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Charulata
Soumitra Chatterjee, Madhabi Mukherjee

Sony Pictures

Foreign Film Fans Take Heed! A CLASSIC by one of the world's best!

+ Music, love, literature !!
+ All the Right Choices
+ Similarities
+ Perfect
  
  











  



  
The Eighth Day
Daniel Auteuil, Pascal Duquenne

Polygram USA Video, 1998

An extraordinary achievement

+ One of the best movies you'll ever watch ...
+ Would it be too much to ask for a Region 1 dvd release?
+ This is definitely the best movie ever made
+ This is the best movie I have ever seen
  
  











  



  
My Twentieth Century
Dorota Segda, Oleg Yankovsky

Fox Lorber, 1997

Awesome filmaking in black and white and a good story..

+ One of my favorite movies
+ excepte l'amour

It was definitely an interesting experience first watching this film, the story involves two twin girls who are poor and destitute, who are taken and separated, Dorota Segda in the starring role as the late mother of the twin girls and the dual role of the twin girls, who live different but ...
  
  











  



  
Dodes 'Ka-Den
Yoshitaka Zushi, Kin Sugai

Homevision, 2000

Clackety-clack: a brilliant look at poverty in Japan (or anywhere, actually)

+ An uncommonly beautiful film....
+ Letterboxed

Kurosawa's first color film and a magnificently poignant and deeply human tribute to a group of slum dwellers living in a modern Japanese city. It consists of a series of vignettes, all held together by their commonly shared poverty motif, and are about: a dreamer who imagines building a mansion ...
  
  











  



  
Voyager
Sam Shepard, Julie Delpy

Fox Lorber, 1997

Compelling. Get's at your heart.

+ One of the most tender Love stories ever...
+ Julie Delpy and Sheperd's Beautiful and Shocking Journey .
+ Very good movie!
  
  











  



  
Cold Light (Kaldaljós) [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.4 Import - Australia ]

Haunting Icelandic Film...

This is a great Icelandic film. I saw it on the big screen in Minneapolis last year. The scenery of Iceland is gorgeous and striking. The storyline is engaging and mysterious, so it keeps your attention. The film is slow-paced, so it is easy to read subtitles and follow along. It is about a ...
  
  











  



  
Mephisto
Klaus Maria Brandauer, Krystyna Janda

Starz / Anchor Bay, 2001

"Heaven Evidently Has Great Plans For Me" ~ Manifestations Of Evil In The 20th Century

+ Lessons in Power and Moral Corruption
+ Selling His Soul
+ Mephisto: A Modern Film Classic
  
  











  



  
Los Olvidados
Estela Inda, Miguel Inclán

Connoisseur Video, 1989

Mexico's mean and unforgiving streets

+ Plight of the hopeless
+ Disturbing
+ compelling work
+ Historic, gripping
  
  











  



  
The Scent of Green Papaya
Tran Nu Yên-Khê, Man San Lu

Sony Pictures, 2001

Sensitive Portrayal of Unexpected Love

+ A quiet, meditative film
+ Please bring this movie back out on DVD
+ Super Movie! Beautiful, Dreamy, Sensual, Sad, and Funny
  
  











  



  
Man Facing Southeast
Lorenzo Quinteros, Hugo Soto

Starmaker Entertainment, 1994

One Of The Most Beautiful Films I've Ever Seen

+ Please, please, it's time for the DVD!
+ Please, please release on DVD!
+ Rantes = John From Cincinnati???
+ One of the Most Beautiful Films Ever Made, Seen or Unseen
  
  











  



  
Europa

Filmax

Unjustly Neglected Masterpiece

+ Amazing Surrealism!
+ Brilliant Artistic and Enigmatic Tale of a Broken Europe...
+ Hypnotic
+ TOO CONVOLUTED TO ENTHRALL, BUT TOO BEAUTIFUL TO IGNORE
  
  











  



  
Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands
Sonia Braga, José Wilker

Fox Lorber, 1997

Joie de vivre encapsulated

+ Colorful, musical, and ghostly!
+ The Best of Both Worlds!

I first rented this movie in the 1980s from Blockbuster. It was so different, such a surprising delight, I watched it again about 10 years later. Different from anything I saw before or since. I would like to see this on DVD, then I would purchase a copy. I discovered Sonia Braga in this movie. ...
  
  











  



  
Time of the Gypsies
Davor Dujmovic, Bora Todorovic

Sony Pictures, 1995

THE BEST MOVIE EVER MADE

+ What else can be said...
+ Have you ever read such universally rhapsodic reviews?
+ Poignantly Beautiful
  
  











  



  
Yol
Tarik Akan, Serif Sezer

Columbia/Tri-Star, 1991

An incisive and devastating film!

+ BRAVO *****
+ A beautiful film
+ More powerful than you can imagine
  
  











  



  
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
Carmen Maura, Antonio Banderas

MGM (Video & DVD), 2001

What's up with Almodovar's DVD releases???

+ my introduction to the world of Pedro Almodovar......
+ Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
+ Thanks to Angelika for showing this Almodovar Movie!
+ Enjoyable Comedy. Not quite up to Hepburn and Grant!
  
  











  



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