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Scandinavia- Kitchen Stories
Canada- Seducing Dr. Lewis
Japan- Tampoco(sp)
Britiian- The Wrong Box

Spain- Esmeralda

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Forgot about that one. #-o The first one is actually wuite cute if I remember correctly, but I haven't seen it in years, maybe over a decade, so hate to really say if its good. I remeber liking it though. But the second one when he comes to New York was idssappointing. Unless it was a counter-point because the first movie got called out for exoticizing Aborigine? I don't remember. So they had a fun counter-point. In which case, the second one would be smarter. AAnyways...long night, so don't listen to me, heh, we had it recorded off the tv and watched it prettu regularly, so we all must have liked it. :grin:


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dolcevita wrote:
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Forgot about that one. #-o The first one is actually wuite cute if I remember correctly, but I haven't seen it in years, maybe over a decade, so hate to really say if its good. I remeber liking it though. But the second one when he comes to New York was idssappointing. Unless it was a counter-point because the first movie got called out for exoticizing Aborigine? I don't remember. So they had a fun counter-point. In which case, the second one would be smarter. AAnyways...long night, so don't listen to me, heh, we had it recorded off the tv and watched it prettu regularly, so we all must have liked it. :grin:

Yeah it was a great movie!

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Can I say LOTR for New Zeland?

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UK Sean of the dead
France A very long engagement/Les Choristes
China Crouching Tiger Hidden Draggon
Spain Belle Epoque
Italy La Dolce Vita
Australia Priscilla Queen of the Desert
Brazil City Of God
Japan Ringu/Spirited Away
Korea Oldboy
New Zealand Heavenly Creatures

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Mexico - Amores Perros
Germany - Der Untergang (Downfall)
France - A Very Long Engagement
Italy - The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
China - Hero
Hong Kong (don't count it as China, hehe) - Infernal Affairs
Korea - Oldboy
Japan - Spirited Away
Brazil - City of God
Australia - Undead


Slightly updated my list.

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From the top of my head, I'm definitely missing some films

Mexico - Amores Perros
Germany - Das Boot, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
France - Le Samouraï
Italy - The Good, the Bad & the Ugly
China - Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Japan - The 7 Samurai, Ran, more Kurosawa
Brazil - City of God
Russia - Solyaris, basically Tarkovsky
Denmark - Dancer in the Dark, Festen
Sweden - Wild Strawberries

More countries will follow. Maybe.

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GuybrushX McMurphy wrote:
From the top of my head, I'm definitely missing some films

Japan - The 7 Samurai, Ran, more Kurosawa



When we were picking martial arts movie for viewing, I stumbled across the most hilarious article someone raving mad critic wrote about Kurosawa. He basically must not have fact checked, because first he was rabbid about how uncreative Kurosawa was about basing Ran off of King Lear (which is ridiculous considering how many stories are based off of Shakespeare, and that Shakespeare based most of his stories off the Greeks). Than, in a moment of brilliance he starts saying how overrated 7 Samurai is, since it was just ripping off the Magnificent Seven. Silly, I think it was made a good half decade before Mag 7.


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Germany - Der Untergang (Downfall)



GuybrushX McMurphy wrote:
Germany - Das Boot, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

Now in your two case wouldnt USA not Germany be your forign films?

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China: HoFD, CTHD
HongKong: Infernal Affairs, KungFu Hustle


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China - Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
Japan - Spirited Away
Italy - The Good, The Bad and the Ugly

*thinks about other countries* Naw.. can't think of anything else. :razz:


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Netherlands - Spoorloos

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Algeria: The Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo, 1965)
Australia: The Piano (Jane Campion, 1993)
Brazil: Central Station (Walter Salles, 1998)
Canada: C.R.A.Z.Y. (Jean-Marc Vallee, 2005) and Exotica (Atom Egoyan, 1994)
China: Together (Chen Kaige, 2002)
Denmark: Gertrud (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1964)
France: Au hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson, 1966) and Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard, 1960)
Germany: Ali: Fear Eats The Soul (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1974)
Greece: Landscape in the Mist (Theo Angelopoulos, 1988)
Hong Kong: Chungking Express (Wong Kar Wai, 1994)
Hungary: Sátántangó (Bela Tarr, 1994)
India: The Apu Trilogy (Satyajit Ray, 1955-1959)
Iran: Close-Up (Abbas Kiarostami, 1989)
Italy: 8½ (Federico Fellini, 1963) and L'Avventura (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1960)
Japan: Rashômon (Akira Kurosawa, 1950) and Tokyo Story (Yasujiro Ozu, 1953)
Mexico: Y Tu Mama Tambien (Alfonso Cuaron, 2001)
Poland: Dekalog (Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1988)
Russia: Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979)
Spain: Bad Education (Pedro Almodovar, 2004)
Sweden: Cries and Whispers, Persona and Winter Light (Ingmar Bergman, 1972)
Taiwan: The Time to Live and the Time to Die (Hou Hsiao-Hsien, 1985)
UK: Distant Voices, Still Lives (Terrence Davies, 1988)
US: The Magnificent Ambersons (Orson Welles, 1942)


