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Thread: World cinema - my pick list

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    What an interesting thread, and civil comments as well. A rarity on JPP!

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    Quote Originally Posted by ThatOwlWoman View Post
    What an interesting thread, and civil comments as well. A rarity on JPP!
    For some weird reason, improved civil discourse tends to happen when you thread ban this forum's known racists, bigots, trolls, liars, libelers, misogynists, and belligerent dunces.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cypress View Post
    For some weird reason, improved civil discourse tends to happen when you thread ban this forum's known racists, bigots, trolls, liars, libelers, misogynists, and belligerent dunces.
    Indeed. Of course my reply to this comment is quite likely to end up in another thread, if you know what I mean. lol

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    The 9th Company (Russian)
    The 9th Company is a 2005 Russian war film directed by Fedor Bondarchuk and set during the Soviet–Afghan War. The film is loosely based on a real-life battle that took place at Hill 3234 in early 1988, during the last large-scale Soviet military operation in Afghanistan.

    The thing I liked about it: A unique, non-propagandized Russian perspective on the Afghan war; a view from the perspective of average Russian kids being fed into the meat grinder.


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    Awesome thread! Great conversation and some great films to watch, too! Thank you for this!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Aimée View Post
    Awesome thread! Great conversation and some great films to watch, too! Thank you for this!
    Very kind of you to say that.

    I have learned there is a world of good film out there!

    A very good Swedish film

    The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Swedish)

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    Very nice selections. Thanks!

    Unfortunately, I'm only familiar with older films. My favorites include the ff.

    Apu Trilogy

    Dr. Strangelove

    The Human Condition

    Tokyo Story

    Bicycle Thieves

    Oro, Plata, Mata

    A Passage to India

    Aguirre: Wrath of God

    Sundays and Cybele

    Wages of Fear

    400 Blows

    The River

    Babette's Feast

    Alphaville

    The Burmese Harp

    Rashomon

    Manila in the Claws of the Night

    Come and See

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    Quote Originally Posted by ralfy View Post
    Very nice selections. Thanks!

    Unfortunately, I'm only familiar with older films. My favorites include the ff.

    Apu Trilogy

    Dr. Strangelove

    The Human Condition

    Tokyo Story

    Bicycle Thieves

    Oro, Plata, Mata

    A Passage to India

    Aguirre: Wrath of God

    Sundays and Cybele

    Wages of Fear

    400 Blows

    The River

    Babette's Feast

    Alphaville

    The Burmese Harp

    Rashomon

    Manila in the Claws of the Night

    Come and See
    I need to force myself to watch Bicycle Thieves, simply as an obligation to being a well rounded human being.

    I never acquired a taste for classic Italian cinema. But I have always had the impression that the Italians, through their classic cinema, were able to capture something about the human condition in a way rarely ever seen in film history.

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    I felt like I would not be a well-rounded person without seeing some Sergei Eisenstein and Akira Kurosawa - thus, adding these to my Kanopy watchlist

    Battleship Potemkin
    Odessa - 1905. Enraged with the deplorable conditions on board the armored cruiser Potemkin, the ship's loyal crew contemplates the unthinkable - mutiny. Seizing control of the Potemkin and raising the red flag of revolution, the sailors' revolt becomes the rallying point for a Russian populace ground under the boot heels of the Czar's Cossacks. When ruthless White Russian cavalry arrives to crush the rebellion on the sandstone Odessa Steps, the most famous and most quoted film sequence in cinema history is born.

    Seven Samurai
    One of the most thrilling movie epics of all time, SEVEN SAMURAI (Shichinin no samurai) tells the story of a sixteenth-century village whose desperate inhabitants hire the eponymous warriors to protect them from invading bandits. This three-hour ride from Akira Kurosawa -- featuring legendary actors Toshiro Mifune and Takashi Shimura -- seamlessly weaves philosophy and entertainment, delicate human emotions and relentless action, into a rich, evocative, and unforgettable tale of courage and hope.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cypress View Post
    I can totally respect anyone's appreciation of quality French cinema, even if French films are to boring for me to hang with. I don't know what it is about the French, but they really seem to like that "slice of life" genre of film making. Naturally, I am no expert on French film so I might be stereotyping it.
    I probably need to force myself to watch Kurosawa, if nothing else as my duty at attempting to be a well rounded human being.

    I like most of the German films I have seen.
    Russian films are hit or miss. There is an element of Russian mysticism that seems to find its way some of their film which might be great art, but does not really capture my attention.
    I have seen a lot of British movies, and those tend to be right up my alley.

    I recently have been watching more Korean and Chinese film - and a lot of it is pretty darn good!
    I don't know if this is quality French cinema but I watched Repulsion by Polanski a few months ago, and it creeped me out.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Cypress View Post
    Very kind of you to say that.

    I have learned there is a world of good film out there!
    I watched the Ken Branagh series Wallander set in Sweden and loved it. There's a Swedish version with another actor but I didn't watch that, not fond of subtitles.


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    Quote Originally Posted by christiefan915 View Post
    I watched the Ken Branagh series Wallander set in Sweden and loved it. There's a Swedish version with another actor but I didn't watch that, not fond of subtitles.
    I totally get that subtitles are something a lot of people do not want to deal with.

    They don't bother me, and I like the sound of other languages. It is not often I get to hear Norwegian, Dutch, Swedish, Czech and it is kind of cool to hear them, at least to me. I also like some movies as a way to gain some linguistic skills by osmosis. Russian movies help me improve my Russian, and I am trying to up my game in French, so I have been watching some pretty good French Netflix shows!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cypress View Post
    I totally get that subtitles are something a lot of people do not want to deal with.

    They don't bother me, and I like the sound of other languages. It is not often I get to hear Norwegian, Dutch, Swedish, Czech and it is kind of cool to hear them, at least to me. I also like some movies as a way to gain some linguistic skills by osmosis. Russian movies help me improve my Russian, and I am trying to up my game in French, so I have been watching some pretty good French Netflix shows!
    I seem to miss what's happening on the screen when reading subtitles. Maybe it's a learned skill!


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    This was on my quarantine watchlist and it was bloody good

    A satirical dark comedy about the historical events surrounding Stalin's death. Beria gets his well deserved comeuppance!


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    Quote Originally Posted by ThatOwlWoman View Post
    What an interesting thread, and civil comments as well. A rarity on JPP!
    For some reason I can't "thank" you but I wholeheartedly agree.
    I highly recommend the German movie Goodbye Lenin.

    East Germany, the year 1989: A young man protests against the regime. His mother watches the police arresting him and suffers a heart attack and falls into a coma. Some months later, the DDR does not exist anymore and the mother awakes. Since she has to avoid every excitement, the son tries to set up the DDR again for her in their flat. But the world has changed a lot. Written by Benjamin Stello

    And thanks to Cypress for the thread. I'll definitely make a point to watch most of these movies during this unprecedented time.

    Recently watched Parasite, the S. Korean film that won the Oscar for best film. Pretty good black comedy but got effing weird at the end.
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