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

[lyras.livejournal.com]

I love La Femme Nikita and Au Revoir, Les Enfants. Unbelievably, I've never got around to seeing Delicatessen.

I'm a huge fan of Lukas Moodysson, who has directed such diverse Swedish films as Show Me Love (angsty comedy with two teenage girls exploring their feelings for one another against a backdrop of smalltown morals), Together (another angsty comedy set in a 1970s commune) and Lilja 4 Ever (jawbreakingly upsetting film about the child sex trade). I also have a thing for the Dogme films such as Festen and Italian for Beginners.

And no list of foreign films would be complete for me without Cinema Paradiso and Il Postino, both of which own my heart and very nearly my soul.

[themostepotente.livejournal.com]

You seem to have a penchant for Italian films. Have you ever seen A Beautiful Life?