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I love horror movies. I've seen multiple New French Extremity films, but my favorite by far is a movie called Inside (À l'intérieur, 2007). It's incredibly tense, atmospheric, with a great soundtrack. A truly brutal movie.
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- 16 de Oct, 2017
Mongol, a very good movie that i saw a trailer for and instantly fell in love with, though that may be the history buff in me that loves anything about older times, even if they do take liberties.
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- 10 de Sep, 2019
Great movie, watched it on Youtube years ago, should give it another watch.
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- 4 de Feb, 2018
The Villainess
Ringu Trilogy (R1 R2 and RBirthday
The Handmaiden
Parasite
Babette's Feast
Elle
The Piano Teacher
A Tale of Two Sisters
Eat Drink Man Woman
Lady Snowblood
Tampopo
In the Mood for Love
Ringu Trilogy (R1 R2 and RBirthday
The Handmaiden
Parasite
Babette's Feast
Elle
The Piano Teacher
A Tale of Two Sisters
Eat Drink Man Woman
Lady Snowblood
Tampopo
In the Mood for Love
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- 25 de Mayo, 2019
Very trippy with alot of Buddhist imagery, black magic, and spooky critters.
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- 11 de Jun, 2014
Le temps du loup/The Time of the Wolf (2003, Michael Haneke), a French movie dealing with a train station survivors of an unspecified apocalypse that seems to have ravaged the cities. Trains still pass by the station without stopping but they seem to be controlled by the military and don't drop off any rations or supplies. For unspecified reasons, livestock has to be burnt, which would seem to suggest some kind of epidemic that crosses species lines, though that's just my "wild man's guess" as to what's going on and it doesn't really have any bearing on the plot beyond meat not being readily available, while farmers in the nearby village have no interest in helping the survivors in the station.
It's great if you like post-ambiguous-apocalypse movies in a similar vein to The Road.
It's great if you like post-ambiguous-apocalypse movies in a similar vein to The Road.
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- 25 de Abr, 2018
A few German picks:
Effi Briest (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1974): & Die Marquise von O (Éric Rohmer, 1976)
Two fantastic adaptations, a bold production from Fassbinder given his usual comfort zone, and beautifully shot. Rohmer's Marquise is an evasive mixture of mystery, morality and romance, as usual shot very attractively though with some budgetary limitations. Both are less accessible versions of the period drama than the formula we've become accustomed to in English productions. Rather than melodrama, or plucky feminist inserts, we're instead confronted with somewhat more authentic to the source material depictions of people trapped in their roles and coming to resolutions that (in the case of Marquise) will offend more 'sensitive' modern viewers.
The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum (Volker Schlöndorff, 1975)
A very fine example of the type of German film making of this era outside of the big three internationally-known directors. Attractively shot in rich colour, Katharina is intriguingly evasive during her strange encounter with the underworld and media hysteria. Functions fantastically as a character drama, without lapsing too much into the mechanics or process of the crime element.
Head-On (Fatih Akin, 2004)
An edgy but also sincere romantic thriller/drama set in the sub society of Turks in Germany and their homeland. I had expectations of a production derivative of Tarantino and French models, but the Romantic element is rather more deeply-felt, and its refusal to lapse into an easy resolution makes it just a great film, rather than a great genre film, despite its presentation. Despite first impressions, the lead female character eventually avoids the Wong Kar-wai pixie girl quality that I worried about after her initial scenes.
Bloody Friday (Rolf Olsen, 1972)
A wonderful piece of shit heist film. Shot surprisingly well, but acted with something between poliziotteschi style and the brutishness of exploitation fare. The lead actor is a force of nature, screaming at everyone, challenging them to fights, etc. The setups are primitive and functional, lots of nasty deaths and shoot outs, a general sense of total immorality with of course ends with a quote (this time from Napoleon) decrying the actions of people like the protagonists. It's a very rough and masculine film, a cult classic to some, though it lacks the outlandish or incompetent qualities that might be expected from that label.
The Lives of Others (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, 2006)
A very atmospheric and authentic realisation of Stasi-controlled east Germany. It focuses on a voyeuristic relationship between a playwrite and the agent assigned to bug and monitor his apartment. It has just enough melodrama to make it feel cozy without going too far, a very fine film.
