The first half of La vita è bella
بچههای آسمان aka Children of Heaven
Ladri Di Biciclette
El Mariachi
بچههای آسمان aka Children of Heaven
Ladri Di Biciclette
El Mariachi
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Per DDD's recommendation, we watched Y tu mamá también with the kids and loved it.What's to explain? It's a bunch of people, most of whom you've never met, who are just as likely to be homicidal maniacs as they are to be normal everyday people, with whom you share the minutiae of your everyday life. It's totally normal, and everyone would understand.
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This is on the movie channels this month I need to search for it and record so I can enjoy too!Originally posted by marsupial View PostI am a philosophical Goldilocks, always looking for something neither too big nor too small, neither too hot nor too cold, something jussssst right. I'll send you a card from purgatory. - PAC
You know how President Hinckley said he doesn't worry about those who pray? The same can be said for men who are self-aware enough to know when there's a life to be lived outside of the world of video games. - AnonymousComment
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Life is Beautiful was a good one. I remember I watched "Umbrellas of Cherbourg" and was bored out of my mind. Of course, I don't love musicals anyways, so a French Musical was bad enough.
I'm interested in watching some of these other movies though.Comment
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Y tu Mamá También may very well be my favorite foreign language film. It has several scenes of fairly explicit sex and sexuality, so the 'watched it with the kids' comment is probably a joke (Gidget, if you and Surfah haven't seen it, I bet you would like it).Originally posted by marsupial View PostComment
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Umbrellas of Cherbourg has a young and very attractive Catherine Deneuve and is a very French tale. If you like French literature or culutre, you will like this film.
I thought it was a real tear jerker.
PLesa excuse the tpyos.Comment
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We pretty much like all rated-R movies, especially one's with explicit sex and sexuality.Originally posted by RobinFinderson View PostI am a philosophical Goldilocks, always looking for something neither too big nor too small, neither too hot nor too cold, something jussssst right. I'll send you a card from purgatory. - PAC
You know how President Hinckley said he doesn't worry about those who pray? The same can be said for men who are self-aware enough to know when there's a life to be lived outside of the world of video games. - AnonymousComment
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Y tu Mama Tambien might be NC-17, depending on what cut you rent, but the more gratuitous sex and sexuality the better, no?Originally posted by Gidget View PostComment
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Yes of course, I will be watching it on HBO, so maybe it will be close to a NC-17 cut. Woo hoo!Originally posted by RobinFinderson View PostI am a philosophical Goldilocks, always looking for something neither too big nor too small, neither too hot nor too cold, something jussssst right. I'll send you a card from purgatory. - PAC
You know how President Hinckley said he doesn't worry about those who pray? The same can be said for men who are self-aware enough to know when there's a life to be lived outside of the world of video games. - AnonymousComment
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If you enjoyed Julio and Tenoch (who are best friends in real life, btw), you should check out Rudo Y Cursi. Just dropped at Sundance and is getting lots of good buzz. The two of them team up again, but this time they are brothers from a small banana farming town in Mexico that wind up playing professional soccer. If you liked seeing them having sex with Maribel Verdu, this movie may not be your thing.Originally posted by RobinFinderson View Post
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Looks very promising. Thanks for the heads up. No three-ways with Maribel Verdu? I'll give it a chance, but three-ways with Maribel Verdu are like cow bell... they make everything better.Originally posted by TripletDaddy View PostComment
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On a more serious note, I really liked Cabeza de Vaca.
Anyone else see this?"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance and the gospel of envy; its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery." - Winston Churchill
"I only know what I hear on the news." - Dear LeaderComment
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City of GodAs I lead this army, make room for mistakes and depression
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I'd recommend Diva, a French movie with quirky characters, lots of intrigue and some interesting plot twists. Plus I love the aria that is sung through the movie.Comment
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My favorite foreign-language film is Pedro Almodóvar's Hable con ella.
The complete absence of police in Almodóvar’s, Hable con ella, a movie that revolves around a crime, demonstrates the director’s negation of the importance of the police in modern Spain. In this film, the protagonist (Benigno) is incarcerated for raping the comatose girl he cared for in an assisted-living center. Apparently, he is the only prisoner in the facility, which does not belong to the state, but to a private company—suggesting both that Spain has progressed so much as a society after Franco that jails are largely unnecessary. Indeed, conveying the authority to discipline and punish criminals on a private enterprise succinctly states that the authority no longer resides in the hands of Francoist or fascist sympathizers.
The last vestiges of this command were removed by judge Belloch in 1995, and in 2002, the state has decided that discipline is best left to industry, which instead of costing the state money to administrate will now actually in some small way show that even those that break the law stimulate the economy. One of the two human representatives of the systems of punishment in the film is the kindly and very helpful receptionist at the visitors’ desk of the prison. The receptionist differs manichaeanistically from the pre-1997 police seen in Almodóvar: she is female, polite, understanding, and respectful—all qualities not typically associated with police in general, much less post-Franco policía. The other human representative is the apologetic prison director seen only after Benigno commits suicide and his friend Marco comes to collect his belongings. He too expresses sympathy on the death of their apparently sole inmate (though perhaps he was sad because of the lost revenues). These two figures represent the next stage in Almodóvar’s changing image of the policía. Gone are the marginalizing Francoist bigots, replaced now by capitalist discipline seeking new markets, wherever they might be.
Not withstanding the end of the abuse of judicial power in Almodóvar, a troubling thing occurs in Hable con ella: Benigno rapes Alicia. While this rape has the end result of waking her from her coma, and causing Benigno to commit suicide, the fact remains that rape still is an abuse of male power. While Benigno inspires sympathy because of his apparent love of Alicia, his care for her, the sacrifice of his masculinity by telling her father that he is gay so he can continue to care for her, and ultimately his suicide, the notion that something productive can come from a rape is a supremely masculine notion. Only male authors write of a rape that the victim enjoys. This idea is implied in Hable con ella by the fact that Alicia gets her life back because of being raped. I am troubled by this use of phallic power that implies that Alicia could only live her life by being raped. While I doubt this was the intention of the director, the interpretation is troubling because it implies that abuses of trust and power are acceptable ways of treating others if the ends justify the means, which is the legacy of fascism.
The movie is Almodóvar's best, and my favorite among the foreign-language films.
Other notable ones include:
Hombre mirando al sudeste
El hijo de la novia
Cinema Paradiso
Fitzcarraldo
Aguirre der Zorn Gottes
Das Boot
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
Most of Almodóvar
Abre los ojos
El laberinto del fauno
Central do Brasil
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgoisie
Jesus of Montreal
Plenilunio"Wuap's "problem" is that he is smart & principled & committed to a moral course of action. His actions are supposed to reflect his ethical code.
The rest of us rarely bother to think about our actions." --SolonComment
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