And not even all the German ones. I doubt I'll ever get much higher than 30 or so from that list, some of them just deal with topics or are from eras that I do not care for the slightest.
Like Tarantino once said: It's much more entertaining to watch a car explode than to watch one park. Especially European filmmakers often forget that
Cases of "Whaaat, how could they forget...??" may include: La vita è bella and Das Leben der Anderen, but at least they got most of the other must-sees from Germany right. That's all I can think of, off the top of my head.
I am actually really relived they had at least a few highly entertaining films like Amelie, Pan and Spirited away in the top ten.
Like Tarantino once said: It's much more entertaining to watch a car explode than to watch one park. Especially European filmmakers often forget that
Cases of "Whaaat, how could they forget...??" may include: La vita è bella and Das Leben der Anderen, but at least they got most of the other must-sees from Germany right. That's all I can think of, off the top of my head.
I am actually really relived they had at least a few highly entertaining films like Amelie, Pan and Spirited away in the top ten.
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Empire's 100 Best Films of World Cinema
- 31/08/2010 02:50:01 PM
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As for my quibbles with the list...
- 31/08/2010 03:01:43 PM
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Since it's "World Cinema," does that automatically exclude U.S. films? *NM*
- 31/08/2010 05:51:00 PM
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Not only that, it also seems to exclude British, Australian and other English-language ones.
- 31/08/2010 07:57:19 PM
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No one minds Australia's exclusion. All they make is bad Jackie Chan films. *NM*
- 31/08/2010 10:55:18 PM
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Priscilla, Queen of the Desert would've been a shoe-in otherwise... *NM*
- 01/09/2010 12:14:28 AM
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And after somebody brought up Requiem for a Dream in the other thread...
- 01/09/2010 02:15:51 PM
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Hey I've only seen 21
- 31/08/2010 03:40:54 PM
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My opinion of their list rose by a fair bit when I saw La vita è bella was not on it.
- 31/08/2010 07:56:15 PM
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- 31/08/2010 07:56:15 PM
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I'm quite surprised to see that La Vita e bella (Life is Beautiful) isn't on the list. *NM*
- 31/08/2010 04:51:53 PM
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Me too. Pleasantly surprised. *NM*
- 31/08/2010 07:57:47 PM
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Really? I thought the movie was fantastic and well-made. *NM*
- 01/09/2010 12:36:05 AM
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In fairness, Roberto Benigni being an overrated ass doesn't mean his only good film isn't good.
- 01/09/2010 01:01:21 AM
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We may have to fight, now.
- 01/09/2010 10:47:45 AM
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I've seen 28, so nearly a third
- 31/08/2010 06:50:43 PM
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I've seen Zatoichi among those you name...
- 31/08/2010 07:59:14 PM
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You have no taste
- 31/08/2010 08:10:26 PM
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Re: You have no taste
- 31/08/2010 08:34:03 PM
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Re: You have no taste
- 31/08/2010 10:02:45 PM
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Re: You have no taste
- 31/08/2010 10:21:25 PM
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Re: You have no taste
- 01/09/2010 10:34:14 AM
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- 01/09/2010 10:34:14 AM
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I've seen a whopping 4.....but in my defense, I hate subtitles, so I just don't watch these movies *NM*
- 31/08/2010 07:49:38 PM
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Well, you miss out on a ton, then. *NM*
- 31/08/2010 07:59:33 PM
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*NM*
- 31/08/2010 07:59:33 PM
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Indeed....many of them are available on Netflix streaming though, so maybe I'll watch some soon *NM*
- 31/08/2010 08:17:39 PM
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only 11 myself and i don't think that my neighbour totoro is as good princess monoke *NM*
- 31/08/2010 08:20:15 PM
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only saw like 15 of them, but I think the list is somewhat weird. *NM*
- 31/08/2010 08:32:34 PM
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Only seen 8
- 31/08/2010 10:43:15 PM
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Re: Only seen 8
- 01/09/2010 12:17:17 AM
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- 01/09/2010 04:27:38 AM
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Some of those films are really not Jen films
- 01/09/2010 10:36:36 AM
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- 01/09/2010 10:36:36 AM
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That's a lot of Asian movies...
- 01/09/2010 11:54:59 AM
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Yeah, I tend to really like even the silly ones.
- 01/09/2010 04:11:41 PM
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I've seen 32.
- 01/09/2010 04:27:31 AM
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Nice. I agree with a lot of your assessments.
- 01/09/2010 02:02:30 PM
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Well, I don't think that she could have made that movie IN Iran...
- 02/09/2010 09:51:17 PM
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Night Watch? Really? Fun book, bad movie. *NM*
- 01/09/2010 07:29:58 AM
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Yeah the film wasn't much to write home about, opposite to what the trailer made you believe *NM*
- 01/09/2010 11:37:05 AM
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Re: Empire's 100 Best Films of World Cinema
- 01/09/2010 11:05:17 AM
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I've seen eight but Cache is on tonight so I'll watch that.
- 01/09/2010 03:56:31 PM
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I've seen one Haneke movie (La Pianiste), and I've decided I'm going to keep it that way.
- 01/09/2010 04:08:55 PM
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I haven't seen any of his other films so I'm not sure what to expect really
- 01/09/2010 04:26:40 PM
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