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[nina]

The annual Film Festival is coming to my town and there's a LONG list of films. Because of that and because I don't have time to see them all I'll have to shorten the list. If you have seen any of the films or heard something about them don't be shy to tell


Everyday God Kisses Us on the Mouth / In fiecare zi dumnezeu ne saruta pe gura, Siniša Dragan, Romania, 2002


Sisters / Sestry, Sergej Bodrov, jr., Russia, 2001


Blind Spot / Slepa pega, Hanna A. W. Slak, Slovenia, 2001


Wild Bees / Divoké včely, Bohdan Slama, Czech, 2001


This Is Not a Love Song / This Is Not a Love Song, Bille Eltringham, GB, 2002


Hush! / Hush!, Ryosuke Hashiguchi, Japan, 2001


Seafood / Hai Xian, Wen Zhu, China/Hongkong, 2001


Inch'Allah Sunday / Inch'Allah dimanche, Yamina Benguigui, Algeria/France, 2001


Saturday / Sábado, Juan Villegas, Argentina, 2001


City of God / Ciudade de Deus, Fernando Meirelles, Brazil, 2002


Do Fish Do It? / Fickende Fische, Almut Getto, Germany, 2001


Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner / Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner, Zacharias Kunuk, Canada, 2001


Light of My Eyes / Luce dei miei occhi, Giuseppe Piccioni, Italy, 2002


My Russia / Mein Russland, Barbara Gräftner, Austria, 2002


The Spanish Woman / La spagnola, Steve Jacobs, Australia, 2001


The Days / Les jours ou Je n'existe pas (aura été), Jean-Charles Fitoussi, France, 2002


Smokers Only / Vagón fumador, Verónica Chen, Argentina, 2001


My Big Fat Greek Wedding / My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Joel Zwick, USA, 2002

Be My Star / Mein Stern, Valeska Grisebach, Austria/Germany, 2001


L'afrance / L'afrance, Alain Gomis, France/Senegal, 2001


Wimbledon Stage / La Stade de Wimbledon, Mathieu Almaric, France, 2001


The Cage / La cage, Alain Raoust, France, 2001


Freedom / La libertad, Lisandro Alonso, Argentina, 2001


A Moment of Happiness / Un moment de bonheur, Antoine Santana, France, 2001


Ghost World / Ghost World, Terry Zwigoff, GB/USA/Germany, 2001


8 Women / 8 Femmes, François Ozon, France, 2002


Monday Morning / Lundi matin, Otar Iosseliani, France/Italy, 2001


The Son / Le fils, Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne, Belgium/France, 2002


Amen. / Amen., Costa-Gavras, France/Germany/Romania, 2001


The Pianist / The Pianist, Roman Polanski, France/Israel/Netherlands/Polan/GB, 2002


Man Without a Past / Mies vailla menneisyyttä, Aki Kaurismäki, Finland/Germany/France, 2002


Talk to Her / Hable con ella, Pedro Almodóvar, Spain, 2002


Millennium Mambo / Qianxi manbo, Hou Hsiao-hsien, France/Taiwan, 2001


Human Nature / Human Nature, Michel Gondry, France/USA, 2001


All or Nothing / All or Nothing, Mike Leigh, GB/France, 2002


24 Hours Party People / 24 Hours Party People, Michael Winterbottom, GB/France/Netherlands, 2002


Sweet Sixteen / Sweet Sixteen, Ken Loach, GB/Germany/Spain, 2002


The Experiment / Das Experiment, Oliver Hirschbiegel, Germany, 2001


Intacto / Intacto, Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, Spain, 2001


Pollock / Pollock, Ed Harris, USA, 2000


Travelling Birds / Travelling Birds, Jacques Perrin, France, 2001


Dolls / Dolls, Takeši Kitano, Japan, 2002


The Cuckoo / Kukuška, Aleksander Rogožkin, Russia, 2002


Grill Point / Halbe Treppe, Andreas Dresen, Germany, 2002


Nowhere in Africa / Nirgendwo in Afrika, Caroline Link, Germany, 2002


Kedma / Kedma, Amos Gitai, France/Israel/Italy, 2002


Unknown Pleasures / Ren xiao yao, Jia Zhang-ke, China/Japan/Korea/France, 2002


Walking on Water / Walking on Water, Tony Ayres, Australia, 2002


Taking Sides / Taking Sides, István Szabó, Austria/France/Germany/GB, 2001


Hi, Tereska / Czesc Tereska, Robert Glinski, Poland, 2001


Bemani / Bemani, Dariush Mehrjui, Iran, 2002


Angela / Angela, Roberta Torre, Italy, 2002


Kandahar / Safar e Ghandehar, Mohsen Mikhmalbaf, Iran/France, 2001


Okay / Okay, Jesper W. Nielsen, Denmark, 2002


The Magdalene Sisters / The Magdalene Sisters, Peter Mullan, GB/Ireland, 2002


The Three Marias / As Tres Marias, Aluisio Abranches, Brazil, 2002


Son of the Bride / El Hijo de la novia, Juan José Campanella, Spain/Argentina, 2002


Lantana / Lantana, Ray Lawrence, Australia/Germany, 2001


No Regrets / Nichts bereuen, Benjamin Quabeck, Germany, 2001


Seagull's Laughter / Mavahlatur, Agust Guomundsson, Iceland, 2001

Iris / Iris, Richard Eyre, GB/USA, 2001


Gas Attack / Gas Attack, Kenny Glenaan, GB, 2001


Bloody Sunday / Bloody Sunday, Paul Greengrass, GB/Ireland, 2002


Sexy Best / Sexy Best, Jonathan Glazer, GB/Spain, 2000


Late Night Shopping / Late Night Shopping, Saul Metzstein, GB, 2001


Some Voices / Some Voices, Simon Cellan Jones, GB, 2001


Croupier / Croupier, Mike Hodges, GB/France/Germany/Ireland, 1998


Lucky Break / Lucky Break, Peter Cattaneo, GB/Germany, 2001


Charlotte Grey / Charlotte Grey, Gillian Armstrong, GB/Germany/Austria, 2001

 

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[Slagathor]

I only know very few movies....

