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10 Feb 2007, 12:53 am

philadelphia
maltese falcon
seven samurai-foreign movie
white nights
insomnia
water-foreign movie
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fear and loathing in las vegas


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10 Feb 2007, 1:04 am

Prof_Pretorius wrote:

Another is "Twelve Monkeys" directed by Terry Gilliam, a masterpiece about the end of the world AND time travel ! !!



And ten years before that he did an even less known film "Brazil".

Dystopian films are my favorite :) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dystopian_films

Escape from New York, Brazil, Blade Runner, The Matrix series, Twelve Monkeys,
Mad Max , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_City , etc



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10 Feb 2007, 11:53 am

tinky wrote:
seven samurai-foreign movie

I have that one on DVD. Wonderful.

TheMachine1 wrote:
The Matrix series

I'm a huge fan... have every movie and the collectors box set with the neo bust.


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10 Feb 2007, 12:25 pm

The Gong Show Movie is one I can think of.


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10 Feb 2007, 12:38 pm

Seven Samurai is great, but so are most Kurosawa films.

Yojimbo is a classic that's been remade as western and gangster movies, almost line for line and scene for scene here in the US (Fistful of Dollars, Last Man Standing). Its sequel, Sanjuro is worth watching as well.

Throne of Blood is Hamlet in feudal Japan, and the end is well done. Ran is very Shakesperean as well, and is quite the film visually.

The Hidden Fortress is the basis for the original Star Wars. It even starts out with a short guy and a tall guy, lost, arguing over which way to go... the tractor beam sequence is a horse chase, There's a princess that is being hidden by rebels, and so on.

Kurosawa's stuff is great in that it's timeless. His stories can be easily adapted to any time, place or culture, because they're just great stories. Add in strong visuals and direction, and a good dose of Toshiro Mifune (the original badass action hero...) and you've got great, timeless films.

I could go on...



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10 Feb 2007, 12:46 pm

Prescott wrote:
Ran is very Shakesperean as well, and is quite the film visually.

I liked Ran. It's partly based on Shakespeare's King Lear.


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10 Feb 2007, 1:02 pm

Of course, I don't consider Kurosawa to be little known. Same with Bergman, another favorite of mine.

A few very good, but not very well known foreign films:
Tampopo
A Hungarian Fairy Tale
Delicatessen



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10 Feb 2007, 1:15 pm

Prescott wrote:
Of course, I don't consider Kurosawa to be little known. Same with Bergman, another favorite of mine.

A few very good, but not very well known foreign films:
Tampopo
A Hungarian Fairy Tale
Delicatessen


Tampopo is awesome.


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10 Feb 2007, 2:17 pm

"Following", Christopher Nolan's B&W 1998 movie before he did "Memento."



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10 Feb 2007, 4:03 pm

Perhaps some oldies?
"Lady Eve" and "His Girl Friday", screwball comedies from 40's.



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10 Feb 2007, 4:22 pm

Some of my favorite detective/film noirs from the 30-40s.

The Thin Man - Campy fun. Based on Dashiell Hammet's novel. Powell and Loy are great throughout the entire film series, which spawned a ton of sequels.

The Big Sleep (Original) Bogie and Bacall, written by Raymond Chandler. I love Chandler, have read al of his stuff, and he wrote many of the screenplays for his movies as well.

Murder, My Sweet - No Bogie, but Chandler can write one hell of a good story. The blackout sequences are great fun.

Kiss of Death (Original, not the remake) Richard Widmark is an evil little man.