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Posted: **Wed Jan 24, 2007 10:37 pm**

justeleblanc wrote:Bulle Ogier???

I believe --- Bool (rhymes with pool) Oh-zh(i)ay (not sure that is decipherable)

Posted: **Wed Jan 24, 2007 10:47 pm**

Michael Kerpan wrote:
justeleblanc wrote:Bulle Ogier???
I believe --- Bool (rhymes with pool) Oh-zh(i)ay (not sure that is decipherable)

I think that's right - but, as a native English speaker, it's still hard not to look at her name and think 'bull ogler'. No disrespect, of course, to Rivette's muse and star of at least two of the best films ever made.

Posted: **Thu Jan 25, 2007 12:54 am**

Thanks.... I'm seeing L'Amour fou this weekend with a friend, and we were totally lost as to how to pronounce her name.

Posted: **Thu Jan 25, 2007 4:03 am**

can someone tell me how to pronounce Wes Anderson for me?

By the way, all joking aside, do any other Americans find the Swedish pronunciation of Alexander to be far more exquisite sounding than an American pronunciation? Alex-sonder instead of sander?

Posted: **Thu Jan 25, 2007 4:26 am**

blindside8zao wrote:can someone tell me how to pronounce Wes Anderson for me?

By the way, all joking aside, do any other Americans find the Swedish pronunciation of Alexander to be far more exquisite sounding than an American pronunciation? Alex-sonder instead of sander?

Sure, but nothing beats a pronunciation by Werner Herzog.

Posted: **Sat Feb 03, 2007 2:50 am**

Fanciful Norwegian, thanks for the corrections regarding Thai and Vietnamese names and the rest of the info.

Lemmy Caution, thanks for the Yi Yi pronunciation.

Posted: **Sat Feb 03, 2007 3:02 am**

Would anyone care to have a crack at Apichatpong Weerasethakul? (So far I've settled for "the guy who directed Tropical Malady" or "the Thai director, Joe".)

Posted: **Sat Feb 03, 2007 9:50 am**

foggy eyes wrote:Would anyone care to have a crack at Apichatpong Weerasethakul? (So far I've settled for "the guy who directed Tropical Malady" or "the Thai director, Joe".)

Ah-pih-chaad-pong Weh-rah-seh-tah-kun

the "pong" part is the hardest to describe - it's not pronounced like the video game pong, but closer to the "ung" sound.

Posted: **Sat Feb 03, 2007 6:39 pm**

A big help, thank you!

Posted: **Sat Feb 03, 2007 11:11 pm**

Re Bulle Ogier: Bulle doesn't rhyme with pool. it's a plain French U for which I don't think there is equivalent in English.

Posted: **Sun Feb 04, 2007 1:24 am**

To get a French "u" you purse your lips into an "o" and say "e".

"Tu as vu le cul de Bulle?"

Posted: **Tue Feb 06, 2007 7:02 pm**

Lemmy Caution wrote:Jia Zhang-ke = Jah Jahng Kuh

Jia: more like "Jyah" I think, otherwise it'll sound more like the pinyin zha (as in zha ji = fried chicken).

Ke: try "Keh", or, say, the first syllable of career. An English speaker will open his/her mouth too much with "Kuh".

Posted: **Tue Feb 06, 2007 7:05 pm**

Kiarostami?

Posted: **Wed Feb 07, 2007 9:54 pm**

I found audio of the proper pronunciation of "Ingmar Bergman" at wikipedia. And I've heard John Woo call Tsui Hark "Choy Hock," but for all I know he was trying to insult him.

Posted: **Thu Feb 08, 2007 6:10 am**

dekadetia wrote:And I've heard John Woo call Tsui Hark "Choy Hock," but for all I know he was trying to insult him.

"Choy Hock" would be the Cantonese pronunciation, which is probably what Tsui Hark mostly uses.

I'm not sure of the Mandarin pronunciation without knowing the characters. I could guess on the family name, but no idea what "Hark" equals in Pinyin or what the actual Chinese character is.

Posted: **Fri Feb 09, 2007 12:35 am**

Wikipedia generally provides the original Chinese characters for Chinese names, along with the pinyin and (sometimes) Wade-Giles romanizations. (Tsui is Ã¥Â¾

Posted: **Tue Feb 20, 2007 3:17 pm**

ScreenLex: A Pronunciation Guide for Film/TV Studies has just been launched.

Yes, now everyone can speak like a film/TV professor!

ScreenLex contains pronunciations of key phrases and people's names from the
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The first 30 pronunciations (see below) have just been released. More will
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ScreenLex seeks suggestions for terms/names to be added to its collection.
We also seek native speakers in languages other than English that would
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And, of course, we welcome corrections or alternative pronunciations!

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please pull up this PDF file and print it:

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---- First 30 pronunciations ----

# anamorphic
# auteur theory
# Borzage, Frank
# bourgeoisie
# Brechtian performance
# camera obscura
# cardioid microphone
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# diegesis
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# kinescope
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# videography

--
Jeremy Butler

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www.ScreenSite.org
www.TVCrit.com
www.AllThingsAcoustic.org

Professor - TCF Dept. - U Alabama

Posted: **Tue Feb 20, 2007 4:32 pm**

Howjsay is an audio pronouncing dictionary with some cinematic content. "Each word is individually pre-recorded and no form of synthetic speech is used." It seems to have most of the ScreenLex words, but with an English accent ("diegesis" is pronounced quite differently). Unfortunately it doesn't appear to have any proper names yet, though it'll offer the closest sounding word: I looked up "Brecht" and it said "erect". For "Hitchcock" it offered "spatchcock".

Posted: **Wed Feb 21, 2007 7:28 am**

[quote="The Fanciful Norwegian"]Wikipedia generally provides the original Chinese characters for Chinese names, along with the pinyin and (sometimes) Wade-Giles romanizations. (Tsui is Ã¥Â¾

Posted: **Mon May 14, 2007 8:04 am**

I've scanned back through the thread, but can't find this one: Erice. Anyone?

Posted: **Mon May 14, 2007 12:53 pm**

Wow -- this is the best and most amusing thread on this forum in ages!

I don't think I can break the habit of pronouncing it KU-roe-SOW-ah, though. Sorry, Michael.

Now then. Ishiro Honda. Supposedly "Ishiro" is a more phonetically correct spelling than "Inoshiro." So how exactly is that one pronounced?

Posted: **Mon May 14, 2007 4:04 pm**

The disjunction between the proper pronunciations of lots of four-syllable Japanese last names and the American ones is pretty striking. We really do like to make these all sing-songy.

Ishiro is probably straightforward -- I - shi - ro (with perhaps a tiny emphasis on the first syllable -- but no especially strong accent).

At least that's my guess.

Posted: **Tue May 15, 2007 5:39 pm**

Michael Kerpan wrote:Ishiro is probably straightforward -- I - shi - ro (with perhaps a tiny emphasis on the first syllable -- but no especially strong accent).

Good, then when I pronounce it EEE-she-row, I'm not mauling it too badly.

Posted: **Sun Jul 22, 2007 5:10 am**

ok, Mike Leigh. Lee or Lay?

Posted: **Sun Jul 22, 2007 7:58 am**

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