It is a bit disturbing that when reading "foreign movies" I did, unprompted, think "non-English" immediately. And I'm Norwegian. *sigh* They might make me hand in my passport any day now unless I start behaving.



I do. Either. I watch much more live-action, though.



Tricky.
Let me think. Should I sort it according to langauge?

FRENCH
Cité des enfants perdus
Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain
Un homme et une femme

SPANISH
El Laberinto del Fauno
Hable Con Ella

GERMAN
Goodbye Lenin!

SWEDISH
Fucking Åmål
Tillsammans

NORWEGIAN
Jakten på nyresteinen
Himmelfall

ITALIAN
La Vita e Bella
La tigre e la neve
Il Postino
Cinema Paradiso

CHINESE
House of Flying Daggers (????)
Hero (??)
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (????)
Kung Fu Hustle (??)

JAPANESE
Spirited Away (????????)
Zatoichi (???) -- the one with Takeshi Kitano
When the Last Sword is Drawn (?????)
Seven Samurai (????)

CZECH
Kolya
T?i o?íšky pro Popelku (Three nuts for Cinderella, roughly translated)

I am sure I have forgotten something important.



Um. That varies greatly.



No. I hate dubbing. There are exceptions (for some reason, I don't mind so much when it is Disney dubbed to Norwegian; but it upsets me when Japanese is made English; and the one great exception is one of the Czech films mentioned above, which is always dubbed to Norwegian (by one man, at that). I suspect it is a matter of having grown up with the very occasional dubbing of what is aimed at children too young to read (ie. Disney and Cinderella). The very odd dubbing of the latter is also somehow a redeeming quality. But I tend to react very ... adversely to dubbing of live action. I remember being subjected to Beverly Hills 90210 dubbed to Italian, once. It was bad.



Being "foreign" it kind of came naturally. Because we grow up with subtitles as part of daily life, the transition to Japanese isn't that great.



I'm not sure. I tend to be very selective in what I watch (having checked with others whether there is a consensus that it is in fact good). I remember being taken aback by Hero not being what I expected, but then it grew on me later.



I don't like them. There is the atrocity of State of Play being remade these days. I want to hurt someone. When you have an English language brilliant thing with Bill Nighy, John Simm and a bunch of other excellent people, you don't REMAKE it into an American version with Russel Crowe. It is just wrong. Bad. Morally unhelpful.



Ok.