Art House Cinema Recommendation Please!

[kashif]

Please suggest some Art House Cinema. I can play All Regions (A B C) BDs. I have the following Art movies:

The Scent of Green Papaya Blu-ray

In the Mood for Love Blu-ray

Three Colours Trilogy Blu-ray

A Very Long Engagement

Wings of Desire Blu-ray

Delicatessen Blu-ray

Amer Blu-ray

Micmacs Blu-ray

Melancholia Blu-ray

The Fall Blu-ray

Angel-A Blu-ray

Las Acacias Blu-ray

The Double Life of Veronique Blu-ray

Down By Law

Paris,Texas

Please recommend me more, specially movies like "The Scent of Green Papaya" and "In the Mood for Love".

Thanks.

[Lope de Aguirre]

What region do you have?
Or doesn't it help if they are region B (or C) and they must be region FREE?

Wings of Desire (region free)
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Wings-Desire...9643607&sr=8-2

My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done (region B)
http://www.amazon.de/son-what-have-d...9643882&sr=8-2

Inland Empire (region B)
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Inland-Empir...9644255&sr=8-2

Blade Runner (region free)
http://www.amazon.com/Runner-Five-Di...9644495&sr=8-1

Mulholland Drive (region B)
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mulholland-S...9645119&sr=1-2

Valhalla Rising (region free - there is also a region B UK BD)
http://www.amazon.ca/Valhalla-Rising...9645373&sr=8-1

Lost Highway (region free)
http://www.amazon.de/Lost-Highway-Bl...9645680&sr=8-2

Once Upon a Time in the West (region free)
http://www.amazon.com/Once-Upon-Time...9645601&sr=8-1

[Weirded Wonder]

I enjoyed the following films and would consider them art house cinema.


Institute Benjamenta
https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Insti...-Blu-ray/6701/

Pandora and the Flying Dutchmen
https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Pando...Blu-ray/11987/

Herostratus
https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Heros...-Blu-ray/6089/

Limits of Control
https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/The-L...-Blu-ray/6772/

The White Ribbon
https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/The-W...Blu-ray/10514/

[kashif]

Originally Posted by Lope de Aguirre

What region do you have?
Or doesn't it help if they are region B (or C) and they must be region FREE?

Thanks a lot for the reply and for the suggestions. My system can play Region ABC BDs!

Originally Posted by Beard Esquire

I enjoyed the following films and would consider them art house cinema.

Thanks a lot.

[Weirded Wonder]

Originally Posted by kashif

Thanks a lot for the reply and for the suggestions. My system can only play Region B or Region Free BDs!



Thanks a lot.

You're welcome.
I must thank you as you have peaked my interest with the titles you mentioned.

[Lope de Aguirre]

Yeah threads like this are always welcome. I'm now interested in

- Amer
- Micmacs
- Angel-A
- Institute Benjamenta

which you two mentioned.
Other than that, most of the art films I like aren't out on Blu-Ray yet.
I even thaught bout recommending the first "Alien" and "Donnie Darko" as art films (well they are artsy...).

[Todd_Gaines]

Room in Rome is region B only

[kashif]

Thanks a lot guys. Please share more and keep this thread active

[stobbart]

https://forum.blu-ray.com/asia/16907...personals.html

There are 4 for you. I would also suggest Dust in the Wind

[kashif]

Any more please?

[blu-ray_girl_fan]

Originally Posted by kashif

Any more please?

https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=87316

https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=213984

Just find the Region B versions.

[Icythelight]

Originally Posted by kashif

Any more please?

I'll offer a couple that are too art house to have made it to Blu-ray. They are a pair of David Mamet films available on DVD, but not (yet) on BD, and they are good the way The Usual Suspects is good:

House of Games (1987) [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093223/?ref_=sr_1]
[http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/house_of_games/]

The Spanish Prisoner (1997) [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120176/?ref_=nv_sr_1]
[http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/spanish_prisoner/]

[kashif]

Originally Posted by blu-ray_girl_fan

https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=87316

https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=213984

Just find the Region B versions.

Thanks.