Labyrinth of Lies (Giulio Ricciarelli, 2014)
An interesting concept - of the lack of knowledge of the Holocaust in 50s Germany, and also a cultural unwillingness to think about it, told through the eyes of a lawyer investigating a case. Unfortunately despite some high points (the actors, particularly the journalist friend, and the artist) it comes across as a light, televisual-style production, and while mercifully the moral righteousness of the main character is questioned, but the conflict can feel a touch contrived, and it all feels a bit humdrum. I'd still recommend it, but it's only an average film.
Knife in the Head (Reinhard Hauff, 1978 ) is next up when I get around to it, there are so many wonders hidden away in the 70s from Germany, not to mention the endless Edgar Wallace adaptations that I ought to be familiar with at least some of.
Effi Briest (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1974): & Die Marquise von O (Éric Rohmer, 1976)
Two fantastic adaptations, a bold production from Fassbinder given his usual comfort zone, and beautifully shot. Rohmer's Marquise is an evasive mixture of mystery, morality and romance, as usual shot very attractively though with some budgetary limitations. Both are less accessible versions of the period drama than the formula we've become accustomed to in English productions. Rather than melodrama, or plucky feminist inserts, we're instead confronted with somewhat more authentic to the source material depictions of people trapped in their roles and coming to resolutions that (in the case of Marquise) will offend more 'sensitive' modern viewers.
The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum (Volker Schlöndorff, 1975)
A very fine example of the type of German film making of this era outside of the big three internationally-known directors. Attractively shot in rich colour, Katharina is intriguingly evasive during her strange encounter with the underworld and media hysteria. Functions fantastically as a character drama, without lapsing too much into the mechanics or process of the crime element.
Head-On (Fatih Akin, 2004)
An edgy but also sincere romantic thriller/drama set in the sub society of Turks in Germany and their homeland. I had expectations of a production derivative of Tarantino and French models, but the Romantic element is rather more deeply-felt, and its refusal to lapse into an easy resolution makes it just a great film, rather than a great genre film, despite its presentation. Despite first impressions, the lead female character eventually avoids the Wong Kar-wai pixie girl quality that I worried about after her initial scenes.
Bloody Friday (Rolf Olsen, 1972)
A wonderful piece of shit heist film. Shot surprisingly well, but acted with something between poliziotteschi style and the brutishness of exploitation fare. The lead actor is a force of nature, screaming at everyone, challenging them to fights, etc. The setups are primitive and functional, lots of nasty deaths and shoot outs, a general sense of total immorality with of course ends with a quote (this time from Napoleon) decrying the actions of people like the protagonists. It's a very rough and masculine film, a cult classic to some, though it lacks the outlandish or incompetent qualities that might be expected from that label.
The Lives of Others (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, 2006)
A very atmospheric and authentic realisation of Stasi-controlled east Germany. It focuses on a voyeuristic relationship between a playwrite and the agent assigned to bug and monitor his apartment. It has just enough melodrama to make it feel cozy without going too far, a very fine film.
Labyrinth of Lies (Giulio Ricciarelli, 2014)
An interesting concept - of the lack of knowledge of the Holocaust in 50s Germany, and also a cultural unwillingness to think about it, told through the eyes of a lawyer investigating a case. Unfortunately despite some high points (the actors, particularly the journalist friend, and the artist) it comes across as a light, televisual-style production, and while mercifully the moral righteousness of the main character is questioned, but the conflict can feel a touch contrived, and it all feels a bit humdrum. I'd still recommend it, but it's only an average film.
Knife in the Head (Reinhard Hauff, 1978 ) is next up when I get around to it, there are so many wonders hidden away in the 70s from Germany, not to mention the endless Edgar Wallace adaptations that I ought to be familiar with at least some of.
You've probably seen it, but I suspect you'll like Martyrs, it's a more committed and well-realised version of what recent (past two decades) English language productions occasionally try for (they trade on the language and visuals of 'messed up' but are usually very tame).
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- 18 de Ene, 2019
The City of Lost Children, a french steampunk movie that I always liked for its grotesque, creative imagery. Ron Perlman plays one of the main characters. Score by Angelo Badalamenti. Pretty good special effects even though the movie was filmed in 1995
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- 25 de Jul, 2018
These are some of the greatest foreign language films I have seen recently.
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- 25 de Abr, 2018
I second the Wild Pear Tree recommendation, and anything by that director. His filmmaking somehow transcends other slow-take directors like Lav Diaz, mostly because he's an engrossing storyteller.
