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A few more of my favourite Italians…
The Strange Vice Of Mrs.Whard - Edwege Feneche stars, Morricone provides the score, Italian made but set in Austria and Spain.
The Girl With The Crystal Plumage - classic giallo.
Suspira - visually stunning horror.
The Red Queen Kills Seven Times - horror / whodunnit with Barbara Bouchet and Sybil Danning looking gorgeous throughout, nicely filmed with some great locations and cars. Great soundtrack too.
The Strange Vice Of Mrs.Whard - Edwege Feneche stars, Morricone provides the score, Italian made but set in Austria and Spain.
The Girl With The Crystal Plumage - classic giallo.
Suspira - visually stunning horror.
The Red Queen Kills Seven Times - horror / whodunnit with Barbara Bouchet and Sybil Danning looking gorgeous throughout, nicely filmed with some great locations and cars. Great soundtrack too.
Edited by P5BNij on Wednesday 7th February 23:40
Further votes for Baader Meinhoff Complex, Pan's Labyrinth and City of God.
...But I've also got a soft spot for 'Kesari', if only because the real story it's based on makes 'Zulu' (the defence of Rorke's Drift) look like a girl's Sunday School outing.
Part of the joy is the tropes that go along with Indian cinema, though: where Holywood war films always feature bullet-proof and fatigue-immune heros with unlimited ammunition, Bollywood always has to fit in a set-piece song-and-dance routine, even were the plot doesn't lend itself to one in the slightest!
Available on Amazon Prime, if you have it.
...But I've also got a soft spot for 'Kesari', if only because the real story it's based on makes 'Zulu' (the defence of Rorke's Drift) look like a girl's Sunday School outing.
Part of the joy is the tropes that go along with Indian cinema, though: where Holywood war films always feature bullet-proof and fatigue-immune heros with unlimited ammunition, Bollywood always has to fit in a set-piece song-and-dance routine, even were the plot doesn't lend itself to one in the slightest!
Available on Amazon Prime, if you have it.
All very European thus far.... no bad thing
A few old favourites, "Diner de Cons" (later remade as Dinner for Shmucks)
"Delicatessen" (from the director of Amelie)
District B13
but let's not ignore Asian cinema
John Woo has some epics - A Better Tomorrow, Hard Boiled are action cinema legends - and "Red Cliff" (the proper two part version) is an overlooked epic
13 Assassins is also brilliant, very different film from Takashi Miike (watch his back catalogue with caution!)
And just for total mad points, "Ricky: The Story of Riki-O", billed once I think as the most violent film ever?
A few old favourites, "Diner de Cons" (later remade as Dinner for Shmucks)
"Delicatessen" (from the director of Amelie)
District B13
but let's not ignore Asian cinema
John Woo has some epics - A Better Tomorrow, Hard Boiled are action cinema legends - and "Red Cliff" (the proper two part version) is an overlooked epic
13 Assassins is also brilliant, very different film from Takashi Miike (watch his back catalogue with caution!)
And just for total mad points, "Ricky: The Story of Riki-O", billed once I think as the most violent film ever?
Watched a Korean film last night, Tidal Wave.
Seemed to be a bit of a slapstick comedy looking at various families and couples, then a massive tidal wave hits the city and it all becomes rather tragic.
Some great crowd scenes.
The English subtitles were about 5 mins out of sync so watched it with Spanish subtitles.
2 years of Duolingo really helped
Seemed to be a bit of a slapstick comedy looking at various families and couples, then a massive tidal wave hits the city and it all becomes rather tragic.
Some great crowd scenes.
The English subtitles were about 5 mins out of sync so watched it with Spanish subtitles.
2 years of Duolingo really helped
More Alain Delon goodies 
'Big Guns' in which he takes revenge for the killing of his wife and child - they're blown up in their Innocenti Mini Cooper...
'The Sicilian Clan', brilliant from start to finish with a great score...
And back to the Italians - Luc Meranda battling with mob geezer Richard Conte, it features a car chase with an Iso Grifo...
'Revolver' - Oliver Redd vents his anger in an Italian setting...
In this one the male lead tools round in a white Lamborghini Jarama...
In this classic insanity / identity horror the male lead drives a lime green Lamborghini Jarama...
An interesting oddity from 1971 which starts off with a chase on foot near Hammersmith Bridge before relocating to the continent, great opening theme too...
A 1968 cracker in the same mold as 'Barbarella'...
'Big Guns' in which he takes revenge for the killing of his wife and child - they're blown up in their Innocenti Mini Cooper...
'The Sicilian Clan', brilliant from start to finish with a great score...
And back to the Italians - Luc Meranda battling with mob geezer Richard Conte, it features a car chase with an Iso Grifo...
'Revolver' - Oliver Redd vents his anger in an Italian setting...
In this one the male lead tools round in a white Lamborghini Jarama...
In this classic insanity / identity horror the male lead drives a lime green Lamborghini Jarama...
An interesting oddity from 1971 which starts off with a chase on foot near Hammersmith Bridge before relocating to the continent, great opening theme too...
A 1968 cracker in the same mold as 'Barbarella'...
One that I like is 'The Platform' - it's in Spanish.
Set in a vertical prison with 2 people per floor and a platform that moves down through the prison once a day. It's filled with food at the top but obviously empties as it goes down.
Every month they change floors - could be up, could be down.
Set in a vertical prison with 2 people per floor and a platform that moves down through the prison once a day. It's filled with food at the top but obviously empties as it goes down.
Every month they change floors - could be up, could be down.
Some great films already mentioned (glad to see Kontroll mentioned) so I'll add
Rec - Spanish zombies
Society of the Snow - Uruguayan plane crash
RRR - Indian superhero mayhem
Trollhunter - Norweigan giants
The Host - Korean monster
The Hunt - Danish Mads Mikkelsen drama
Rec - Spanish zombies
Society of the Snow - Uruguayan plane crash
RRR - Indian superhero mayhem
Trollhunter - Norweigan giants
The Host - Korean monster
The Hunt - Danish Mads Mikkelsen drama
Edited by toasty on Thursday 8th February 15:56
Mention of Mads Mikkelson just reminded me - Riders of Justice is well worth a watch. A Danish soldiers wife is killed in a train crash, and he comes home to look after his daughter, but then gets contacted by someone else that was on the train who believes it was no accident. Way better than the action/revenge movie I was expecting it to be.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11655202/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11655202/
Edited by RizzoTheRat on Thursday 8th February 15:57
Any room for some stuff from the far North? Anything from Aki Kaurismaki is worth watching imho, just a couple of which..
are never far from my DVD player. Finnish deadpan humour at it's finest.
Then a couple from French cinema pre the nouvelle vague, starring the wonderful Michel Simon
Firstly, Boudo Saved From Drowning, remade decades later as Down and Out in Beverly Hills,
And another favourite, Le Poison, directed by the great Sacha Guitry
are never far from my DVD player. Finnish deadpan humour at it's finest.
Then a couple from French cinema pre the nouvelle vague, starring the wonderful Michel Simon
Firstly, Boudo Saved From Drowning, remade decades later as Down and Out in Beverly Hills,
And another favourite, Le Poison, directed by the great Sacha Guitry
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