Topic: Favourite movies by theme

[GSyren]

Not a real fan of Hollywood comedies, are you Yves?

[surfeur51]

Not a real fan of Hollywood comedies, are you Yves?

Well, Hollywood is good for romances, and you'll see that when I'll post corresponding list. I also like American musical comedies. But the fact is that in this list, my favourites are mainly from my country (problem of culture, probably...). This will be also true for comedy-drama, that are generally more subtle in Europe than in Hollywood. But Hollywood is top for adventure, western, science-fiction, action and many other genres...

In fact, to have a good idea of the world of movies, you have to taste movies from different countries. Asian movies, European movies and American movies have each their strengths and weaknesses.

[surfeur51]

Comedy-drama

1 - La Vie d'Adèle
   

2 - Le Nom des gens

   
3 - Volver

   
4 - Les Choristes   


5 - The Artist

   
6 - Four Weddings and a Funeral   

   
7 - Nuovo Cinema Paradiso   

   
8 - Je vais bien, ne t'en fais pas

   
9 - Faubourg 36

   
10 - Les Femmes du 6ème étage

[surfeur51]

Drama

1 - 36 Quai des orfèvres
   

2 - Doctor Zhivago

   
3 - Mulholland Drive

   
4 - Manon des sources   


5 - The Great Gatsby

   
6 - Le Vieux Fusil   

   
7 -The English Patient   

   
8 - The Stoning of Soraya M.

   
9 - Tess

   
10 - L'Eté meurtrier

[surfeur51]

Thriller

1 - The Silence of the Lambs
   

2 - Millenium : Men Som Hatar Kvinnor

   
3 - Basic Instinct

   
4 - Ne le dis à personne   


5 - V for Vendetta

   
6 - Möbius   

   
7 - Gone Girl   

   
8 - MR73

   
9 - A History of Violence

   
10 - Black Swann

[surfeur51]

Biopics

01- Schindler's List
   
   
02- Imitation Game
   

03- Lawrence of Arabia

   
04- Erin Brockovich


05- Jeanne d'Arc (1999)


06- The Wolf of Wall Street
   
   
07- La Reine Margot
   
   
08- 12 Years a Slave


09- La Môme
      
   
10- Les Adieux à la Reine

   

[surfeur51]

James Bond movies

01 - Casino Royale


02 - Skyfall


03 - Licence to Kill


04 - Die Another Day


05 - Thunderball


06 - Goldfinger


07 - The Spy who Loved Me


08 - GoldenEye


09 - Spectre


10 - Dr. No

[surfeur51]

Romance

1 - Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain
   

2 -Pretty Woman

   
3 - Notting Hill

   
4 - La Belle et la Bête (2014)   


5 - Love Actually

   
6 - Sleepless in Seattle   

   
7 - When Harry Met sally   

   
8 - Carol

   
9 - Pride & Prejudice

   
10 - Shakespeare in Love

[surfeur51]

Movies with Alain Delon

1- Les Aventuriers


2- Le Samouraï 


3- Le Cercle rouge


4- Le Guépard


5- Pour la peau d'un flic


6- Borsalino


7- La Piscine


8- Le Clan des Siciliens


9- Le Battant


10- Plein Soleil

[GSyren]

I like Delon. I have seen Le Samurai and Le Cercle Rouge, but unfortunately Les Aventuriers does not seem to be available with English subtitles (or - heaven forbid - dubbing). I think I have seen Borsalino, too, but I'm not sure. I guess I should look into some of the other titles. I watch too few French movies. It's laziness. It's easier to watch movies in a language you understand, than to read subtitles. Still, I much prefer subtitles to dubbing.

Maybe I should watch some deep French movie right now. Like something with Louis de Funès. 

[surfeur51]

Still, I much prefer subtitles to dubbing.

In France, most of movies are dubbed, whatever their origin. The dubbing is generally done by very good actors, and I generally watch dubbed movies the first time. If I like a movie very much, and if the original language is available on DVD/blu-ray, I watch them subtitled the second time, and since I know the story, I can follow rather easily. Honestly, the dubbed version is generally very correct, and I have even seen some movies where a dubbing actor was far better than the original one...

[GSyren]

Well, there are two issues with dubbing. Even if it is done with good voice actors, it's just not the "right" voice. It's another actor trying to impart the same feeling in the dialog as the original actor. It's kind of like seeing a Alain Delon movie with a stunt double playing the role throughout the movie. No matter how good he is, he's not Alain Delon.

The other thing is that it's impossible to do an exact translation, because the sound must match the mouth movement, so it will always be a compromise. Subtitling also has it's problems, mainly in keeping the translation short enough so one has time to read it, but that usually involves less of a compromise.

Of course I am used to subtitling, because Swedish is such a small language that it isn't practical to dub films other than for children.

[surfeur51]

I totally agree with you, dubbing is a compromise that is not perfect. Even when the actor(actress) is dubbed by him(her)self, (for example Yul Brinner, Marcello Mastroiani, Jodie Foster, Kristin Scott-Thomas, Victoria Abril or Diane Kruger (...and many others), and of course all French actors who play in foreign movies), we get the translation problems.

But really, if the job is correctly done, which is often the case, those inconveniences are more academic then real, and the pleasure when watching the movie is not diminished.

And, with international productions, we now find very often actors dubbed in original language movie. For example, when you, in Sweden, watch an English language subtitled movie with French actors (1492 with Gérard Depardieu for example), or a 007 movie with a French James Bond girl, you get some dubbing, and subtitles

[surfeur51]

Animated movies

1 – Tangled
   

2 – Bambi

   
3 – Mononoke-hime (Princess Mononoke)

   
4 – Sleeping Beauty   


5 – Cinderella

   
6 – Kurenai no buta (Porco Rosso)   

   
7 – The Incredibles   

   
8 – One Hundred and One Dalmatians

   
9 – Kaze no tani no Naushika (Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind)

   
10 – Cars

[GSyren]

Just out of curiosity, do stop-motion animation films like Coraline and ParaNorman not fit into this category, or do they just not make the top ten?