Best European Movies

Started by Seraphim, October 22, 2003, 08:21:37 AM

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#15
October 23, 2003, 10:34:48 PM
Quote from: SHAFTRBreathless
Band of Outsiders
Persona
Wild Strawberries
Rocco and His Brothers
Rome, Open City
L'Avventura
Cries and Whispers
Great list.

Seraphim

#16
October 24, 2003, 01:53:15 AM
Quote from: godardianA really good one that doesn't get mentioned often enough is Theo Angelopolous's Landscape in the Mist. Angelopolous is a Greek master of cinema, and this is probably his best film.

Please, tell me more about Angelopoulos!

I want to see two of his films in the very near future, Eternity and a Day and Ulysses'Gaze. Unfortunately, those are the only films I can rent at my "cultvideostore" (you have those back here)...

I've read about Angelopoulos, his type of cinema, his use of long shots, etcetera.
A lot of critics regard him as one of the very few "great cineasts still alive" and he is often mentioned in the same line with all the best directors, like Bergman, Antonioni, Bunuel, etcetera.

Much less famous than all those others, though.
Seraphim's magic words:
Dutch
Dead Can Dance/ Cocteau Twins
Literature
European/ Art Cinema:
Tarkovsky, Bresson, Fellini, Angelopoulos

Kal

#17
October 24, 2003, 03:32:59 AM
i'm pissed than they are making an american remake of luc besson's "taxi" and queen latifah is playing the principal role... what the hell is that? jimmy fallon plays the cop? hmm...

i think she is funny... but first of all the original taxi was a GUY... and it was very well done as an european movie in a city like paris... what are they going to do now? a yellow nyc cab?

pisses me off

Find Your Magali

#18
October 29, 2003, 01:00:43 AM
Added "Wings of Desire" to my list of European films seen tonight. Wow --- just a profoundly philosophical and spiritual film. So much coming at you, with the "conversations" in everyone's minds. I need more time to digest it and am looking forward to the commentary. .... Beautiful cinematography, of course. ... I wish, more than ever, that I had never seen "City of Angels." Is there a better example of how a heavy-handed U.S. remake of a foreign film can just suck all of the mystery and beautiful ambiguity out of a movie?

Sigur Rós

#19
October 29, 2003, 03:53:21 AM
OK. You have all mentioned the european classics. Now check these out.

The Celebration
101 Reykjavik
Man Without a Past
Breaking the Waves
Goodbye Lenin!
Il Postino
Lilja Forever


....and the list goes on

Sigur Rós

#20
October 29, 2003, 03:54:19 AM
Quote from: SHAFTRRocco and His Brothers

:lol:

Seraphim

#21
October 30, 2003, 05:22:05 AM
Quote from: Find Your MagaliAdded "Wings of Desire" to my list of European films seen tonight. Wow --- just a profoundly philosophical and spiritual film.
Yeah- GREAT film!

Make sure that you also see his follow-up (though less known): Far away, so close! (In weiter Ferne, so Nah!). :)

Quote from: Find Your MagaliIs there a better example of how a heavy-handed U.S. remake of a foreign film can just suck all of the mystery and beautiful ambiguity out of a movie?
Nope- not really.
THIS IS IT...
Seraphim's magic words:
Dutch
Dead Can Dance/ Cocteau Twins
Literature
European/ Art Cinema:
Tarkovsky, Bresson, Fellini, Angelopoulos

ElPandaRoyal

#22
October 30, 2003, 06:13:41 AM
Some great European films (but don't care for my opinion.... haven't seen 8 1/2 yet :( )

Aniki Bobo (Manoel de Oliveira, Portugal)
Talk To Her (Pedro Almodovar, Spain)
Jules and Jim (François Truffaut, France)
Une Belle Fille Comme Moi (François Truffaut, France)
Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain (Jean-Pierre Jeunet, France)
Amarcord (Federico Fellini, Italy)
Nosferatu (F. W. Murnau, Germany)
Time Of Gypsies (Emir Kusturica, Yugoslavia)
Black Cat, White Cat (Emir Kusturica, Yugoslavia)
Wild Strawberries (Ingmar Bergman, Sweden)
Cries and Whispers (Ingmar Bergman, Sweden)
The Virgin Spring (Ingmar Bergman, Sweden)
Trainspotting (Danny Boyle, Scotland)
8 Femmes (François Ozon, France)
La Pianiste (Michael Haneke, France)

There are sooooooooooo many other great european movies, but it's early and these are the ones I remember for now...
Si

Newtron

#23
October 30, 2003, 06:46:51 AM
Quote from: Jesus Christ Bobby!
Quote from: SHAFTRRocco and His Brothers

:lol:
That's a real movie by Luchino Visconti.

