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i've been watching some foreign films on Netflix lately and wanted to post about them and see what other people though. i'm a filthy Canadian, so even Hollywood is a foreign film market for me, I guess, but I've mostly been watching Asian films as of late. been working my way through this right now. it's a long one so I'm watching it in chunks when I get free time: The Great Wall  so far Matt Damon and the Mandalorian have travelled to China to get gunpower, but they're stopped by the Great Wall which has been constructed to keep out hordes of demon monsters. they aren't executed because Matt Damon killed one of them and they're all impressed that a single European was able to do it in one-on-one combat so they are keeping him alive to find out his secrets. also the Chinese army manning the wall has colour coded armour. there's the green regiment and the red regiment and so on. The blue regiment is all women and they bungee jump to stab demons when they are at the base of the wall. so far this is pretty wonderful and i feel like i'm watching a fever dream. honestly, i'm not a huge Matt Damon fan, but I turned it on because I love Pedro Pascal, so I'm looking forward to seeing where this goes. Oh, and Willem Defoe is just kinda hanging around. Feel free to post about foreign films that you'e been watching! i love hearing about good ones to watch and talking about ones i've already watched |
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Jan 25, 2020 07:25
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Kill! is a neat old Samurai parody from the late 60's. |
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Jan 25, 2020 08:29
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the raid and raid redemption are really good action movies.
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Jan 25, 2020 09:43
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French Accent posted:the raid and raid redemption are really good action movies. 
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Jan 25, 2020 10:27
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op check out the movie Shoplifters from japan just a couple years ago, v good slice of life of japans urban poor, also emotions and stuff |
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Jan 25, 2020 15:39
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If you like dark comedies Man Bites Dog is a really dark comedy from Belgium about a film crew following and filming a serial killer with his knowledge and consent for a documentary. Eventually they start assisting and participating in his murders. It's pretty dark if that isn't your thing. Daisies is a really weird and awesome Czech art film from the 1960's. Two young women decide the world is ruined so they'll be bad and set out on a series of pranks. It's fairly bizarre but cool and artsy and got the director banned from her home country. Tetsuo: The Iron Man is a really dense Japanese art film with a plot that you have to really struggle to understand. It's really cool IMHO though. The Pornographers is a 1960's Japanese film about a man in postwar Japan who makes pornography illegally (porn was just illegal then. Nothing horrible) who's having an affair with his landlord who is convinced her dead husband has been reincarnated as a carp she keeps as a pet. Eventually he begins an affair with his daughter and the landlord goes insane leading him to become obsessed with building the perfect love doll. |
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Jan 25, 2020 15:53
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Lala Pipo is a Japanese film from 2008 based on a novel about six people in Tokyo with interconnected stories, mostly through sex. They are all comedically terrible people. It's a weird loving story but it's also great. |
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Jan 25, 2020 15:56
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the great wall really made me laugh. dogtooth is a weird movie, i think it's italian, about a family raising their 3 children in a compound for.... some reason? not a cult thing, it seems like a science experiment. the kids compete against each other in tests of mental acuity and physical prowess, and things are fairly idyllic within the gates of the compound till the lady brought in to service the son sexually brings in foreign media in the form of a vhs and everything goes to poo poo. martyrs is the worst thing i've ever watched, so don't, unless you are super into hyperviolence. after the fact tho, i had to consider if the plot, which is basically torturing women to produce religious visions, is a commentary of western media, where we abuse women for our entertainment? is a girl raised in pageants, then becoming a child actor, then a adult celebrity any different from abusing a person for their whole life, trapped within a false reality? hmmm what else
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Jan 25, 2020 16:19
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Heather Papps posted:the great wall really made me laugh. poo poo! Forgot I need to watch Dogtooth. If you like British dark comedies anything by Armando Iannucci and Chris Morris. Also Withnail and I. God. I love that film |
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Jan 25, 2020 16:26
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Oh poo poo! Delicatessen is a great French post-apocalyptic dark comedy. |
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Jan 25, 2020 16:29
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SweetWillyRollbar posted:Oh poo poo! Delicatessen is a great French post-apocalyptic dark comedy. this is like a critical hit to my interest zones
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Jan 25, 2020 16:33
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Heather Papps posted:this is like a critical hit to my interest zones It's really weird and cool. Same director as City of Lost Children. Basically a guy gets an apartment in a building where he becomes aware that the landlord who runs a butcher shop on the first floor is planning to butcher and sell him. |
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Jan 25, 2020 16:36
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i legitimately enjoyed dogtooth, some of the tactics the parents use for maintaining isolation are so surreal and absurd, but they are treated with such gravity and acceptance by the family... it's yeah check it out buddy. i'm looking for a very legal file so i can watch that film, perhaps today! i got some business to attend to but yeah! that sounds very up my alley. this is a super side note but once i was in a retro game store and i asked if they had any western rpgs for ps2. the dude was like yeah try this, and gave me wild arms, which i guess is a cowboy jrpg or something? maybe it's a different game. it was def anime cowboys tho'. i explained what i meant kinda, and he pointed me to SMT nocturne, a game i'd somehow missed, and i took like one glance at the back and immediately bought it. i already loved SMT more than almost anything, but by being a nintendo guy i just... yeah, didn't even know it existed. some things are so specifically in ones wheelhouse it's like they were custom designed to appeal only to a single person, you the audience. i think that's why starwars guys get so mad, cause the films defined their taste, then their taste changes, and also, so does the product, and now you're 2 steps away from even liking it at a baseline level. thank goodness for foreign films. oh gently caress me i guess it goes without saying but kurosawa is really good. i also have a huge soft spot in my heart for kitchsy japanese monster movies. M is, i think, my favourite film of all time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M_(1931_film) peter lorres performance in this is unbelievable. it is a triple story about a child murderer, the police hunting him, and the street folk harassed by the police who also hunt him.
