Most Anticipated 2019 Foreign-Language Films

[Cremildo]

Given the fact that threads for specific upcoming foreign-language movies rarely receive multiple replies here, I thought it'd be a good idea to create a general one for those who might wish to discuss them, post news, trailers and so on.

IONCINEMA has compiled a list of 150 promising foreign movies (including English-language ones) that might be released this year. It's a good starting point, since it's more difficult to be aware of upcoming arthouse/independent/foreign-language productions than of much-publicized Hollywood blockbusters.

[principehomura]

Thanks Cremildo, I was thinking of something similar, if not to propose a subforum for not-Hollywood films, since they get a little attention, especially asian films, unless they are super hit!

[Cremildo]

Originally Posted by principehomura

Thanks Cremildo, I was thinking of something similar, if not to propose a subforum for not-Hollywood films, since they get a little attention, especially asian films, unless they are super hit!

We'd have to ask a mod about that. I'm afraid such a subforum still wouldn't see much activity, but at least the threads for foreign-language movies wouldn't get lost in the shuffle so quickly.

[Martin_31]

Thanks for the thread. I feel like I don’t want enough contemporary foreign language films. Somewhat since I’m not sure where besides streaming.

[Cremildo]

Originally Posted by Martin_31

Thanks for the thread. I feel like I don’t want enough contemporary foreign language films. Somewhat since I’m not sure where besides streaming.

I see that you live in California - I don't know how things work there, but here it's very difficult to watch non-English language films on the big screen because they get very limited releases most of the time.

DVD, Blu-ray, torre-- I mean, streaming are the only viable options for me - which means it can take a while. I'll probably only be able to watch most of the movies on my own Most Anticipated list in 2020.

[Foggy]

Hoping Long Day’s Journey Into Night gets a good release this year.

[principehomura]

Originally Posted by Cremildo

We'd have to ask a mod about that. I'm afraid such a subforum still wouldn't see much activity, but at least the threads for foreign-language movies wouldn't get lost in the shuffle so quickly.

For sure it won't have the same activity, but as you said it would be a way to give some stage to films that otherwise wouldn't have any.

My contribution would be small too, since I've always focused on Hollywood, and only recently I'm discovering asian cinema.

[principehomura]

Anyway, for sure on my watchlist an italian move, Il Primo Re

IL PRIMO RE (2019) di Matteo Rovere - Trailer Ufficiale HD - YouTube

[Cremildo]

That sure looks intense. Reminded me of Apocalypto a bit. Not the kind of film I'm used to seeing from Italy.

[Hazel Motes]

Radegund is my most anticpated film of 2019 period. That is of course if Malick actually puts it out this year.

[Mothravka]

From the list in the link, I'm looking forward to new stuff with Albert Serra, Lav Diaz, Pedro Costa, Philippe Garrel, Roy Andersson and Matías Piñeiro. Will watch the upcoming film from the Dardenne brothers and some others listed.

Other than that, Gianfranco Rosi has a new upcoming documentary. I would be surprised if Hong Sang-soo didn't release at least one new film this year too. And probably Wang Bing as well.

Can't think of much more that is properly announced for the moment, but more interesting stuff will show up without a doubt. There's also a lot of 2018 releases I'm still waiting for to see.

[BluCollector13]

Sadly, "Benedetta" has been pushed back to 2020 because Verhoeven needed hip surgery and his recovery will take some time.

http://www.tellerreport.com/life/--h...ryOkPpHGV.html

[Mothravka]

After reading about Ilya Khrzhanovsky's film in the link, I'm really interested in seeing it, if just by how insane and extensive the whole project seems. Totally crazy.

More information here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dau_(film)

[Grethiwha]

A lot of the best new foreign films take a couple years to make their way out here (if at all), unless you're lucky enough to see them at a film festival. So I'm excited for some 2017/2018 titles to finally start flittering into my reach. In particular, I'll probably blind buy the UK blu of One Cut of the Dead in a couple weeks – that's a low-budget Japanese indie zombie flick that's gotten a lot of good buzz, sounds really fun. That one might still get a limited theatrical release in the US this year eventually... Really, I'm interested to watch everything Third Window puts out, which includes many titles that definitely won't get a theatrical release here...

Beyond what's already been released in festivals, etc, and gotten some buzz, I can just look to some filmmakers I like and see who has something new coming in 2019... But for sure the one I'm most excited about is Joon-ho Bong's Parasite; I don't know what the movie is about, I don't want to know... Okja was a total surprise and a masterpiece, and IMO, Bong's last 3 movies are better than any other director's last 3 movies; the quality of his output is insane, he's never let me down, and my expectations are sky-high for whatever he does next is...

[GRD43L]

If they release them, I shall watch them.

