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Hello all, I was inspired by Tinkergoths thread on the Canberra International Film Festival.

There are a lot of film buffs in the Paizo community and I thought I would start a thread, where we can talk about and recommend non Hollywood films.

I have a soft spot for comedies, and quirky to weird movies, so a lot of my recommendations will be a bit of a head spin...

I will start with my favourite movie from my childhood Storm Boy. It's dated but there is a vast emptiness and loneliness to Australia that the movie highlights so well.


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Oh man, Storm Boy... now there's a film I haven't seen in a long time.

I'm a lover of comedies and quirky movies as well, and am a particularly big fan of quirky comedies, so it's likely that some of my suggestions might have some overlap with yours 8th.

I'll be talking about this one at length later on the blog (I think it's actually in my next update that's due in a day or so), but I can't recommend The Priest's Children (Svecenikova Djeca) highly enough.

It's a Croation comedy set on a Dalmatian island, and follows the story of Father Fabijan as he tries to turn around the low birth rate amongst his flock with the assistance of the kiosk operator and the crazy pharmacist. It's a brilliant satire, and deftly deals with some very serious issues while still doling out the laughs... though it does get very dark at a few points.

I'll be back with more suggestions later.


Ahhh European comedies I recommend "Le bonheur est dans le pré".

Just to ruin my reputation - I love the weirdness of Japanese films like The Weather Woman and Wild Zero.


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Trolljegeren

A Norwegian found-footage horror movie dealing with trolls, of course.


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The Trollhunter was lots of fun.


Trollhunter is on my list..

The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec is a lot of fun. It may meet some of the criteria you set in your female super hero thread comrade... It also has Louise Bourgoin who is stunning.


I didn't set any criteria, Comrade Dwarf, I just took the thread over.

Alas, I can't watch the link because I don't have a youtube account and the trailer may be "inappropriate for some viewers" which just intriguess me.

In addition to The Punk Singer I am hoping to go down to Boston on during Xmas week for a screening of my faves French musical, Les Parapluies de Cherbourg even though I'm pretty certain I still have it on dvd.

Catherine Deneuve: OHWFA!


Which reminds me of another flick in French that I've got on my shelf waiting for a re-watch:

La battaglia di Algeri

And, a documentary I saw recently which I don't believe was made in Hollywood:

In Prison My Whole Life


Look up Louise Bourgoin she is OHWFA! material. Hmmm I don't know what would make that trailer NSFW... Look it up on IMDB...


The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec has been on my list for a while now.

I'm not sure how close it may actually be, but it always made me think of Vidocq (AKA Dark Portals: The Chronicles of Vidocq). It was a historical fantasy starring Gérard Depardieu as Eugène François Vidocq. I really enjoyed it, and it's notable for being the first major fantasy film to be entirely filmed using digital cinematography.


Tinkergoth wrote:

The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec has been on my list for a while now.

I'm not sure how close it may actually be, but it always made me think of Vidocq (AKA Dark Portals: The Chronicles of Vidocq). It was a historical fantasy starring Gérard Depardieu as Eugène François Vidocq. I really enjoyed it, and it's notable for being the first major fantasy film to be entirely filmed using digital cinematography.

That does look good...

If you like horror the Finnish movie Sauna made my skin crawl, horror movies are not my thing. It is set in medieval Finland (make your players watch it before playing Reign of Winter, set the atmosphere)...

Trailer for Sauna.

Trailer for Wild Zero - Rock n Roll, Zombie, Alien, love story... A little NSFW 1 second of boobs.


I saw this one not long ago - Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis. Not a bad comedy.


Tinkergoth wrote:
Eugène François Vidocq.

Looks pretty killer.

Comrade Dwarf wrote:

Louise Bourgoin

Oohw-fa-fa!


Not foreign, but Resolution was a surprisingly good indy horror movie.

If you are watching Trollhunter you could do worse than make it a double feature with Thale.

Liberty's Edge

I'm a huge fan of movies out of South Korea for the last few years.

Here's a few of my favorites:

The Chaser
The Yellow Sea - Modern Crime Thrillers from the same director.

The Good, the Bad, and the Weird - Western-style heist / action / comedy

Haunters Super hero action

Plus of course, older standbys like Oldboy, Bittersweet Life, and The Host.


