02-10-2004 16:56									#31
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Speaking of Germany, Ted, given your affection for German pop culture you might want to see Goodbye Lenin. The premise is pretty original - an East German woman strongly devoted to the socialist party and state falls into a coma and wakes up after the collapse of the state. Being told by doctors that the slightest emotional stress could have dire consequences for his dear mother, our young hero has to pretend for her sake that East Germany is still up and running.

I have to say it's far from being as good as my first suggestions - it's probably even mediocre, actually - but it's light material that you might want to see anyway, especially if you're aiming to expand your horizon with regards to what's popular elsewhere (the Germans apparently loved this movie, but then it's their story after all).

Besides, chances are you haven't been spoon-fed with as many East meets West clichés as us Europeans.

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	02-10-2004 17:24									#32
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Shall We Dance? (Japan) Currently being remade by Hollywood with Richard Gere, who undoubtedly will butcher it. See the original!

	02-10-2004 17:26									#33
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Hey Monkspider, did you know that Clockwork Orange was filmed in Thamesmead, which is about 4 or 5 miles from here (the awful concrete jungle )

	02-10-2004 19:18									#34
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Kopps - A really funny Swedish comedy. The police department in a small Swedish town is about to be shut down since there isn't any crime. To save their jobs, they decide to create a little crime themselves.

And now for a bunch of Japanese movies... I'll let IMDb do the talking:
The Twilight Samurai
Spirited Away
Unagi

Hana-bi
Kikujiro no natsu
Dolls
Zatôichi

These last 4 are by Takeshi Kitano... They're the only ones I've seen by him, but they're all among my all-time favourite movies.

	02-10-2004 19:24									#35
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Haven't seen Kopps, but Josef Fares's previous film Jalla Jalla was good fun. It was probably one of the warmest, most sympathetic comedies I've ever seen, a total feel-good flick despite being rather shoddily made.

	02-10-2004 19:31									#36
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Lola Rennt!

	02-10-2004 21:55									#37
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Fanny and Alexander

Beau Travail

Kwaidan

Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

Les Diaboliques

Roma, Citta Aperta

The Vanishing (European version, natch)

Utu

Salaam, Bombay

Picnic at Hanging Rock

Mephisto

Fear Eats the Soul

City of Lost Children

Death in a French Garden

Went the Day Well?

A World Apart

Cronos

Pixote

Jesus of Montreal

	02-10-2004 22:11									#38
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Have you seen Dogville?

	02-10-2004 22:56									#39
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y tu mama tambien

is a great mexican film

	03-10-2004 00:14									#40
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quote: Originally posted by Provost Harrison Hey Monkspider, did you know that Clockwork Orange was filmed in Thamesmead, which is about 4 or 5 miles from here (the awful concrete jungle )

Wow, no kidding? That's very cool. Next time you're there, give a shout-out to my fellow droogs.

	03-10-2004 00:39									#41
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y tu mama tambien is pretty good..
La Haine (french)
umh.. there are LOT of films out here that are good . I can't even start listing.

Also Marc Dorcell has interesting films.

	03-10-2004 00:52									#42
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France: Taxi, Taxi 2 & Taxi 3.

(You kind of have to like cars to enjoy them)

	03-10-2004 00:52									#43
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What's with this interest in foreign stuff, Ted? The only types of film they like in Eurocom Land is gay porn and films of beheadings.

	03-10-2004 01:11									#44
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Ireland

Intermission (starring Colin Farrell as a Dublin scumbag)
I Went Down
The Commitments
The Snapper

	03-10-2004 01:53									#45
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Thanks for the info everybody.

Some of them are unavaliable, including Oldboy, but I'll track them all down!

	03-10-2004 02:08									#46
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The Vanishing (original Dutch version, American version is shit). http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096163/

Man Bites Dog. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103905/

The Devil's Backbone. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0256009/

Tampopo. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092048/

Uzumaki (really weird). http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0244870/

	03-10-2004 03:18									#47
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quote: I hope you haven't caught Stephen Soderbergh's remake of Tarkovsky's Solaris, because it's crap and will probably spoil the original for you. The original is the Soviet answer to 2001 and in my opinion a much greater film, well worth getting hold of if you like atmosphere.

