Who is your favourite foreign language film director?

[El-Presidente]

I'm a big fan of Polish directors. Andrzej Wajda, Krzysztof Kieslowski... What is everyone else into?

[P7PSP]

I don't know. I like Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Shimizu's Ju-on: The Grudge, Pang Brothers The Eye but there are a few European and Korean movies I have watched lately that I like including Bon Voyage, partly because it has Isabel Adjani and I just like listening to French that I am too lazy to study my lessons on.

[Genesis]

Satoshi Kon

Akira Kurosawa

Tom Tywker

Michaelangelo Antononi

Gulliermo Del Toro

[odeon]

Steven Spielberg.

Foreign language is a relative concept, you know.

['andersom']

Most filmmakers are foreign for me indeed.

[El-Presidente]

Steven Spielberg.

Foreign language is a relative concept, you know.

Sure is, in fact I was going to say that in my original post.

[odeon]

But I'll bite anyway.

Milos Forman is a favourite of mine. Brilliant director.

Polanski, of course. Interestingly, I find his English-language films to be his best, with my favourite being Frantic. I'm probably the only one to think that.

There's a Russian director named Andrey Zvyagintsev who made a film called The Return, ten years ago. Great film, fabulous cinematography.

And there are others, but most of them aren't current.

[El-Presidente]

But I'll bite anyway.

Milos Forman is a favourite of mine. Brilliant director.

Polanski, of course. Interestingly, I find his English-language films to be his best, with my favourite being Frantic. I'm probably the only one to think that.

There's a Russian director named Andrey Zvyagintsev who made a film called The Return, ten years ago. Great film, fabulous cinematography.

And there are others, but most of them aren't current.

I also enjoy Russian film, Andrei Tarkowski and Sergei Eisenstein spring to mind. Andrei Rublev and Battleship Potempkin being two of the best films ever made imho.

[odeon]

Tarkovsky is a bit boring at times, tbh. I like some of his work but fucking hell, somebody should have told him to employ an editor. Stalker is an orgy in long-windedness without meaning. Beautiful images but it felt like the bloody thing would never end.

[El-Presidente]

Tarkovsky is a bit boring at times, tbh. I like some of his work but fucking hell, somebody should have told him to employ an editor. Stalker is an orgy in long-windedness without meaning. Beautiful images but it felt like the bloody thing would never end.

I enjoy long windedness without meaning I enjoy its immersive quality. It seems to be a common theme in Slavic narrative. It is a method also employed by the Czech master, Frantisek Vlacil.

[Genesis]

But I'll bite anyway.

Milos Forman is a favourite of mine. Brilliant director.

Polanski, of course. Interestingly, I find his English-language films to be his best, with my favourite being Frantic. I'm probably the only one to think that.

There's a Russian director named Andrey Zvyagintsev who made a film called The Return, ten years ago. Great film, fabulous cinematography.

And there are others, but most of them aren't current.

I also enjoy Russian film, Andrei Tarkowski and Sergei Eisenstein spring to mind. Andrei Rublev and Battleship Potempkin being two of the best films ever made imho.

Have you seen the Russian version of 12 angry men?

[odeon]

Tarkovsky is a bit boring at times, tbh. I like some of his work but fucking hell, somebody should have told him to employ an editor. Stalker is an orgy in long-windedness without meaning. Beautiful images but it felt like the bloody thing would never end.

I enjoy long windedness without meaning I enjoy its immersive quality. It seems to be a common theme in Slavic narrative. It is a method also employed by the Czech master, Frantisek Vlacil.

Well, I believe in narrative, but it should not be confused with forgetting to turn off the camera and then using the shot.

[P7PSP]

But I'll bite anyway.

Milos Forman is a favourite of mine. Brilliant director.

Polanski, of course. Interestingly, I find his English-language films to be his best, with my favourite being Frantic. I'm probably the only one to think that.

There's a Russian director named Andrey Zvyagintsev who made a film called The Return, ten years ago. Great film, fabulous cinematography.

And there are others, but most of them aren't current.

I also enjoy Russian film, Andrei Tarkowski and Sergei Eisenstein spring to mind. Andrei Rublev and Battleship Potempkin being two of the best films ever made imho.

Have you seen the Russian version of 12 angry men?

That is available on my Indie Plex channel but I have not watched it. I remember that Jack Klugman was on the original. It is a good movie.

[RageBeoulve]

I hardly know anything about directors.

I don't know if Andy Kaufman directed anything, but he was the funniest guy who ever lived.

[Calavera]

Tarkovsky is a bit boring at times, tbh. I like some of his work but fucking hell, somebody should have told him to employ an editor. Stalker is an orgy in long-windedness without meaning. Beautiful images but it felt like the bloody thing would never end.

I enjoy long windedness without meaning I enjoy its immersive quality. It seems to be a common theme in Slavic narrative. It is a method also employed by the Czech master, Frantisek Vlacil.

Have you seen Begotten? That thing bored the hell out of me, but you might enjoy it.