MAN! No one mentioned "Dead Or Alive" It's the best cheesey action film EVER, with the most impossible ending EVER!

I highly recommend anything by the following directors:

Federico Fellini (81/2, Satyricon, La Strada...)

Senjin Suzuki (Branded to Kill, Tokyo Drifter, Youth of the Beast...)

Akira Kurosawa (Seven Samurai, Dreams, Ikiru...)

Ingmar Bergman (Wild Strawberries, Seventh Seal...)

Where the shit can i find this!? A japanese friend recommended this to me a long time ago, and even found me a copy of the book, but i simply cannot find the movie anywhere!

Woman in the Dunes is available in Japan subtitled into English. Here is Amazon.jp's listing: http://www.amazon.co.jp/exec/obidos/ASI ... 33-7582657

It's pretty expensive which, combined with the Amazon.jp website being hard to read as I can't understand kanji, has kept me from ordering it. I plan to get it fairly soon. If you decide to get it, make sure you can play foregin region DVD's. No need to worry about NTSC-PAL conversion however, as Japan is NTSC.

I like all the Godard films listed, but my favorite is definitely Band of Outsiders. It's got so many classic scenes in it.

I agree with Champion Rabbit on Wings of Desire. Of interest, part of the plot hinges on Nick Cave.

l_o_c wrote:

Surfrider wrote:Where the shit can i find this!? A japanese friend recommended this to me a long time ago, and even found me a copy of the book, but i simply cannot find the movie anywhere!

Woman in the Dunes is available in Japan subtitled into English. Here is Amazon.jp's listing: http://www.amazon.co.jp/exec/obidos/ASI ... 33-7582657

It's pretty expensive which, combined with the Amazon.jp website being hard to read as I can't understand kanji, has kept me from ordering it. I plan to get it fairly soon. If you decide to get it, make sure you can play foregin region DVD's. No need to worry about NTSC-PAL conversion however, as Japan is NTSC.

I've got this on VHS. There is a US DVD version and another Teshighara film has just been released on DVD in the UK:

Face of Another.

Mazec wrote:Kusturica's "Undergound" is another classic, about Serb freedom fighters during WWII who hole up in an underground bunker for 40 years.

Underground is a very very funny movie. I highly recommend it.

Also:

Alice in the Cities(1973)-Probably the best of the early Wim Wenders movies. About a german journalist who decides to head home from the States back to Germany. At the Airport he meets a german woman with a nine-year old daughter. Their flight is delayed and the woman disappears, leaving him with the young girl. He then has to help her find her grandmother's house purely based on her memory of it. Music by Can.

Cranius wrote:Woman of the Dunes(1964)-by Hiroshi Teshigahara. This might be my favourite film of all time. About an entomologist who is trapped in a pit by local villagers and forced to share a house with the widowed woman of the title. They are both compelled to labour all day to prevent their house from being overwhelmed by sand. Utterly beautiful and genuinely erotic.

Seconded.

Saw this at the NFT last year and was instantly blown the fuck away. It's supremely well made and it will stay with you long after you've finished watching it.

My addition to the list:

Lo Sceicco Bianco (The White Sheikh) by Fellini.



There's no need for a lengthy, pretentious description here. All I need to say is that it's funny and accessible and that you'd have to be dead for it to not entertain and amuse you.

EDIT:

I thought I'd also add a personal favourite to the list, and that's pretty much anything by Jan Svankmajer. A good place to start would be one of his later (live-action) films - Little Otik, but he made his name in stop-frame animation (of which there is a little in this film). Alice is pretty easy to get hold of, and is probably his most famous animated film.

Rimbaud III wrote:Jan Svankmajer. A good place to start would be one of his later (live-action) films - Little Otik.

what a riot! i loved that movie.

and i'll put in a good word for majidi's children of heaven (iran).

don't let the miramax label turn you off. its innocence reminds me of disney's good old days.

and another good adult movie about kids, though less sentimental than ramiji is the tin drum [germany].


china's 5-star contribution to my list is to live, with gong li.


do foreign subtitled silent movies count?

that's the passion of joan of arc

has no one brought up buñuel yet?

same wrote:has no one brought up buñuel yet?

Surprisingly, it doesn't look like they have. Boy, do I love his work, though. That Obscure Object of Desire is in my top 5.

New Jack City

Little Otik is awesome, I will third that suggestion