max Posted November 26, 2005 Share Posted November 26, 2005 Jeux interdits (Forbidden Games) -Can't wait till it comes out on December 6th! Really sad story, and in my opinion the best WWII films, because instead of focusing on the soldiers, it focuses on children during the war (how all the death and destruction effects them.). Still the best french film I have seen. le petit Soldat The Seventh Seal Les Carabiners M War and Peace (amazing 7 hour film!!!) Nosferatu (I could not sleep!!! I was afraid to dream!) Sofie's Verden (Sophia's world, based upon the book. I saw it when I was in Japan. It was in Italian, Norwegian, German, Swedish and English. With Japanese subtitles! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
movieman1957 Posted November 26, 2005 Share Posted November 26, 2005 I remember as a kid staying up very late to watch "War and Peace" when it was shown over the course of a week. Huge epic. I remember intense battle scenes. I don't recall that anyone has shown it lately. I'm particular to British films from the 50's. They had some very good comedies you don't see much of. Like "The Titlfied Thunderbolt", "Whiskey Galore" and a lovely film that's on TCM in January called "Genevieve". "Last Holiday" with Alec Guiness and others. A lot of these were shown on PBS in Washington DC as part of the "Janus Collection". That all goes back twenty years or so. Maybe with Genevieve coming others will follow. I know this group would enjoy them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
backlotangel Posted December 2, 2005 Share Posted December 2, 2005 two of my favorite films are... ascenseur pour l'echafaud. it's one of the first films louis malle directed and it's excellent! it stars jeanne moreau and maurice ronet and it's very much like a film noir. what really draws me back time and time again to this film is the music by miles davis which is just SUBLIME. the soundtrack alone is worth checking out for any jazz fans out there. les parapluies de cherbourg. probably much more well known than the previous. directed by jacques demy and starring catherine deneueve. the first time i saw it, i thought it would be like the conventional musical, but it turned out to be very different. the entire film is "sung"! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LonelyHearts Posted December 8, 2005 Share Posted December 8, 2005 M is one of my favorite movies. La Belle et La Bete (Beauty and the Beast) - Jean Cocteau's version of the fairy tale. Beautiful and lyrical. All the Ealin comedies - Kind Hearts and Coronet, The Ladykillers, The Lavender Hill Mob - hilarious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vallo13 Posted December 8, 2005 Share Posted December 8, 2005 Mine would be: 1989's "Cinema Paradiso" Directed by Guiseppe Tornatore. A film maker recalls his childhood, when he fell in love with the movies (like us) and formed a friendship with the theater's projectionist. with Enzo Cannavale..Not to be missed.. vallo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
feaito Posted December 8, 2005 Share Posted December 8, 2005 Rififi, Garden of the Finzi-Continis, The Mouse that Roared, Aguirre the Wrath of God, Beauty and the Beast, Kind Hearts and Coronets, Passport to Pimlico, among many. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
classicsfan1119 Posted December 9, 2005 Share Posted December 9, 2005 Hi Vallo. "Nuovo Cinema Paradiso" is among my many favorite Foreign Films, too. I'm also especially fond of Morricone's beautiful score for this film. ML Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vallo13 Posted December 9, 2005 Share Posted December 9, 2005 ML,The Music IS great and I love the part when after years of not being able to show people kissing on film, because of the towns priest (well if you've seen it,you know what I'm talking about) The new version is a little too long but it's still great... vallo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
