Greatest Foreign Films from Movieline Magazine. Lola Montes (1. 95. The Sins of Lola. Montes, W. Ger./France, directed by Max Ophuls. Near death, the great 1. Lola Montes. sold herself to the circus as an attraction. I've wanted to see Robert Altman's '3 Women'(1977) for long time and finally saw it last night. The references to one of my all time favorites, Ingmar Bergman's 'Persona' are obvious: two young women, the main. This movie uses her circus. Montes appears in tableaux from her life. This leads to a superb portrait of. M (1. 93. 1), Germany, directed by Fritz Lang. Fritz Lang's famous prenoir creeper is one of the earliest and most. Sixty years. before Hannibal Lecter, Peter Lorre gave us a classic self- loathing. Masculin Feminin (1. Masculine. Feminine, France/Sweden, directed by Jean- Luc Godard Jean- Luc Godard's disarmingly sweet, intimate and blazingly smart exploration. The Mating Game. Even if the name Godard makes your temples pound. Metropolis (1. 92. Germany, directed by. Fritz Lang. Lang's antiquated vision of a dystopia ripped up at the roots by class. It's been. plundered so often that even if you haven't seen it, you've sort of. Le Million (1. 93. France, directed by Rene. Clair. Rene Clair loved prettiness, song and music, comic confusion and Paris- -they. Murmur of the Heart (1. Le Souffle. au Coeur or Dearest Love, Italy/W. Ger./France, directed. Louis Malle. Louis Malle's sunny, beautifully controlled comedy about the sensual. Janus Films 215 Park Ave. South 5th Floor New York, NY 10003 [email protected] (212) 756-8822. Furk.net is not a file locker and doesn't support filesharing for profit. Descargar: The Kid (1921) - DVDRip versi Torrent anonymously with torrshield encrypted vpn pay with bitcoin.Colette yarn. The controversy at the time. Still, Lord help sons if all mothers. Lea Massari. Napoleon (1. France, directed by Abel. Gance. An eye- roasting epic of the type even David Lean never made. Abel Gance. used every filmmaking trope in the book and then invented a few of his. Keep an eye peeled for surrealist nutcase Antonin Artaud as Marat. Night and Fog (1. Nuit et Brouillard. France, directed by Alain Resnais. Yes, you've heard already- -the concentration camps were a bad thing. The Night of the Shooting Stars (1. La Notte di San Lorenzo or The Night of San Lorenzo. Italy, directed by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani. Paolo and Vittorio Taviani's wonder- working fable about a platoon of. Italian peasants in the last days of WWII escaping their ravaged village. American forces. Filled. American movies. 1. Novecento, France/W. Robert De Niro. Gerard Depardieu, Dominique Sanda and Donald Sutherland amid Italy's. Flemish painting and laid out like. Parmesan wedding banquet. Nosferatu (1. 92. Nosferatu - Eine. Symphonie des Grauens or Nosferatu, The Vampire, Germany. F. Murnau's film of the Dracula tale was the first of its. The. original surrealists loved the famous title card that read, . La Notte (1. 96. 1), aka The Night or. La Nuit, France/Italy, directed by Michelangelo Antonioni. Antonioni's examination of the pathology of modern marriage, lust and. Jeanne Moreau and Marcello. Mastroianni are the couple, and here is moviemaking as layered and complex. Pandora's Box (1. Lulu or. Die Buechse der Pandora, Germany, directed by G. Pabst. Minor Hollywood actress went to Germany and became the supreme femme. Lulu, in an adaptation of two of Franz Wedekind's plays. She Louise Brooks- -still undefeated champion. The Passion of Joan of Arc (1. La. Passion de Jeanne d'Arc, France, Carl Theodor Dreyer. Danish giant Carl Dreyer recreates a medieval tug- of- war between ignorant. As Joan, Maria. Falconetti will never be forgotten; look out for Antonin Artaud again. Persona (1. 96. 6), aka Masks, Sweden. Ingmar Bergman. An actresss (Liv Ullmann) stops speaking, on stage. In her breakdown. Bibi Andersson). The nurse talks, acting. Slowly, the characters become interwined, dependent. This is Ingmar Bergman's most lucid analysis. Pierrot le Fou (1. Crazy Pete. France/Italy, directed by Jean- Luc Godard. Jean- Luc Godard's bitter homage to Hollywood, to painting, to the novel. South of France, and to his own wife, Anna Karina, who was leaving. This is Godard's adventure film- -film noir. Godard deconstructed film in the '6. Playtime (1. 96. 7), Italy/France, directed. Jacques Tati. Jacques Tati's Monsieur Hulot finds himself in the ultimate modern city. Raise the Red Lantern (1. Taiwan/China/Hong. Kong (UK), directed by Zhang Yimou. This color- drenched melodrama of a young concubine serves as a lesson. Zhang Yimou's. film is part of the recent flowering of Chinese cinema, and Gong Li. Ran (1. 98. 5), France/Japan, directed by Akira. Kurosawa. Akira Kurosawa should have retired after this awesome transcription. King Lear (mixed with a little Macbeth), which, thank. God, jettisons the texts and just tells a helluva story. The battle. scenes will unhinge your jaw. Rashomon (1. 95. 