Which Pedro Almodovar's movie is your favourite?

[Josephus]

No idea who this person is.  I would suppose, based on the opening post, that he is a homosexual though.

Well....they probably don't show art films in Alberta. Not much demand.

[Neil]

No idea who this person is.  I would suppose, based on the opening post, that he is a homosexual though.

Well....they probably don't show art films in Alberta. Not much demand.

There are two art theatres in Edmonton, but I am unlikely to go to them, due to the contempt in which I hold art that doesn't revolve around dead white guys.

[Martinus]

To the people who don't know who he is: well, he is just probably the best known non-English-language director that is still alive and working at the moment.

He discovered Penelope Cruz, too.

Neil: yes, he is a homo.

[Martinus]

To be honest, I'm surprised so many people never heard of him. He is pretty big in Poland - I mean not everybody likes his movies, of course, but pretty much all the people I know have heard of him and have seen at least one or two of his movies.

Fame-and-popularity-wise I'd put him around the level of Woody Allen.

[Valmy]

To be honest, I'm surprised so many people never heard of him.

Foreign language films are basically unknown here with very very few exceptions like 'Life is Beautiful' and 'Downfall'.

[Martinus]

To be honest, I'm surprised so many people never heard of him.

Foreign language films are basically unknown here with very very few exceptions like 'Life is Beautiful' and 'Downfall'.

So the only foreign movies you guys see are about Holocaust/nazism? No wonder your views about Europe are so fucked up.

[Sheilbh]

To be honest, I'm surprised so many people never heard of him. He is pretty big in Poland - I mean not everybody likes his movies, of course, but pretty much all the people I know have heard of him and have seen at least one or two of his movies.

I'm surprised too.  Even here he's popular enough to be played in multiplexes and even small commercial cinemas, rather than just arty ones.

I think Godard's still more famous

[Martinus]

Yeah. His last movie, for example (which just hit the cinemas here) is shown in pretty much all the multiplex chains we have, and a lot of non-chain commercial cinemas.

[Valmy]

So the only foreign movies you guys see are about Holocaust/nazism? No wonder your views about Europe are so fucked up.

Most stereotypes about Europeans date from the WWII era.  Hence why we think you don't bathe and Germany is going to conquer France at any moment.

Those are just the first two I could think of.  I don't attend very many movies.

[Martinus]

So the only foreign movies you guys see are about Holocaust/nazism? No wonder your views about Europe are so fucked up.

Most stereotypes about Europeans date from the WWII era.  Hence why we think you don't bathe and Germany is going to conquer France at any moment.

Those are just the first two I could think of.  I don't attend very many movies.

At least I take my opinions about America from news programs and websites, such as the Daily Show, the Colbert Report and The Onion.

[DisturbedPervert]

Those are just the first two I could think of.  I don't attend very many movies.

Pan's Labyrinth did well, so do movies by Hayao Miyazaki.

[Admiral Yi]

He discovered Penelope Cruz, too.

Wasn't she the little one in Belle Epoque?

[Valmy]

Pan's Labyrinth did well, so do movies by Hayao Miyazaki.

Yeah and I also forgot that The Lives of Others and Amelie were at least acknowledged as existing.

[DisturbedPervert]

Asian martial arts and horror films seem to do good too.  Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Old Boy, Ring, Battle Royale, etc.

[Martinus]

Those are just the first two I could think of.  I don't attend very many movies.

Pan's Labyrinth did well, so do movies by Hayao Miyazaki.

Wasn't Pan's Labyrinth in English?