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Jan 25, 2020 16:52
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a tv show instead of a film, but i've been watching & enjoying A Very Secret Service (aka Au Service de la France). french spy comedy, set in post-wwii france. it's probably funnier if you can understand the french better but my canadian schooling + the subtitles still have me laughing a lot
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Jan 25, 2020 16:57
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Happiness of the Katakuris is a Japanese dark comedy about a family that opens a guesthouse but their customers keep dying so they hide the bodies from a fear of being marked as a place with a death curse. Also it's a musical. |
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Jan 25, 2020 17:00
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Last Life In the Universe is a very oddly touching Thai and Japanese film. |
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Jan 25, 2020 19:31
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SweetWillyRollbar posted:It's really weird and cool. Same director as City of Lost Children. Basically a guy gets an apartment in a building where he becomes aware that the landlord who runs a butcher shop on the first floor is planning to butcher and sell him. Jean Pierre Jeunet? Same guy as Amelie and Alien Resurrection? |
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Jan 25, 2020 19:57
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alnilam posted:Jean Pierre Jeunet? Same guy as Amelie and Alien Resurrection? Yes! I think you would like Delicatessen. It's dark af. |
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Jan 25, 2020 19:58
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if u like slow, ponderous, expressionistic horror movies you should watch Hagazussa
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Jan 25, 2020 20:13
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beer pal posted:if u like slow, ponderous, expressionistic horror movies you should watch Hagazussa I do |
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Jan 25, 2020 20:33
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i love all the old Shaw Brothers films on Netflix but honestly it feels like Amazon Prime has more weird, old, foreign stuff than Netflix so that's where I get most of my watchfuel.
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Jan 25, 2020 20:33
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Does the vvitch count as foreign since it was filmed in canadia |
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Jan 25, 2020 20:33
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Heather Papps posted:i legitimately enjoyed dogtooth, some of the tactics the parents use for maintaining isolation are so surreal and absurd, but they are treated with such gravity and acceptance by the family... it's yeah check it out buddy. i'm looking for a very legal file so i can watch that film, perhaps today! i got some business to attend to but yeah! that sounds very up my alley. there's a bunch of SMT games on the 3DS and i think the NES/SNES ones have translated ROMs by now. also speaking of heather papps, we got some hot foreign film frontpage content in the pipes, here's a freshy fresh sample: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BM0PnqV5-iM crimes |
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Jan 25, 2020 20:35
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beer pal posted:if u like slow, ponderous, expressionistic horror movies you should watch Hagazussa trigger warning on this one tho', sex violence.
