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You need to watch Indochine and Amelie. And Run Lola Run. The Shrike Send a noteboard - 29/09/2009 03:04:15 PM
I suppose 'foreign', on a site as multi-national as this, can have many different meanings, generally I am referring to 'non-hollywood', or perhaps 'non-english', but answer how you wish.


It is a bit disturbing that when reading "foreign movies" I did, unprompted, think "non-English" immediately. And I'm Norwegian. *sigh* They might make me hand in my passport any day now unless I start behaving.

Do you enjoy watching foreign movies? Animated or live-action?


I do. Either. I watch much more live-action, though.

What are your all time favorites?


Tricky.
Let me think. Should I sort it according to langauge?

FRENCH
Cité des enfants perdus
Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain
Un homme et une femme

SPANISH
El Laberinto del Fauno
Hable Con Ella

GERMAN
Goodbye Lenin!

SWEDISH
Fucking Åmål
Tillsammans

NORWEGIAN
Jakten på nyresteinen
Himmelfall

ITALIAN
La Vita e Bella
La tigre e la neve
Il Postino
Cinema Paradiso

CHINESE
House of Flying Daggers (????)
Hero (??)
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (????)
Kung Fu Hustle (??)

JAPANESE
Spirited Away (????????)
Zatoichi (???) -- the one with Takeshi Kitano
When the Last Sword is Drawn (?????)
Seven Samurai (????)

CZECH
Kolya
T?i o?íšky pro Popelku (Three nuts for Cinderella, roughly translated)

I am sure I have forgotten something important.

Which cultures (nations) films do you find yourself most interested in?


Um. That varies greatly.

Do you prefer dubs over original language, in live-action and/or animated?


No. I hate dubbing. There are exceptions (for some reason, I don't mind so much when it is Disney dubbed to Norwegian; but it upsets me when Japanese is made English; and the one great exception is one of the Czech films mentioned above, which is always dubbed to Norwegian (by one man, at that). I suspect it is a matter of having grown up with the very occasional dubbing of what is aimed at children too young to read (ie. Disney and Cinderella). The very odd dubbing of the latter is also somehow a redeeming quality. But I tend to react very ... adversely to dubbing of live action. I remember being subjected to Beverly Hills 90210 dubbed to Italian, once. It was bad.

How did you find yourself becoming interested in foreign films, (i.e. Audrey Tautou obsession, Asian horror obsession, general interest in foreign culture)?


Being "foreign" it kind of came naturally. Because we grow up with subtitles as part of daily life, the transition to Japanese isn't that great.

What 'hyped' foreign film has let you down upon viewing it (if any)?


I'm not sure. I tend to be very selective in what I watch (having checked with others whether there is a consensus that it is in fact good). I remember being taken aback by Hero not being what I expected, but then it grew on me later.

How do you feel about remakes, are there any that have been pulled off successfully?


I don't like them. There is the atrocity of State of Play being remade these days. I want to hurt someone. When you have an English language brilliant thing with Bill Nighy, John Simm and a bunch of other excellent people, you don't REMAKE it into an American version with Russel Crowe. It is just wrong. Bad. Morally unhelpful.

That's all .


Ok.
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You need to watch Indochine and Amelie. And Run Lola Run. The Shrike - 29/09/2009 03:04:15 PM 471 Views
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