Foreign films

Theophylact · June 24th, 2003, 02:08 PM

1900, by Bernardo Bertolucci (with Robert DeNiro and Gerard Depardieu). Fascism and Socialism in pre-WWII Italy.

The Organizer, by Mario Monicelli (with Marcello Mastroianni). Mill workers organize in early 20th-Century Italy.

The Return of Martin Guerre, by Daniel Vigne. Starring Gerard Depardieu. Medieval France. Do not under any circumstances see the American remake of the same name, with Richard Gere, set in the South during Reconstruction!

Rabbit-Proof Fence, by Philip Noyce (Australian). Australia's treatment of Aboriginal children in the 1930s.

War and Peace, by Sergei Bondarchuk. Napoleon's invasion of Russia in 1812.

Vatel, by Roland Joffé. With Gerard Depardieu, Tim Roth, Uma Thurmann. Early in the reign of Louis XIV.

Boy, a lot of these have Depardieu in them, don't they? And I'm not even including Columbus, a real stinkeroo, with The French Actor as Chris.

Epidemic · June 24th, 2003, 02:33 PM

foreign films are all bad. I mean they keep speaking other languages in them.

June 24th, 2003, 02:34 PM

I only look at the picture part not the sound part. And some of them have like sentences in English at the bottom - like captions.

maface · June 24th, 2003, 02:36 PM

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Originally posted by Epidemic
foreign films are all bad. I mean they keep speaking other languages in them.

WB

Epidemic · June 24th, 2003, 03:32 PM

Thanks Maface.

and shahani those words on the bottom??? I thought those were credits. I never read the credits.

nishark · June 25th, 2003, 06:06 AM

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Rabbit-Proof Fence, by Philip Noyce (Australian). Australia's treatment of Aboriginal children in the 1930s.

good movie that ... should build one's determination to succeed

'Doctor Zhivago' would be a good one.
'Gone with the wind' ...
then there's 'Mississipi Burning' and 'To kill a mocking bird' and all those movies...

Mississipi Burning was awesome i thought

Argon88 · June 25th, 2003, 01:46 PM

Well, I have seen Docter Zhavogo and To Kill A Mocking Bird, both were realy good IMO. I hope to buy To Kill A Mocking Bird, great move, one of my favorites.

Oh, one other old film our Library has is Citizen Kane.

And I just looked and they also have Casablanca, I hope to go and get it and Gone With the Wind today.

Theophylact · June 25th, 2003, 02:14 PM

Hey, if you want high-quality historical fiction -- Henry V, directed by (and starring) Kenneth Branagh. With Derek Jacobi, Ian Holm, Judi Dench... or Henry V, directed by (and starring) Laurence Olivier! (The Hundred Years' War; Agincourt, 1415)

And Derek Jacobi reminds me: the Masterpiece Theatre miniseries production of I, Claudius with Jacobi in the title role is absolutely fantastic. Sian Phillips as the Emperor Augustus's wife Livia is one of the great monsters of film. (Rome, First Century CE)

nishark · June 26th, 2003, 04:46 AM

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Originally posted by Argon88
And I just looked and they also have Casablanca,

Often voted as the best screenplay of all time ...

lynchmob · June 26th, 2003, 06:22 AM

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The Samurai Trilogy, three films by Inagaki, starring Toshiro Mifune as Musashi, the greatest samurai swordsman. Set in Japan, during the civil wars of the Seventeenth Century.

Very good film series.
lynch