What are the best films from the continent of Africa? I feel like I've seen maybe ten at the most.
What are the best films from the continent of Africa? I feel like I've seen maybe ten at the most.
The Princess and the Pilot - B-
Playtime (rewatch) - A
The Hobbit - C-
The Comedy - D+
Kings of the Road - C+
The Odd Couple - B
Red Rock West - C-
The Hunger Games - D-
Prometheus - C
Tangled - C+
I don't think I've seen one.
By ten I meant three.Quoting Boner M (view post)
The Princess and the Pilot - B-
Playtime (rewatch) - A
The Hobbit - C-
The Comedy - D+
Kings of the Road - C+
The Odd Couple - B
Red Rock West - C-
The Hunger Games - D-
Prometheus - C
Tangled - C+
Moolaade.
Um. I can't think of another one.
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Yeelen I saw and thought it was alright. It was worth watching but not amazing. I wonder if Tsotsi counts as African... the director isn't.
The Princess and the Pilot - B-
Playtime (rewatch) - A
The Hobbit - C-
The Comedy - D+
Kings of the Road - C+
The Odd Couple - B
Red Rock West - C-
The Hunger Games - D-
Prometheus - C
Tangled - C+
My personal favorite is Adanggaman, which is about how African people were enslaved by African leaders.
A while back, I went on a bit of an African binge, and the same actor, Rasmane Ouedraogo, turned up in a lot of the films I watched, including Adanggaman, Moolaadé, Tilai and Yaaba. I recommend Yaaba, too.
He is South African. I've seen several South African films: Tsotsi, Stander, Beat the Drum, Space Mutiny (lol). They were all directed by white people and tend to have more of a Western aesthetic than other African films.Quoting Qrazy
I've seen this. It wasn't very good but Hughes, the director, is Canadian, so I'm not sure this is what he is looking for.Quoting Antoine (view post)
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Ali Zaoua was from Morocco I think. That was pretty good.
Oh and The Gods Must Be Crazy (Jamie Uys)... South African.
The Princess and the Pilot - B-
Playtime (rewatch) - A
The Hobbit - C-
The Comedy - D+
Kings of the Road - C+
The Odd Couple - B
Red Rock West - C-
The Hunger Games - D-
Prometheus - C
Tangled - C+
My sole contribution to this thread is Sembene's Xala, which was a bit slow and static visually. Thematically, though, it was vibrant and a marvel of humane understanding.
It's the one national cinema that I'm still basically unknowledgeable of.
The Boat People - 9
The Power of the Dog - 7.5
The King of Pigs - 7
Please don't take the list of South African films I've seen to be a list of recommendations. My purpose was not to recommend them, but to compare them to other African films, and how they don't seem very African by comparison.Quoting Raiders (view post)
After some research these names seem worth looking into...
Ousmane Sembène
Djibril Diop Mambéty
Med Hondo
Souleymane Cissé
Cheick Oumar Sissoko
Ferid Boughedir
The Princess and the Pilot - B-
Playtime (rewatch) - A
The Hobbit - C-
The Comedy - D+
Kings of the Road - C+
The Odd Couple - B
Red Rock West - C-
The Hunger Games - D-
Prometheus - C
Tangled - C+
Black Girl (1966) ***
Touki Bouki (1973) *½
Xala (1975) ***
Yeelen (1987) **½
Space Mutiny (1988) [zero stars]
Yaaba (1989) ****
Tilai (1990) ***½
Adanggaman (2000) ****
Ali Zaoua (2000) ***
Beat the Drum (2003) **½
Moolaadé (2004) ***½
Tsotsi (2005) **½
This is the only one I've seen. It was pretty good. If I remember correctly, it raises questions about the cyclical nature of colonialism and the deceptive (and damaging) allure of other countries and cultures.Quoting Antoine (view post)
That's a shame, I was excited for Touki Bouki. Something tells me Adanggaman will be a hard film to find.Quoting Antoine (view post)
The Princess and the Pilot - B-
Playtime (rewatch) - A
The Hobbit - C-
The Comedy - D+
Kings of the Road - C+
The Odd Couple - B
Red Rock West - C-
The Hunger Games - D-
Prometheus - C
Tangled - C+
I like Tsotsi.
I can't remember it all that well. I might find it easier now that I'm more familiar with the African style, but I do remember it was kind of a chore to get through at the time.Quoting Qrazy (view post)
Adanggaman is available through Netflix.
Moolaade is great. I don't think I've seen any others...
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Night Hunter (David Raymond) *
Does Kirikou and the Sorceress count?
Sure why not?
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No, the director is French and the production is franco-belgian.Quoting Watashi (view post)
The Princess and the Pilot - B-
Playtime (rewatch) - A
The Hobbit - C-
The Comedy - D+
Kings of the Road - C+
The Odd Couple - B
Red Rock West - C-
The Hunger Games - D-
Prometheus - C
Tangled - C+
I've seen The Gods Must Be Crazy, which I liked quite a bit and was sort of funny. But I think that's the only film from Africa I have actually seen.Quoting Qrazy (view post)
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Antoine you were right about Yaaba, quality film. I'm almost done Ceddo and it's not very good at all. Sort of disappointing as I was expecting more from Sembene. Given my appreciation for Yaaba perhaps I should check out Tilai next.
The Princess and the Pilot - B-
Playtime (rewatch) - A
The Hobbit - C-
The Comedy - D+
Kings of the Road - C+
The Odd Couple - B
Red Rock West - C-
The Hunger Games - D-
Prometheus - C
Tangled - C+
Mandabi is my favorite Sembene. Then Moolaade, Xala, and Black Girl. When I took Film Theory, Xala was included as a postcolonialist film, and sad to say that nobody else could get into it.
Abderrahmane Sissako is from Mauritania, and Bamako and Waiting for Happiness has some good stuff in them.
I hated The Gods Must be Crazy. Wend Kuuni is more interesting. Unpolished, but it has a curious observing eye and a willingness to stare at the local culture in quasi-documentary mode. And there's an interesting, overarching theme in there about the continent and its plight. Good stuff. Other than that, I've seen nothing from Africa.
Last Film Loved
Mulholland Drive (Lynch)
What did you hate about it? It's one of those childhood favorites I'm deathly afraid is going to be sullied by an adult viewing.Quoting Beau (view post)
The Princess and the Pilot - B-
Playtime (rewatch) - A
The Hobbit - C-
The Comedy - D+
Kings of the Road - C+
The Odd Couple - B
Red Rock West - C-
The Hunger Games - D-
Prometheus - C
Tangled - C+
I found it horribly unfunny and a complete bore.Quoting Qrazy (view post)
I've only seen the awful dubbed copy they released in the United States. Maybe without the dubbing... I should have turned it off right after I heard the first dubbed line of dialogue, but I didn't know any better back then.
Last Film Loved
Mulholland Drive (Lynch)