Yeah, there's been some amazing films coming out of South Korea for a while now.

Speaking of Oldboy, though I know we're looking at non-Hollywood films for the most part, I have to say that I am pretty interested in Spike Lee's remake of Oldboy(Probably not NSFW) that's coming out soon. Based on the trailer it looks pretty good, so I'm going to give it a chance.

While I think of it, my film of the year has definitely been [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tymWDB7gtK4]Filth[/] (WARNING: Definitely NSFW Trailer). If you've seen Trainspotting, you've got an idea of what you're in for, since it's also based on an Irvine Welsh novel... it's funny, confronting, twisted, and very, very dark. I'd also consider it to be the best performance of James McAvoy's career thus far.


For monumental Chinese war movies, check out the excellent Red Cliff, directed by John Woo.


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I also like Kung Fu movies Kung Fu Hustle is cool.


Fabius Maximus wrote:
Red Cliff, directed by John Woo.

Changed link.

I saw the Chinese release of this. I loooooved the first half, didn't quite love the second half as much, don't know why. Maybe I had less weed.

Anyway, I've played Dynasty Warriors 4 something like a million times since I've seen the movie and have conquered China in every permutation.

I also am still intrigued by The Romance of the Three Kingdoms although I have never seen a copy of it nor met anyone who has ever read it.


Tinkergoth wrote:

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While I think of it, my film of the year has definitely been Filth (WARNING: Definitely NSFW Trailer).

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Fixed the link.

Liberty's Edge

Doodlebug Anklebiter wrote:
Fabius Maximus wrote:
Red Cliff, directed by John Woo.

Changed link.

I saw the Chinese release of this. I loooooved the first half, didn't quite love the second half as much, don't know why. Maybe I had less weed.

I saw the extended cut of Red Cliff and kind of regretted it. It went on waaaay to long and I can honestly say I was getting bored by the second half. I suspect that the shorter theatrical cut might be the way to go with this one.


Robert Little wrote:
Doodlebug Anklebiter wrote:
Fabius Maximus wrote:
Red Cliff, directed by John Woo.

Changed link.

I saw the Chinese release of this. I loooooved the first half, didn't quite love the second half as much, don't know why. Maybe I had less weed.

I saw the extended cut of Red Cliff and kind of regretted it. It went on waaaay to long and I can honestly say I was getting bored by the second half. I suspect that the shorter theatrical cut might be the way to go with this one.

The international version is shorter.

@The Anklebiter: Sorry, but that one is blocked in my country. :)


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A mate of mine saw the shortened version of Red Cliff. His jaw dropped when I showed him the proper version. I couldn't imagine watching the butchered version.

The following are some films I'd like to recommend. Some of them, like me, have been around for a while.

House is a tripped out Japanese film from 1970. A bunch of schoolgirls visit the house of one of their aunts. Supernatural stuff ensues. What else do you need to know?

A lot of good Korean films got mentioned. In addition to The Man from Nowhere and the remake (which isn't quite as good as the Woo original, but still worth a look) of A Better Tomorrow, I really like Woochi the Demonslayer .

I'm a big fan of Jacques Rivette. If you haven't seen La Belle Noiseuse or Céline et Julie vont en bateau you really should. His lesser seen work histoire de Marie et Julien features a classic D&D monster, and Emmanuelle Beart. What else is there?

Well there's Valerie a týden divu (Valerie and her Week of Wonders), another film, this time Czech, from 1970. Combining horror, fantasy, surrealism and youthful sexuality its like nothing else you've seen. NSFW.

My favourite film form the 2011 Sydney Film Festival was También la lluvia, Even the Rain, a Spanish/Mexican/French co-production about a Spanish film crew making a movie about Columbus and subsequent contact, and resistance, with the natives in the early 1500s, in Bolivia during the 2000 Water War. Yea its a little complex and left wing.

For the 2013 Festival my favourite (and which received the audience award) was an Australian film, but set in Laos, The Rocket. Entirely entertaining and uplifting.

Lastly a couple of Japanese films I've just re-watched.

