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[swetepete]

Survive Style 5+...best Vinnie Jones Japanese movie EVER.

[gyopogirlfromtexas]

Cinema Paradiso
Jean de Florette
Manon des Sources
Ponette(5 yr old loses her mom to a car accident and prays to God to bring her back. It's really a tearjerker.)

[Chillin' Villain]

I'm not much of a movie guy, but the first foreign film I ever saw and liked was Run Lola Run (already mentioned by another poster). Tom Tykwer (Germany) directed it, and although he also directed the ass-fest that was Perfume, I wouldn't hold that against him.

Lola's not loved by everyone, though. Some found it kind of simple and repetitive, I heard.

OH, and Ichi the Killer is just SICK. (ie: awesome)

[swetepete]

Seen a couple more lately...
..."Lives of Others," about stazi cops in the DDR in the 80's,
and "the Twilight Samurai," an unusually samurai movie set in the mid 1800's.

[Woland]

I was away when this thread first ran.

Stunning that jinju and I should have the same taste in movies - Kieslowski was a genius. The Double Life of Veronique is my favorite film of all time.

How about a couple Turkish films:

Uzak (Distant) - about a rural man moving in with his cousin in Istanbul; the actor who played the country cousin died in a car accident shortly before or after taking the top acting prize at Cannes for this film

Buyuk Adam, Kucuk Ask (Big Man, Small Love) - an allegory about relations between Turks and Kurds in the tale of a Turkish judge who shelters a little Kurdish girl after her parents are killed in a police raid.

[happeningthang]

[venus]

Breathless.

In the mood for love and 2046.

Dolls.

The last life in the universe.

The consequences of love.

La Strada.

Anni Hall. (It's American and I'm English, so why the f^ck not?)

[dncinartist]

In The Mood for Love(Tony Leung is an amazing actor)
Chungking Express
La Cit� des enfants perdus
Daremo Shiranai
Spirited Away

never saw it myself but also heard Lady Vengeance was really good

[Yes]

[cosmicgirlie]

Anything with my hot hot Gael Garcia Bernal.....my favorite being Y Tu Mama Tambien

Other foreign films--

Amelie
The Hanging Garden
THe Piano
Run Lola Run
Vertical Ray of the Sun
Lock, Stock and Two smoking Barrels
Zhou Yanb Train
Nobody Knows
Garandiru
Bossa Nova
Get Real
and then some documentaries that showcase international issues like
Born into Brothels
War Dance--which is a must see when it does become available
Strawberry fields--yet another must see when it becomes available
and
anything by Herzog(sp?)

[alinkorea]

1. The Battle of Algiers
2. The Hate

Both genius

[pdx]

I don't really watch foreign films, but I loved Schultze Gets the Blues

[VanIslander]

My Blueberry Nights might star Jude Law, Natalie Portman, Rachel Weisz and singer Norah Jones and is filmed in New York, Memphis and Nevada but it has more of a foreign film feel than indie film feel: definitely not mainstream Hollywood.

Call it a foreigner's perspective on contemporary American relationships.

Cannes award-winning director and writer Kar Wai Wong has woven together three annoyingly relevant stories of distraught, wandering women and the tortured men who wait for their return. It's an indictment infused with a love story. Or the other way around. The more you think about the premise and parallel development of the stories, the more bothersome it becomes, very much like the surgically precise premise of Alejandro Gonz�lez I��rritu's 2006 sensation, Babel.

Nice to see some films in their very essence blur the boundary of what constitutes the meat and bones of a foreign film. And how they can have such a clear, ideological basis and point, yet not have that framework put in a heavyhanded way, shown instead of stated.

Of course, neither of the aforementioned films are foreign films per se, and I do have plenty of foreign films, and have seen tons more, especially at film festivals in Toronto, Montreal, Busan and Jeonju, but as of today, this is what's on my mind.

[Gopher]

A lot of very good Russian film out there. Check out Burnt by the Sun, probably my favorite of them all.

[Dome Vans]

*Vodka Lemon - Armenian film

*Tillsammans (Together) - Swedish film

*Das Leben der Anderen (The lives of others) - German Film

*Amelie - Of course

*Un long dimanche de fian�ailles (A Very Long engagement) - Another Audrey Tautou one

*Cidade de Deus (City of God) - Unreal Brazilian film. Really really amazing.

When I lived in Sweden the local DVD shop had a very obscure foreign section so on friday's I would go along and hire out whatever took my fancy. Some of them I would fall asleep during (sorry Motorcycle Diaries!) and others were well worth stying awake for)