8 Femmes by François Ozon is an excellent movie if the critics are right - I haven't seen it yet.

The Pianist has received quite a lot of attention here in the press since it's partly Dutch but opinions are divided so it's risky that one! Most reviews were positive though...

Sestry by Sergej Bodrov is a fairly good movie.

Late Night Shopping by Saul Metzstein sucks!

Hope I helped you out a bit there

 

[vitoria_Ally]

What a long list

From that list I've seen few only, but let's try:

1. Bloody Sunday / Bloody Sunday, Paul Greengrass, GB/Ireland, 2002

This one "obligatorily". Very good, one of those movies what leave sth in me. Made like documentary.


2. The Pianist / The Pianist, Roman Polanski, France/Israel/Netherlands/Polan/GB, 2002

Good movie and Cannes's winner this year.


3. Hi, Tereska / Czesc Tereska, Robert Glinski, Poland, 2001

FRom Poland but that movie won may awards and festivals. Very good IMO


4. 5. 6.

8 Women / 8 Femmes, François Ozon, France, 2002

I heard that worth to see


All or Nothing / All or Nothing, Mike Leigh, GB/France, 2002

cause of Mike Liegh, I always lke his movies


Talk to Her / Hable con ella, Pedro Almodóvar, Spain, 2002

cause of Almodovar


I've seen 3 first, I know 3 last will be good
Or maybe I hope they will be good as always

 

[nina]

Thanks guys! The festival will start on 11th November so I have time to chose and to see if you'll recommend some more

 

[Slagathor]

I'll try and track down a friend of mine in Nijmegen stress: - so far away) and see if he knows more - he usually does!

 

[Sivori]

If I were you I'd go see the movie by Takeshi Kitano, I haven't seen this one but his movies are usually very good, IMO of course.

I agree with vit that you should see Bloody sunday, I haven't seen it my self ( a clear tendency here....) but from what I've heard it's great.
Man without a past has gotten great reviews here.

My big fat greek wedding has gotten a lot of attention, and you'll probably be amused by it, the parts I've seen of it are quite funny, but I can (sort of relate to it, though).

You have too see Human Nature!!! It's brilliant, go see. I'll be very disappointed if you don't see this one....

Movies I don't think you should see:

Pollock, oh spare yourself the pain of this

Kandahar, the first movie to come out of Afghanistan for quite some time, and it shows. not very good.

 

[vitoria_Ally]

Yes, I agree about Pollock, not good

And I read about Human nature that worth to see

 

[Slagathor]

Pollock is BAD indeed!!

 

[Respaul]

This Is Not a Love Song - Really enjoyed this!! Let down slightly by the director trying to showcase his talents.... often at the expense of the project in hand
Recomended

Fickende Fische - Well done chick flick!

My Big Fat Greek Wedding - Reasonably funny but a bit too comercial to see at a festival

8 Femmes - A farcical take on murder mysteries. Not bad. Wondeful performance from Isabelle Huppert. Shame about the music. Doubt it travels well!

The Pianist - Polanski returns to form!!

Hable con ella - Dissapointing by Almodovar's standards!

Human Nature - Dissapontingly unfunny look at society

24 Hours Party People - A great look at the manchester music scene.... may not travel well outside the uk!

Pollock - Good Film, great acting.... amazingly Boring!!

Iris - Dull but fine acting!

Bloody Sunday - Highly absorbing docu style film.... factually iffy!!

Sexy Best / Croupier - 2 of the best films you will see this year!!

Intacto - A great film about luck.... go see it!!

 

[nina]

Thank you all very much

 

[Slagathor]

you're welcome - enjoy the movies!

 

[nina]

According to the recommendations above I will

Thanks!

 

[nina]

Well I would rather not comment too much about the content of the movie as I think I would offend a certain nation. DISGRACE! :frown:

At first, for about 10 minutes, I didn't like how the movie was shot, because it appeared like a documentary (it still is in a certain way), with camera following people, moving, not being steady ... but then I got used to it and it even made a special effect on the whole story

Short movie! (Especially after you were sitting for more than 2 hours watching The Pianist the previous day )

 

[vitoria_Ally]

Hmm... honestly I can't sense, did you like this movie or not?

 

[nina]

Yes I like the movie, I just wish that all the things that happened wouldn't be real :down:

 

[vitoria_Ally]

Thanks,
And yes, the movie was very good and the facts that caused making such movie were just.... speechless here...

 

[nina]

Almodóvar's Habla Con Ella is the best European movie this year :extatic: It was announced today; it also got an award for best scenario, best directing and the people's choice award :cheesy:

It's gonna come out here on Thursday, can't wait