1954 saw the release of Seven Samurai, something I assume we've all seen. But it wasn't the local favourite that year. Instead local audiences preferred Nijûshi no hitomi (24 Eyes). A young teacher takes over a class of 12 students (hence the 24 eyes) in the years before and during the Second World War. Going from IMDB it's been remade seven times, but the original is pretty much perfect. A good supply of tissues might come in handy.

Lastly there's Oshima Nagisa's Seishun zankoku monogatari 'Cruel Story of Youth' aka Naked Youth. Based on a shortened version of the clip playing at MOMI in Melbourne I picked up the DVD. Kinda of like a Japanese version of Rebel Without a Cause but with the nihilism turned up to 11 or so. Probably NSFW due to coercion.

Opps almost forgot. Comrade Cineste, the only time I was in Beijing I went to an (English language) bookstore with solid intent of purchasing and reading Romance of the Three Kingdoms, inspired of course by Red Cliff. Can't remember what they were charging, but it was more than enough that I didn't buy. One day...


TPOV - some cool recommendations. I saw Red Cliff on SBS it was good but I think it was the short version. I was wondering if they have anything like SBS in other countries... It's a state owned TV station that has foreign language news, tv programs and movies, a for a lad before the invention of the internet a lot of those foreign movies had boobs ;-)


According to Jack Nicholson, the success of Michelangelo Antonioni's Blow-Up in the United States was due to its being the first beaver shot shown in American movie theaters that weren't devoted to pornography.

Musical Interlude


And to get back to Tinseltown for a second, Coppola's The Conversation sometimes strikes me as a less sexy, American cover of Blow-Up but still damn well worth watching.

Fun fact (or at least I think so): John Cazale (Fredo from The Godfather) was only ever in five movies, and each one of them won an Oscar--The GF, The GF II, The Conversation, Dog Day Afternoon and The Deer Hunter.

If this isn't true, don't tell me.


There's Francois Ozon's musical send-up of Agatha Christie-style murder mysteries: Huit Femmes (Eight Women)

Goodbye Lenin is the perfect rebuttal to anyone claiming Germans don't have a sense of humour.

Amores Perros (Beloved Dogs) is one of the bleakest movies I've seen, but damn it's good.

Among the original Nouvella Vague movies, Bob le Flambeur has always been one of my favourites.

Rubbish title, decent movie: Female Agents - Trilingual WW2 movie.

And on the theme of movies about resistance against the German occupation - from Norway: Max Manus, and from Denmark: Flammen og Citronen (The Flame and the Lemon, and from Sweden: God Afton Herr Wallenberg (Good Evening, Mr Wallenberg)

Some Swedish movies:
Sjunde Inseglet (The Seventh Seal) is a movie about the fear of death - and a lot funnier than you've been told (the fact that the gleeman is played by Nils Poppe, Sweden's version of Charlie Chaplin should be a give-away to that).

Tillsammans (Together) is about as good a feel-good movie this country's produced.

Ådalen 31 about a sawmill strike in northern Sweden.

Sweden's first modern action movie: Mannen på Taket


And an early George Formby classic - No Limit


Small Faces (why are all 80s and 90s US trailers for European movies so horribly bad?) Really good movie about gang violence in 1960s Glasgow.

Submarine - "First love" story set in 1980s Wales (with a great soundtrack from Arctic Monkeys' Alex Turner).

Emile - Bergman-influenced Canadian movie starring Ian McKellen as an old academic reconnecting with his remaining relatives.


And this is a 2+ hour long, totally improvised thriller - but I guess since it was a TV live broadcast, it doesn't count. ;)


Kajehase wrote:
Goodbye Lenin is the perfect rebuttal to anyone claiming Germans don't have a sense of humour.

This one always makes me cry.

Vive le Galt!!!


In other news, I think my car is conspiring to prevent me from seeing The Punk Singer. She gets jealous of all the other loves in my life.


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Goodbye Lenin is the perfect rebuttal to anyone claiming Germans don't have a sense of humour.

Unfortunately, it's not a comedy. It was advertised as one, but it's really a drama.


I have seen the movie Female Agents, the end is very sad.


Fabius Maximus wrote:
Kajehase wrote:


Goodbye Lenin is the perfect rebuttal to anyone claiming Germans don't have a sense of humour.
Unfortunately, it's not a comedy. It was advertised as one, but it's really a drama.

