Random Movie Poll: 6/17/08

[TJ Wells]

Favorite Oscar winner for Best Foreign Language film in the past ten years?

[TJ Wells]

I'm all about Almodovar.

[airik625]

I've only seen one of these.

Yes, you guessed it right, I saw Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

[Broken Parachute]

I've only seen two. I went with Life is Beautiful.

[AshesAshes]

I seen two of these and I went with The Counterfeiters

[Ailite]

I've only seen three

[lindZ629]

I've only seen Life is Beautiful, so I chose that.

[doomcrs04]

Life is Beautiful is my favorite movie ever so it wins.

[Jessooker]

The Sea Inside.

[ThexQuietxCull]

Although it did not win, Letters From Iwo Jima has been my fav from over the past few years

[TJ Wells]

I've seen five. Winnah!

[williek311]

How City of God wasn't even nomiated for this just stuns me.

[Mirrorsandfevers]

Surprised Amalie didn't make the cut

[Ailite]

How City of God wasn't even nomiated for this just stuns me.
Wait, I thought City of God won?

[Jessooker]

Wait, I thought City of God won?

It was nominated for Director, adapted screenplay and a couple of technical things.

[stayillogical]

Amelie should have won instead of No Man's Land, and I don't understand why City Of God had several nominations but not best FL.

Anyways, I went with Life Is Beautiful. It's one of my favorite movies of all time. It was the first foreign movie I saw (aside from Spanish movies which don't count to me) and I saw it in a theater... three times. Having watched it a bajillion times and taken 7 years of Italian, there's no need for the subtitles. I love this movie oh so much.

[radiofriendly]

the sea inside. javier was beautiful in that film. followed by life is beautiful

[garggggh]

Hm tough pick. Lives of Others was amazing.

Need to see Sea Inside, Barbarian Invasion and No Man's Land.

[aminorthreat55]

I'm all about Almodovar.
Estoy de acuerdo.

[aminorthreat55]

How City of God wasn't even nomiated for this just stuns me.
The Best Foreign Language Film nomination process is probably the most incongruous selection process ever; several amazing films get snubbed every single year.

[MADSTA]

Life Is Beautiful. I love that movie more than words can describe.

Surprised Amalie didn't make the cut
I loved Amélie! We watched it in french class in grade nine, and everyone else was saying how weird it was... I was the only one that liked it.

[Chemical Love]

Pans Labyrinth

[AlternateToLife]

Life is Beautiful is an incredible movie.

[Thomas Balkcom]

I'm all about Almodovar.


After I saw Bad Education, I was hooked

[TJ Wells]

See Live Flesh. Great early Javier Bardem performance. I've yet to see Talk to Her, though, and everyone says that's his best film.

[aminorthreat55]

See Live Flesh. Great early Javier Bardem performance. I've yet to see Talk to Her, though, and everyone says that's his best film.
It's true.

[TJ Wells]

It's true.
Awesome, can't wait. Have actually only seen Live Flesh, All About My Mother and Volver. Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! any good?

[aminorthreat55]

Awesome, can't wait. Have actually only seen Live Flesh, All About My Mother and Volver. Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! any good?
That's actually one of the ones I have wanted to see for a long time that I have had a hard time finding a copy of. I don't know of a current release on dvd, but there's a thin rumour that Criterion has the rights to it, which doesn't mean a lot as they own the rights to dozens of unreleased films, in which case I would be all over it if they release it. From my Spanish film book (Blood Cinema by Marsha Kinder, highly recommended) it seems like a great, complex film, but I haven't seen any of it. However his stuff from just before Atame! is great: Matador, Law of Desire, and Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown are all pretty impressive considering how early he made them.

[TJ Wells]

He has cool titles.