Foreign Films

[themostepotente]

A few weeks ago, charlotteschaos and I were discussing our love of foreign films. Here are mine in no particular order.

1.) Raise the Red Lantern (Chinese) Directed by Zhang Yimou

My love for Gong Li knows no limits.

2.) Fairwell My Concubine (Chinese) Directed by Kaige Chen

3.) Seven Samurai (Japanese) Directed by Akira Kurosawa

4.) La Femme Nikita (French) Directed by Luc Besson

5.) A Better Tomorrow (Chinese) Directed by John Woo

Before JW got all shitty and Hollywood :P

6.) Pan's Labyrinth (Spanish) Directed by Guillermo del Toro

7.) Ichi the Killer (Japanese) Directed by Takashi Miike

All kinds of fucked up.

8.) Au Revoir, Les Enfants (French) Directed by Louis Malles

9.) Le Pacte des Loups (French) Directed by Christophe Gans

10.) Delicatessan (French) Directed by Marc Caro

Ponds, this movie is right up your twisted alley. *G*

Okay, so I know I'm missing A LOT. Ang Lee's stuff is definitely good. And there's House of Flying Daggers and CTHD and yeah... *sighs*

So what foreign movies does everyone else love? Feel free to suggest movies and bash my tastes. What the hell, y'know? *G*

--P

Comments

[perverse-idyll.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes, oodles of love for Farewell, My Concubine and Seven Samurai. I'd say, for my part, to take Kurosawa and Bergman as givens, though I did end up detesting Bergman's Shame. I've never seen a Kurosawa I disliked. Other films I love to varying degrees, some touched with greatness and some not:

1. Les Enfants du Paradis (French, no kidding) Directed by Jacques Prevert

2. Celine and Julie Go Boating (French) Directed by Jacques Rivette

3. King of Masks (Chinese) Directed by Tian-Ming Wu

4. Daisies (Czech) Directed by Vera Chytilová

5. My Twentieth Century (Hungarian) Directed by Ildikó Enyedi

6. Antonia's aka Antonia's Line (Dutch) Directed by Marleen Gorris

7. Various Fellini films, almost all black & white, such as La Strada, Nights of Cabiria, 8 1/2

8. Zazie dans le Metro (French) Directed by Louis Malle

9. Onibaba (Japanese) Directed by Kaneto Shindô

10. Black Orpheus (Brazilian) Directed by Marcel Camus, which reminds me of another:

11. Orphée (French) Directed by Jean Cocteau (actually I could list multiple Cocteau films)

12. The Rules of the Game (French) Directed by Jean Renoir

I'm sure I must be forgetting some obvious favorites. And I'm astonished that this list is so heavily weighted toward the French. But that's only because I refrained from listing all those Bergman and Kurosawa flicks.

Scanning everybody else's posts and busily taking notes . . .

[themostepotente.livejournal.com]

Just when I think you can't possibly get any cooler, you go and name Jean Cocteau. Les Enfants Terribles?