Still funny, though.


Fabius Maximus wrote:
Kajehase wrote:


Goodbye Lenin is the perfect rebuttal to anyone claiming Germans don't have a sense of humour.
Unfortunately, it's not a comedy. It was advertised as one, but it's really a drama.

A g!%**@n tragedy is what it is. Where can I get Spreewald pickles now?!?


American, but not Hollywood:

I just watched Paul Robeson in Eugene O'Neill's Emperor Jones which is available on Xfinity On Demand. Or here.


Kajehase wrote:

Some Swedish movies:

Sjunde Inseglet (The Seventh Seal) is a movie about the fear of death - and a lot funnier than you've been told (the fact that the gleeman is played by Nils Poppe, Sweden's version of Charlie Chaplin should be a give-away to that).

Not as funny as Cries and Whispers though.


Kajehase wrote:

Among the original Nouvella Vague movies, Bob le Flambeur has always been one of my favourites.

Mine, of course, is Bande a Part.

My old ex who introduced me to Nouvelle Vague, and who, incidentally KJ, was also descended from Danes, but mixed with Italian, hence her being short and brunette, was Claire's Knee, although I guess that wasn't really one of the original ones.


The cricket discussion reminded me of one of the few Bollywood musicals I've ever watched in its entirety:

Lagaan

It was pretty fun, especially the way they used every sports movie cliche I've ever seen, but made them fascinating since instead of, say, bringing together a bunch of losers and ne'er-do-wells and forging them into a functioning team, they brought together Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs, dalits, etc., etc.

(Well, I'm not sure if a Columbia Tri-Star pic counts as Bollywood, but whatevs.)


Doodlebug Anklebiter wrote:
Kajehase wrote:

Some Swedish movies:

Sjunde Inseglet (The Seventh Seal) is a movie about the fear of death - and a lot funnier than you've been told (the fact that the gleeman is played by Nils Poppe, Sweden's version of Charlie Chaplin should be a give-away to that).
Not as funny as Cries and Whispers though.

Now the thought of someone watching this on my recommendation thinking it's a comedy makes me feel guilty. It's not. It's one of the least funny films I've ever seen.


You want cricket - Fire In Babylon Trailer.

The d+!+*ead telling the West Indies that he is going to make them grovel is the South African born English captain Tony Grieg.


Comrade Anklebiter wrote:
Fabius Maximus wrote:
Kajehase wrote:


Goodbye Lenin is the perfect rebuttal to anyone claiming Germans don't have a sense of humour.
Unfortunately, it's not a comedy. It was advertised as one, but it's really a drama.

A g*++~!n tragedy is what it is. Where can I get Spreewald pickles now?!?

I don't know if they're sold in the states, but they're still around.


Hmmm, do I have the brand wrong, or did Good Bye, Lenin lie to me?


Comrade Anklebiter wrote:
Hmmm, do I have the brand wrong, or did Good Bye, Lenin lie to me?

Spreewald gherkins

I guess the problem in the movie was that the son wasn't able to obtain the original brand gherkins. That alludes to the fact that a lot of Eastern German companies were sold off cheap to West German investors.


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My absolute favorite film of all time is Babettes gæstebudBabette's Feast in English—a Danish film from 1987 that is an absolute marvel. It's a story about love and enjoying what you have rather than regretting what might have been. Truly wonderful.


Well, it's a done deal. My car, in a fit of jealous rage, refuses to let me take it to Boston to see The Punk Singer.

Links trailer because I probably won't be able to see it until the DVD comes out


Not at all international, nor even non-Hollywood, but, hey, I don't abide by the rules in any other thread, why would I start here?

I, Robot

It was alright. I only fell asleep once. Not exactly the way I pictured Dr. Calvin, though.


I've re-watched Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amelie Poulain (or just Amelie in English) and found that it aged really well (even if most of the frenchmen's a&+&&~%ness would get you arrested for harassment almost instantaneously nowadays).

Always enjoyed Lola Rent (Run Lola, Run), if only for the soundtrack

'findel


Saw Run, Lola, Run at the Brattle back in the day. Loved it.

Saw Amelie somewhere...can't quite remember now...Loved it.

Saw The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug today at the Cinemagic Imax in Hookset. Loved it.

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