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What is your favourite film from your country?
Or the film you consider to be the best. Country you live in, country you were born in, whatever you want. I'm just looking for films to potentially watch.
Or the film you consider to be the best. Country you live in, country you were born in, whatever you want. I'm just looking for films to potentially watch.
The Godfather
That’s hard to beat!
Kung Fu Hustle, because it is an absolutely hilarious joy to watch. The subtitled version in Cantonese is better than the dub, in my opinion, though the dub is of course great in its own way.
Inside Llewyn Davis is my current favorite.
You know what? I thought this would be rather unfair to ask from the perspective of someone in the US but I realized that most of my favorite movies are foreign.
Of course there are some very fine artists on this continent, but I like different films for different reasons. Mainly I appreciate films for their craft and I especially like it when they reach for new heights. So for the moment I would have to say that my favorite American film is Cloud Atlas.
By all means, it was an impossible adaptation. It was also an impossible production, with most of the budget coming from the Wachowskis themselves. But I have never seen a film with so much passion in it. Even though they brought in a third director, the film is just peak Wachowski. You will leave that film with a beautiful message in your head.
A close second is The Hateful Eight. While I wouldn't call it peak Tarantino (That's almost certainly Kill Bill), it is his most refined film. It also bleeds passion; for a film where 90% of the run time is either dialogue or monologue, it is so we'll executed you will find yourself glued to the frame.
Technically not from my home country (the Netherlands), but a movie from my language area nonetheless: I love the Belgian comedy-drama The Misfortunates (De Helaasheid der Dingen), adapted from author Dimitri Verhulst's partially autobiographical novel of the same name. It's about the coming of age of a boy who grows up in the Belgian equivalent of a white trash family that consists of unemployed drunkards. It's a hilarious but also deeply sad little movie about an extended family's life in a small town in Flanders, their alcohol-fuelled antics, and their financial struggles amidst a life of squalor and debt. The movie is framed by scenes of the adult author reflecting on his childhood and eventual escape from his roots. The movie is a series of loosely connected scenes; it's a bit like Trainspotting meets Parasite.
Taxi Driver
New Zealand: Bad Taste
Favorite quote from Bad Taste? "Baaaaaaaaaaaaah!"
Country is a broad term for us Indians, from my local language (malayalam) I really like Mahenshinte prathikaram, Trailer.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Haine I genuinely love this film, given the social topics of the moment, it's still very relevant 25 years later, it's about poverty, racial prejudice and police brutality. And above all, great storytelling and gorgeous picture. A true masterpiece
Oslo, August 31st. Such a beautiful, sad movie.
“No Country for Old Men” has to be up there for me
One of my favorite films is Be Kind Rewind (link to trailer) with Jack Black and Mos Def. It's a very endearing feel-good comedy that I think went under appreciated.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asterix_%26_Obelix:_Mission_Cleopatra
Todas as Mulheres do Mundo (All the Women from this World, 1966) is a masterpiece of comedy and romance by Domingos de Oliveira, the Brazilian Woody Allen.
Loosely based on the character of Don Juan.
Is this movie well known in Brazil?
Not by the general public, no. Cinephiles are frequently aware of its existence and it has some fans, but it’s not on the radar for most of them either.
Babam ve Oglum (My Father and My Son)
I've been meaning to watch that. I should do it some time.
Höhenfeuer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yXb_cgQF_E
Country's a bit broad for me. I'll do state. The Music Man. A blast of a musical. It pokes a lot of fun at the older generation in every time.