Got some good foreign film suggestions for the uninitiated? (1 Viewer)

[Doug D]

there was a great thread a couple months back with a bunch of top 100's, dunno where it went.
Anyway, here's mine:
1. Wild Strawberries
2. Ikiru
3. Decalogue
4. Yi Yi
5. Aguirre, The Wrath of God
6. Rules of The Game
7. Wings of Desire
8. Blue
9. After Life
10. Yojimbo
11. Z
12. Orpheus
13. The Celebration
14. Earth (Dovzhenko)
15. Woman in the Dunes
16. The Grand Illusion
17. La Dolce Vita
18. Aparajito
19. Man With the Movie Camera
20. The Seven Samurai
21. Fitzcarraldo
22. A Man Escaped
23. Pather Panchali
24. The Passion of Joan Of Arc
25. Cyclo
26. Diary of a Country Priest
27. Sanjuro
28. Fireworks
29. Ran
30. Red
31. Pickpocket
32. Wages of Fear
33. Delicatessen
34. The Bicycle Thief
35. Nosferatu (Herzog)
36. Hiroshima, Mon Amour
37. The City of Lost Children
38. Nosferatu (Murnau)
39. The Kingdom I + II
40. The World of Apu
41. Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
42. Insomnia
43. Pierrot Le Fou
44. Underground
45. Le Samourai
46. Manon des Sources
47. Jean de Florette
48. The Terrorist
49. Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left For The East?
50. Close-Up
51. Andrei Rublev
52. In The Mood For Love
53. Persona
54. Chungking Express
55. La Belle Et La Bete
56. Ugetsu
57. Fallen Angels
58. Amores Perros
59. The Eel
60. Beau Travail
61. 8 1/2
62. L'Atalante
63. Hard Boiled
64. The Testament of Orpheus
65. When the Rain Lifts
66. Grave of the Fireflies
67. Rififi
68. Human Resources
69. Mauvais Sang
70. La Jetee
71. Vive L'Amour
72. The Color of Paradise
73. The 400 Blows
74. Gabbeh
75. Antonio Gaudi
76. Last Year In Marienbad
77. Sonatine
78. Girl on The Bridge
79. Black Cat, White Cat
80. Tokyo Fist
81. Knife In The Water
82. Man Facing Southeast
83. Diabolique
84. Ariel
85. Branded to Kill
86. The Flowers of Shanghai
87. Like Water For Chocolate
88. High and Low
89. The River (Renoir)
90. A Time For Drunken Horses
91. Jalsaghar
92. Kwaidan
93. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
94. Leningrad Cowboys Go America
95. The Idiots
96. Santo Luzbel
97. Ashes of Time
98. The Hole
99. Throne of Blood
100. Tokyo Story

 

[Dwayne]

Felini's Lastrada. I think David Lynch was definitely influenced by this filmaker.
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-Dwayne
"And vidi films I would."

 

[Pascal A]

there was a great thread a couple months back with a bunch of top 100's, dunno where it went.

I found the thread and posted my revised list here . My selections, for the most part, are either universally accessible, or challenging but not impenetrable. In either case, I've been a cineaste for a long time, and these were the films that have stayed with the longest, or have renewed my faith in the power of cinema to transcend borders.
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[Roarke]

http://www.hometheaterforum.com/uub/...ML/007503.html

 

[SteveGon]

I'll chime in with a recommendation for Icelandic director Fridrik Thor Fridriksson's Cold Fever and Children of Nature. Both of these are quirky road flicks that take place in Iceland. They are very enjoyable and not too difficult for the foreign film neophyte. Unfortunately, neither film is available on dvd.

If you can find the VHS versions, give that dusty VCR something to do and watch these movies!
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