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Re: Empire's Top 100 Foreign language films list
« Reply #20 on: June 14, 2010, 08:44:15 AM »
Acting doesn't become completely irrelevant but it certainly loses some of its value when I don't know how various deliveries feel relative to the emotion.

I don't completely disagree, but this is highly over-emphasised in foreign language films. Good delivery is good delivery.

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Re: Empire's Top 100 Foreign language films list
« Reply #21 on: June 14, 2010, 11:47:49 AM »
Acting doesn't become completely irrelevant but it certainly loses some of its value when I don't know how various deliveries feel relative to the emotion.

I don't completely disagree, but this is highly over-emphasised in foreign language films. Good delivery is good delivery.

Also, all lists are awesome no matter what.

i can't buy that.  sure good delivery is good delivery... the problem is not knowing the difference between good and bad.  there are acting conventions in america that throw people off, why would things not be the same around the world?  vocal inflection doesn't always mean the same thing from country to country and subtlety depends on what the language and acting baseline is. 

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Re: Empire's Top 100 Foreign language films list
« Reply #22 on: July 27, 2010, 01:00:34 PM »
Is there a place where I can see this in list form? I'm not much for going through 100 different pages.

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Re: Empire's Top 100 Foreign language films list
« Reply #24 on: July 27, 2010, 01:15:17 PM »
Ive seen 66 of 105...245th place of users on the site  :)

wouldnt put Amelie even close to the list, much less #2, but whatever.

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Re: Empire's Top 100 Foreign language films list
« Reply #25 on: July 27, 2010, 01:32:22 PM »
http://www.icheckmovies.com/list/the+100+best+films+of+world+cinema

Just added the other day.

Thanks a lot.

Its a decent list, a lot of these I need to see.

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Re: Empire's Top 100 Foreign language films list
« Reply #26 on: March 04, 2015, 04:44:21 PM »
Nearest thread I could find to place this in. I wondered what conclusions I might draw from the challenge of compiling a list like this. I think my period of cinephelia feels mainstream. However, I feel that I have explored much of what interested me. Malle, Herzog, Kurosawa, Haneke, Wenders, Almodovar, Truffaut...check. Some gaps? I'm interested in Chabrol, must get on that. More Rossellini. Night & Fog, Charaluta definitely. Yes, please challenge my conclusions.

Here's my top 100 non-English language films;

1. Ikiru 1952
2. Sympathy for Lady Vengeance 2005
3. Seven Samurai 1954
4. Oldboy 2003
5. Fitzcarraldo 1982
6. The 400 Blows 1959
7. Wings of Desire 1987
8. The Double Life of Veronique 1991
9. Scenes from a Marriage 1973
10. City of God 2002
11. All About My Mother 1999
12. Aguirre: The Wrath of God 1972
13. Shoot the Piano Player 1960
14. Bob le flambeur 1956
15. Army of Shadows 1969
16. Ugetsu 1953
17. Yojimbo 1961
18. Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown 1988
19. Viridiana 1961
20. Sansho the Bailiff 1954
21. Wild Strawberries 1957
22. The Lives of Others 2006
23. Red Beard 1965
24. High and Low 1963
25. Downfall 2004
26. The Wages of Fear 1953
27. Le Doulos 1962
28. J.S.A. Joint Security Area 2000
29. M 1931
30. Volver 2006
31. Akira 1988
32. The Skin I Live In 2011
33. Infernal Affairs 2002
34. Stolen Kisses 1968
35. The Secret in Their Eyes 2009
36. Last Year at Marienbad 1961
37. Bed and Board 1970
38. Cléo from 5 to 7 1962
39. Tell No One 2006
40. Caché 2005
41. Le cercle rouge 1970
42. The Battle of Algiers 1966
43. Show Me Love 1998
44. Persona 1966
45. Rocco and His Brothers 1960
46. Amélie 2001
47. The Silence of the Sea 1949
48. Solaris 1972
49. Léon Morin, Priest 1961
50. Harakiri 1962
51. Elevator to the Gallows 1958
52. Ossessione 1943
53. The Hidden Fortress 1958
54. Hiroshima mon amour 1959
55. The Lovers 1958
56. Woman in the Dunes 1964
57. A Prophet 2009
58. Amores Perros 2000
59. Rome, Open City 1945
60. The Last Metro 1980
61. Day for Night 1973
62. Knife in the Water 1962
63. A Separation 2011
64. The Bad Sleep Well 1960
65. The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums 1939
66. Lacombe, Lucien 1974
67. Camera Buff 1979
68. Purple Noon 1960
69. Au revoir les enfants 1987
70. Pépé le Moko 1937
71. The Hunt 2012
72. Suspiria 1977
73. Rust and Bone 2012
74. Amour 2012
75. Le deuxième souffle 1966
76. In a Better World 2010
77. Nine Queens 2000
78. Talk To Her 2002
79. The Celebration 1998
80. I Live in Fear 1955
81. Small Change 1976
82. Belle de Jour 1967
83. La dolce vita 1960
84. Come and See 1985
85. Thirst 2009
86. The Exterminating Angel 1962
87. Touchez pas au grisbi 1954
88. High Heels 1991
89. Grand Illusion 1937
90. Diabolique 1955
91. Smiles of a Summer Night 1955
92. Funny Games 1997
93. Mahanagar 1963
94. The Earrings of Madame de… 1953
95. La Quattro Volte 2010
96. Un homme qui dort 1974
97. Jeux interdits 1952
98. The Bride Wore Black 1968
99. Soldier of Orange 1977
100. The White Ribbon 2009
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Re: Empire's Top 100 Foreign language films list
« Reply #27 on: March 09, 2015, 06:29:46 AM »
Maybe there ought to be a Robert Bresson film somewhere on the list?

For my part I've more or less decided to watch films by Maurice Pialat during 2015. Haven't seen anything by him so far.
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Re: Empire's Top 100 Foreign language films list
« Reply #28 on: March 09, 2015, 07:33:50 AM »
Yes I've got the donkey movie but the very donkeyness of the film is scotching my enthusiasm for watching it.  The Bresson Filmspotting marathon left me with an impression of artistic worthiness but potential boredom. Discussion of Rohmer makes me feel the same. I tend to think of it as moving photography.

It's taken a while to come round to Chabrol but I've got the boxset now. My gateway here is what an impressive film The Bride Wore Black is. Same era same Hitchcockian tone. I love how French film interprets noir and crime in such existentialist ways.
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Re: Empire's Top 100 Foreign language films list
« Reply #29 on: March 09, 2015, 08:13:45 AM »
I would say that both Bresson and Rohmer are acquired tastes and maybe to some extent, Chabrol too. All three of them are potentially boring but then the similarities stop. Of Chabrol I like La cérémonie the most.
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