Movies I've Seen of the foreignfilms.com Top 100

Submitted by Critico on Wed, 07/27/2005 - 08:06
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  1. Seven Samurai (1954), Japan
  2. 8 1/2 (1963), Italy
  3. Rashomon (1951), Japan
  4. Wild Strawberries (1957), Sweden
  5. The Seventh Seal (1956), Sweden
  6. The Bicycle Thief (1948), Italy
  7. Cries and Whispers (1972), Sweden
  8. M (1931), Germany
  9. Ran (1985), Japan
  10. Amelie (2001), France
  11. Ikiru (1952), Japan
  12. Persona (1966), Sweden
  13. City of God (2002), Brazil
  14. The 400 Blows (1959), France
  15. La Dolce Vita (1960), Italy
  16. Stalker (1979), Russia
  17. Raise the Red Lantern (1991), China
  18. Andrei Rublev (1966), Russia
  19. Yojimbo (1961), Japan
  20. Throne of Blood (1957), Japan
  21. Grand Illusion (1937), France
  22. La Strada (1954), Italy
  23. The Exterminating Angel (1962), Mexico
  24. The Mirror (1974), Russia
  25. Children of Paradise (1945), France
  26. Aguirre, Wrath of God (1972), Germany
  27. Los Olvidados (1950), Mexico
  28. Umberto D (1952), Italy
  29. In the Mood for Love (2000), Hong Kong
  30. Metropolis (1926), Germany
  31. Fanny and Alexander (1982), Sweden
  32. Beauty and the Beast (1946), France
  33. Nights of Cabiria (1957), Italy
  34. The Rules of the Game (1939), France
  35. Spirited Away (2001), Japan
  36. Nostalghia (1983), Russia
  37. The Silence (1963), Sweden
  38. Tokyo Story (1953), Japan
  39. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972), France
  40. Solaris (1972), Russia
  41. Winter Light (1962), Sweden
  42. Viridiana (1961), Spain
  43. Breathless (1959), France
  44. My Life to Live (1962), France
  45. Nosferatu (1922), Germany
  46. Pather Panchali (1955), India
  47. Open City (1945), Italy
  48. That Obscure Object of Desire (1977), France
  49. Through a Glass Darkly (1961), Sweden
  50. L'Age d'Or (1930), France
  51. Un Chien Andalou (1928), France
  52. Ugetsu Monogatari (1953), Japan
  53. The Wages of Fear (1953), France
  54. Cinema Paradiso (1988), Italy
  55. All About My Mother (1999), Spain
  56. Sansho the Bailiff (1954), Japan
  57. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1919), Germany
  58. Amarcord (1973), Italy
  59. Show Me Love (1998), Sweden
  60. L'Avventura (1960), Italy
  61. Battleship Potemkin (1925), Russia
  62. Smiles of a Summer Night (1955), Sweden
  63. La Notte (1961), Italy
  64. Talk to Her (2001), Spain
  65. Das Boot (1981), Germany
  66. The Hidden Fortress (1958), Japan
  67. The Leopard (1963), Italy
  68. The Children of Heaven (1997), Iran
  69. Chungking Express (1994), Hong Kong
  70. Princess Mononoke (1997), Japan
  71. To Live (1994), China
  72. Au Revoir les Enfants (1987), France
  73. Ivan's Childhood (1962), Russia
  74. Contempt (1963), France
  75. Amores Perros (2000), Mexico
  76. Central Station (1998), Brazil
  77. Underground (1995), Yugoslavia
  78. Fitzcarraldo (1982), Germany
  79. Hero (2002), China
  80. Run Lola Run (1998), Germany
  81. Shoot the Piano Player (1960), France
  82. Sanjuro (1962), Japan
  83. Belle de Jour (1967), France
  84. Alexander Nevsky (1938), Russia
  85. Pierrot Le Fou (1965), France
  86. The Killer (1989), Hong Kong
  87. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000), Taiwan
  88. Hiroshima, Mon Amour (1959), France
  89. Jean de Florette (1986), France
  90. Jules and Jim (1961), France
  91. Lovers of the Arctic Circle (1998), Spain
  92. High and Low (1963), Japan
  93. Diabolique (1954), France
  94. Kagemusha (1980), Japan
  95. The Virgin Spring (1959), Sweden
  96. Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988), Spain
  97. Life is Beautiful (1998), Italy
  98. Manon of the Spring (1986), France
  99. The Wild Reeds (1994), France
  100. No Man's Land (2001), UK
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Movies I've Seen of the foreignfilms.com Top 100
0dysseus08/13/2005

I highly recommend Jean de Flourette and the sequel, Manon des sources . They must be watched in that order. Manon des sources stands on its own but seeing it through the frame of Jean de Flourette makes it that much better. I have trouble sitting still for "grown up movies" but a friend of mine chose Jean de Flourette as their half of our 2-for-1 Rental Night. If I ever do manage to sit still then I fall asleep.

Gérard Depardieu has never been one of my favourite actors... I'm not sure that he even knows any of my favourite actors. Come to think of it, I doubt that he has even heard of their names. Depardieu plays a hunchback. Let me just point out that Duck Soup has no hunchbacks. Jean de Flourette is two hours long. Let me point out that Duck Soup clocks in at 68 minutes. (And Disney claims that The Hunchback of Notre Dame is 93 minutes long while it feels longer than a game of Risk.)

We pulled out the futon and put off making poporn until the intermission just before Duck Soup . Confidence was not high. The troops' morale was low. And then... The movie was wonderful. The popcorn went unmade. Duck Soup went unwatched. And then... The futon remained out.

Manon des sources was a mutual choice for our next 2-for-1 Rental Night and it was also wonderful (and only slightly less so.) I can't think of a better movie sequel that wasn't just the same characters just doing the same thing. Well, there is Aliens but on closer analysis the similarities between the two sequels are superficial at best. At the very least I hope that there is no Manon v. Predator in our future.

I'd say more but I'm off to conquer Yakutsk.

Critico08/14/2005

I read Ebert's enthusiastic reviews of both films sometime ago, and i think i once caught part of Manon in Cinemax Latin, but i like to watch movies from the begining.