". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cujas Posted January 13, 2011 Share Posted January 13, 2011 Yes--a moumental film--some of it was filmed in the Latin Quarter--based on a literary classic by Balzac. Of course, Gerard Depardieu is the actor I spoke about previously. Mudskipper, you are an invaluable player. Edited by: cujas on Jan 13, 2011 5:08 PM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudskipper Posted January 14, 2011 Author Share Posted January 14, 2011 Thank you... There are two Kurosawa movies whose plots were taken from Shakespeare...One was from "Macbeth" and the other was from "King Lear". Name the Japanese movies... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudskipper Posted January 14, 2011 Author Share Posted January 14, 2011 Correct, Speedo...Your thread, Six. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudskipper Posted January 21, 2011 Author Share Posted January 21, 2011 Nobuo Nakagawa ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudskipper Posted January 22, 2011 Author Share Posted January 22, 2011 This is an interesting four-movie question for movie buffs: In the 1990s, Bruce Willis starred in a movie which was a remake of an Italian Spaghetti western which was, in turn, based on a Japanese Samurai film inspired by an American film noir...Name the four films....and extra credits if you can name the actors and directors of each. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudskipper Posted January 23, 2011 Author Share Posted January 23, 2011 Clue:... Clint Eastwood is the star in one of the movies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmvgor Posted January 23, 2011 Share Posted January 23, 2011 *The Glass Key* / Alan Ladd / Dir: Stuart Heiser *Yojimbo* / Sanjuro Kuwabataka / Dir: Akira Kurasawa *A Fistful Of Dollars* / Clint Eastwood / Dir: Sergio Leone *Last Man Standing* / Bruce Willis* / Dir: Walter Hill ...From a plot first used by Dashiell Hammett. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudskipper Posted January 23, 2011 Author Share Posted January 23, 2011 All correct, C...except that the great Toshiro Mifune starred in Kurosawa's "Yojimbo" ( or I guess you can call him The Samurai With No Name..) By the way, "Sanjuro" aka "Sanjuro Kuwabatake" is the sequel to "Yojimbo" (and they're both great movies)....Your turn now.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmvgor Posted January 23, 2011 Share Posted January 23, 2011 Thanks, skipper. Let's try this one. In a rural and small-town setting, a story is told in _two_ films, released in sequence. The tale spans three generations. A man brings about the death of a neighbor by underhanded means because he wants the fellow's land. The sequel relates how vengeance was achieved. Nearing the end of the story, the man finds out that he had unknowingly killed his own son. Foreign. 1980s. ??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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