Film 4 - World Cinema Season

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Anyone else going be watching it kicks off today with Y Tu Mama Tambien, brilliant film which has gone on to become one of my all time favorites. Not sure of what others are being shown but hopefully looking forward to seeing some more great films that i may not have seen yet.

 

[spikedhats]

I saw Battle Royale 2 in the trailer ):

 

[steph.]

Cool i've yet too see the sequel, seen the first film of that and thought it was excellent.

 

[Jack S. Buy more ammo!]

Amazing film on par with the original as well think i will have to give it another look

 

[sushifishiez]

The sequel isn't amazing, it's inferior to the original by miles, still worth the look though.

 

[I Dream Of Writing]

cool, I must check this out, LOVED the original saw it in the cinema gosh it must be 8 years ago? Love, is it every night this week, or Monday nights over several weeks?

 

[TAT]

I saw tonights film on film4 last year and it's a great great film.

I'll probably watch it again tonight.

 

[curiouswoman]

Y Tu Mama Tambien is my favorite foreign film, will definitely give it another watch tonight.

 

[rickle91]

I think theres one every night for the course of the season, just had a look and there showing 'The Motorcycle Diaries' 2moro, another great film.

 

[Jhgjhg]

You guys are joking about Battle Royale 2, right? Battle Royale is a superbly excellent film, but BR2 is probably the worst sequel ever made to anything.

 

[First Name ramani]

BR is an excellent film, but I haven't seen BR2 and I havent heard good things,

 

[Kathryn G]

I wondered what world cinema season was, haven't heard of many of the films though . Maybe I should educate myself and watch them . Mind you, I'm watching Keeping Mum (love this film!) just now and I think it's more my thing

 

[sport fan1]

Y Tu Mama Tambien is a great film, first watched with my ex and thanks to her I got to experience more films featuring Gael Garc

 

[~â?¥LadyLindaâ?¥~]

Battle Royale is one of my favourite movies of all time, so I'm apprehensive about the sequel. I don't want to ruin it for myself.

 

[KJP]

Agreed. He's great, one of my favourite actors. Very easy on the eye too.

 

[sydneyhayes]

I have to admit that when I saw BR2 straight after seeing BR I really really hated BR2. Then a couple of years later I saw the second on Film 4 and I actually enjoyed it. I can only speak personally but I think that as it's own film and not comparing it to the original it was actually okay, I had to fight not to think about the original but when I did I think it worked. It's like the new Star Wars film. Most people felt they were horrible but I think had they come out first and not been after Eps 4 etc they might have been enjoyed more.

 

[Oba no cchio]

BR2 is one of the worst sequels I have ever seen. A very anti America intro followed by what can only be described as a poor mans war movie.

First one rocked.

 

[Hesham Al-Rousan]

Battle Royale 2 is seriously one of the worst sequels ever made. The first one is easily in the top five best movies in my opinion.

 

[Daniel O]

Do you think BR2 was a film under a different title etc you might have liked it?

 

[sweet78]

If they'd call it World 21st century (or thereabouts) cinema it would be something! God I remember when Channel 4 used to show stuff from all over the world from all eras, and weren't confined merely to buying foreign films distributed through Californian-based conglomerates. Plastic Jesus! Pixote! Possession!

They showed La Regle Du Jeu the other day and the print quality was like a child had gone over the original negative through tracing paper onto gauze.