Pan's Labyrinth on Film4 tonight at 9pm

I won't watch anime unless it's in its original Japanese. And there have been quite a few other subtitled films that are well worth watching - Nikita, Ong Bak and The Grudge for example.

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Mark
 
I am sad I didn't see it in the cinema as it would have been brilliant seeing it there - anyway great movie, the Spanish film industry is just so much more vibrant and risk taking than our own :(
 
Most film industries around the world are. City of God from Brazil shows how children are caught up in gang culture. From Mexico is the sheer, and brutal, genius of Amores Perros.
Most of the best, and disturbing, horror films of recent years come from Korea & Japan.

It's a shame that in Britain home grown films with Hugh Grant playing the same character he always does or bland romantic comedies written by Richard Curtis are applauded.
 
PL has come top of a survey to find the nation's favourite foreign language film.

A modern day masterpiece and a true future classic. No doubt this film's reputation will grow and grow, in 20 years from now it will looked at with the same respect and reverance we now look at, say, Blade Runner.

We cant say that about many modern day films can we?
 
The Devil's Backbone. The "companion" of PL. Also set in Spain, also by DelToro and also about a young kid (a boy this time).
 
Amores Perros. Spanish language, Mexican film.

It was the inspiration for Crash and is much better, imo.
Three stories which link together.

1. Boy is in love with his brother's wife & enters his dog in fights to make enough money for them to run away together.

2. Model is left crippled after a car crash, ruining her career. Her relationship, with a man who left his wife for her, begins to deterioate.

3. Former revolutionary, now a hitman, is struggling to come to terms with abandoning his wife and, now grown up, daughter to fight for what he believed in.
 
The Sea Inside is my favourite Spanish film.
It stars Javier Bardem( currently notorious for his crrepy role in No Country for Old Men) as an invalid considering euthenasia. It sounRAB like such a bleak subject, but the film is surprisingly uplifting and heartwarming, with some wonderful acting. It's a wonderful film!

Another favourite is Volver -starring Penelope Cruz she's fantastic in it, back to her roots and she puts in some preformance. A lovely quirky film.
Y Tu Mama Tabian is also great, it's Mexican but in Spanish.
 
This film is on again, Sunday 9pm! :D

Saw it last night, thought it was amazing! Plus i do Higher Spanish so the language aspect was good. I understood a lot of it.
 
I finally watched this on DVD last night and thoroughly enjoyed it.....despite.......
.........the subtitles seemed to only "work" when they felt like it.
I speak no Spanish apart from "Ola!" and knew this was subtitled so that was OK - BUT - it made it quite hard work at first and did mean that a lot of the subtleties of the film and prior explanations/warnings (i.e. from the faun) were missed by yours truly.
But the feeling of the film needed no actual worRAB and by the end, I had actually forgotten that it wasn't spoken in my language and that the subtitles were sporadic at best.
It was very sad and gave me nightmares to tell the truth.
(Does anyone know why the subtitles would be like that? Should I report the film as faulty do you think?)
:)
 
I Sky+'d it, sat down to enjoy it this evening. It got 110 minutes through and... End of programme! Thank you very much and goodnight! :eek::( *sob*

It didn't say the recording clashed or was part recorded... Now I need to find a way of watching the rest! Anyone know when it's next on??
:confused:
 
I just watched Pan's Labyrinth last night and I went searching for a thread about it on the forums.

OH MY GOD, I saw The Sea Inside years ago, I had no idea that was Javier Bardem until now! A truly excellent film, bleak but brilliant. I enjoyed it a lot more than Pan's Labyrinth personally. Bardem gives a brilliant performance in that one!
 
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