Travoltron
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I watched this movie called Memories of Matsuko a few months ago. It made me feel things, and no movie has done that in years. Maybe decades. While most movies I forget I ever saw the next day, I'm still thinking about that one. On the surface the movie appears obnoxiously upbeat, but it just feels like it has a nihilistic heart underneath.
Matsuko is kind of an idiot that makes some terrible life decisions, but it's terrifyingly real in the way one bad decision can cause a cascade into a downward spiral of a lifetime of failure.
Matsuko is kind of an idiot that makes some terrible life decisions, but it's terrifyingly real in the way one bad decision can cause a cascade into a downward spiral of a lifetime of failure.
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I love horror movies. I've seen multiple New French Extremity films, but my favorite by far is a movie called Inside (À l'intérieur, 2007). It's incredibly tense, atmospheric, with a great soundtrack. A truly brutal movie.
That one was pretty good. Alexkander Aja (I'm not googling how to spell his name) was a one trick pony with Haute Tension. Martyrs was fantastic.
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- 25 de Abr, 2018
I think I am beginning an Aki Kaurismäki sesh. I hadn't seen anything of his before, but watched Shadows in Paradise (1986) and Drifting Clouds (1996) and found both to be near-perfect comedy dramas in the classic sense - no jokes or sight gags, but darkly entertaining through subtle characterisation (not in any way 'black comedies'). Come to think of it, this is a very good expression of how many Finnish people I have known behave. Each had a tastefully-judged vision of marginalised people making do, but without the lazy feeling of impending doom that hovers over a lot of 'socially aware' cinema. Each film ended with some optimism, and despite sensing a little of Fassbinder's practical theatrical minimalism to the style, both were much less hysterical in delivering their message.
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- 30 de Sep, 2018
Girlhood (no relation to Boyhood)
It's a French LGBT film about black teenage women growing up in a rough neighbourhood. I love the bond these characters have with each other and the actresses make it so believable that I really felt for them.
Another one from the same Director (who actually just wrote the script for the film) called My Life as a Zucchini, which is based on the book of the same name, about Emotionally Abused children living in a foster home, and hands down this is my favourite film of this decade. It's animated in Stop Motion and the way the characters look evokes a child like innocence to the film. It's funny, it's sad, it's also only an hour long, which is probably the films only downside.
I can't wait for Céline Sciamma's next film, Portrait of a Lady on Fire
It's a French LGBT film about black teenage women growing up in a rough neighbourhood. I love the bond these characters have with each other and the actresses make it so believable that I really felt for them.
Another one from the same Director (who actually just wrote the script for the film) called My Life as a Zucchini, which is based on the book of the same name, about Emotionally Abused children living in a foster home, and hands down this is my favourite film of this decade. It's animated in Stop Motion and the way the characters look evokes a child like innocence to the film. It's funny, it's sad, it's also only an hour long, which is probably the films only downside.
I can't wait for Céline Sciamma's next film, Portrait of a Lady on Fire
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- 19 de Oct, 2019
The opening Santa scene is fun:
I remember seeing that sometime after watching Alien: Resurrection and boggling at how the two movies share much of the same cast.
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- 4 de Feb, 2018
Parasite anyone?
I hope it wins tho the Academy will pull some BS category fraud
I hope it wins tho the Academy will pull some BS category fraud
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- 25 de Mayo, 2019
Subtitles are like a normie/boomer filter. If you have an IQ above room temperature you don't even realize you're reading anymore about 5 minutes into the movie.
Also not a movie but I highly recommend the Three Kingdoms 2010 series. It's like Chinese GOT but better.
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- 12 de Nov, 2018
City Of Life & Death 2009 directed by Lu Chuan.
The film is set during the Sino-Japanese War with the Japanese takeover of the Chinese capital of Nanking, and the subsequent violence referred to as the "Rape of Nanjing." And something that the Japanese government refuses to acknowledge in their textbooks or as part of their war time history.
I love Chinese cinema, outside of the usual domestic fare that they feed people or the wire fu films there are some exceptionally good films that come out of the Chinese film market. However where they tend to fall flat is on historical drama's. The ever present danger of the censors board means that amendments and ultimately films that cast the war time Communist party in the greatest light, tend to get an easier time from the establishment and so films done on the subject of the "Rape of Nanking" are usually highly propagandist as a result.
This film however should be used as a benchmark for cinematic excellence. It is neither sympathetic or damning of the actions of the Japanese, they instead by their behaviour and actions are more than enough. The story is compelling as it is heart rending.
