Interesting, didn't know that. I'll have to see what they are showing.

I'd recommend Day Watch (Russia) for anyone that is interested in supernatural. Haven't seen Night Watch yet though.

I said 5 movies that people should watch, did I say the only 5 foreign moveis to watch?

I'm about to watch that movie this very instant, heard a lot of good things about it.

Why was it crap? Not saying you have to like it, but what didn't you enjoy about it?

I Recommended recent movies because they are fresh in my mind and they're easy to get into, while older movies might put some people off. The Kurosawa movie I liked the most was Yojimbo, did not get into Seven Samurai for whatever reason.

I like some of Takashi Miike's other films (besides Audition), but more as an appreciation of the weird and unexpected than as best movies that I've seen.

Other foreign movies I'd recommend that I didn't see in other posts:

The Professional or Leon (France, 1994)

Follows a professional hitman and an adolescent girl he saves from being killed by mobsters.

Waltz With Bashir (Israel, 2008)

The Israeli invasion of Lebanon as told by a few Israeli soldiers, it's an animated movie. The name Bashir refers to Israel's main ally in Lebanon at that time.

Paradise Now (Palestine/France 2005)

Two young Palestinians and life long friends are tasked with becoming suicide bombers. The two have very different opinions on what they are supposed to do.

Persepolis (France, 2007)

Another animated film, this one centers around the lives of a little girl and her family as the Islamic Revolution takes place in Persia (now Iran).

Own that movie, it shows again how weird and original Miike movies are, for better or worse. I'd recommend people watch it one time just for how starange it is.

I liked number 1 a lot, saw a large part on tv but Ive havent seen it complete yet, sometimes I just forget.

Number 4, Persepolis I also wanted to watch it but havent yet, I saw it on a tv program and then in some newspaper claiming it to be one of the best 20 animated movies ever.

I love that film.

Several things:

1- I felt it employed gratuitous violence (and it's pretty rare for me to say that about a movie).

2- The fantasy parts felt contrived and mostly pointless to me.

3- I didn't think the story was anything special (frankly I've forgotten most of it).

Persepolis is great, quite funny too. I'm waiting for the price to drop on Waltz with Bashir before I pick it up on Blu-Ray but I've been wanting to watch it for a while. Another great film I saw a couple of weeks ago is La Battaglia di Algeri (Battle of Algiers). It's 40 years old but it couldn't be more relevant to certain conflicts today.

In regards to the violence, do you mean the violence in the real world or the violence in the fantasy world? Because I think the real world violence was pretty accurate to the Spanish Civil War and I think that it seeped into the girl's fantasy world from the real one. Her fantasy is not perfect nor is it even safe so I think the oddness of the imaginary world and how dark it was is a reflection of what hte girl has witnessed in the war maybe.

I thought the other world was pretty interesting, very imaginative and beautiful in a strange way, but to each his/her own.