NationStates Jolt Archive


Any Recommendations??

Delator
25-10-2005, 12:17
I have to watch a foreign-language movie for my mass communications class by thursday...

...any recommendations? Preferably relatively accessable.
Neu Leonstein
25-10-2005, 12:24
Ooooh, where to start....

Try "Die Blechtrommel" - A German film. That'll make a good impact for your church meeting!
Safalra
25-10-2005, 12:26
I have to watch a foreign-language movie for my mass communications class by thursday...

...any recommendations? Preferably relatively accessable.
How about Rang-e khoda - a brilliant (non-political) Iranian film? See http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0191043/ for details.
Gymoor II The Return
25-10-2005, 12:28
Kung Fu Hustle.
Fass
25-10-2005, 12:28
Hmm, in Swedish there are always "Fanny och Alexander" (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083922/) and "Viskningar och rop" (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069467/) by Ingmar Bergman. The former more accessible than the latter, but the latter is better.

Otherwise, "Le Grand Bleu," (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095250/) "Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain," (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0211915/) and "Ma vie en Rose" (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119590/) if you're into French. "Lola rennt" (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0130827/) is a nice German film.
Zagat
25-10-2005, 12:38
I have to watch a foreign-language movie for my mass communications class by thursday...

...any recommendations? Preferably relatively accessable.
'The Visitors' is good if you like funny films. It's in French.
Neu Leonstein
25-10-2005, 12:40
I guess if you can get it already on DVD, "Der Untergang" is very moving and for some people very enlightening too.
Plus the production values are huge, so there's plenty of fancy effects.
Boonytopia
25-10-2005, 12:46
Le Circle Rouge. Outstanding French film noir/gangster movie.
Delator
25-10-2005, 12:50
Cool...I ought to be able to find at least one of those at the library.

Thanks everyone! :)
Strathdonia
25-10-2005, 12:53
Go to the cinema and see Nightwatch (in russian) and excellent horror/fantasy film. The vast array of Hong Kong/chinese films would be a goldmine as would pretty much all decent anime (even if they were released dubbed in the west the DVD's often have the originals as well).
Ashmoria
25-10-2005, 13:08
go to the video store and get "house of flying daggers" on dvd. it was made in chinese and has either english subtitles or (i think) english dubbing available.
Fass
25-10-2005, 13:20
Cidade de Deus (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0317248/) (If you see one of these, see this one!)
Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0245429/)
Shichinin no samurai. (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047478/)
Mononoke-hime (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119698/)
Y tu mamá también (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0245574/)
La mala educación (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0275491/)
Vittos Ordination
25-10-2005, 13:21
À bout de souffle if you want to shoot yourself in the head. It supposed to be a great French film from 1960.

It uses jump cuts, which is pretty much the art of taking scenes and making them incomprehensible through your editing. The story centers around a James Dean "rebel without a cause" character, and it pretty much goes nowhere.
Kanabia
25-10-2005, 13:21
Godzilla.
Celestial Kingdom
25-10-2005, 13:23
"Gegen die Wand" a turkish-german movie about the situation of second generation turks and turkish women in germany
Celestial Kingdom
25-10-2005, 13:25
Or "Dänische Delikatessen" a very weird, funny danish movie