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Australia: The Proposition (John Hillcoat, 2005)
Canada: Naked Lunch (David Cronenberg, 1991) + The Fly (David Cronenberg, 1986)
China/Taiwan: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Ang Lee, 2000)
Czechoslovakia: The Firemen's Ball (Milos Forman, 1967)
France: Last Year at Marienbad (Alain Resnais, 1961) + Contempt (Jean-Luc Godard, 1963)
Germany: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Robert Wiene, 1920)
Hong Kong: Chungking Express (Wong Kar-Wai, 1994)
Italy: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Sergio Leone, 1966) + Suspiria (Dario Argento, 1977)
Japan: Rashômon (Akira Kurosawa, 1950)
Mexico: Pan's Labyrinth (Guillermo del Toro, 2006)
Russia/USSR: Solyaris (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1972)
Sweden: Wild Strawberries (Ingmar Bergman, 1957)
UK: 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
US: Blade Runner (Ridley Scott, 1982)

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India: Sholay or DDLJ.... The thing about India is that the highest grossing pics are actually all great films.

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India: Sholay or DDLJ.... The thing about India is that the highest grossing pics are actually all great films.


In India the reviews of a film matter a lot. If a movie fails with critics then 95% of the time the movie bombs too at boxoffice.


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http://www.boxofficeindia.com/cpages.ph ... e45238e81a

Looking at this list in the top ten the only film that sucks is Dhoom 2 and in the top 20, Roti Kapada Aur Makaan.

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Germany - Nowhere in Africa
Russia - Russian Ark
Sweden - The Seventh Seal


Good pick for Germany. I might have to change mine, I forgot about it. One of the best.
Russian Ark had to be one of the biggest let-downs for me in recent years. I was so excited for it, and except for a few vignettes, I found it very trying on my patience, and not all that well crafted. I'm having trouble procurring a best Russian film actually, but I'm half way through War and Peace right now, so maybe soon.

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You should definitely see A heart of the Dog.


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I have to think about it...

Australia - Mad Max
Austria - Counterfeiters
Brazil - City of God
China - Hero
France - The Chorus
Germany - Downfall
India - Seeta and Geeta (yeah...I know, but I grew up on this, still like it)
Italy - Bluff
Japan - Howl's Moving Castle
New Zealand - The World's Fastest Indian
Poland - Znakhor aka The Healer (just Great!!!)
Russia - Voroshilov's Shooter (Simply A-M-A-Z-I-N-G!)
South Korea - The Way Home (OMG!!!)
Spain - Pan's Labyrinth
Sweden - Smultronstället
USSR - A heart of the Dog


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A great thread. I hope to see all these movies..
Scottish- ?? Trainspotting was so dark..

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I haven't seen enough from most countries to say, but I'm going to take up some internet space to figure out how many movies I've seen from a bunch of different (non English-speaking) countries here.

Argentina: 1
Brazil: 1
Canada (French): 1
Colombia: 1
China: 1
France: 12
Germany: 4
Italy: 7
Japan: 6
Mexico: 3
Romania: 1
Senegal: 1
Spain: 9
South Korea: 1
Sweden: 4


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Australia: Mad Max II: Road Warrior
China: Warlords
France: Swimming Pool
Germany: Der Untergang
Hong Kong: Black Mask
Italy: Il Buono, Il Brutto, Il Cattivo
Japan: Boiling Point
Mexico: Amores Perros
South Korea: The Host
Spain: La Piel Que Habito
Sweden: Män som Hatar Kvinnor
United Kingdom: Dog Soldiers

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Italy - Fistful of Dollars (Leone)
Japan - Princess Mononoke (Miyazaki)
Sweden - Seventh Seal (Bergman)
UK - Children of Men (Cuaron)
US- The Godfather (Coppla)

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