I'm not sure how well known it is, but I greatly enjoyed Le pacte des loups, or as it's also known, Brotherhood of the Wolf. It's about the beast of Gevaudan.

Saw "Snowpiercer" a few days ago. Very good movie.

The name sounds very familiar, but I think I've never actually watched it. I'll have to change that!

Quite famous over here when it came out, I've seen it, thanks!

Oh, this is from the same director who did The Host (2006)? Will have to check it out then, thanks!



Btw, even if I didn't reply to every post here, I've still read and appreciated all of them. A few movies I already know, but I made a note of all the others, thanks everyone!

This is so good it hurts. My brother recommended this one and oh boy, glorious ramen, so supreme...

"The warriors way" is another great movie. The aesthetic and symbolism is just great.

There's the french movie "Nathalie" which was remade as the American "Chloe" (Oddly enough this is one case where the remake is better than the original).

I'm trying to remember about a japanese psychological horror movie about a widower and his psychotic secretary. Can't recall the name but it is at least 10 years old and there is a very disturbing scene with a sack.

Are you thinking of Audition ?

Thank you, that's it! Just googled it and it checks out. Saw it years ago and in portuguese so I had no idea what the english title was.

Thought of another good one:

Boy and the World - O Menino e o Mundo

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/boy_and_the_world/

I'd posted this elsewhere too, but here it goes:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_Cats_Disappeared_from_the_World

I thought this was a "flawed" film (I have my gripes with acting in most modern Japanese films), but still well worth a watch. It's pretty new, I believe they will release the blu-rays and make it available for streaming and such starting mid-November, so put it on your wait list.

BTW. If there was a "best supporting cat" award, this one would get it no doubt.

With so much talk of Japanese movies, here's another one: Yojimbo (1961). A classic. Samurai who doesn't give a fuck, and plays two feuding sides against each other.

I've never seen anybody describe this film like this, but I suppose it is accurate :)

Hey, amusingly enough I stumble upon this :

https://www.gog.com/forum/general/international_movie_recommendations

which links also to this :

https://www.gog.com/forum/general/best_movies_youre_watching_now_that_arent_blockbusters

(which testify that I am easily confused by threads that attempt to deliberately avoid the mainstream repetitions of general recommendations lists)

Also, while we're at it.

Colline Serreau's "Saint Jacques La Mecque" is a magnificent little movie, a lighthearted comedy around a very heterogeneous bunch attempting to do the Santiago de Compostela pilgrimage for very different individual motives. But the theme is also a pretext for interactions between characters of different backgrounds, and a gentle spotlight on several issues of french soociety (cultural prejudices, illiteracy, etc). It's generally sweet and hilarious, with an unexpected depth.

Dino Risi's "Le Fou de Guerre" is a deliciously disturbing movie about a deranged officer in a ww2 desert military camp. It oscillates between touching and creepy. It's played by the popular comedian Michel 'Coluche' Colucci, and is a fantastic, hilarious, pathetic performance, much darker and serious than in his usual vehicles (which this movie isn't). A weird movie with a very weird tone. But I love uncategorizable movies.

And I was thinking again about "Abre Los Ojos", but that one may be too famous already, because Amenabar, and because stupid american remake with tom cruise (titled "vanilla sky" because wtf). Still, in case it had slipped through your net, try to watch it with as little prior knowledge as possible. It's a little jewel.

Heh, apparantly I even participated in that thread myself ...

It's those short Japanese syllables making everything sound so similar to something else.
Maybe it reminded you of Pom Poko the animated movie.




3 years after seeing that movie, I finally got my hands on a bowl of real ramen in Japan. I immediately thought of Tampopo and this scene in particular but I was so hungry that I said to myself "fuck the ramen master..." and went for the pork slices right away. Even if my approach is less ritualized and sophisticated, I've become passionate about ramen in real life. Just as the seaweed slowly sinks, my appreciation of ramen has become more cultured with every trip to the ramen homeland.

Well, that as well, but I'm pretty sure I've also heard of this Tampopo movie. Could be I stumbled upon it while browsing the program of the Berlinale film festival; they always had a section called Culinary Cinema.