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muesli:

--- Quote from: quekmeister on September 05, 2009, 07:28:32 PM ---The House of Flying Daggers was good. Zhang Ziyi and all.
Has anyone watched Red Cliff? The original was released in two parts, each three hours long, but apparently it was spliced into a single film in the West... The first part is amazing, and Takeshi Kaneshiro as Zhuge Liang? Genius (Pun!). Zhang Fei, Zhao Yun and Guan Yu? Awesome. Zhou Yu is brilliantly enigmatic. The guy who played Sun Quan was pretty good too.

My sister and I happened to watch A Very Long Engagement/Un long dimanche de fiançailles, it wasn't bad, being by the same director as Amelie, and Marion Cotillard's character was quite fun, though the movie itself dragged on a bit.

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i wanted to say red cliff too. :) and you are soooo right that Takeshi Kaneshiro as Zhuge Liang is amazing! e.g. in the scene with the wing formation.. he is rly cool. the second part is very watchable as well :)

i can second 'amelie' and 'Life is beautiful' as well. these films are special.

a good and really shocking film is 'Cidade de Deus' (city of god). it's about violence and crime in the slums of rio de janeiro (based on a real story).
- i just saw that it was posted already. so no new films here.... :P

BuriaL:

--- Quote from: forevr on July 18, 2009, 12:24:34 PM ---Ondskan (Evil) - Private boarding school movie, this one is really good and probably my favorite Swedish movie.

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Awesome movie :)

Kapilavastu:
First 3 that came to my mind & weren't mentioned yet:
Der Himmel über Berlin/ Wings of Desire i must have seen that one about 8 times ... very interesting, poetic take on the nature of angels, and humans.
http://www.wim-wenders.com/movies/movies_spec/wingsofdesire/wingsofdesire.htm

Gozu by Miike Takashi ... yakuza mindfuck ... disturbing breast milk scene XD
http://www.midnighteye.com/reviews/gozu.shtml

Hiroshima Mon Amour by Alain Resnais very deep intense movie about love and loss.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052893/

Some austrian comedians have also filmed/starred in/written great movies, like Komm süsser Tod http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0271029/ but I'm not sure anybody who's not from this place would get the humour.

fohfoh:
Be With You 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0442268/

I get vibes similar to Air TV and "The Time Traveler's Wife". But I'll be damned if this one doesn't blow both of them out of the water.

shabutie:
While its not a 'non-english' film, El maquinista (The Machinist) is a really good mindf*ck.

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