My wife and I watched the DVD of Amelie the other night.  We originally saw it in the theatre and I forgot what a fantastic film it is.  It is easily in my top 10.  It is just a magnificant story that is beautifully filmed.

I highly recommend it.

I give it 5 smilies:

Thanks for the tip, Brad.

I watched Joan of Arc the other evening, and would recommend this to all, with one word of warning. Beware the accents!!

It must always be difficult casting a film like this, but there is just no consistency: Some of the French had French accents, some English, and some American. Some of the English had English accents, and some American.

Top marks to Dustin Hoffman as a very terrestrial God

From me.

Which version is this?  I’ve seen the classic version with Ingrid Bergman and one from several years ago with Milla Jovavich (which was so-so).  I haven’t seen the one with Leelee Sobieski.

Amelie is a great movie, no harm from the special sound effects, and yet a very good scenario…

Is a must see, movie!

Regards,

Viorel David F.

I missed Amelie in the theaters, so I’ve got to pick it up on DVD (even though I don’t own a player yet).  It didn’t stay too long around here.

If you’ve never seen La Cage Aux Folles, rent it to see how much of their act Robin Williams and Nathan Lane stole from the French for The Bird Cage!  Les Compères and Le Grand Blond avec une Chaussure Noire were remade in America as Father’s Day and The Man with One Red Shoe, respectively.  I haven’t seen the American versions, but I did enjoy the original French versions with subtitles.

A good but long Japanese film is Ikyru (to live).  Depressing at times due to the main character’s bout with stomach cancer, it has one of the greatest bureaucratic run-around scenes ever on film, as a group of mothers tries to have a swampy field drained to build a playground.  

I’ve had fairly good luck at the local Blockbuster picking foreign films just by reading the descriptions.  I wish they had more.

BTW, I prefer subtitles.  When the mouth motion doesn’t match with the sound, I get annoyed and distracted.

Add Chicken Run to your list.  It’s a screamingly funny spoof of every WWII prisoner-of-war movie ever made, especially The Great Escape and even Stalag 17.

I caught it on HBO the other day and it’s on again Tuesday at 1:00.    

I can highly recommend "memento".  a most interesting treatment and subject matter with artful symmetry in presentation.

a total must see.

[quote author=ekkis link=board=omni;num=1029115787;start=0#6 date=08/20/02 at 03:50:39]I can highly recommend "memento".  a most interesting treatment and subject matter with artful symmetry in presentation.

a total must see.

The Internet Movie Database lists three movies with the same title, but only gives a good description of the one made in 2000, about "... an insurance investigator, who’s memory has been damaged following a head injury he sustained after intervening on his wife’s murder. "  Is this the one?  I’ll have to look for it; sounds interesting from the description.

yes, the most recent is the one.  fascinating delivery of the story.  see trailer at:

http://www.apple.com/trailers/independent/memento.html

IMDB totally rocks, rottentomatoes is kewl too.
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