Great Architecture Movies. Dan Cruickshank's Adventures in Architecture 1x01 Beauty. Film Francais - a list by Pelletier97. TasteKid | Recommends music, movies, books, games. The best films of the '00s | Film. The best foreign films of 2009. Look at it this way. We have the chance to see virtually every American film that's released, and many of the English language films in general.
But with the crisis in U.S. distribution, the only foreign-language films are those someone paid hard cash for, and risked opening here. "You always like those foreign films," I'm told, often by someone making it sound like a failing. Not always, but often. They tend to involve characters of intelligence and complexity. If they're about people of subnormal intelligence, they're about that, or acknowledge it. In most of the world, people want to hurry into adulthood, not clinging to adolescence. Have you noticed how many American mainstream films are about stupid people who are presented as normal?
My list of the year's best foreign films contains 15 titles. These were very good: "Broken Embraces. " "The Class" is about the power struggle between a teacher who wants to do good, and students who disagree about what "good" is. "Gomorrah. " The 20 Best Foreign Language Films of the Decade | Film School Rejects. The Lives of Others(Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, Germany 2006) It’s not common that I’m both entertained and educated by a movie, but this devastating German film does just that. (It’s also not common that I enjoy a German movie…) It’s 1984 and Berlin is still a city divided. A popular artistic couple is put under the watchful eye of a lonely agent with no life of his own. As he invades their world and becomes more and more intimate with the couple he discovers new feelings and thoughts building in his own head and heart.
Memories of Murder(Bong Joon-ho, South Korea 2003) Bong is best known for his stellar monster movie meets family drama meets slapstick comedy The Host, and while that’s a great movie his best remains this dark thriller about South Korea’s first serial killer. Pan’s Labyrinth(Guillermo del Toro, Mexico 2006) A Prophet (Jacques Audiard, France 2009) Along with Breathless, this is the only other 2009 release to make this list. Revanche(Gotz Spielmann, Austria 2008)