A landmark of “modernist” cinema, but don’t expect it to, y’know, have a story or make any attempt to explain anything.
Tag Archives: Non-English language movies
AMARCORD (1974)
Federico Fellini’s exaggerated childhood memories form the basis for this story of a year in the life of a 1930s Italian small town.
DET SJUNDE INSEGLET (1957)
Ingmar Bergman’s allegorical classic about the absence of God during a plague really, really hit home with me on this viewing. Wonder why?
LATE SPRING (1949)
An aggressively minimalist postwar Japanese family drama from Yasujiro Ozu, about a daughter who just wants to take care of her aging father, even though everyone else wants her to get married to literally anyone.
AGUIRRE, DER ZORN GOTTES (1972)
A descent into madness with conquistadors searching fruitlessly for El Dorado, that Werner Herzog dragged a full movie crew down the Amazon to shoot.
JALSAGHAR (1958)
In which a king sacrifices basically everything that matters for the sake of his own pride, manifested through giving Indian classical music parties, as you do.
CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON (2000)
Your reader poll winner is a high-flying martial arts extravaganza that I think was the first subtitled movie I (and lots of other people) saw in a theater.
THE SILENCES OF THE PALACE (1994)
The story of women trapped and exploited in a gilded cage, the first film by a female director to come out of the Arab World.
LA NOIRE DE… (1966)
The first film from Sub-Saharan Africa to make a big splash in Europe and the US, its story about the toll of colonization is very relevant even today.
HIMALA (1982)
A rural village in the Philippines is dragged into the modern world when a local girl claims to see a vision of the Virgin Mary.
