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Well, by restricting yourself to American/English language film, you're doing about the same thing, aren't you?
No Mexican.
No Chinese.
No Korean.
No Italian.
No French.
It's a big, beautiful world out there...
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I love reading subtitles. Where do I find these movies?
Some of the best exploitation films come from elsewhere. Take a dive into the works of Jess Franco, Walerian Borowczyk, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Tinto Brass, Umberto Lenzi, etc. and then there are the style over substance directors such as Mario Bava and Dario Argento. Some of these guys showcased emerging beauties like Soledad Miranda and Marie Liljedahl and others provided continued work for Hollywood stars like Carroll Baker. It's not all high-brow stuff. They exploited everything from Nazism to Catholicism. Just look at some of the sub genres - women in prison, convents, sexual exploitation of horror, giallo/murder, etc.
Fellini, Bergman, Truffaut/Godard/Bresson are great directors of course, but trash cinema is the way to learn about a culture and particularly its seedy underbelly. Plus, you cant' beat the music scores in many of these flicks - I'm neck deep in soundtracks from Piero Umiliani and Piero Piccioni as we speak. (US has its fair share of depravity from early John Waters, Herschell Gordon Lewis, Doris Wishman, Russ Meyer etc. as well as very stylish directors like Radley Metzger. Watch the grave-side service scene in Meyer's Mudhoney. It starts with a fire and brimstone sermon from a scary preacher and ends with a fight between a hitchhiker and a drunk who tips the casket, body and drunk falling into the grave together. The movie as a whole is bland but that one scene is probably the best of the southern grotesque I've seen on film. It rivals anything written by Faulkner. For those who never got to see it in person at travelling carnivals, watch the dizzying Wall of Death scene in Metzger's The Lickerish Quartet.) Film as art is fine, but if you want to be amused, shocked, bewildered, or generally entertained start with Eurotrash cinema and go from there for your spicy foods.
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The tone of the thread seemed to go that way. Although I gravitate to the subversive, Fellini's 8 1/2 is my favorite mid-life crisis film.
I like lots of English language films. However I have come to prefer European films and it makes me sad when I talk to people who won't watch subtitles because I feel they are missing out on what I consider some of the very best films.
I also feel sad when I talk to people who won't watch 40s and 50s Hollywood Film Noir because it's old and in B&W.
It's just a natural desire to share something special with others.
Jingoism is ignorance.
Yet you DON'T see anyone accusing me of being a snob or elitist.
Why is that?
"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" -Michael McClure
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rather in questions. "The sign of a master is that he deals in questions, not resolutions and that he pulls us away from the payoffs of plot and into the maze of inquiry."One is passive, i.e. "eat this!"
The other is active, i.e. "what is this?"
Edits: 01/14/21
I used to watch movies with sub-titles but my lips would get tired so I quit.
'A lie is halfway around the world before the truth gets its boots on'. -Mark Twain
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Which isn't quite as ugly as snobbish, but certainly too close for comfort.
"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" -Michael McClure
You appear to have an anger management problem?
anyone here posts much more than that.
Pretty sure most the posters here have done film 101 and don't "need" a recap.
So, yeah math wizard, do some more math.
I only have anger management problems with hypocrites and boors expounding
snobbish attributes on others because they think they "know" better.
"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" -Michael McClure
we agree on something!
Only to be overshadowed by... the usual suspects!
Which is a very good movie even IF it's... American!
Which reminds me of Casablanca, also good, also... American.
"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" -Michael McClure
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Maybe both?
Average height BTW.
"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" -Michael McClure
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If it is indeed 99.9% American movie posts (I don't think it is), it's only because they're all watching what they enjoy. Nobody is limiting themselves to what they want to watch, they're watching exactly what they decide upon. We all have differing tastes, nobody should judge others for watching what they prefer to watch.
Maybe join a foreign films forum if you can't find many others who enjoy the same as you here.
I didn't see musetap as angry, only bumped back at what appeared to be being judged.
Just what I read in this... my opinion only.
No one singled him out. Obviously, he felt wounded. Poor little guy. He's still not over it, either. And I hardly was being critical. I pointed it out, used no judging terms.
Fair enough on your not being critical. It seemed to me that you were insinuating people who only watched American films (includes me) were losing out, missing something.
if you don't watch foreign films. I have a passion for American film, but that doesn't mean I'm being somehow disloyal by also loving foreign films.
To you people are missing a lot. I've seen tidbits of some of what you mentioned, does nothing for me.
Maybe I can compare using music. Let's say you don't like heavy metal, or rap, or country... why would someone try to convince you to listen to it?
What you enjoy is better to you, it's not necessarily "better". Same goes for what all of us like, it's better only if it's better to the beholder.
all foreign food ARE missing something.
Your music analogy? How about someone who only likes American folk. Period. Who's to say they're "wrong?"
I'm just saying categorically to rule out other things is strange.
I'd also mention that seeing "tidbits" of the oeuvre of world cinema probably isn't a great way to base such an enormous decision?
But maybe I'm misreading you. Maybe you didn't mean that you only appreciate American film after tastes of foreign films?
Lastly, with all the amazing variety of foreign film, to say one doesn't care for any of it--- that's just bizarre. Sorry if I'm misunderstanding you.
As far as convincing others: where's the harm? I was introduced to foreign film by others that were enthusiastic. I'm very grateful to them and just passing it on.
Agrre, if you don't ever try say Korean food, one is "missing" that food, as in they have not had an opportunity to try it. That said, nothing wrong with someone making that decision.
I don't personally categorically rule out anything, but I don't go out of my way to try new things either, just not the adventurous type.
I don't consider it an enormous decision at all, either I watch something or I don't. If a movie looks interesting I'll try it, if not... pass.
I get your interest, passion, I'm just more passive about movies.
Hollywood sure has an appetite for foreign films
look at how many get remade with US marquee stars!
regards,
you have mistaken 'pith' for anger Tin
which is understandable as Merriam-Webster attributes the coinage of pithy to Leo Durocher who used the expression in the vernacular of cheating at cards or baseball ... not so however, he merely established the vernacular
though not a minor point, it's my pedant for the day
with regards,
No Indian
No Thai
No Vietnamese
No Spanish
No Greek
Bill
I don't know what nationality most of our dinners are TBH. Wife cooks it, we eat it. Weekends
we generally go something along what you mentioned.
Movies... I don't really see a correlation, watch whatever entertains you.
NT
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