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Jan 25, 2020 20:40
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SweetWillyRollbar posted:Oh poo poo! Delicatessen is a great French post-apocalyptic dark comedy. Yeah, the music scene where the girl is playing a cello and everything syncs up to her is amazing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJU4IwC3LjQ Also, the Japanese film Tampopo is outstanding. Pigsfeet on Rye fucked around with this message at 21:32 on Jan 25, 2020 |
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Jan 25, 2020 21:30
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the absolute peak of japanese cinema right here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQ_Yo06kIIA
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Jan 25, 2020 21:42
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finished Great Wall. that was pretty fun! Pedro Pascal was underutilized. So was Willem Defoe. turns out the demons' weakness is magnets and Matt Damon's character just happened to be carrying one around. i did love that the great wall was one giant rube goldberg machine of death designed to kill demons. i also loved that they travelled in hot air balloons powered by gunpowder gonna watch the Ip Man movies next. i visitied the Ip Man museum when I visited Foshan once so I am curious to see it. i fully expect them not to be historically accurate at all and to include lots of wire fighting kung fu |
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Jan 25, 2020 22:44
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The Border is a newish Swedish film available on Hulu. It's about a border guard /customs lady who can smell fear and other human emotions. This film grabbed me from the beginning and didn't let go until the end. Watch it. It owns 
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Jan 25, 2020 23:47
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I watch a lot of foreign films on airplanes because I've seen all the Hollywood movies on there I want to watch and the rest have no appeal. So I just watch Chinese Fantasy/Historical Martial Arts movie 7, or Hong Kong/Tokyo Detective 12, or Korean Gangsters 3. Sometimes I watch The Japanese Were/Are The Bad Guys historical drama. I recently watched a weird Indian movie that was sort of loosely a Pirates of the Carribean ripoff But What If Serious? It went on forever but was pretty fun. Chappie 2 was hilariously bad, and I've never seen Chappie 1. Taxi a Gibraltar was a really cool Spanish road trip/buddy light comedy type movie that learned me some pretty neat Spanish perspectives on things. I enjoyed Midnight Diner 2, having no idea what it was going in. I haven't seen 1 or the assorted TV series. |
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Jan 26, 2020 00:03
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Dash Rendar posted:gonna watch the Ip Man movies next. i visitied the Ip Man museum when I visited Foshan once so I am curious to see it. i fully expect them not to be historically accurate at all and to include lots of wire fighting kung fu oh hell yeah, i should rewatch Ip Man. it owns
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Jan 26, 2020 00:44
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i am right now rewatching Ip Man. it owns
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Jan 26, 2020 01:24
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PHIZ KALIFA posted:the absolute peak of japanese cinema right here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQ_Yo06kIIA This is true and I'm truly ashamed I didn't mention it. |
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Jan 26, 2020 03:27
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The Good, the Bad, the Weird is a great Korean kind of comedy/action/adventure Western set in Manchuria. |
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Jan 26, 2020 03:31
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SweetWillyRollbar posted:The Good, the Bad, the Weird is a great Korean kind of comedy/action/adventure Western set in Manchuria. is that the one where the two dudes are like train robbers or something and the end is them just running down the tracks way overdramatically while they get shot crimes |
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Jan 26, 2020 05:10
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PHIZ KALIFA posted:is that the one where the two dudes are like train robbers or something and the end is them just running down the tracks way overdramatically while they get shot Sorta. I think. It's been a bit though. |
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Jan 26, 2020 08:35
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Okay, so I've been sick in bed and binge watched all the Ip Mans on Netflix. they were awesome! It's always interesting seeing how one culture's films will portray another culture. i thought the whole Japanese occupation of Foshan was a bit sanitized, but then that's not really what the focus was for the film. I did think it was funny that the postscript made it sound like Ip Man's fists were what caused people to rise up and drive the Japanese out of China at the end of WW2. Hell, they mention Emperor Hirohito's unconditional surrender without making any reference to the Americans or the atomic bombs The British in Ip Man 2 and 3 are great villainous stereotypes. Real arrogant bureaucratic dickhead types. the British boxer reminded me a lot of Dolph Lungren's Drago in Rocky. Oh, and Mike Tyson was an interesting choice for IM3. Not a strong actor in dialogue scenes, but the action scenes were great to watch. French Accent posted:the raid and raid redemption are really good action movies. I watched The Raid while half asleep and missed a bunch of it. Redemption ruled, so I should really go back and watch The Raid properly. I was super stoked when some of the Raid actors popped up in John Wick 3. It was a rad scene too!
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Jan 26, 2020 09:50
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which reminds me i gotta watch the john wick movies. and ip man, but my netflix subscription hasn't been paid in months. maybe some day.
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Jan 26, 2020 10:25
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Ang Bak: Muay Thai Warrior |
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Jan 26, 2020 10:55
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SweetWillyRollbar posted:Ang Bak: Muay Thai Warrior holy poo poo yes. this and tom yum goon are amazing. when ong bak came out in theaters me and my friends saw it maybe 4 times. gotta find that steel case dvd.
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Jan 26, 2020 14:04
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armor of god 2: operation condor is MAYBE my fave jackie chan film.
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Jan 26, 2020 14:04
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