Thursday Movie Picks #20: Foreign Language Movies - French

 

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This week's Thursday Movie Picks is Foreign Language Movies - French

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Most of the time when I watch a foreign language movie, I come into it knowing very little. I simply pick them up because they have become available and also because I want to watch more variety. Often I am pleasantly surprised by how good they are and enjoyed watching them. This week I've set the foreign language to French and I'm planning to have other Foreign Laguage themes next year. My picks this week features two favourites and one hidden gem.

À la folie... pas du tout aka He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not (2003)

First up is my hidden gem pick. Audrey Tautou is one of France's popular exports and movies starring her are relatively easier to find in Singapore. This one is I suppose one of her comparatively less popular movies and I thought it has a pretty unique narrative splitting the movie into two to show the perspective of both parties in the relationship. Just when you think you know what the story is, it flips it around.

Jeux d'enfants aka Love Me If You Dare (2003)

Guillaume Canet and Marion Cotillard (now real life couple) stars as childhood friends who continue to play their game of dare in adulthood to often disastrous consequences. Jeux d'enfants has a similar look to Amelie and if you like movies like Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind about messy unconventional romances presented in a quirky style I definitely recommend this.

Les Choristes aka The Chorus (2004)

For last week's theme, one of my picks was Dead Poets Society. This week is another unmissable movies featuring an inspirational teacher. In Les Choristes a teacher at a school for troubled boys form a choir despite facing disapproval from the principal. The movie also feature some of the most beautiful music I've ever heard.

So that's it...my three picks. What three movies made your list today?

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Thursday Movie Picks #19: Movies Set in a Boarding School

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This week's Thursday Movie Picks is Movies Set in a Boarding School

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Another late posting this week. Oh well, better late than never. 

I don't know about you but when I was a kid, I wanted to go to a boarding school. I blame it on some of the children's books I read that kind of romanticised boarding schools with stories of friendship and adventure, which is why this week's theme is Movies Set in a Boarding School. Now the first movie that came to mind were of course the Harry Potters movies, there were after all 8 of them and were hugely popular, but nope I'm going to pick a different three for my favourites

Cracks (2009)

In Cracks, a couple of girls in a swim team look up to their swim teacher, the glamorous Miss G who charms them with romantic tales of adventure. I've never really like Eva Green in anything I've seen her in because she always seem a little too theatrical, but I think she works in this movie as a teacher who loves being adored by her students and is quite a diva. Oh and I love the costuming for Miss G, she really does look glamorous.

Dead Poets Society (1989)

An old favourite. So many great moving scenes...such as the end when the students all stood on their desks. Another favourite is when Mr Keating explains why poetry and pretty much goes for literature and art in general is important.

Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)
Another Peter Weir movie. It is Valentine's Day and the movie opens with girls from a boarding school in Australia at the beginning of the 20th century getting ready to go for a picnic at hanging rock. There's a a sense of dreamy-ness to this movie that I really like as we see the girls excited for this fun outing and and also a hauntingness, which reminds me a little of the Virgin Suicides, as we know from the on set that some of the girls would disappear never to be seen again. The movie also has some beautiful shots of the landscape and I just love the costumes in this movie as well.

So that's it...my three picks. What three movies made your list today?

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Thursday Movie Picks #18: Movies about Making Movies

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This week's Thursday Movie Picks is Movies about Making Movies 

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Nope I did not forget about this week's Thursday Movie Picks, just a little late (ok, very late) that's all. This week I don't have the usual favourite picks that I usually do because even though I have seen a bunch of movies fitting this theme I can't say that I have really loved any of them. So my picks are simply the three movies that I liked more than the rest:

Hitchcock (2012)

Psycho is one of my favourite Hitchcock movies so it was fascinating seeing how it got made.

Saving Mr Banks (2013)

Mary Poppins was one of my favourite movies growing up and I certainly wore out our VHS when I was a kid. So once again seeing the behind the scenes of the making of this loved movie was great, the storyboards, the song writing and etc. But I have to say the parts about Travers childhood was a little dry, even though I know it's there to explain Travers protectiveness over Mary Poppins, I much prefer seeing those scenes of them in the meeting room making decisions about the movie.

Super 8 (2011)
I probably am not the only one who thinks this, but Super 8 feels like it's trying to be a Steven Spielberg (he is one of the producers) movie or even one of those 80's movies with its tale of friendship, adventure and the supernatural. Now I don't mean it in a bad way because to an extent it does achieve that and what I like most about Super 8 is the sense of nostalgia it has. Plus the movie has a bunch of kids trying to make a movie; how cute is that right? Come to think of it, I find there's a lack of movies with themes of friendship and adventure in recent years. The 80's had E.T., The Goonies and Stand By Me and I'm struggling to find good ones from the 90's and 2000's.

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So that's it...my three picks. What three movies made your list today?

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Thursday Movie Picks #17: Movies Featuring Amnesiacs

Hello and welcome to Thursday Movie Picks! The last few weeks we've had the Halloween Edition and now we're back to regular programming. Before we start, for new people who may have just wandered here, here's the rules of this weekly series: Each week there is a topic for you to create a list of three movies. Your picks can either be favourites/best, worst, hidden gems, or if you're up to it one of each. For more information and future topics please visit the Thursday Movie Picks page here.

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This week's Thursday Movie Picks is Movies Featuring Amnesiacs

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So I came up with this theme because I had at that time read a few amnesiac theme books including Before I Go to Sleep which, depending on where you are in the world, the movie adaptation opens around this time. I haven't watch the movie yet but am definitely looking forward to it

Anyhow back to today's picks, which will be my favourites:

The Bourne Trilogy (2002-2007)

Memory loss would suck for just about anyone but probably worse for an assassin which is the predicament Bourne finds himself in; waking up with no knowledge of who he is and now being the one hunted. I thought I had picked this for the Assassin themed Thursday Movie Picks several weeks ago but turned out I didn't so it definitely gets a place this week. Love the action sequences in this trilogy.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)

Most stories about memory loss deals with the involuntary kind as a result of trauma or a degenerative disease but this one is unique with its premise of people voluntary going through a procedure to erase parts of their memory. It's an unconventional love story of sorts...are people fated to meet, fall in love and make the same mistakes if they have no memory of it happening before?

The Lookout (2007)

In the Lookout, after a bad car accident, Chris suffers from brain damage which affects his short term memory. While working as a janitor at a small local bank he gets himself mixed up in some bad company who are planning to use him in a heist. Joseph Gordon Levitt is great as Chris, a guy who is struggling to remember to do everyday tasks, and Matthew Goode...what a turn he did playing the villain, an American bad boy, in the Lookout (this was of course way back before he did Stoker) so unlike the the other charming and well dressed English dudes he had been playing.

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So that's it...my three picks. What three movies made your list today?

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