Films: To See: International Cinema
Submitted by dgeiser13 on Sat, 06/14/2003 - 04:34
- Australia ~ Walkabout (1971); Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975, Peter Weir); The Last Wave (1977, Peter Weir); The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1978, Fred Schepisi); 'Breaker' Morant (1980, Bruce Beresford); Gallipoli (1981, Peter Weir); The Year of Living Dangerously (1982, Peter Weir); Chopper (2000); The Bank (2001); Lantana (2001); Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002); Gettin' Square (2003); The Rage in Placid Lake (2003); Undead (2003); Somersault (2004); The Proposition (2005); Wolf Creek (2005, Greg Mclean); Kenny (2006); All My Friends Are Leaving Brisbane (2007); Black Water (2007); Death Defying Acts (2007); The Home Song Stories (2007); The Jammed (2007); Lucky Miles (2007); Noise (2007); Rogue (2007, Greg Mclean); Romulus, My Father (2007); Unfinished Sky (2007); Bitter & Twisted (2008); The Black Balloon (2008); Hey Hey It's Esther Blueburger (2008); The Square (2008); Balibo (2009); Beautiful Kate (2009); Blessed (2009); Cedar Boys (2009); Mao's Last Dancer (2009, Bruce Beresford); My Year Without Sex (2009); Triangle (2009, Christopher Smith)
- Canada ~ Bon Cop, Bad Cop (2006)
- France ~ The Grand Illusion (1938); Wages of Fear (1953); The Devils (1955); Night and Fog (1955); Breathless (1961); My Night at Maud's (1970); Day for Night (1973); Delicatessen (1991); Léon (1994); Amélie (2001); Brotherhood of the Wolf (2001); Trouble Every Day (2001); In My Skin (2002); Maléfique (2002); High Tension (2003); The Ordeal (2004); A Very Long Engagement (2004); Ils (2006); Sheitan (2006); Tell No One (2006); The Valet (2006, Francis Veber); Eden Log (2007); Frontière(s) (2007); Inside (2007); Martyrs (2008)
- Hong Kong ~ Shaolin Soccer (2001); SPL (2005, Wilson Yip); Flash Point (2007, Wilson Yip); Yip Man (2008, Wilson Yip)
- Hungary ~ Taxidermia (2006)
- Japan ~ Hausu (1977); Cure (1997); Ringu (1998, Hideo Nakata); Audition (1999, Takashi Miike); Freeze Me (2000); Azumi (2003, Ryûhei Kitamura); Summer Time Machine Blues (2005)
- Mexico ~ Santa Sangre (1989); Cronos (1993); The Devil's Backbone (2001); Pan's Labyrinth (2006); I'm Going to Explode (2008); Lake Tahoe (2008); Rudo y Cursi (2008)
- Netherlands ~ Zus & zo (2001)
- Norway - Insomnia (1997, Erik Skjoldbjærg); Dead Snow (2009, Tommy Wirkola)
- South Korea ~ Attack the Gas Station (1999); Lies (1999); Tell Me Something (1999); Chunhyang (2000); Joint Security Area (2000); Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors (2000); Failan (2001); Friend (2001); The Isle (2001); My Sassy Girl (2001); The Warrior (2001); Il Mare (2002); Oasis (2002); Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002); Take Care of My Cat (2002); The Way Home (2002); Memories of Murder (2003); Oldboy (2003); Save the Green Planet! (2003); Silmido (2003); Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring (2003); A Tale of Two Sisters (2003); 3-Iron (2004); Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War (2004); Spider Forest (2004); Three... Extremes (2004); A Bittersweet Life (2005); The King and the Clown (2005); Lady Vengeance (2005); Marathon (2005); The President's Last Bang (2005); A Dirty Carnival (2006); The Host (2006); The Chaser (2008); Death Bell (2008); The Good, the Bad, the Weird (2008); Mother (2009); Thirst (2009)
- Spain - The Orphanage (2007, Juan Antonio Bayona); Timecrimes (2007, Nacho Vigalondo)
- Sweden ~ Songs from the Second Floor (2000, Roy Andersson); Everlasting Moments (2008, Jan Troell); Let the Right One In (2008, Tomas Alfredson); The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009, Niels Arden Oplev); Everything Will be Fine (2010, Christoffer Boe)
Author Comments:
These are movies which I've read about would like to see. In many cases I don't think they have much chance of getting released on DVD in the U.S. in the near future. Of course I'll give it awhile before finally caving in and buying on non-domesetic DVD unless I find out the domestic DVD is going to be drastically altered.
Ideas For This List: Kung Fu Cinema - Editors Top 50 [kungfucinema.com], Nicheflix, Twitch
Places to Buy Them : DDDHouse, edaymovie.com, eThaiCD.com, HKFlix.com, YesAsia.com
Froogle helps out a lot if you're trying to figure out whether a DVD/VCD/VHS exists for a title in any sort of format.
You posted today - I saw your post today - and today my son asked me to buy him a plug-in for his DVD player which enables universal region playback (I think it was about £15).
I shall get some more details and post again.
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Hey, Prof! I haven't heard of a specific plug-in for DVD players but I've seen quite a few "universal" DVD players on Ben's Bargains lately so I'll probably end up getting one of those. I already have 3 DVD players so another one, since price's have come down so much, can't hurt.
Most likely what will happen is a movie will come out which I will desperately want to see and with no U.S. DVD release in sight and no Region-Free DVD available I'll probably end buying a new DVD player which supports everything. Until then I'm just content to note those which I'd like to see and I know aren't available in the U.S.
You've probably seen this already, but your DVD player's region-encoding might be hackable without additional hardware. That's not the only hack site out there, but it's the one Google lists first. Happily dgeiser13 pointed me to an all-regions version of Hero, otherwise I would have tried the hack for my player, which is just a special sequence of remote control buttons (in theory).
There is just one film I have seen of these: Taxi, and I canNOT recommend it. Stupid and boring (but at least better than the two sequels!). Be aware!
I saw Festen (the only one of the Dogma 95 films I have seen) a couple of years ago at a university. I found it kind of harrowing to sit through, but worth it.
Cool. I've heard good things about it. You might enjoy Italiensk for Begyndere (2000) (aka Italian for Beginners) another Dogme95 film.
Of those i would recommend Central do Brasil, Raise the Red Lantern, Babette's Feast, Dogville, Festen, L'Appartement, Lovers of the Arctic Cuircle, Fucking Amal. But do see more older classics cos few film-makers today are up to the standard of true greats like Mizoguchi.
Nuovo Cinema Paradiso is a wonderful, wonderful, WONDER-ful film. Let me know what you think about it as soon as you have seen it, ok?
From Indian Cinema : Black . It's been making waves all over. The story has been inspired by the life of Helen Keller. Amazing motion picture. Do check it out. It's fantastic. Here's a review :)