Its not a remake of Tarkovsky's movie (unfortunately, I haven't seen it yet ), its a new adaptation of Lem's book. Maybe it's crap compared to Tarkovsky's movie, but if you're not comparing it, its decent. The photography, in particular, is very nice.

	03-10-2004 03:20									#48
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quote: Originally posted by Pekka y tu mama tambien is pretty good..

Ted won't like the ending...

	03-10-2004 03:27									#49
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quote: Originally posted by Shi Huangdi What's with this interest in foreign stuff, Ted? The only types of film they like in Eurocom Land is gay porn and films of beheadings.

Oh, come on, man.

	03-10-2004 03:28									#50
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quote: Originally posted by Mercator Kopps - A really funny Swedish comedy. The police department in a small Swedish town is about to be shut down since there isn't any crime. To save their jobs, they decide to create a little crime themselves.

I can't see that being an American movie.

	03-10-2004 03:28									#51
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quote: Originally posted by Ted Striker Thanks for the info everybody. Some of them are unavaliable, including Oldboy, but I'll track them all down!

Do keep us informed when you eventually explore some of those movies.

Ted Striker

	03-10-2004 03:31									#52
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I saw Ichi the Killer last night. If you're into gore, it's for you!

	03-10-2004 03:48									#53
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If you like City of God you should also look into other spanish movies. I think the spanish cinema has some real great stuff.

In fact I am just comming from the newest Almodóvar which is called La mala educacion. It's pretty good!!
The rest of the Almodovar films I can recommend as well. Habla con ella (Talk to her) or Todo sobre mi madre (All about my mother).
Then there is Y tu mama tambien which is pretty good as well. It's a mexican road movie.
Another one is Lucía y el sexo. Real good one. I hope you don't get the censored version, because in some scenes you see a dick and censoring it would be stupid.

For some german war movie classics there is:
Das Boot
Cross of Iron (Steiner - das eiserne Kreuz)

An awesome french movie:
Amelie

Good austrian movie (though you probably don't understand the joke):
Poppitz

A very very heavy belgian movie. Takes really strong nerves to sit through, but is somewhat of a must see.
Man bites dog

Excellent italian one:
La vita è bella (Life is beautiful) by Roberto Benigni

A recent good german one, during the times when the berlin wall fell:
Herr Lehmann

	03-10-2004 04:11									#54
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[ http://koreanfilm.org ]

has lots of good ones.
my sassy girl (korea)
romantic comedy.

friend (chingu) (korea)
follows some friends over time. about gangsters.

memories of murder (korea)
amazing drama. set in the 80s, follows cops trying to find a serial murder/rapist. it's ****in' amazing.

untold scandal (korea)
dangerous liasons, shifted into 19th century korea.

my beautiful girl, mari (korea)
distinctive korean animation, blends cg and hand drawn well.

volcano high (korea)
kung-fu hogwarts. recently dubbed and on mtv

peppermint candy (korea)
see it.

joint security area (korea)
about the dmz, some nkoreans and skoreans being friends... through the dmz, and how it all goes wrong.

one fine spring day (korea)
how a relationship falls apart.

tampopo (japan)
the quest for the perfect ramen stand, among other things.

afterlife (japan)
it's about a waiting room, before you go on to eternity taking just one memory with you.

lola rennt (germany)

	03-10-2004 04:39									#55
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Thanks again.

I just copied and pasted all of your guys' suggestions, and I would estimate that about 70% of the movies were available.

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This is what my queue looks like! I have about 4 more pages!

This should be enough movies to last for a year!


WORD UP!

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	03-10-2004 04:59									#57
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yeah, from what i know of netflix, they have a lousy korean movie section.

	03-10-2004 05:04									#58
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quote: Originally posted by Oncle Boris Have you seen Dogville?

Tu devrais peut-être jeter un coup d'oeil à tes messages privés.

	03-10-2004 05:04									#59
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Yeah, they have a section for each type of foreign film (Italian, French, Indian, etc.) but there was no separate section for Korean, there is just an "other asian" section.

	03-10-2004 05:07									#60
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I've seen Run Lola Run. It was... interesting