#FOREIGN FILM

[clandestinewhore]

[busterkeatonsociety]

This Day in Buster… January 29, 1929 “The Cameraman,” with the title "El cameraman,” opens in Argentina.

[shattereddteacup]

Passages (2023)

Dir. Ira Sachs

Language: English, French

[watchmorecinema]

Why you should watch foreign films.

They're good. Bong Joon Ho (director of Parasite) says it best.

Movies are a great way to experience other perspectives and cultures. Foreign films are made differently from films you're used to. The style, the editing, the way plots unfold, it's all going to be different in interesting ways. Some examples:

Giallo films (Italian) might have nonsensical plots but they're more focused on emotion and spectacle. You're Vice is a Locked Room and Only I Have The Key might be a mess of a story but it's a wild ride of the type you don't find in America.

Japan has a lot of movies about the horrors of nuclear war and proliferation. Godzilla, Akira and Grave of the Fireflies could not have been made in America. When America makes a movie about nukes we get Oppenheimer, a movie about the people who made the bomb and not the people that suffered under it.

Korea has some amazing thrillers like Oldboy and Memoirs of a Murderer. America remade Oldboy and it was not nearly as good.

These are all broad strokes of course, but the point is that other countries have a lot to offer and you're missing out on so much if you're scared off by subtitles. The way I figure is that 95% of the world's population doesn't live in America, so why assume 100% of good movies come from there?

[neonfeel]

Long Day's Journey into Night (2018)

[blairwitchbaby]

Uzumaki

2000, Higuchinsky

[a-disaster-piece]

I appreciate what you did for me. But you see, I’m like other women. I sweat, I cough. I have cavities. You won’t miss me; you understand that now. Shut the door when you leave.

Julie Vignon (Juliette Binoche), Three Colors: Blue (Krzysztof Kieślowski, 1993)

[halloweenhundreds]

Pan’s Labyrinth is so fucking good jesus christ god christ god god.

[romant1crebel]

FALLEN ANGELS

6 september 1995 | dir. wong kar-wai

[clandestinewhore]

𝑽𝒂𝒍𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑯𝒆𝒓 𝑾𝒆𝒆𝒌 𝒐𝒇 𝑾𝒐𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒔

𝚅𝚊𝚕𝚎𝚛𝚒𝚎 𝚊 𝚝𝚢́𝚍𝚎𝚗 𝚍𝚒𝚟𝚞̊, 𝟷𝟿𝟽𝟶

[busterkeatonsociety]

Throwback Thursday - Unique artwork for this advertisement of "Le plombier amoureux," the French version of "The Passionate Plumber."

[mrmousetolliver]

Mon Oncle (1958) directed by Jacques Tati

[l-ultimo-squalo]

Vampyros Lesbos (1971) dir. Jesús Franco

[discoursets]

Stringete le schede come fossero biglietti d’amore. (x)

C'è ancora domani (Paola Cortellesi, 2023)

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