What was the first foreign film you ever saw?
03-02-13 | 06:07 AM
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What was the first foreign film you ever saw?
For me it was Wings of Desire at the cinema. I must admit that I didn't enjoy the experience at the time, given that I had to read subtitles and thought the film was too arty. But now I recognise it as a great film and it opened the doorway to a vast world of international movies.
03-02-13 | 08:42 AM
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Gigantis the Fire Monster. Saw it in the theater when I was barely alive. Scared the crap out of me. I thought for sure that Godzilla, oops, I mean Gigantis saw me. My poor dad saw maybe 10 minutes before having to take me back home for safety.
Non-Godzilla/British I would guess The King of Hearts.
Non-Godzilla/British I would guess The King of Hearts.
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03-02-13 | 10:29 AM
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^ I'm getting them too. At first I thought it was because I wasn't logged in but I am.
03-02-13 | 10:31 AM
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It was probably The Red Balloon. They showed it to us in school in first or third grade.
03-02-13 | 10:37 AM
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I was going to put The Killer but that wouldn't have been right. I saw The Red Balloon in grade school also and I now have an urge to see it again. Any day now, it'll be my son's first foreign film.
03-02-13 | 10:38 AM
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The City of Lost Children
Turned me onto Foreign Films big time
Turned me onto Foreign Films big time
03-02-13 | 10:39 AM
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Next would probably be some spaghetti western I watched with my dad on a lazy Saturday afternoon when I was a kid.
The first one I chose to watch on my own is Amelie followed by some Kurosawa films, Seven Samurai and High and Low.
03-02-13 | 11:00 AM
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It would be either Godzilla or The Red Balloon.
03-02-13 | 11:02 AM
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Certainly a Godzilla movie. Or a "family" British movie.
Though I think the OP is probably going for foreign-language movie. I'm not certain, but "Fanny and Alexander" was certainly one of the first that I remember. I remember how it won a whole bunch of Oscars (the first foreign-language movie to do that since I started following the Oscars). And heard it was sort of a ghost story, so I asked my mom to rent it from the video store. And watching it ... I was bored to death and thought the Oscars and all those critics were full of crap! Though rewatching it years later (as an adult) I reversed my decision and I current own the Criterion release
Though I think the OP is probably going for foreign-language movie. I'm not certain, but "Fanny and Alexander" was certainly one of the first that I remember. I remember how it won a whole bunch of Oscars (the first foreign-language movie to do that since I started following the Oscars). And heard it was sort of a ghost story, so I asked my mom to rent it from the video store. And watching it ... I was bored to death and thought the Oscars and all those critics were full of crap! Though rewatching it years later (as an adult) I reversed my decision and I current own the Criterion release
03-02-13 | 11:32 AM
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I grew up watching Hong Kong King Fu flicks and Mexican Exploitation flicks. I'm pretty sure it was the latter for me. Something w/ big titted bitches and a Luchador I'm sure.
03-02-13 | 11:33 AM
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Godzilla vs. The Red Balloon
03-02-13 | 11:38 AM
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The Killer, Hard Boiled, or A Better Tomorrow. I'm not sure which came first but I watched them very closely together.
03-02-13 | 12:07 PM
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I'm sure it was either a Godzilla movie, a kung fu flick or spaghetti western. They were always on Saturday afternoon TV in the early 70's.
03-02-13 | 01:22 PM
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Godzilla vs the Smog Monster was the 1st movie that I ever saw in a theater, foreign or domestic. (Of course, it was dubbed.)
The next foreign film I remembering seeing in a theater was the James Bond film The Man With a Golden Gun. (Hey, you said "foreign" film, not "foreign language" film, so a British film counts!)
The first foreign language film with subtitles that I remember seeing was Akira Kurosawa's Kagemusha.
The next foreign film I remembering seeing in a theater was the James Bond film The Man With a Golden Gun. (Hey, you said "foreign" film, not "foreign language" film, so a British film counts!)
The first foreign language film with subtitles that I remember seeing was Akira Kurosawa's Kagemusha.
03-02-13 | 01:46 PM
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I still don't know the the name of the first subtitled film I saw (It was a prison film from the 80s) And I'm sure I saw a (Dubbed) kung fu movie before I saw a Godzilla flick.
Aside from Santo, what else was there?
Aside from Santo, what else was there?
03-02-13 | 02:04 PM
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At the theater? Probably Crouching Tiger (you people are OLD).
Other than that, I started exploring plenty of movies (because of this website) back since 1999. Got into plenty of foreign films that I may have never watched, if it weren't for being around you movie dorks.
Other than that, I started exploring plenty of movies (because of this website) back since 1999. Got into plenty of foreign films that I may have never watched, if it weren't for being around you movie dorks.
03-02-13 | 02:05 PM
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I'm not sure, but I think it might have been Three Men and a Cradle. That was the movie that Three Men and a Baby was based on, and I remember taping it when it aired in the middle of the night (on AMC, I think).