The Spanish have a really interesting way of telling stories. Often with many layers and a really unique sense of humor and obviously a lot of fly women.
What are your favorite Spanish-language films? I was mostly thinking of Spanish films but let's widen the scope to all things Spanish-speaking.
Open Your Eyes
Tesis
A Tale of Ham and Passion
(has Penelope Cruz underage nudity lol)
Anguish
Maria Full of Grace
And Your Mother
Sex & Lucia
Between Your Legs
REC
All About My Mother
Matador
Live Flesh
Women on the Edge of a Nervous Breakdown (best title ever)
There's a lot more good Almodovar probably but I can't remember the other I've seen very well.
Satan's Blood
Bloody Moon
That's all I can think of right now.
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I've been trying to hunt down the movie The Baby's Room for a while now. Heard great things about it from a friend of mine and I was gutted I didn't catch it on TV last year. It's only available in some expensive box set as far as I'm aware. Hopefully it gets a single disc release some day.
Modern Spanish flicks I really like:
Managed to finally catch this and see it all. Great film.
pretty much any santo movie in general, but that's my favorite of the ones i've seen
aside from that, anything in spanish by bunuel, jodorowski, arrabal, del torro and iglesias is ok by me
was El Mariachi in spanish? throw that on the pile
i really want to dig into the lowbudget mexican narcomafia stuff, been curious about this whole subgenre for ages and the recent vice article had some interesting pointers
I went to a party with my wife and I was the only one that wasn't speaking spanish. They threw this movie on and I loved it.
This movie is pretty good for comedy. Two brothers from small town get signed by a soccer club and get impressed by everything. Gael Garcia's I Want You To Want Me cover song is pretty hillarious.
Watching this in the next couple days. Columbian crime movie. Sign me the fuck up!
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I got Santa Sangre because of the Argento affiliation partly. Reading descriptions of other Jorodowski movies make them seem a bit too weird for my liking but I'll probably get around to seeing them if I like Santa Sangre.
BTW this is better than anything I mentioned initially, possibly. Watch it.
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Interested to hear your thoughts on Santa Sangre. I personally think it's alright but nothing spectacular or anything. I'm a bit miffed by it being labelled as "horror" when it's nothing of the sort to me.
Sin Nombre is a film I really want to check out but never had the opportunity.
I haven't seen Sin Nombre but there's also Los Sin Nombre by the REC director (not sure if that was the one you meant) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0222368/ It grew on me after I was initially let down by the conclusion. It's actually pretty well thought-out. EDIT: he also did Fragile which I didn't like much.
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Comedy Quaddafi wrote:I haven't seen Sin Nombre but there's also Los Sin Nombre by the REC director (not sure if that was the one you meant) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0222368/ It grew on me after I was initially let down by the conclusion. It's actually pretty well thought-out. EDIT: he also did Fragile which I didn't like much.
Different film. Sin Nombre is about a kid trying t escape the gang life in El Salvador. Probably a lot better than the film you're talking about, or at least 90% less gay.
Yeah? I enquired whether he meant Los Sin Nombre, considering Spartan likes REC. Didn't mean it as a dig against the other movie it's probably good. Los Sin Nombre is a pretty intelligent thriller IMO, far from gay although not perfect.
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From executive producers Gael Garcia Bernal and Diego Luna comes Sin Nombre, the breathtaking debut thriller from writer/director Cary Fukunaga. An unflinching tale of loyalty and redemption set against the harsh backdrop of modern Mexico, Sin Nombre interweaves two parallel stories; the first dealing the struggles of Sayra (Paulina Gaitan), a beautiful Honduran woman desperately trying to escape to America with her family, the second following Casper (Edgar Flores), a tough gang member placed in an impossible situation when a violent retaliation turns his gang against him. As Sayra and Casper s paths cross on a train leading out of the country, with the gang in hot pursuit, they must rely on each other if any of them are to make it through alive. Recipient of the Best Director and Best Cinematography Awards at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival and the Skillset New Director's Award at the 2009 Edinburgh Film Festival, Sin Nombre marks the emergence of a startling new voice in Latin American cinema.
360 wrote:El topo and Dr. Tarr's torture dungeon come to mind since they haven't been listed, even though drizzle said jordowski.
El topo is just so fucking awesome though it deserves to be said twice.
Three times since I mentioned it first. The Holy Mountain is worth checking out too, but I'd watch El Topo first.
i'd put those two at about equal. there are some incredible vignettes in holy mountain and a great ending, but overall it doesn't flow that smoothly. el topo is great for the first 2/3s but fall off a little toward the end.
santa sagre is pretty good too, but not as good as these two. when it was made the ending was probably much more effective, now it feels a little cliche since its been done in several well known movies.
Comedy Quaddafi wrote:Yeah? I enquired whether he meant Los Sin Nombre, considering Spartan likes REC. Didn't mean it as a dig against the other movie it's probably good. Los Sin Nombre is a pretty intelligent thriller IMO, far from gay although not perfect.
I'm just fucking with you, though. But yeah, Sin Nombre is a great flick and it's on Netflix Instant if you get down like that.
From executive producers Gael Garcia Bernal and Diego Luna comes Sin Nombre, the breathtaking debut thriller from writer/director Cary Fukunaga. An unflinching tale of loyalty and redemption set against the harsh backdrop of modern Mexico, Sin Nombre interweaves two parallel stories; the first dealing the struggles of Sayra (Paulina Gaitan), a beautiful Honduran woman desperately trying to escape to America with her family, the second following Casper (Edgar Flores), a tough gang member placed in an impossible situation when a violent retaliation turns his gang against him. As Sayra and Casper s paths cross on a train leading out of the country, with the gang in hot pursuit, they must rely on each other if any of them are to make it through alive. Recipient of the Best Director and Best Cinematography Awards at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival and the Skillset New Director's Award at the 2009 Edinburgh Film Festival, Sin Nombre marks the emergence of a startling new voice in Latin American cinema.
I didn't like Japon, so I didn't see this one. Now I'm having second thoughts, having liked Silent Light. Plus this babe needs investigating even if the guy is repulsive. Recommended?
sex y lucia wins. abre los ojos (open your eyes) is a veryyy a close second.
volver is a good movie but def a chick flick. no tits.
just seen non ti muovere (don't move) recently. its an italian foreign film about some guy that cheats on his wife and falls in love with penelope cruz ... after raping her a few times
