What was the first film with subtitles that you remember seeing in a theater?

[Orrex]

It can be either a complete foreign-language film or a film with bits in another language.

For me, I think it's Star Wars. However, I'm told that my parents took me to see Patton at the drive-in when I was somewhere under 12 months old, so I guess that would qualify, if I could remember it.

[ghostsofgiants]

1. Maybe Kill Bill Vol. 1

I don't go to the theater often.

[Blue_In_AK]

2. Juliet of the Spirits

http://www.amazon.com/Juliet-Spirits-Giulietta-Masina/dp/6301224698 back in the '60s sometime. I don't remember much about the plot, but I liked the way it looked.

[graywarrior]

3. Cousin, Cousine 1975

[Orrex]

4. Was that before or after the knife-fight?

:hi:

[graywarrior]

5. After.

Of course.

[harmonicon]

6. yeah, I guess it must have been a star wars movie...

I never thought of that. huh.

[dawgmom]

7. Bergman's "Scenes from a Marriage"

At least, I'm pretty sure it was sub-titled. I know for sure it was the first foreign film I ever saw.

[Orrex]

8. Is that the one with the wicked Saab chase?

Bergman returns again and again to this narrative device. We see it in Hour of the Wolf and of couse in Fanny and Alexander.

[dawgmom]

9. Honestly, I remember very little about it

All I remember is that I sobbed nearly all the way through it, as my parents had just ended their 30 year marriage and the whole end-of-a-marriage thing really got to me.

Wait -- that was a joke, wasn't it? Duh.

[Orrex]

10. Saab chases aside...

Bergman was really good at evoking heart-rending grief.

[redqueen]

11. El Norte.

My dad took us to see it at The Inwood.

[Orrex]

12. Neat answer!

That means "the North," by the way. :evilgrin:

[redqueen]

13. Yup... I know.

I'm 1/2 Mex. :)

[Orrex]

14. Which half?

Left or right?

Front or back?

[redqueen]

15. Dad's.

:P

[Mari333]

16. Francois Truffaut, 400 Blows. n/t

[FloridaJudy]

17. Last Year at Marienbad

"It's a movie of alarming stasis—elegant zombies positioned like chess pieces in a hyper-civilized haunted house—and unsurpassed fluidity". "The movie is what it is -- a sustained mood, an empty allegory, a choreographed moment outside of time, and a shocking intimation of perfection".http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/last_year_at_marienbad/?critic=creamcrop

I never figured out what the hell was going on either.

[Orrex]

18. Is it a porno?

That write-up sure makes it sound like one!

[FloridaJudy]

19. Nah. Porno doesn't *need* subtitles.

Heavy breathing sounds pretty much the same in all languages.

[cemaphonic]

24. That makes as much sense as any other interpretation.

But it's probably the most boring and creepy porn ever if it is.

[tigereye]

20. Jules and Jim, I think

[Adsos Letter]

21. "The Longest Day" The German and French dialogues were subtitled in English

[Doc_Technical]

22. "The Conformist" in 1971 .

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065571/

[CaliforniaPeggy]

23. "Das Boot"

A superb German movie about the subs in WWII. Really fantastic...

The subtitles didn't disturb the flow of the movie at all...

Beautifully done!

[justabob]

25. that is the one I saw too....

I was maybe 12-13... my only memory from the experience was that the adults I was with covered my eyes more than once :)

[Forkboy]

35. Great movie. Damned harrowing.

The book is superb as well.

[Lady President]

26. Cinema Paradiso

I went through a phase in my teens where I tried to see as many Oscar nominees as I could. It wasn't possible to see them all, but Cinema Paradiso made it to Columbus, OH. It's a great movie!

[Orsino]

27. Airplane. n/t

[AngryAmish]

28. Disorderlies

[MineralMan]

29. "8 1/2" in 1963...

I'm really, really old. Feh!

[Rambis]

30. Die Marquise von O 1976 film directed by Éric Rohmer

first one I remember in a theatre

[rug]

31. I Am Curious (yellow)

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

32. De Duva (The Dove)

I'd forgotten about that one, but having remembered, somehow I feel better now.

:hi:

[rcrush]

33. Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon.

[foxfeet]

34. "The Devils of Loudon"

It was in English with German subtitles. Saw it when I was living in Germany. But this probably isn't what you had in mind, is it?:P

[Forkboy]

36. Seven Samurai when I was 17.

There's a good chance I saw movies with subtitles before that, but this is the one I remember choosing to see myself, and loving every second of it.

[Orrex]

37. Kurosawa totally ripped off The Magnificent Seven

He's a thief!

[Forkboy]

38. I've actually heard that.

:rofl:

[Orrex]

39. That's sad

Oh. And he ripped of A Bug's Life, too!