What exactly is a foreign film? Non-Hollywood?
Non-English?
If I lived in Peru, would all non-Peruvian cinema be foreign?
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@barryam.bsky.socialWhat exactly is a foreign film? Non-Hollywood?
Non-English?
If I lived in Peru, would all non-Peruvian cinema be foreign?
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@barryam.bsky.socialOctober 12. Fave foreign film?
Roma - 2018
A year in the life of an upper-middle-class family's maid in Mexico City in the early 1970s.
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#SevenSamurai (1954)
Farmers from a village exploited by bandits hire a veteran samurai for protection & he gathers six other samurai to join him.
Arguably one of the finest films ever made.
#AkiraKurosawa
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Day 11 Movie with an underappreciated actor or actress
Jude Law as Gigolo Joe in
A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)
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Oct. 12 - a favorite foreign film
Cinema Paradiso (1988)
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10/12
Favorite foreign film
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)
The French New Wave set to the music of Michele Legrand.
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Oct1️⃣2️⃣
Fav Foreign Language Film
A passionate writer of film versions for visually impaired people meets an older photographer who is slowly losing his eyesight
#MasatoshiNagase #AyameMisaki
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Oct1️⃣2️⃣
Fav Foreign Language Film
A passionate writer of film versions for visually impaired people meets an older photographer who is slowly losing his eyesight
#MasatoshiNagase #AyameMisaki
@quirkyfilms.bsky.socialOct 11 : Movie with underappreciated actor/actress
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#VincentCassel - #Mesrine : Public Enemy No. 1 (2008)
The story of the notorious French gangster Jacques Mesrine, with the focus on his life and death as France's Public Enemy No. 1 in the 1970s.
@barryam.bsky.socialOctober 11. Unappreciated actor?
Frank Sinatra as Major Bennett Marco in The Manchurian Candidate - 1962
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Day 10 Favorite Actor 1960-1990
Sean Connery
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Movie With an Underappreciated Actor
#HiroyukiSanada in #Ringu (1998)
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Movie With an Underappreciated Actor
#HiroyukiSanada in #Ringu (1998)
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Oct. 11 - movie with an underappreciated actor
Gaslight (1944)
...Joseph Cotten doesn't even appear until the second act of Gaslight....but when he does, as always, he's a class act...
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Day 10: Favorite Male Performance (1960-90)
All of Michael Moriarty's collabs with Larry Cohen were magic, but I coulda used 10 more movies with The Stuff's Mo Rutherford.
@quirkyfilms.bsky.socialOct 10 : Fave Male Performance (1960-1990)
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#PeterOToole - #LawrenceOfArabia (1962)
T.E. Lawrence, the English officer who successfully united & led the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes during WW1 in order to fight the Turks.
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10/11
Movie with an underappreciated actor
Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941)
Robert Montgomery plays a boxer mistakenly taken to Heaven before his time and given a 2nd chance in the body of a millionaire who has just been murdered.
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Day 10 - Favorite Male Performance 1960 - 1990
Robert Shaw, Jaws