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10 Most Accessible Foreign Film ...
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"Danny Boyle’s new crowd-pleasing film Slumdog Millionaire was originally intended to be shot entirely in English, but apparently due to the preferences of a casting director, about a third of the movie is in Hindi. While this fraction may not be enough to call it a foreign-language film, it could have been enough to turn off subtitle-fearing audiences were the movie not so otherwise accessible due to its feel-good, “Hollywood-style” story involving star-crossed romance, destiny and an ultimate “love conquers all” message. Also, the movie breaks free from one off-putting foreign film tradition by following Man on Fire, Night Watch and TV’s Heroes into the realm of non-traditional subtitling. Slumdog received a standing ovation at the Toronto Film Festival, where it won the People’s Choice Awa "
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"ok, i know that even i've been guilty of watching a movie instead of reading a book. but let me tell you: READ THE BOOK FIRST. it will feel like a bright light shown in the darkness of the fog of confusion in the movie. the book, too, is quite amazing. honestly. the book contains a few missions of the nightwatch focusing on Anton, the main character. The movie focuses on one of the stories with a couple parallels of other stories. read it. please. for me? then tell me what you think!love,will "
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"This is the “Dilbert” panel I've always wanted to see. A fed-up office drone, sick of the confines of his cubicle, unleashes holy hell on his condescending superiors and clocks a duplicitous colleague in the jaw with his keyboard and heads out for adventure with Angelina Jolie. While “Wanted's” lead Wesley (played by James McAvoy) does just that, his character is taken from a different comic altogether. It's comic origins (based on one by Mark Millar and J. G. Jones) are felt throughout the film's reality-relinquishing first hour, until it turns on itself in the final act and decides to play things with a straight face. If only Cat-bert could have sauntered in to slap some sense into him. Let's start with the good. Wesley's life is torn straight from the pages of “Office Space:” a patronizing supervisor takes special glee in the daily ass-chewing she gives the young man, a co-worker enjoys showing Wesley's girlfriend his “O” face (if ... "
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Night Watch DVD review
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"In the DVD commentary track for Night Watch, Russian director Timur Bekmambetov likens film editing to painting and composing music. Where the painter or musician has colors or notes, the filmmaker’s tools are scenes. “Editing is the movie,” Bekmambetov, a former commercial director, says. Night Watch is a fascinating and visually extraordinary film of ideas. It artfully mines history, gothic literature, pop culture and the horror and fantasy genres to create a strikingly original mythology. It even tells a hell of a story in which the fate of the world hangs in the outcome. But, like Bekmambetov said, it’s all in the editing. A film packing such strong visual information and complex concepts would be a chore to sit through if not for good editing. Bekmambetov and his crew pull it off, and teach Hollywood some new tricks. The filmmakers even artfully weave animated subtitles into the visual thre "
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Night Watch (2004)
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"Released: February 17, 2006 (USA, limited)Director: Timur Bekmambetov*****Technically, Night Watch is a compelling piece of Russian work, weaving aspects of vampire films with straight up supernatural fare. It is shot in near darkness, though the audience always sees what we need to see on the screen. The performances and special effects carry the film, though neither can save a horribly paced and stunningly boring middle section.Back in olden times, two forces faced off against each other: the Light Others and the Dark Others. When the battle was found to be a stalemate, Zavulon (Dark Others leader) and Geser (Light Others leader) forged a truce where each group would watch the other-hence the names Night Watch and Day Watch. If the truce was broken, there would be war. There is also a legend that one Great Other will pick a side to fight on and will turn the tide of the war. Enter Anton Gorodetsky, a man about to make a terrible mistake...The first 45 minutes or so of Night ... "
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European Cinema Re-Ignited
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"Back in the early ’90’s international cinema seemed on the verge of a breakthrough, primarily credited to the efforts of one director – Wim Wenders. While Wenders was officially part of the New Wave of German Cinema that washed up on American shores between 1969 and 1982, he was something of a movement within himself. While many German filmmakers of the time - Volker Schlöndorff, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Werner Herzog, etc. - made small, independent pictures that dealt with a post-War German identity that was split by the Cold War. Many of these films deal with broken marriages, broken households (Fassbinder) and broken notions of German Romanticism (Herzog). Though Wenders started that way, he somehow found a more compelling and consistent subject in an evolving Europe. Despite borders and ideologies Wenders saw common ground between the then East- and the Western Europe and part of that was about music. ‘Kings of the Road’ (1976) is a road-movi ... "
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"**** stars (out of 5) Directed By: Timur Bekmembetov Starring: Konstantin Khabensky, Vladamir Menshov & Valeri Zolotukhin Language: Russian with English subtitles Synopsis: Since the dawn of time, vampires, witches, and shape-shifters (known in this film as "others") have been fighting each other over mankind. The two groups are called the "light others" (the good) and the "dark others" (the evil). Thousands of years ago, the two sides called a truce. The primary condition of the truce: that every human must be free to choose between light and dark. The protectors of this truce are called Night Watch (light others) and Day Watch (dark other). They are constantly policing each other in search of violations of the truce. We enter this story in present day Moscow in the midst of a prophecy fulfillment. This film is the first part of a trilogy based on Sergei Lukyanenko's best selling novels: Night Watch, Day Watch and Dusk Watch. Review: Th ... "
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"One thing I can say about this film - it's pretty cool to look at (if you can read the subtitles fast enough, that is). Some of the visuals are literally breathtaking, as when the little boy passes out while in "The Gloom". Speaking of the subtitles, they're entertaining on their own (maybe a bit gimmicky, too) as they turn to smoke, disappear behind walls and fly out of frame to match the action on the screen. I'm curious to see the sequel, as it may answer the myriad of questions I have about the plot. It's also nice to see a film from Russia getting some attention (good AND bad). So, to be fair, for now I'll rate this as neutral. "
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Not your average Vampire movie
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"I enjoyed this movie. The characters were not overly glossy and their motivations were interesting, not just boring movie set-ups. The follow up movie was even better. I look forward to seeing both in one sitting.TT "
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Just Good Fun
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"I realize "Night Watch" didn't garner a whole lot of critical acclaim when it came out stateside. I couldn't care less. Part of this might be due to the fact that I have something of a special connection with this movie, having watched it in Russia before it came out over here. But even then I knew the movie wasn't structurally sound. It is, I will admit, a convoluted, multi-layered, poorly explained piece of work. The edits in the American release don't help much either, with a good fifteen minutes trimmed off of Timur Bekambetov's original Russian film.So, if the movie's got all these problems, why bother watching it? For the same reason people watch the "Die Hard" movies or campy eighties b-movie horror flicks: It's damn good fun. The visuals are breathtaking, the characters and concepts are like a cross-breeding between "Constantine," "Lord of the Rings" and a warped version of the "Harry Potter" films. People turn into animals. ... "
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