Please recommeend non-mainstream movies from your country!

I have very bad opinion about film industry these days in Poland. Communist era productions were far better in my opinion. Some comedies myself and many others could watch every time when we see them in TV.

How I started World War II / Jak rozpetalem II Wojne Swiatowa (trilogy), comedy about Polish soldier adventures in Poland, Austria, Germany, North Africa (dealing with French, Italians and British) and Yugoslavia. Filmmakers poking fun from all nations involved.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90w9_GoTQj4&mode=related&search=
One of the best scenes, Germans caught him and ask questions about his name, surname and the place where he lives. They cannot spell his fake Polish surname. Grzegorz Brzeczyszczykiewicz from Chrzaszczyrzewoszyce, Lekolowy



The Deserters / CK Dezerterzy Another great comedy about group of soldiers in Austro-Hungarian army, among them Poles, Czechs, Hungarians.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsTvrSvqmBk
Here hated German commandant interviewed in psychiatric hospital. They show him a chicken and ask what is this few times? Finally he could not resist and said that this is a donkey! A big mistake


Teddy Bear / Mis Again a comedy about absurds of communist Poland.

http://video.google.pl/videoplay?docid=-6438404196555869734&q=mi%C5%9B+film&total=585&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=9
A scene with drunkard who bought in kiosk a birch water and drink it!

Later I will try to write about my favorite Eastern European movies.

I love Roman Polanski's movies! He is the best!

NowhereMan wrote:

I love Roman Polanski's movies! He is the best!

I liked "Pianist" myself. However his films cannot be classified as a Polish ones. Anyway I neither like him or even respect because of different reasons.

bobhatersfriend wrote:

my mom actually likes a lot of his films, and her favorite is "Pianist" also =]

she tried making me watch it once but i was stupid and decided not to -_-

and now i remember a lot of polish last names end with ski...

I liked Pianist also

telkola wrote:

bobhatersfriend wrote:

my mom actually likes a lot of his films, and her favorite is "Pianist" also =]

she tried making me watch it once but i was stupid and decided not to -_-

and now i remember a lot of polish last names end with ski...

I liked Pianist also

That Hungarian actor looked really jewish indeed.

bobhatersfriend wrote:

so this guy is like Polish? i thought he was french or something, i'm so stupid!!!

This crazy world is not so simple Polanski is a Polish Jew and this is not his original surname. He changed to this one probably during communist era anti-Jewish campaign.

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and now i remember a lot of polish last names end with ski...

A lot of Russians with Polish roots have last names end with -sky. That is how transliteration from Cyrillic alphabet to English language looks like but spelling is exactly the same.

I would like to recommend to those who never watched his movies, Serbian filmmaker Emir Kusturica. His movies have specific climate, very different from usual Hollywood kind of productions. What is important this original style is very funny, absolutely crazy and completely unpredictable. His best films are about Gypsies with authentic Gypsy amateur actors. They can hardly even communicate with him but effect is fantastic. Kusturica's the most popular movies are:

The Times of the Gypsies
Underground
Black Cat, White Cat

The last one is my favorite, great comedy.

typical hero

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There are few films made by Estonians in last years but my favorite is "Nimed marmortahvlil" ("Names on Marble"), it's about the Freedom War which took place about 1918.

Oh I think I'd like it. I usually like films showing this period.

I watched quite recently to Russian recent productions. I really liked "9-th company" about Soviet-Afghan war. Second film "Turkish Gambit" was very childish, theme very interesting, Turkish-Russian war but this style...

I watched it also (9 company), nice movie about not nice theme although.
In American films about Vietnam there are some Black, in Russian ones Mongols. Im not a rasist but is funny association for me.

Helena wrote:

There are few films made by Estonians in last years but my favorite is "Nimed marmortahvlil" ("Names on Marble"), it's about the Freedom War which took place about 1918.

"Márványba vésett nevek" in Hungarian. It was broadcast in TV twice, dubbed, we watched both times with my family. It is very good.

Info for my Polish friends, you can watch this Estonian movie on Sunday/Monday night at 02:30 on TVP2.

Rzeczpospolita wrote:

Info for my Polish friends, you can watch this Estonian movie on Sunday/Monday night at 02:30 on TVP2.

Now you mention it: Is there any watchable TV-program on "TVN"? I can watch it at home. Sometimes I really do and also succeed to learn a word or two.

I rarely watch TV to be honest. TVN is the biggest private TV channel in Poland and like the rest represents very low level of intellectual quality . They are well know from attacking our current government. It might be explained by the fact that owners and many other important people in TVN are former communists turned to Euro-left now. According to recently published report from liquidation of WSI (military intelligence), TVN was established with help of this intelligence.

Kiskun wrote:

Now you mention it: Is there any watchable TV-program on "TVN"? I can watch it at home. Sometimes I really do and also succeed to learn a word or two.

Today 21.30 will be new program - You can dance. I doubt i be watching it becouse after "Dancing with stars" serie it won't be to much attractive I think but who knows

If you want to see sth interesting i recomend this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUPY-G9TCWY
first polish RPG which can be famous

Thanks for both of you.

Rzeczpospolita wrote:

NowhereMan wrote:

I love Roman Polanski's movies! He is the best!

I liked "Pianist" myself. However his films cannot be classified as a Polish ones. Anyway I neither like him or even respect because of different reasons.

Just re-watched The Pianist. Great movie... Btw, how can you classify movies by nationality? I believe that real art has no boundaries and nationalities. Great art is always international. Polanski is a genius. And the fact you don't like him on some reasons doesn't characterizes him as a "bad guy".... but it can tell something about yourself... perhaps, you don't like jews?

The Return. A film by Andrei Zvyagintsev.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0376968/

NowhereMan wrote:

Btw, how can you classify movies by nationality?

Most of his well known films except "The Pianist" have nothing to do with Polish cinema. This is foreign production and every short description states so. How could I not link Hollywood film with the US or Bollywood with India?

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I believe that real art has no boundaries and nationalities.
Great art is always international.

Such art is admired by many. However could you deny that Van Gogh paintings don't belong to Dutch history?

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Polanski is a genius.

No, he is just good filmmaker, I don't deny this after all.

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And the fact you don't like him on some reasons doesn't characterizes him as a "bad guy".... but it can tell something about yourself... perhaps, you don't like jews?

According to former Israeli PM "all Poles suck antisemitism with mother's milk" so do I have any choice anyway?

Seriously the reason is more simple...
http://www.intellectualconservative.com/article4541.html

Have no time to comment others, but this

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The article is disgusting and the jerk who wrote this is an idiot, a pharisaically acting dickhead, a real american "intellectuall".

P.S. His latest film Oliver Twist is great too. Way to go Roman!

It does not matter how article is written (there are plenty of others in the internet), the event that happened is important. With all due respect what you wrote is nonsense. First of all we should treat separately his film producer skills and the way how he used to behave. Whether he is an artist or not this doesn't really matter. You wrote that this is disgusting article and this what Polanski did was not disgusting? What would you say if this would happened to your child?