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What an interesting thread, and civil comments as well. A rarity on JPP!
ThatOwlWoman (03-19-2019)
Cypress (03-19-2019)
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.
Awesome thread! Great conversation and some great films to watch, too! Thank you for this!
Cypress (03-19-2019)
Aimée (03-20-2019)
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
Cypress (03-20-2019)
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.
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.
Cypress (03-23-2019)
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!
christiefan915 (03-23-2019)
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!
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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