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Post by cstower on Jul 27, 2015 11:21:52 GMT -6
What was your first "foreign" film? I mean, your first "full-fledged" foreign film, with subtitles and everything. (I'm assuming the ACTUAL first foreign film most of us saw probably featured Godzilla, and as much as I love him, the MIGHTY KAIJU! thread is already here)
My first foreign film was (unsurprisingly for a Monster Kid) Fritz Lang's "M", starring Peter Lorre in a performance that, really, only Peter Lorre could have given: a weirdly sympathetic child murderer. (Can't IMAGINE how they'd handle it THESE days).
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Post by childishcallowgleam on Jul 27, 2015 11:27:40 GMT -6
Does "The Red Balloon" count? They showed that at my elementary school on a regular basis. It freaked me out a little that the kid got bullied at all (i was very young at the time, and people at my school were pretty nice).
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Post by Gillianren on Jul 27, 2015 11:34:53 GMT -6
Yeah, probably "The Red Balloon" for me, too. And I didn't see Godzilla until adulthood. Because it starts with "G." Other than that, I'm honestly not sure. I know I saw El Norte in history class in high school, but was that the first with subtitles? And a substitute showed us one class's worth of M. Hulot's Holiday, too.
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Post by tatsuyanakadai on Jul 27, 2015 12:07:52 GMT -6
Technically, it would have been either The Red Balloon or some random kaiju flick. The first "real" foreign film I saw was "Seven Samurai" when I was about twelve or so (in the middle of my serious nipponophile phase). Perhaps the opposite arc for most people, I enjoyed it immensely at twelve and now dismiss it as boring.
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Post by Tyrannorabbit on Jul 27, 2015 13:16:35 GMT -6
Cheating, because I don't know what the real answer would be, but the first time I saw Alien was on the French channel when I was maybe ten. Scared the crap out of me but I didn't really know that it was Alien, which I wouldn't see in English until I was about 14. (and it went on to be my go-to answer for my favourite movie.)
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Post by Username Too Long on Jul 27, 2015 14:28:05 GMT -6
No idea, the one I remember is Clueless, it wasn't the first, but the first one I watched without subtitles.
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Post by seankgallagher on Jul 27, 2015 14:47:15 GMT -6
My father showed us Grand Illusion when I was in high school, but the subtitles were impossible to read, and while I wasn't one of those kids who was against black-and-white films (since (a) we had a black-and-white TV until we moved to California when I was 13, and (b) my father loved old movies, and showed them to us), I'm afraid I wasn't receptive to films with subtitles at that age. I might have seen Godzilla films around that time as well, which would have put me off of dubbing. The first foreign film I actually sat down and watched was Breathless.
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Post by rhobit on Jul 27, 2015 20:03:06 GMT -6
Does a film of an italian stage opera (with subtitles) count? Pretty sure my dad rented a filmed performance of marriage of figaro when I was 8 or 9. The first I really remember was Rappeneau's Cyrano de Bergerac. My dad was a Depardieu super-fan.
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Post by ludditerobot on Jul 28, 2015 21:39:20 GMT -6
Probably Mon Oncle, or Jean de Florette or Manon of the Spring. My mom was a French teacher and would watch things at home to see if she wanted to use them in class. So a lot of French movies.
Edited to add: It was almost certainly Au Revoir, Les Enfants, the more I think about it.
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Post by blixie on Jul 29, 2015 7:11:47 GMT -6
I'm going with the first foreign film I actively chose to watch on purpose, for my own enjoyment, which was My Life as a Dog, which remains one of my favorite films of all time. I remember being won over to watching it at 14, because unlike most French films it's subtitles were in YELLOW and the pacing of them was slower, you could follow along without missing anything because the owrds whizzed by too fast or disappeared into the lighting of the film.
I then was won over to foreign film for good, and watched Jean de Florette and Manon de Sources quickly after. Emmanuel Beart was so gorgeous.
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Post by katharama on Aug 9, 2015 15:02:10 GMT -6
Certainly the first foreign language movie I saw was Women On The Verge Of a Nervous Breakdown, which I saw in the theater whilst on a exchange trip to London while in high school. None of us realized that it was foreign until it was starting, and we immediately started grumbling about subtitles. Five minutes later, we didn't care, because the movie was so good.
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Post by saxophonic on Aug 14, 2015 9:40:00 GMT -6
The first foreign film I ever saw was, I think, The Motorcycle Diaries as a freshman in high school. My friends and I watched it for cultural experience for Spanish class. I haven't watched it since high school, but I remember it being pretty good.
The first foreign film I saw in the theater was Pan's Labyrinth, which blew me away. My friends and I drove all the way to the other side of town to see it because it was only showing in the one indie theater that Des Moines has.
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Post by servomoore on Dec 21, 2018 0:04:09 GMT -6
Almost certainly a dub of My Neighbor Totoro. Not that I had any idea of that and was utterly bewildered why I couldn't read the writing on the corn.
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