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I'll give you Winter's Bone. Forget the others, though some are very good entertainment. Now,

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In Reply to: RE: Five and twenty reasons your'e wrong. posted by Harmonia on April 27, 2011 at 14:34:47

there were several excellent documentaries and animated films from the English-speaking world: Restrepo; Exit through the Gift Shop; Book of Kells; Pat Tillman Story; How to Train your Dragon.
But foreign films really dominated drama: Enter the Void; White Ribbon; Secret in their Eyes; Carlos; Mesrine; Dogtooth; Mother--- and this is off the top of my head w/only one of many Asian films represented. Chinese-speaking countries, Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, S. Korea, Thailand, Hungary--- they've moved beyond the Hollywood dominated ideas that have overwhelmed and consumed the English-speaking market. The veteran English directors mostly are deadly bores, long on cinematic lectures about the woes of the proletariat concealed in depressing and decadent films. Enough, already.

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So... - Harmonia 18:00:38 04/27/11 (1)
...what did you really think about The Square, Animal Kingdom, The Eclipse and Fish Tank? Or did you really see them?

I agree with you on the foreign language films you cited, and some others unmentioned as well.
- I found "Fish Tank" trite. I'd seen a very similar film not long before. It just seemed - tinear 13:44:10 04/28/11 (0)
  like a seamy, squalid little film. Eclipse, sorry to say, looked silly. I don't believe in ghosts and find their being taken seriously.... well, silly. I will see it because of Ciaran.
  Animal Kingdom was good, brutal entertainment, but certainly NOWHERE near the level of Mesrine. I did admire it's toughness, non-romantic portrayal of a vicious family. The Square I saw some time ago. Didn't impress me, but several people recently have mentioned it so I'll watch it this week, again.
  Again, originality largely is absent from our English-language films: the weight of tradition, perhaps, is too heavy? The exciting, different films, like, "Let the Right One In," are not being made here. I forgot to mention, earlier, Russia as a trove of good film, also.

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