ShanghaiOrange

#24
October 30, 2003, 09:56:52 AM
Rashomon  :roll:
Last five films (theater)
-The Da Vinci Code: *
-Thank You For Smoking: ***
-Silent Hill: ***1/2 (high)
-Happy Together: ***1/2
-Slither: **

Last five films (video)
-Solaris: ***1/2
-Cobra Verde: ***1/2
-My Best Fiend: **1/2
-Days of Heaven: ****
-The Thin Red Line: ***

godardian

#25
October 30, 2003, 04:53:01 PM
Bruno Dumont's L'Humanite came up in a different thread today.... definitely stands with the best of European cinema.
""Money doesn't come into it. It never has. I do what I do because it's all that I am." - Morrissey

"Lacan stressed more and more in his work the power and organizing principle of the symbolic, understood as the networks, social, cultural, and linguistic, into which a child is born. These precede the birth of a child, which is why Lacan can say that language is there from before the actual moment of birth. It is there in the social structures which are at play in the family and, of course, in the ideals, goals, and histories of the parents. This world of language can hardly be grasped by the newborn and yet it will act on the whole of the child's existence."

Stay informed on protecting your freedom of speech and civil rights.

cine

#26
October 30, 2003, 05:10:03 PM
Quote from: Newtron
Quote from: Jesus Christ Bobby!
Quote from: SHAFTRRocco and His Brothers

:lol:
That's a real movie by Luchino Visconti.
And a real GREAT movie at that. Scorsese naturally talked about it in his documentary as well.

Vile5

#27
October 30, 2003, 07:25:26 PM
Quote from: RoyalTenenbaumSome great European films (but don't care for my opinion.... haven't seen 8 1/2 yet :( )

Aniki Bobo (Manoel de Oliveira, Portugal)
Talk To Her (Pedro Almodovar, Spain)
Jules and Jim (François Truffaut, France)
Une Belle Fille Comme Moi (François Truffaut, France)
Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain (Jean-Pierre Jeunet, France)
Amarcord (Federico Fellini, Italy)
Nosferatu (F. W. Murnau, Germany)
Time Of Gypsies (Emir Kusturica, Yugoslavia)
Black Cat, White Cat (Emir Kusturica, Yugoslavia)
Wild Strawberries (Ingmar Bergman, Sweden)
Cries and Whispers (Ingmar Bergman, Sweden)
The Virgin Spring (Ingmar Bergman, Sweden)
Trainspotting (Danny Boyle, Scotland)
8 Femmes (François Ozon, France)
La Pianiste (Michael Haneke, France)

There are sooooooooooo many other great european movies, but it's early and these are the ones I remember for now...

wow!!! great list! (except for Le pianiste, i didn't like it) but 8 1/2 is missing  :wink:

well i like European movies too, sadly i have no access to them as i wish but of all the european movies i've watched the Kieslowski's trilogy BLUE/WHITE/RED  had the most huge impact on me especially Blue
"Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die." - Salvador Dalí

Weak2ndAct

#28
October 30, 2003, 07:40:44 PM
I'll try to limit to what's not already up here:
Contempt
The 400 Blows
The Element of Crime
Smiles of a Summer Night
I Stand Alone
Passion of Joan of Arc
Last Year at Marienbad
Hiroshima Mon Amour
Discreet Charm of the Bourgoise

samsong

#29
October 30, 2003, 10:16:48 PM
The Passion of Joan of Arc
Battleship Potemkin
The Last Laugh
Metropolis
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Band of Outsiders
Alphaville
Jules and Jim
The 400 Blows
Wings of Desire
Hiroshima Mon Amour
Night and Fog
Last Year at Marienbad
L'Atalante
Nights of Cabiria
8 1/2
The Gospel According to St. Matthew
The Red Shoes
Grand Illusion
The Rules of the Game
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
Aguirre, the Wrath of God
Fitzcarraldo
The Bicycle Thieves
Bob le Flambeur
Rififi
Amelie
City of Lost Children
Solaris
The Mirror
Talk to Her
Women On the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
The Seventh Seal
Wild Strawberries
Persona
Breaking the Waves
Orphic Trilogy
Beauty and the Beast (Cocteau)
Ratcatcher
In the Name of the Father
My Left Foot
The Boxer
Bloody Sunday
Cinema Paradiso
Three Colors Trilogy (Blue is my favorite)
Day of Wrath
Insomnia
M
The Third Man
...would The Tenant count as a European movie?

there's probably more that I'm forgetting......
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