So we just had the Oscars, another mutual masturbation festival for the Hollywood set.
Apart from the token 'Best Foreign Language Film' and the extremely rare win for Roberto Benigni in 1997 (well, he was playing a holocaust victim in the film he won Best Actor for), Hollywood largely ignores a world of wonderful cinema.
I would love to know what wonderful delights are out there that I may have missed. My current list of favourites includes...
Three Colours: White (my unfashionable favourite of the tricolour series) Krzysztof Kieślowski
It's Winter - Rafi Pitts
Good Bye Lenin - Wolfgang Becker
Kasaba (Small Town) - Nuri Bilge Ceylan
The Sacrifice - Andrei Tarkovsky
Kung Fu Hustle - Stephen Chow
Raise The Red Lantern - Zhang Yimou
Garage - Lenny Abrahamson
Les Rivières Pourpres - Mathieu Kassovitz
Angel A - Luc Besson
The Seventh Seal - Ingmar Bergman
Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence - Nagisa Oshima (half Japanese half English language)
What non-English favourites of yours would you recommend I see?
MM
Apart from the token 'Best Foreign Language Film' and the extremely rare win for Roberto Benigni in 1997 (well, he was playing a holocaust victim in the film he won Best Actor for), Hollywood largely ignores a world of wonderful cinema.
I would love to know what wonderful delights are out there that I may have missed. My current list of favourites includes...
Three Colours: White (my unfashionable favourite of the tricolour series) Krzysztof Kieślowski
It's Winter - Rafi Pitts
Good Bye Lenin - Wolfgang Becker
Kasaba (Small Town) - Nuri Bilge Ceylan
The Sacrifice - Andrei Tarkovsky
Kung Fu Hustle - Stephen Chow
Raise The Red Lantern - Zhang Yimou
Garage - Lenny Abrahamson
Les Rivières Pourpres - Mathieu Kassovitz
Angel A - Luc Besson
The Seventh Seal - Ingmar Bergman
Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence - Nagisa Oshima (half Japanese half English language)
What non-English favourites of yours would you recommend I see?
MM
"The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions" - Leonardo da Vinci
"I think I use the term “radical” rather loosely, just for emphasis. If you describe yourself as “atheist,” some people will say, “Don’t you mean ‘agnostic’?” I have to reply that I really do mean atheist, I really do not believe that there is a god; in fact, I am convinced that there is not a god (a subtle difference). I see not a shred of evidence to suggest that there is one ... etc., etc. It’s easier to say that I am a radical atheist, just to signal that I really mean it, have thought about it a great deal, and that it’s an opinion I hold seriously." - Douglas Adams (and I echo the sentiment)
"I think I use the term “radical” rather loosely, just for emphasis. If you describe yourself as “atheist,” some people will say, “Don’t you mean ‘agnostic’?” I have to reply that I really do mean atheist, I really do not believe that there is a god; in fact, I am convinced that there is not a god (a subtle difference). I see not a shred of evidence to suggest that there is one ... etc., etc. It’s easier to say that I am a radical atheist, just to signal that I really mean it, have thought about it a great deal, and that it’s an opinion I hold seriously." - Douglas Adams (and I echo the sentiment)
