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2015/11/21 05:57:33
craigb
I hope page 1460 is more interesting.
(Though history says it won't be...)
2015/11/21 12:27:19
Moshkito
Mesh




Now ... there's a gas hog if I ever saw one!
2015/11/21 12:52:58
Moshkito
jamesg1213
I can highly recommend the Swedish 'Millenium' trilogy ' 'The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo' 'The Girl Who Played With Fire' and 'The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets Nest'. They're all really well dubbed if you prefer that to subtitles.
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Me check them out!
 
There are some foreign films, where subtitles are ... almost un-necessary. Akira Kurosawa was highly aware of the situation with his films ... so if you ever see "The Seven Samurai", you won't miss a whole lot, by not reading the subtitles! The quiet and silence is built into the film, and is one of its greatest achievements!
 
Few others were as aware of this, and if you watch Ingmar Bergman, you will lose the interest in the first 15 minutes ... it is almost all about the acting and the talking. But the "visual" directors, understand this, and it is worth checking.
 
A good start is "Visions of Light", the film about cinematographers, and some of the films they did, and in there you learn more about film, than you ever imagined! It's an amazing documentary, that kinda leads you to check out some directors and how they did things, or still do.
2015/11/21 13:16:17
jamesg1213
Moshkito
 
 
There are some foreign films, where subtitles are ... almost un-necessary. Akira Kurosawa was highly aware of the situation with his films ... so if you ever see "The Seven Samurai"
 
 




Seen it 3 times I think, wonderful film.  If you don't mind a very, very disturbing film, have a go at 'Oldboy' from South Korea. It was remade (of course) but the original is the best.
2015/11/21 13:26:31
Moshkito
jamesg1213
Moshkito
 
 
There are some foreign films, where subtitles are ... almost un-necessary. Akira Kurosawa was highly aware of the situation with his films ... so if you ever see "The Seven Samurai"
 
 




Seen it 3 times I think, wonderful film.  If you don't mind a very, very disturbing film, have a go at 'Oldboy' from South Korea. It was remade (of course) but the original is the best.



Disturbing? ... try Gaspar Noe one of these days ... !!!! Totally off the wall acid and psychedelic trips and then some! "Enter the Void" makes 2001 look like a kid's film. Disturbing is not even close to the word in "irreversible", and then ... bizarrely and sick (the whole film is inside the guy's mind!!!! beware!!!) with I stand alone (Je suis seul). All of these are very difficult to work with and in the Film Festival, half the people walked out of "I Stand Alone" ... that's how much entertainment the audience is into, I guess!
 
I'm a son of WW2 folks that were involved in the war ... trust me ... the stories I have heard and know, I won't even discuss them ... because disturbing is not even the right word. The only set of words that "knows", is actually a movie line by Bela Lugosi ... "far worse things are awaiting man, than death ... " is all that I can tell you ... and we see and hear them on the news every day!
2015/11/21 13:28:16
craigb
Pan's Labyrinth is about as far as I go. 
2015/11/21 13:30:41
Moshkito
craigb
Pan's Labyrinth is about as far as I go. 



I haven't seen that yet ... shhhhhhhh .... (hehehe!)
2015/11/21 13:33:14
jamesg1213
craigb
Pan's Labyrinth is about as far as I go. 




Great movie.
2015/11/21 17:05:30
bapu
jamesg1213
 
I can highly recommend the Swedish 'Millenium' trilogy ' 'The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo' 'The Girl Who Played With Fire' and 'The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets Nest'. They're all really well dubbed if you prefer that to subtitles.
 
These originals with Noomi Rapace are superb. David Fincher did a good job with the remake (Daniel Craig etc), but it didn't hit the mark for me.


+me mayte
2015/11/21 17:07:04
bapu
craigb
Pan's Labyrinth is about as far as I go. 


Out of the Labyrinth and into the Pans?
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