Originally Posted by Icythelight

I'll offer a couple that are too art house to have made it to Blu-ray. They are a pair of David Mamet films available on DVD, but not (yet) on BD, and they are good the way The Usual Suspects is good:

House of Games (1987) [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093223/?ref_=sr_1]
[http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/house_of_games/]

The Spanish Prisoner (1997) [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120176/?ref_=nv_sr_1]
[http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/spanish_prisoner/]

Thanks for the input but I was looking for those which are now available on blu-ray.

[Icythelight]

Here are some to add to your list:
(All but the last one should be fairly easy to find on U.S. releases)

Amelie (2001)

Life Is Beautiful (La vita e bella) (1997)

Cinema Paradiso (Nuovo cinema Paradiso) 1988

Frida (2002)

Paris, je t'aime (2006)

Strictly Ballroom (1992)

Shall We Dance? (Shall We Dansu?) (1996)
https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Shall...Blu-ray/45625/

One other place I would suggest hunting is here:
[http://www.imdb.com/event/ev0000003/1987] If you look select different years and look through the lists of films, particularly the winners and nominees for Best Foreign Language Film, you will discover a lot of really great films. Unfortunately, you will also discover that a lot of them haven't made it to Blu-ray (yet!?!).

[onetet]

Based on those you mentioned, here are some Criterion Collection titles I think you may appreciate:

[Blu-Velvet]

Besides pretty much the entire Criterion Collection, the Eureka Masters of Cinema Collection, and the BFI Collection (especially their extreme obscurities of British cinema), there are quite a few from Kino Video (who also put out THE SCENT OF GREEN PAPAYA).

A few of Kino's other notable arthouse movies on Blu-ray include
POETRY (2010) Korea
BOY (2010) New Zealand
LE QUATTRO VOLTE (2010) Italy
DAVID HOLZMAN'S DIARY (1967) U.S.A.
LITTLE FUGITIVE (1953) U.S.A.
DOGTOOTH (2009) Greece
NIGHT TIDE (1961) U.S.A.
plus lots of great silent films!

And from other distributors a few interesting Blu-ray titles (all of which I happen to own, most region A but a few region B) include...
RAPTURE (1965), SWAMP WATER (1941), THE EDGE OF THE WORLD (1937), A DOUBLE LIFE (1947), MACBETH (1948), LETTER FROM AN UNKNOWN WOMAN (1948), LE SILENCE DE LA MER (1949), CITY GIRL (1929), THE GREAT WHITE SILENCE (1924), FEU MATHIAS PASCAL (1925), CYRANO DE BERGERAC (1950), PICNIC (1955), THE WAYWARD BUS (1957), ASHES AND DIAMONDS (1958), CAIRO TIME (2009), ANOTHER YEAR (2010), A LATE QUARTET (2012), CARNAGE (2011), WUTHERING HEIGHTS (2011), TO THE WONDER (2012), TREE OF LIFE (2011), HERO (2002), BARRYMORE (2011), GRAVE OF THE FIREFLIES (1988), REQUIEM FOR A VILLAGE (1975), SAFETY NOT GUARANTEED (2012), A DANGEROUS METHOD (2011), L'AGE D'OR (1930), TRISTANA (1970), THAT OBSCURE OBJECT OF DESIRE (1977), THE MILK OF SORROW (2009), NOVOCENTO (1976), ERASERHEAD (1977), BLUE VELVET (1986), ON THE BOWERY (1957), THE DUELLISTS (1977), DECASIA (2002), BARAKA (1992), SAMSARA (2011), HEAVENLY CREATURES (1994), WAKE IN FRIGHT (1971), DEAD MAN (1996), BARRY LYNDON (1975), and many more!

[newginafets]

Go for Criterions and Kino titles

[Andrew-Kenneth]

Dev D
https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Dev-D-Blu-ray/17247/


Gangs of Wasseypur
https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Gangs...Blu-ray/66302/

Variety's Cannes review of "Wasseypur" =>
http://variety.com/2012/film/reviews...ur-1117947719/

Kahaani
https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Kahaani-Blu-ray/47138/
Twitch.com Kahaani blu-ray review =>
http://twitchfilm.com/2012/08/blu-ra...w-kahaani.html

[breakfastclub]

Eyes Without a Face.

