Spanish language films

I'm trying to learn Spanish at the moment and I thought to help make things a bit more interesting I'd start watching a lot more Spanish cinema. Does anyone have any cool suggestions?

Los cronocrímenes

El secreto de sus ojos

Machuca

totally obvious ones that probably don't need mentioning:

El laberinto del fauno

Amores perros (Mex.)

[rec]

Abre los ojos

prepare to be offended in almost every way possible

la ley de herodes

la mala educacion

Sleep Dealer is fun

and Intacto maybe

the devil's backbone (el espinazo del diablo)

y tu mamá también

anything by almodóvar

El espíritu de la colmena

Cría cuervos

Loads of Buñuel ofcourse

Muerte de un ciclista

Vacas

El extraño viaje

those Ché Guevara films

Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia

El Topo

  On 5/5/2010 at 10:59 AM, the anonymous forumite said:

El Topo

so bad.

This movie is a cult classic full of symbolism you may have misunderstood.

  On 5/5/2010 at 1:02 PM, the anonymous forumite said:

This movie is a cult classic full of symbolism you may have misunderstood.

it's from the same guy who did the holy mountain, thx for advicing!

the red squirrel

La habitación de Fermat

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1016301/

  On 5/5/2010 at 1:06 PM, THIS IS MICHAEL JACKSON said:

  On 5/5/2010 at 1:02 PM, the anonymous forumite said:

This movie is a cult classic full of symbolism you may have misunderstood.

it's from the same guy who did the holy mountain, thx for advicing!

Yes, from Jodorowsky. The Holy Mountain is his best imo. If you get the chance, watch the commented version, otherwise you will miss thousands of interesting details.

  On 5/5/2010 at 1:02 PM, the anonymous forumite said:

This movie is a cult classic full of symbolism you may have misunderstood.

it's good-looking but shallow, boring and massively overhyped.

holy mountain is good though.

  On 5/5/2010 at 1:20 PM, keltoi said:

  On 5/5/2010 at 1:02 PM, the anonymous forumite said:

This movie is a cult classic full of symbolism you may have misunderstood.

 

it's good-looking but shallow, boring and massively overhyped.

 

holy mountain is good though.

It is certainly not shallow. Again, it works on a symbolic level.

http://www.subcin.com/jod01.html

most of what these guys said + el aura.

  On 5/5/2010 at 1:25 PM, the anonymous forumite said:

  On 5/5/2010 at 1:20 PM, keltoi said:

  On 5/5/2010 at 1:02 PM, the anonymous forumite said:

This movie is a cult classic full of symbolism you may have misunderstood.

 

it's good-looking but shallow, boring and massively overhyped.

 

holy mountain is good though.

 

It is certainly not shallow. Again, it works on a symbolic level.

 

http://www.subcin.com/jod01.html

ok i'll retract shallow but i'm not reading all that for a film i didn't enjoy... you did... that's nice.

so you spotted all that symbolism before reading up on it?

  On 5/5/2010 at 1:35 PM, keltoi said:

  On 5/5/2010 at 1:25 PM, the anonymous forumite said:

  On 5/5/2010 at 1:20 PM, keltoi said:

  On 5/5/2010 at 1:02 PM, the anonymous forumite said:

This movie is a cult classic full of symbolism you may have misunderstood.

 

it's good-looking but shallow, boring and massively overhyped.

 

holy mountain is good though.

 

It is certainly not shallow. Again, it works on a symbolic level.

 

http://www.subcin.com/jod01.html

 

ok i'll retract shallow but i'm not reading all that for a film i didn't enjoy... you did... that's nice.

 

so you spotted all that symbolism before reading up on it?

No, just some of it, I guess it worked to some degree on a subconscious level. But I enjoyed it, it was so out there, so weird.

  On 5/5/2010 at 1:41 PM, the anonymous forumite said:

  On 5/5/2010 at 1:35 PM, keltoi said:

  On 5/5/2010 at 1:25 PM, the anonymous forumite said:

  On 5/5/2010 at 1:20 PM, keltoi said:

  On 5/5/2010 at 1:02 PM, the anonymous forumite said:

This movie is a cult classic full of symbolism you may have misunderstood.

 

it's good-looking but shallow, boring and massively overhyped.

 

holy mountain is good though.

 

It is certainly not shallow. Again, it works on a symbolic level.

 

http://www.subcin.com/jod01.html

 

ok i'll retract shallow but i'm not reading all that for a film i didn't enjoy... you did... that's nice.

 

so you spotted all that symbolism before reading up on it?

 

No, just some of it, I guess it worked to some degree on a subconscious level. But I enjoyed it, it was so out there, so weird.

cool. interesting. if i looked at a painting and got nothing from it, would i care about any symbolism or meaning i'd missed? and would i have to review my initial reaction? dunno when i walk around galleries i'm unlikely to read the card for works i don't like.

everything by Almodovar

  On 5/5/2010 at 2:03 PM, keltoi said:

  On 5/5/2010 at 1:41 PM, the anonymous forumite said:

  On 5/5/2010 at 1:35 PM, keltoi said:

  On 5/5/2010 at 1:25 PM, the anonymous forumite said:

  On 5/5/2010 at 1:20 PM, keltoi said:

  On 5/5/2010 at 1:02 PM, the anonymous forumite said:

This movie is a cult classic full of symbolism you may have misunderstood.

 

it's good-looking but shallow, boring and massively overhyped.

 

holy mountain is good though.

 

It is certainly not shallow. Again, it works on a symbolic level.

 

http://www.subcin.com/jod01.html

 

ok i'll retract shallow but i'm not reading all that for a film i didn't enjoy... you did... that's nice.

 

so you spotted all that symbolism before reading up on it?

 

No, just some of it, I guess it worked to some degree on a subconscious level. But I enjoyed it, it was so out there, so weird.

 

cool. interesting. if i looked at a painting and got nothing from it, would i care about any symbolism or meaning i'd missed? and would i have to review my initial reaction? dunno when i walk around galleries i'm unlikely to read the card for works i don't like.

I hear you. I used to think like you. Like, if I don't like it immediatly, then I won't bother. But scratching the surface and going deeper on something can be very rewrding. Just like an AE track. Same for movies and art, tons of stuff i didn't like at first but then, after having learned a few things about the artist perspective or some interesting interpretation, I started liking the things.

Art doesn't need to be explicitly appealing to be good. Discuss.

el topo. i liked