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Archive for the ‘Foreign Films’ Category

Slumdog Millionaire (2008)

Posted in Dwight's Picks, Foreign Films, Movies on April 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I finally got to see Slumdog Millionaire a few weeks ago, and am so glad I did. It is truly an amazing film, well deserving of the eight Oscars it won, including those for best motion picture, cinematography and directing. Jamal Malik is an 18-yr old who is brought in for questioning by the police [...]

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Hot Fuzz

Posted in Dwight's Picks, Foreign Films, Movies, Readers' advisory on October 5, 2007 | 2 Comments »

The British film Hot Fuzz is a comedy about a London cop, Nicholas Angel (Simon Pegg) who is too good for the London Metropolitan Police Department so he is sent off to the quaint little town of Sandford. There he is teamed up with the bumbling Danny Butterman (Nick Frost), a police constable who craves [...]

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Iron Monkey

Posted in Dwight's Picks, Foreign Films, Movies, Readers' advisory on October 4, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Iron Monkey is a comic Chinese film that has been one of my all time favorite action flicks since I saw it in the movie theaters several years ago. It has some of the most incredible martial arts fight sequences that I have ever seen. The most amazing scene occurs at the climax of the [...]

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Hero

Posted in Dwight's Picks, Foreign Films, Movies, Readers' advisory on October 3, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

The Chinese movie Hero, featuring Jet Li, was nominated for an Oscar and won 21 international film awards, so I had high hopes for this movie. The experience of taking in this movie far exceeded my hopes in many ways. The cinematography by Christopher Doyle is visually stunning. The settings for the major scenes are [...]

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May 6th

Posted in Dwight's Picks, Foreign Films, Movies, Readers' advisory, Thrillers on October 2, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

May 6th is an exciting Dutch movie about the assassination of the controversial Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn on May 6, 2002. It won 3 international film awards and was nominated for one more. The director of this movie, Theo van Gogh, was a leading Dutch director who was murdered himself by an Islamic radical before [...]

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Schultze Gets the Blues

Posted in Dwight's Picks, Foreign Films, Movies, Quirky characters, Readers' advisory on September 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

This week I will be blogging about a variety of movies in the Williamsburg Regional Library’s excellent collection of foreign films. Today I would like to start with the German film Schultze Gets the Blues, which won 10 international film awards. Schultze is a newly retired miner and accordion player whose life is changed when [...]

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