Today's bench on which we meet to have our virtual chat, discussions and debate is in the seaside Cornish town of Falmouth with views over Falmouth Harbour in Cornwall.
Today's topic is films. This is a personal choice because I have just discovered the World Movies Channel on Sky television (channel 331) which shows wall to wall foreign films (movies).
Woohoo! They are wonderful and I don't mind the subtitles. If the film is in French, I can even have a stab at understanding what is going on without reading them (usually short lived).
Talking of understanding what is going on, this is a perpetual problem with many foreign films which seem to be very much more 'arty' or philosophical than the usual Hollywood generated stuff that populates most of our television listings.
Frankly, I find these foreign films really refreshing and interesting and when one came to an end last night and I switched over to another channel while the credits were running, I found all the other stuff being served up to be very empty fare.
Do you like 'foreign' or 'arty' films or do you think that Hollywood has got it about right? As we settle down on this pleasant virtual Falmouth bench and gaze across Falmouth Harbour, I would love to know.
Bye for now
Rob
Rob Hopcott - online author and lover of films with some depth
Thursday, September 11, 2008
Falmouth Harbour, Cornwall with bench views, chat, debate and discussion about foreign films and the deficiencies of Hollywood
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I ate fish and chips on that bench with the kids! It was the fish & chips I ever had so i remember it well! Nice place Falmouth.
Re films: Well, we have a few german films which I bought to increae my, and now the kids', fluency in that interestingly gutteral tongue. One was "Was tun wenn's brennt" 9what to do in case of fire) about anarchists in Berlin, occasionally deep and poignant, but mostly just very funny.
I think the experience of films in other languages shows a perspective that jolts us from our own and gives us insight into how language shapes thought and attitude.
Das Boot, by the way, is impossible to understand without the subtitles, although I dicovered some of the translations ahve been a touch sanitised..
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