Bored of American/Hollywood guff.Looking for some engaging, good quality films of most genres…..

Have a few decent films but am running out of ideas….

Recommendations anyone?

The Damned United is on the iPlayer at the moment.

Good film…seen it…enjoyed it.

Dead of Night. 1945 horror film.
The one with the talking ventriloquists dummy.

Dead Letter Office – brilliant feelgood Aussie film. Miranda Otto.
One to watch with your Mrs.
Or someone else’s Mrs.

Picnic at Hanging Rock – stonking Aussie mystery/psychological horror.

Breaker Morant – truly great Boer War story Edward Woodward’s finest hour.

Show Me Love – Swedish teenage lesbian love story.
Even better than it sounds.

Wings of Desire – Wim Wenders does angels, Nick Cave and the nature of humanity.
Again, much better than it sounds!

One to watch with your Mrs.
Or someone else’s Mrs.

PMSL!

Some foreign films for you

Nikita
Troll hunter
Betty blue (37.2 le matin)
The big blue
The girl with the dragon tattoo (and the other two, but the original Swedish versions)

Troll Hunter – divides opinion greatly

Otto Preminger made some fine films; Laura’s my favourite.

Delicatessen

Holy Motors if you like properly weird (& a bit of Kylie)

Hentai Kamen – weird, funny pervy – it’s go it all 🙂

for the oriental market…
14 blades
twilight samurai
when the last sword is drawn
sympathy for lady vengeance
my neighbour totoro
princess mononoke

Have a few decent films but am running out of ideas….

going to give us any clues as to what they are?

Bored of American/Hollywood guff

Do you not want any american suggestions or just not any guff ones?

Betty Blue…..love it…along with Jacques Tati etc.

I really enjoyed “taxi”, the French subtitled version.

maccruiskeen

Just bored of mainstream stuff

Ok then:

Harold and Maude

Shell

Max Manus

Skeletons

I am all ears…..

so to speak :o)

Not drama but feature length

The Big Melt – by Jarvis Cocker and Martin Wallace

London
Robinson in Space
Robinson in Ruins – all by Patrick Keiler

or
Gallivant by Andrew Kötting

or
The Great White Silence by Herbert Ponting

Diva. Beineix’s (Betty Blue) debut
Run Lola Run

Seen any Peter Greenaway?

The Draftsman’s Contract & The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover are both amazing films.
Man’s a genius.

If you like Run Lola Run then ‘L’argent Content’ (also known as Easy Money) by Philippe Dussol is a really good short film – very, very smart ending.

If you search about you should be able to find a decent copy of it online – and by decent I mean the subtitles (although theres not many) need to be clear -some copies of it were compressed for dialup

Through the joys of an amazon prime free month’s trial (i’ve not cancelled it – there’s a so much i still want to watch) i’ve discovered asian cinema – the korean revenge thrillers are especially magnificent, but japan, thailand and hong-kong hold their own too (chinese is a bit hollywood)

The Chaser is absolutely brilliant – this trailer doesn’t really do it justice
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKWpmWogo3s[/video]

Joint Security Area is funny, heartwarming and sad in equal measure (early film from the lad who directed Oldboy)
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNLcjGamf8U[/video]

Pieta is also very, very good (and twisted)
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWqInjUp6Xg[/video]

13 Assassins is a beautifully shot samurai epic (40 minute fight scene is very well done, even if they forget to flesh out many of the characters)
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgPC74-Tde8[/video]

Martyrs is a thoroughly unsettling and bleak french horror – I had to watch a comedy straight afterwards to even myself out. (good film)
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNpDiQimK6U[/video]

Mesrine is a two part french gangster flick, it’s on a par with the classic new york gangster films

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_Ku-B5Gkws[/video]

(i’ve been on a real film kick this year – it’s got a little out of hand)

Blind Chance by Kryzstof Kiezlowski, the same director who gave us the Three Colours trilogy.

Oh yeah, I would add the Three Colours trilogy.

And Wim Wenders’ The Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick, and Wings of Desire.

Taxi is a great film. Italian Job pour les Francais!

House of Games is the best con trick film going.
David Mamet, 80’s.
Should have been huge.

All the Akira Kurisawa stuff has been on Film 4 recently if you’ve not seen ’em.