Bill, they breed true gentlemen in the Ozarks! No apology necessary.

As a matter of interest, the last three films we've seen on the big screen have been American ("In Her Shoes"), Australian ("Little Fish" with Cate Blanchett and Hugo Weaving) and British ("Pride and Prejudice"). All worth seeing, I thought, although I had some reservations about "P&P". Especially Donald Sutherland's portrayal of Mr Bennet - he looked for all the world like a befuddled homeless person who'd wandered onto the set and been given the part by mistake. On top of that, I suspect that the movie's representation of that stratum of late-18th century society was only accidentally accurate. Still, handsomely-shot and (mostly) acted - Judi Dench as always a stand-out presence as the dreadful Lady Catherine de Burgh.

Now, here's one for (aged) trivia buffs: does anyone else recall seeing a much younger Judi Dench in the brilliant (and I use the term advisedly) 1966 British TV series "Talking to a Stranger"? Not to mention her performance as Nell Quickly in Branagh's "Henry V"? But I could go on...

Loved Henry V.
Still incredulous that it lost best picture to My Left Foot.


Dench was the innkeeper/innkeeper's wife, right?

Yes, Judi Dench played the innkeeper Nell Quickly. The cast of Henry V was uniformly superb - unfair to pick out any one, but Derek Jacobi's Chorus remains strong in my memory. It's interesting to compare Branagh's version with that of Laurence Olivier's 1944 film - also excellent but a very different realisation of Shakespeare's play.

Amelie and A Very Long Engagement, don't skip Twin Sisters.

Great thread!
I have added "Bread and Tulips to my "want to rent" list!

Recent favs:
Motorcycle Diaries
Mostly Martha
L'Auberge Espanol
A Very Long Engagement
Monsoon Wedding

No one has mentioned:
A Fond Kiss
which everyone who saw it with me just loved.

How about the ORIGINAL La Cage aux Folles?

I was always a big fan of Glenda Jackson,
so for British films I liked her in,
A Touch of Claas,"
"Women in Love,"
"Sunday, Bloody, Sunday."

Also, anything by Baz Luhrman and Tim Burton, two very creative and visionary film-makers. 'Strictly Ballroom' (remember Tina Spah'kle ? hee hee !) and 'Romeo + Juliet' as well as Burton's 'The Nightmare Before Christmas', the dark second 'Batman' movie with Danny DiVito, and one of my all time favourites, 'Edward Scissorhands'. Great movies.

Indochine without a doubt is one of my favorite foreign films......

How could I forget Ettore Scola's master piece "Brutti sporchi e cattivi" (Ugly, Dirty and Bad), 1976, a very authentic picture of the Italian soul

http://indie.imdb.com/title/tt0074252/

Some of these have been mentioned by previous posters. Faves I can think of include: "Delicatessen," "Y tu mama tambien," "Muriel's Wedding," "Nine Queens," "Whale Rider," "House of Flying Daggers," "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" and "Kung Fu Hustle."

OzarksBill - tell how you liked "Kolya" -- one of my favorites, although I can never remember the name of it.

Could there be a more lovable little guy than Kolya? That's the tyke who gets left with this womanizing musician and who in a way turns him into a real human being. How did they get Kolya to act so innocently and naturally? Yes, HKP, I did like this film, and guess the plot turned out about as well as one might expect. Also got a glimpse of that 1989 time of change in Prague interesting to those of us who've been there.

I almost think there could be a thread on lovable children in films!
ozarksbill

The best performances by a child actor was a young girl named Anna Torrent back in the 70s in two Spanish films.
Cria, directed by Carlos Saura,
and, The Spirit of the Beehive, directed by Victor Erie.

"Sea Urchin,a few Italian films I loved,
Amacord, Malena, Cinema Paradiso, The Tre of Wooden Clogs, Seven Beauties,
Yesterday, today and tomorrow, 81/2,
Rocco and his Brothers,
Night of the shooting stars,
Death in Venice, Fellini Satyricon,
and so many more"

Death in Venice? Someone once described this film as two hours of Dirk Bogarde grimacing. Dreadful, dreadful movie.

cigalechanta, yes I remember her. Fabulous big eyes and unbelievably good acting for one so young!

Jean de Fleurette, Manon of the Springs, Life is Sweet, Le Grand Chemin (sp?)

All wonderful French films!

Das Boot

I have Le grand chemin, a lovely film which brought to mine, a favorite, that still makes me tear, "Forbidden Games."
also, my list in cludes, "Alexander"
and "Ponette," and the great "Children of Paradise." Also "Elevator to the Gallows," with a wonderful Miles Davis soundtrack.

If you want to see how they lived 30 + years ago way up in the alps, see "Höhenfeuer". (I believe the translation is: a bonfire burning on a hill or mountain.)

It's about a family who has an alphut all year round and how they lived. It has a brutal ending but it presents the alpine way-of-life very realistically.