[kashif]

Originally Posted by Icythelight

Here are some to add to your list:
(All but the last one should be fairly easy to find on U.S. releases)

Amelie (2001)

Life Is Beautiful (La vita e bella) (1997)

Cinema Paradiso (Nuovo cinema Paradiso) 1988

Frida (2002)

Paris, je t'aime (2006)

Strictly Ballroom (1992)

Shall We Dance? (Shall We Dansu?) (1996)
https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Shall...Blu-ray/45625/

One other place I would suggest hunting is here:
[http://www.imdb.com/event/ev0000003/1987] If you look select different years and look through the lists of films, particularly the winners and nominees for Best Foreign Language Film, you will discover a lot of really great films. Unfortunately, you will also discover that a lot of them haven't made it to Blu-ray (yet!?!).

Originally Posted by onetet

Based on those you mentioned, here are some Criterion Collection titles I think you may appreciate:

Originally Posted by Blu-Velvet

Besides pretty much the entire Criterion Collection, the Eureka Masters of Cinema Collection, and the BFI Collection (especially their extreme obscurities of British cinema), there are quite a few from Kino Video (who also put out THE SCENT OF GREEN PAPAYA).

A few of Kino's other notable arthouse movies on Blu-ray include
POETRY (2010) Korea
BOY (2010) New Zealand
LE QUATTRO VOLTE (2010) Italy
DAVID HOLZMAN'S DIARY (1967) U.S.A.
LITTLE FUGITIVE (1953) U.S.A.
DOGTOOTH (2009) Greece
NIGHT TIDE (1961) U.S.A.
plus lots of great silent films!

And from other distributors a few interesting Blu-ray titles (all of which I happen to own, most region A but a few region B) include...
RAPTURE (1965), SWAMP WATER (1941), THE EDGE OF THE WORLD (1937), A DOUBLE LIFE (1947), MACBETH (1948), LETTER FROM AN UNKNOWN WOMAN (1948), LE SILENCE DE LA MER (1949), CITY GIRL (1929), THE GREAT WHITE SILENCE (1924), FEU MATHIAS PASCAL (1925), CYRANO DE BERGERAC (1950), PICNIC (1955), THE WAYWARD BUS (1957), ASHES AND DIAMONDS (1958), CAIRO TIME (2009), ANOTHER YEAR (2010), A LATE QUARTET (2012), CARNAGE (2011), WUTHERING HEIGHTS (2011), TO THE WONDER (2012), TREE OF LIFE (2011), HERO (2002), BARRYMORE (2011), GRAVE OF THE FIREFLIES (1988), REQUIEM FOR A VILLAGE (1975), SAFETY NOT GUARANTEED (2012), A DANGEROUS METHOD (2011), L'AGE D'OR (1930), TRISTANA (1970), THAT OBSCURE OBJECT OF DESIRE (1977), THE MILK OF SORROW (2009), NOVOCENTO (1976), ERASERHEAD (1977), BLUE VELVET (1986), ON THE BOWERY (1957), THE DUELLISTS (1977), DECASIA (2002), BARAKA (1992), SAMSARA (2011), HEAVENLY CREATURES (1994), WAKE IN FRIGHT (1971), DEAD MAN (1996), BARRY LYNDON (1975), and many more!

Originally Posted by newginafets

Go for Criterions and Kino titles

Originally Posted by Andrew-Kenneth

Dev D
https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Dev-D-Blu-ray/17247/


Gangs of Wasseypur
https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Gangs...Blu-ray/66302/

Variety's Cannes review of "Wasseypur" =>
http://variety.com/2012/film/reviews...ur-1117947719/

Kahaani
https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Kahaani-Blu-ray/47138/
Twitch.com Kahaani blu-ray review =>
http://twitchfilm.com/2012/08/blu-ra...w-kahaani.html

Originally Posted by breakfastclub

Eyes Without a Face.

Thanks a million guys for taking your time to help. Please add more to this list.