1), aka In the Woods. Japan, directed by Akira Kurosawa. Four strange people in feudal Japan tell self- serving versions of the. A classic about no less a subject. Hollywood's remake was titled, aptly. The Outrage. The Red and the White (1. Csillagosok. katonak, Hungary/USSR, directed by Miklos Jancso. Bolsheviks and counter- revolutionaries battle it out in the hills along. Volga. Abstract and monolithic, and I mean that in a good way. Hungarian. Miklos Jancso makes movies without characters but with crowds you can. The power struggles of history are played out. A steamroller movie- -it's. The Red Desert (1. Il Deserto. Rosso, France/Italy, directed by Michelangelo Antonioni. It's Monica Vitti again on the verge of a nervous breakdown in Michelangelo. Antonioni's painterly study of social disintegration, Italian- style. Repulsion (1. 96. UK, directed by Roman. Polanski. Roman Polanski's jittery thriller takes a clinician's delight in documenting. Catherine. Deneuve) going nuts in her apartment. Queasiest moments: the dead rabbit. Deneuve slashing a guy to kingdom. With its cool, crazy Chico Hamilton score, this is first- class. Grand Guignol, tailor- made to watch with someone you love to grab. Rocco and His Brothers (1. Rocco. e I Suoi Fratelli or Rocco et Ses Freres, France/Italy, directed. Luchino Visconti. Or, Why I'm Glad To Have Been an Only Child. In Luchino Visconti's. The Godfather). fate uproots and urbanizes a peasant mother and her five sons, most. Tragic, wrenching. La Roue (1. 92. 3), France, directed by Abel. Gance. Napoleon is Abel Gance's best known film because it has been. But La Roue is at least. It's over- the- top. The Rules of the Game (1. La. Regle du Jeu, France, directed by Jean Renoir. The working definition of tragicomedy (an un- American form based on. Jean Renoir directed and starred, playing the good- natured but. Nearly 6. 0. years later, this movie is years ahead of film today. Sansho Dayu (1. 95. Sansho The Bailiff. Japan, directed by Kenji Mizoguchi In 1. Japan, an exiled governor's wife gets sold into prostitution. Director Kenji Mizoguchi knows no. Senso (1. 95. 4), aka The Wanton Contessa. Italy, directed by Luchino Visconti Luchino Visconti loved the 1. The Seven Samurai (1. Shichinin. No Samurai or The Magnificent Seven, Japan, directed by Akira. Kurosawa. A Japanese village of the 1. The. villagers hire seven samurai. Akira Kurosawa filmed. Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (1. Tini Zabutykh Predkiv or Shadows of Our Ancestors, USSR/Ukraine. Sergei Paradjanov. A Ukrainian epic set in the Carpathian Mountains, this landmark movie. Sergei Paradjanov feels like it was actually shot deep in. Shame (1. 96. 8), aka Skammen, Sweden. Ingmar Bergman. The Bergman movie for people who hate Bergman movies- -no symbolism. Max von Sydow. and Liv Ullmann) trying to stay alive when war suddenly explodes right. A great war film for people. Shoah (1. 98. 5), France, directed by Claude. Lanzmann. Yes, you've been told this before- -the concentration camps were a wicked. Still, Claude Lanzmann's documentary is only 8 1/2 hours, so. Smiles of a Summer Night (1. Sommarnattens. Leende, Sweden, directed by Ingmar Bergman. Ingmar Bergman, in an uncharacteristically Mozartian mood, sends in. An elegantly witty, deeply. Stephen Sondheim's A Little. Night Music. You may find its scalpel- like Scandinavian irony preferable. Gallic schematics of La Ronde. Solaris (1. 97. 2), aka Solyaris, USSR. Andrei Tarkovsky. A forgotten space station's crew is haunted by their dead loved ones. The Spider's Stratagem (Strategy) (1. La Strategia del Ragno, Italy, directed by Bernardo Bertolucci. The atmosphere is so cryptic and the behaviors so furtive in Bernardo. Bertolucci's take on a Jorge Luis Borges short story that you find yourself. The star is a cipher, but Alida Valli supplies more. The Third Man. or The Paradine Case. The whole thing is so gorgeously color- drenched. Spirit of the Beehive (1. El. Espiritu de la Colmena, Spain, directed by Victor Erice. Why aren't there more great movies about kids? Kid actors, for starters. Torrent's. resemblance to the little actress drowned by Karloff in the original. Strike (1. 92. 4), aka Stachka, USSR. Sergei Eisenstein. Sergei Eisenstein was a graphic artist on a par with Picasso, and a. Soviet Union. All. And so for a few years Soviet cinema was. Throne of Blood (1. Kumonosu- jo. or The Castle of the Spider's Web or Cobweb Castle, Japan. Akira Kurosawa. Noh meets Shakespeare. Akira Kurosawa's samurai take on Macbeth. The bloodcurdling finale features Toshiro. Mifune pierced, St. Sebastian- like, by arrows. Through a Glass Darkly (1. Sasom. I En Spegel, Sweden, directed by Ingmar Bergman. A family vacations on a Swedish island, but the grown daughter (the. Harriet Andersson) is a borderline schizo who has visions. God as a giant spider. Bergman goes for the throat. Tokyo Story (1. 95. Tokyo Monogatari. Japan, directed by Yasujiro Ozu. Ozu's quietest, most devastating left hook, in which an elderly couple. Where other directors babble like brats, Ozu whispers like. Tristana (1. 97. 0), Spain/France/Italy, directed. Luis Bunuel. Luis Bunuel reunites with his belle de jour, Catherine Deneuve. Catholicism. obsession, aging, Franco- ism and amputation. Deneuve is an implacably. The claustrophobic, Hollywood- spoofing perfection of. Two English Girls (1. Les Deux. Anglaises et le Continent or Anne and Muriel, France, directed. Francois Truffaut. A young Frenchman goes to England and meets two sisters (both passionate. His love for them lasts over the. This is Francois Truffaut's. With Jean- Pierre Leaud, Kika. Markham and Stacey Tendeter.
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