[Cremildo]

2019 Berlin Competition Line-Up:

Competition Films
The Kindness of Strangers, Director: Lone Scherfig (Denmark/Canada/Sweden/ Germany/France) – Opening film
A Tale of Three Sisters, Director: Emin Alper (Turkey/Germany/Netherlands/Greece)
By the Grace of God, Director: Francois Ozon (France)
Elisa & Marcela, Director: Isabel Coixet (Spain)
Ghost Town Anthology, Director: Denis Cote (Canada)
God Exists, Her Name is Petrunya, Director: Teona Strugar Mitevska (Macedonia/Belgium/Slovenia/Croatia/France)
I Was at Home, But, Director: Angela Schanelec (Germany/Serbia)
Mr. Jones, Director: Agnieszka Holland (Poland / United Kingdom / Ukraine)
Ondog, Director: Wang Quan'an (Mongolia)
One Second, Director: Zhang Yimou (China)
Out Stealing Horses, Director: Hans Petter Moland (Norway/Sweden/Denmark)
Piranhas, Director: Claudio Giovannesi (Italy)
So Long, My Son, Director: Wang Xiaoshuai (China)
Synonyms, Director: Nadav Lapid (France/Israel/Germany)
System Crasher, Director: Nora Fingscheidt (Germany)
The Ground beneath My Feet, Director: Marie Kreutzer (Austria)
The Golden Glove, Director: Fatih Akin (Germany/France)

Out of Competition
Amazing Grace, Director: Alan Elliott (USA)
Farewell to the Night, Director: Andre Techine (France/Germany)
Marighella, Director: Wagner Moura (Brazil)
The Operative, Director: Yuval Adler (Germany/Israel/France/USA)
Vice, Director: Adam McKay (USA)

Berlinale Special
Anthropocene: The Human Epoch, Director: Jennifer Baichwal, Nicholas de Pencier, Edward Burtynsky (Canada)
Brecht, Director: Heinrich Breloer (Germany/Austria)
Gully Boy, Director: Zoya Akhtar (India)
It Could Have Been Worse - Mario Adorf, Director: Dominik Wessely (Germany)
Kids in the Spotlight, Director: Alice Agneskirchner (Germany)
Peter Lindbergh – Women Stories, Director: Jean Michel Vecchiet (Germany)
Photograph, Director: Ritesh Batra (India/Germany/USA)
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, Director: Chiwetel Ejiofor (United Kingdom)
The North, Director: Gregory Nava (USA 1984)
Varda By Agnes, Director: Agnes Varda (France)
Watergate - Or: How We Learned to Stop an Out of Control President, Director: Charles Ferguson (USA)
Who You Think I Am, Director: Safy Nebbou (France)
You Only Live Once - Die Toten Hosen on Tour, Director: Cordula Kablitz-Post, concert director Paul Dugdale (Germany)

[Cremildo]

Ash is Purest White | Official US Trailer - YouTube

[Cremildo]

Vadim Perelman, the director of House of Sand and Fog, is in post-production on a WWII drama called Persian Lessons.

Set during the Second World War, the story follows a Jewish man who avoids being sent to a concentration camp by claiming to be Persian. When a german military officer enlists him to speak him Farsi, he must pretend to speak the language to secure his survival.

The project, primarily in German and French, is now in post-production after shooting in Belarus capital Minsk between November 2018 and January this year.

[GRD43L]

Chinese political movie pulled . . . hhhhmmmm. Nothing could go wrong on that topic.

XJP has problems with Winnie the Pooh, let alone a frank display of Communist Party's failings.

I hope the pull was truly due to technical issues.

Then again, having to watch 'Hero' instead is not a bad thing . . .

I'd like to watch all but if I had to make a list,
1. Terrence Malick's Radegund
2. Zhang Yi-Mou's One Second
3. Bong Joon-Ho's Parasite (though I did not find Okja compelling at all)
4. Kore-eda's Truth
5. Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Ends of the Earth
6. Francois Ozon's By the Grace of God (can't get enough of movies exposing the hypocrisy of catholic church)
7. Ciro Guerra's The Barbarians (wondering what he has to offer after Embrace of the Serpent)
8. Andre Konchalovsky's Sin sounds like something I'd enjoy very much
9. Makoto Nagahisa's We Are Little Zombies
10. Emin Arper's A Tale of Three Sisters
10+ Alice Waddington's Paradise Hills

So many movies . . .

[Mothravka]

Originally Posted by GRD43L

Chinese political movie pulled . . . hhhhmmmm. Nothing could go wrong on that topic.

XJP has problems with Winnie the Pooh, let alone a frank display of Communist Party's failings.

I hope the pull was truly due to technical issues.

Then again, having to watch 'Hero' instead is not a bad thing . . .

Well, it says in the article that it was because the film wasn't complete.