Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, British, 1962
Godzilla, Japanese 1954. Started the whole genre
Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, British, 1962
Godzilla, Japanese 1954. Started the whole genre
Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo Italian (1966)
aka The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is the top ranked foreign film of all-time on IMDb's top 250 films. Ranks #9. Seven Samurai is the next highest ranked foreign film at #19.
With Shawshank Redemption as #1 and Dark Knight as #3 I wouldn't put too much stock in the IMDB' s list of greatest films.
Coach wrote:
With Shawshank Redemption as #1 and Dark Knight as #3 I wouldn't put too much stock in the IMDB' s list of greatest films.
I would ZERO stock in your opinion.
Roger Ebert called the film Coach panned as a Masterpiece, as did Quentin Tarantino, and many others.
Perhaps it is the subtly foreign flavor of the spaghetti trilogy, and especially the masterpiece "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly,"...
http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-1968
More:
50 Reasons Why The Good, The Bad and The Ugly Might Just Be The Greatest Film of all Time
Quentin Tarantino, who has called this 'the best-directed film of all time"
I'm not panning the films, it's just a list of what people on the internet want to watch. Shawshank is not a critically acclaimed top 5 film, neither is any Batman film.
Coach wrote:
I'm not panning the films, it's just a list of what people on the internet want to watch. Shawshank is not a critically acclaimed top 5 film, neither is any Batman film.
You are confused about the difference between what critics like, and what people like. This thread is about personal favorite foreign films. They could be films that half of the critics hated, half of the people hated, but YOU thought was well made.
I grew up on eastwood's westerns, still love them and his more recent films- million dollar baby, bridges of Madison county, flags of our fathers.
Look at the list and see if you agree with its list.
Under a different name I posted: The City of God, North Face, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, and Snatch. I would also include The Good, the Bad and the Ugly as a favorite, AND a lot of other films listed by others, most any film by Akira Kurosawa, and even a few mentioned by you.
Under a different name I posted: The City of God, North Face, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, and Snatch. I would also include The Good, the Bad and the Ugly as a favorite, AND a lot of other films listed by others, most any film by Akira Kurosawa, and even a few mentioned by you.
Snob (in the thread a title) and internet masses usually aren't synonymous.
The thread started out with people throwing out films from totally different genres and it's great to revisit past great films and learn of some that one hasn't seen.
My favorite foreign films happen to be Cinema Paradiso and Il Postino
Coach wrote:
Snob (in the thread a title) and internet masses usually aren't synonymous.
Everyone is a snob in terms of what they like and what they do not. It is possible, believe it or not, for many snobs to agree on something they like, such as The Good, the Bad and the Ugly which much to your snobbiness is critically acclaimed by film critics, top directors, movie buffs (snobs), and the masses.
Now go find and watch the 2:42 minute version of the The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.
Not dismissing the film just the imdb list as a guide if it's going to be used for great film. It's a list of what people watch not a ranking of films. To state this film is #9 or anything on a list just tells us what people watch on the internet, nothing else.
Coach wrote:
Not dismissing the film just the imdb list as a guide if it's going to be used for great film.
You still do not understand what this thread is about. It is not about you and your opinion about what other people like.
Understood, but tell that to the poster eastwood
No props for Italian great director Lina Wurtmuller or Nazi filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl you sexist pigs?
Screech, no response to the Danny Dey Louis addition?
'Swept Away' by Lina Wurtmiller was one of the first foreign movies I saw. I thought it was great and that Giancarlo Giannini was hilarious.
Also I started this thread for people with 'fairly' sophisticated taste.
On another thread (someone's top ten movies of all time) a few of us started throwing out some really great movies (not Top Gun, Starship Troopers, Mad Max, Star Wars etc.) and someone posted that us art cinema SNOBS should depart. That's why I titled the thread "For movie SNOBS only-Favorite foreign flicks."
I must admit to being somewhat of a lightweight after seeing some of the movies some of you have come up with.
I have jotted down a few of them to watch.
And a final word to Bad Wiggins: "I am not a snob, I am a human being!"
Das Boot