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In Reply to: RE: Five and twenty reasons your'e wrong. posted by Harmonia on April 27, 2011 at 14:34:47
there were several excellent documentaries and animated films from the English-speaking world: Restrepo; Exit through the Gift Shop; Book of Kells; Pat Tillman Story; How to Train your Dragon.
But foreign films really dominated drama: Enter the Void; White Ribbon; Secret in their Eyes; Carlos; Mesrine; Dogtooth; Mother--- and this is off the top of my head w/only one of many Asian films represented. Chinese-speaking countries, Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, S. Korea, Thailand, Hungary--- they've moved beyond the Hollywood dominated ideas that have overwhelmed and consumed the English-speaking market. The veteran English directors mostly are deadly bores, long on cinematic lectures about the woes of the proletariat concealed in depressing and decadent films. Enough, already.
...what did you really think about The Square, Animal Kingdom, The Eclipse and Fish Tank? Or did you really see them?
I agree with you on the foreign language films you cited, and some others unmentioned as well.
like a seamy, squalid little film. Eclipse, sorry to say, looked silly. I don't believe in ghosts and find their being taken seriously.... well, silly. I will see it because of Ciaran.
Animal Kingdom was good, brutal entertainment, but certainly NOWHERE near the level of Mesrine. I did admire it's toughness, non-romantic portrayal of a vicious family. The Square I saw some time ago. Didn't impress me, but several people recently have mentioned it so I'll watch it this week, again.
Again, originality largely is absent from our English-language films: the weight of tradition, perhaps, is too heavy? The exciting, different films, like, "Let the Right One In," are not being made here. I forgot to mention, earlier, Russia as a trove of good film, also.
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