classicsfan1119 Posted December 10, 2005 Share Posted December 10, 2005 Yes, Vallo, I know what you're talking about. Another wonderful Foreign Film that I'm reminded of is "La Strada", and again partly because of it's beautiful Original Music by Nino Rota. ML Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lux0786 Posted December 10, 2005 Share Posted December 10, 2005 I hope that Rota's music is "original." It's amazing to me that the music that we know as the main theme to La Strada was actually composed note for note in a composition by Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904). If you listen to the beginning of the fourth movement of Serenade for Strings (1875), you will hear this famous La Strada theme. I can't believe that Rota would knowingly plaigarize, especially from a composition as popular as the Serenade, but it's hard to measure the coincidence of having the same music composed by two different composers. The original theme was probably fair game since the copyright, if there ever was one, was surely expired, but if Rota knowingly lifted this music from Dvorak, there should have attribution, IMO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
classicsfan1119 Posted December 10, 2005 Share Posted December 10, 2005 Hi Lux. The first few opening bars of Dvorak's Serenade for Strings in E major, Op.22 (in the Larghetto movement), and Rota's first few opening bars for his La Strada theme, do sound very similar, but are not "note for note" as you indicate. Therefore I feel confident that Mr. Rota did not plaigarize from Dvorak's composition, even unknowingly. Both compositions are very beautiful, and I'm glad you like them as much as I do. ML Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lux0786 Posted December 11, 2005 Share Posted December 11, 2005 ML, After listening again, I will concede that the two versions are not “note for note,” so you are right about that. In the first phrase, Dvorak takes three notes and Rota takes five to represent the same melody line, Dvorak simply extends the notes. In the second phrase there are some slight rhythmic differences. But these differences are superficial because the melody is essentially the same. None of these differences are strong enough to allow either version to have a marked musical identity of its own apart from the other IMO. I doubt that Rota would have survived a court challenge had, say, a contemporary of Rota had composed Dvorak’s music and had decided to sue. I’m not a lawyer but I don’t think Rota would not have been necessarily off the hook by changing a note or two or varying the rhythm a bit, he could have been guilty of plagarism for stealing the idea, in this case, the melody. (And I would hope that Rota would have lost that case in order to preserve a viable notion of the phrase “original music by….” ) But, having said that, I agree with you that Rota probably did not plagarize Dvorak because IMO he would have simply known better than to do so. My guess is that he wasn’t aware of this particular tidbit of Dvorak or maybe he did know of it and it came out subconsciously. Or maybe he thought nobody would notice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3s2ges Posted January 27, 2006 Share Posted January 27, 2006 "Cinema Paradiso" Akira Kurosawas "Dreams" "The Seventh Seal" I couldn't decide which one I like the best. Message was edited by: 3s2ges Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moviegeek Posted January 27, 2006 Share Posted January 27, 2006 M Seven Samurai Diabolique The Third Man Grand Illusion Yojimbo Rififi(which by the way is being remade in 2007 starring AL PACINO) Rashoman Rules of the Game Throne of Blood La Haine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maufrais Posted January 27, 2006 Share Posted January 27, 2006 (in no particular order) - IKIRU (TO LIVE) by Kurosawa - FOCUS by Satoshi Isaka - THE AFTERLIFE by Hirokazu Kore-eda - CITY ON FIRE by Ringo Lam - LE SAMOURAI by Jean Pierre Melville - GALLIPOLI by Peter Weir - DAS BOOT by Wolfgang Petersen - AU REVOIR LES ENFANTS by Louis Malle - THE 400 BLOWS by Francois Trauffaut - A BETTER TOMORROW by John Woo - HAPPY TOGETHER, DAYS OF BEING WILD, & CHUNGKING EXPRESS by Wong Kar-wai - KIDS RETURN by Takeshi Kitano - THE BIG BLUE by Luc Besson - TOKYO DECADENCE by Murakami Ryu - POSTMAN BLUES by Sabu - THE BICYCLE THIEF by de Sica - TWILIGHT SAMURAI by Yoji Yamada - GUNS & TALKS by Jin Jang **completely underrated gem I was sure to yield a crappy Hollywood remake** - SPIRITED AWAY by Hayao Miyazaki - DIVA by Jean-Jacques Beineix and many many more... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maufrais Posted January 27, 2006 Share Posted January 27, 2006 (in no particular order) - IKIRU (TO LIVE) by Kurosawa - FOCUS by Satoshi Isaka - THE AFTERLIFE by Hirokazu Kore-eda - CITY ON FIRE by Ringo Lam - LE SAMOURAI by Jean Pierre Melville - GALLIPOLI by Peter Weir - DAS BOOT by Wolfgang Petersen - AU REVOIR LES ENFANTS by Louis Malle - THE 400 BLOWS by Francois Trauffaut - A BETTER TOMORROW by John Woo - HAPPY TOGETHER, DAYS OF BEING WILD, & CHUNGKING EXPRESS by Wong Kar-wai - KIDS RETURN by Takeshi Kitano - THE BIG BLUE by Luc Besson - TOKYO DECADENCE by Murakami Ryu - POSTMAN BLUES by Sabu - THE BICYCLE THIEF by de Sica - TWILIGHT SAMURAI by Yoji Yamada - GUNS & TALKS by Jin Jang **completely underrated gem I was sure to yield a crappy Hollywood remake** - SPIRITED AWAY by Hayao Miyazaki - DIVA by Jean-Jacques Beineix and many many more... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
