foreign movies (2 Viewers)

[miss_salty]

Does anyone watch foreign movies in here (especially French, Italian, German etc)? I never really like the SBS channel but after normal movies and im too lazy to get off the couch, I switch to it.

I find foreign films fascinating - they have a maturity and subtlety with their odd humour and charm. Admittedly there are a lot of silences (which consttitue boredom for many) but the dialogue is always interesting.

I don't really know any titles seeing that i only switch to it half-way through but i loved Amelie. that's all i can remember.

 

[malkin86]

You shoulda seen "Sexy Boys" on SBS last week.. the French American Pie. w00t for sophistication. "Je me branle et j'aime ca!"

Oh, and the Baby Cart series of movies from Japan is so cool.. it's about this widower samurai with a toddler and how they go around kicking arse, and the baby cart (like a samurai-age pram) has more gadgets than James Bond. :uhhuh:

 

[waterfowl]

I like watching German films because it is good practice in German listening (the subtitles are distracting though). I also sometimes watch French films.

 

[miss_salty]

Oh, and the Baby Cart series of movies from Japan is so cool.. it's about this widower samurai with a toddler and how they go around kicking arse, and the baby cart (like a samurai-age pram) has more gadgets than James Bond. :uhhuh:

Is that 'lone cub and wolf" (or something like that) coz that show is freaken weird and funny. But i like it. I think in one episode this guy had his neck sliced open and he was speaking poetically how the sound of the wind from his slit throat was beautiful or something. lol talk about a poetic death.

 

[phantom limb]

You shoulda seen "Sexy Boys" on SBS last week.. the French American Pie. w00t for sophistication. "Je me branle et j'aime ca!"

i love that movie!

 

[jumb]

I wish I knew french.

Whats the best way to learn?

 

[tommywatts]

yeah weird but very interesting. Though it was boring, I was compelled to watch a man scrubbing his plate at the sink for 10mins. a lot of people don't like the long silences in foreign films since they are conditioned to like Hollywood ones with bangs and explosion.

but hey, I like French films - the french always have a maturity and sophisication as well as a lot of erotica. :uhhuh:

 

[waterfowl]

I wish I knew french.

Whats the best way to learn?

I think going to a French speaking country, staying with a family that doesn't speak much English and doing a language course there would be best.

 

[jumb]

The french scare me.

Isnt there some better country thats french speaking?

 

[waterfowl]

The french scare me.

Isnt there some better country thats french speaking?

Canada, New Caledonia, French Polynesia, Haiti, Switzerland (Half), Monaco.
Some parts of Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia
And quite a few African countries

 

[jumb]

Canada! That's (probably) the one I was (maybe) thinking of.

 

[chepas]

Canada! That's (probably) the one I was (maybe) thinking of.

YAY Canada! Vive le Québec (libre)!

Us French folk have a thread, albeit with a rather French-film focus http://www.boredofstudies.org/community/showthread.php?t=39893, but also for those Sunday Showcase SBS movies.

Sexy Boys was funny. .

I remember there was this Czech movie a while back whose name I've sadly forgotten, but it was just so heartwarming and nice.

But nothing can go past a good French farce.... The Closet, the Dinner Game, all those kind of standards...

 

[steph@nie]

You shoulda seen "Sexy Boys" on SBS last week.. the French American Pie. w00t for sophistication. "Je me branle et j'aime ca!"

Oh, and the Baby Cart series of movies from Japan is so cool.. it's about this widower samurai with a toddler and how they go around kicking arse, and the baby cart (like a samurai-age pram) has more gadgets than James Bond. :uhhuh:

Omg. I fucking missed it and I was so wanting to see it.

I was hoping someone would say it was crap so that I wouldn't get bummed.

 

[chepas]

I taped it, but the frigging tape ran out 20 minutes from the end and in my frantic rush to find another tape, I come to realise a week later I taped over part of my Extension Fr. film. Shite... but anyway. Have the DVD lol....

I can't find a copy of Sexy Boys anywhere in Aust. Dang... The tape finished just at the scene where the guy was fiddling with the vibrator in the bathroom.

 

[Sasky]

i love foreign films... french ones are great. But havent seen one at the movies for awhile. Last one i saw was tais toi (I tried to put bais toi on my jersey but got busted) but wanted to see the triplets of belleville. Anyone got to see it?
Also wish i could go to uni to start a foreign film screening night. that'd be cool. Yeah, i'd think going and living in a french-speaking country would be great. If u dont like the french perhaps cananda - that'd be kewl. I want to learn spanish cause je suis est parle francais (a little anyway)...

 

[belly_moo]

bais tois ?what does that mean?


the last time i saw a foreign film was at the Dendy in newtown. it was this japanese samurai film called Zatoichi - really really good

 

[Silverstone]

Omg. I fucking missed it and I was so wanting to see it.

I was hoping someone would say it was crap so that I wouldn't get bummed.

If youre talking about sexy boys, i saw it on World Movies - and its just crap as. They use spaghetti instead of a Pie, and thats it. You didnt miss much.

 

[olay]

bais tois ?what does that mean?


the last time i saw a foreign film was at the Dendy in newtown. it was this japanese samurai film called Zatoichi - really really good

tais tois = 'shut up' in french.

last one i saw at the cinemas was barbarian invasions. and on dvd was hmm... goodbye lenin i think [that was a bit dodgy i thought]. i have a thing for foreign films too i think the appeal lies in the images + language cos it's exotic in comparison to our immediate environments.

and my FAVE film ever [well, top 2] is la vita e bella

 

[tabularasa]

There are so many foreign film i want to see but my megaplex near me doesn't play any of them. I 've seen Amelie and crouching tiger hidden dragon loved them both. Want to see Hero and goodbye lenin and the weeping camel

 

[mack]

I enjoy foreign films as well, as they often go places Hollywood movies never would. I recently watched "Irreversible" and what I saw in that stayed with me for weeks. Powerful, brutal film indeed.