Well worth a watch, if you like WW2 era films. 9/10.
The film is set during the Sino-Japanese War with the Japanese takeover of the Chinese capital of Nanking, and the subsequent violence referred to as the "Rape of Nanjing." And something that the Japanese government refuses to acknowledge in their textbooks or as part of their war time history.
I love Chinese cinema, outside of the usual domestic fare that they feed people or the wire fu films there are some exceptionally good films that come out of the Chinese film market. However where they tend to fall flat is on historical drama's. The ever present danger of the censors board means that amendments and ultimately films that cast the war time Communist party in the greatest light, tend to get an easier time from the establishment and so films done on the subject of the "Rape of Nanking" are usually highly propagandist as a result.
This film however should be used as a benchmark for cinematic excellence. It is neither sympathetic or damning of the actions of the Japanese, they instead by their behaviour and actions are more than enough. The story is compelling as it is heart rending.
Well worth a watch, if you like WW2 era films. 9/10.
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- 3 de Feb, 2013
I have to recommend Il Postino/ The Postman (1994).
Beautiful music, beautiful scenery, and an interesting plot (a Procida postman delivers mail to Pablo Neruda and learns to love poetry).
Sadly, it was star and co-writer Massimo Troisi's final film (he died a day after filming was finished).
Beautiful music, beautiful scenery, and an interesting plot (a Procida postman delivers mail to Pablo Neruda and learns to love poetry).
Sadly, it was star and co-writer Massimo Troisi's final film (he died a day after filming was finished).
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- 25 de Dic, 2015
La Haine - French movie from the 90s. It follows three teenagers for 24 hours, which sounds boring as fuck but the 24 hours includes the aftermath of a race riot, one of the guys having a cop's gun, a mental jewish dude in a public toilet, and a gang of skinheads. The fucking ending killed me.
Ucho is a black and white Czech film from 1970, following a guy who is a communist party functionary but having second thoughts. Him and his wife spend the evening at a grand shindig courtesy of The Party, and said guy spends it all in schizophrenic horror, fearing his questioning of communism has been found out. When they arrive home they find their house has been carefully searched, there are bugs all over it, and people watching from outside. Questioning dude is by now absolutely shitting it, convinced that by morning he's going to get thrown in jail (or worse). Again, it sounds boring, but the film is really fucking brutal with the claustrophobia, watching this couple drive themselves utterly nuts as they spend the night going through every reason why they're going to get lynched by The Party come 8am, and how. The punchline at the end may need a bit of knowledge of how the commie system worked for it to make sense, but it's perfect. I think the film was banned in Czechoslovakia when it was first made?
Замри, Умри, Воскресни - A black and white film from 1990, Russia. I don't have fucking words for this film, it's ugly and brutal in its reality, and left me feeling really uncomfortable. The shit the little kid sees is horrific, and there's a really disturbing scene where a woman goes batshit insane finding out about the death of a family member. It's sometimes difficult to get hold of the film with English subtitles - try searching for either "Don't Move, Die And Rise Again", or "Freeze, Die, Come To Life". And have a stiff drink to hand.
Ucho is a black and white Czech film from 1970, following a guy who is a communist party functionary but having second thoughts. Him and his wife spend the evening at a grand shindig courtesy of The Party, and said guy spends it all in schizophrenic horror, fearing his questioning of communism has been found out. When they arrive home they find their house has been carefully searched, there are bugs all over it, and people watching from outside. Questioning dude is by now absolutely shitting it, convinced that by morning he's going to get thrown in jail (or worse). Again, it sounds boring, but the film is really fucking brutal with the claustrophobia, watching this couple drive themselves utterly nuts as they spend the night going through every reason why they're going to get lynched by The Party come 8am, and how. The punchline at the end may need a bit of knowledge of how the commie system worked for it to make sense, but it's perfect. I think the film was banned in Czechoslovakia when it was first made?
Замри, Умри, Воскресни - A black and white film from 1990, Russia. I don't have fucking words for this film, it's ugly and brutal in its reality, and left me feeling really uncomfortable. The shit the little kid sees is horrific, and there's a really disturbing scene where a woman goes batshit insane finding out about the death of a family member. It's sometimes difficult to get hold of the film with English subtitles - try searching for either "Don't Move, Die And Rise Again", or "Freeze, Die, Come To Life". And have a stiff drink to hand.