katyscar11ett Posted January 27, 2006 Share Posted January 27, 2006 All the knowledgeable people on this list truly inspire me to watch movies that I might not watch otherwise. Foreign Films are something that I plan on watching more of, so far I've only watched a few - M, La Strada and The Blue Angel - and loved them all. The Blue Angel certainly is depressing, however. Thank you for discussing these things so that others, like me, can learn. :-) I'm going to watch for some of the movies listed by y'all below. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattHelm Posted February 1, 2006 Share Posted February 1, 2006 Orphee Yojimbo Alphaville Bicycle Thief La Dolce Vita High And Low Ulysses' Gaze La Notte Day of the Beast The City of Lost Children The Wicker Man Violent Cop Stray Dog Amarcord Cinema Paradiso Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FredCDobbs Posted February 2, 2006 Share Posted February 2, 2006 ?Rashomon? from Japan in 1950 is excellent. It tells about a murder from four different ?eyewitness? points of view, and the ending is ambiguous. This one became a big hit at little Art Theaters in America in the late ?50s and early ?60s. The ambiguous ending is supposed to be some kind of ?lesson? in real life, such as regarding some of the situations we might get ourselves into in life that don?t have simple and definite clear-cut endings or when we never really find out the ending to various stories we hear or experience we have in life. This film was re-made in the US as a Western titled ?The Outrage? in 1964, which is not quite as good as the original Japanese film. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
feaito Posted February 2, 2006 Share Posted February 2, 2006 Recently I saw two excellent Foreign Films: the Epic, poetic and tragic "Kagemusha" and the Very Unique "The Russian Ark", a one-of-a-kind experience, filmed in one take inside L'Hermitage, the Imperial Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg. Ah! I also watched "Nicholas and Alexandra"; excellent! I tried to watch "Ludwig II", but since the DVD is a German Release you can choose only between German and Italian (Spoken Languages/ Subtitles) and I do not speak those Languages, although Italian is easier to understand for me, being a Native Spanish Speaker. I rented "Les Enfants Du Paradis" (Children of Paradise), which I Plan to watch soon! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
feaito Posted February 2, 2006 Share Posted February 2, 2006 BTW, I saw many years ago "Cinema Paradiso" which I loved and I noticed at Blockbuster that it is available for renting the Director's Cut Version, which is one hour or more longer. Does anyone know if it's any better than the original version? Thanks for the feedback. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leobertucelli Posted February 2, 2006 Share Posted February 2, 2006 I like "A Man And A Woman' -great story & soundtrack by Claude LeLusch (sp?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FredCDobbs Posted February 2, 2006 Share Posted February 2, 2006 ?Filmed in one take...? Yikes! I?d like to see that! ?Italian is easier to understand for me, being a Native Spanish Speaker.? Did you see the recent Salute to Mexican Cinema that was aired on TCM? It was great, although I missed most of the films because they ran overnight and all in a row, and I couldn?t tape that many at once. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
feaito Posted February 2, 2006 Share Posted February 2, 2006 Sadly Fred, TCM Latin's schedule is very different from TCM-USA, so there was no such Mexican Festival being aired here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
feaito Posted February 3, 2006 Share Posted February 3, 2006 I just finished watching the Criterion DVD Edition of "Children of Paradise" and the transfer is beautifullly restored. The Film is magnificent and contains magnetic performances by Arletty, Jean-Louis Barrault, Mar?a Casares, Pierre Renoir, Pierre Brasseur et al. RECOMMENDED. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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