Top 100 Foreign Films

Submitted by robear61 on Fri, 09/05/2008 - 02:36
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  1. Seven Samurai (1954), Japan
  2. 8 1/2 (1963), Italy
  3. Rashomon (1951), Japan
  4. Wild Strawberries (1957), Sweden
  5. The Seventh Seal (1956), Sweden
  6. The Bicycle Thief (1948), Italy
  7. Cries and Whispers (1972), Sweden
  8. M (1931), Germany
  9. Ran (1985), Japan
  10. Amelie (2001), France
  11. Ikiru (1952), Japan
  12. Persona (1966), Sweden
  13. City of God (2002), Brazil
  14. The 400 Blows (1959), France
  15. La Dolce Vita (1960), Italy
  16. Stalker (1979), Russia
  17. Raise the Red Lantern (1991), China
  18. Andrei Rublev (1966), Russia
  19. Yojimbo (1961), Japan
  20. Throne of Blood (1957), Japan
  21. Grand Illusion (1937), France
  22. La Strada (1954), Italy
  23. The Exterminating Angel (1962), Mexico
  24. The Mirror (1974), Russia
  25. Children of Paradise (1945), France
  26. Aguirre, Wrath of God (1972), Germany
  27. Los Olvidados (1950), Mexico
  28. Umberto D (1952), Italy
  29. In the Mood for Love (2000), Hong Kong
  30. Metropolis (1926), Germany
  31. Fanny and Alexander (1982), Sweden
  32. Beauty and the Beast (1946), France
  33. Nights of Cabiria (1957), Italy
  34. The Rules of the Game (1939), France
  35. Spirited Away (2001), Japan
  36. Nostalghia (1983), Russia
  37. The Silence (1963), Sweden
  38. Tokyo Story (1953), Japan
  39. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972), France
  40. Solaris (1972), Russia
  41. Winter Light (1962), Sweden
  42. Viridiana (1961), Spain
  43. Breathless (1959), France
  44. My Life to Live (1962), France
  45. Nosferatu (1922), Germany
  46. Pather Panchali (1955), India
  47. Open City (1945), Italy
  48. That Obscure Object of Desire (1977), France
  49. Through a Glass Darkly (1961), Sweden
  50. L'Age d'Or (1930), France
  51. Un Chien Andalou (1928), France
  52. Ugetsu Monogatari (1953), Japan
  53. The Wages of Fear (1953), France
  54. Cinema Paradiso (1988), Italy
  55. All About My Mother (1999), Spain
  56. Sansho the Bailiff (1954), Japan
  57. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1919), Germany
  58. Amarcord (1973), Italy
  59. Show Me Love (1998), Sweden
  60. L'Avventura (1960), Italy
  61. Battleship Potemkin (1925), Russia
  62. Smiles of a Summer Night (1955), Sweden
  63. La Notte (1961), Italy
  64. Talk to Her (2001), Spain
  65. Das Boot (1981), Germany
  66. The Hidden Fortress (1958), Japan
  67. The Leopard (1963), Italy
  68. The Children of Heaven (1997), Iran
  69. Chungking Express (1994), Hong Kong
  70. Princess Mononoke (1997), Japan
  71. To Live (1994), China
  72. Au Revoir les Enfants (1987), France
  73. Ivan's Childhood (1962), Russia
  74. Contempt (1963), France
  75. Amores Perros (2000), Mexico
  76. Central Station (1998), Brazil
  77. Underground (1995), Yugoslavia
  78. Fitzcarraldo (1982), Germany
  79. Hero (2002), China
  80. Run Lola Run (1998), Germany
  81. Shoot the Piano Player (1960), France
  82. Sanjuro (1962), Japan
  83. Belle de Jour (1967), France
  84. Alexander Nevsky (1938), Russia
  85. Pierrot Le Fou (1965), France
  86. The Killer (1989), Hong Kong
  87. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000), Taiwan
  88. Hiroshima, Mon Amour (1959), France
  89. Jean de Florette (1986), France
  90. Jules and Jim (1961), France
  91. Lovers of the Arctic Circle (1998), Spain
  92. High and Low (1963), Japan
  93. Diabolique (1954), France
  94. Kagemusha (1980), Japan
  95. The Virgin Spring (1959), Sweden
  96. Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988), Spain
  97. Life is Beautiful (1998), Italy
  98. directed by Roberto Benigni
  99. Manon of the Spring (1986), France
  100. The Wild Reeds (1994), France
  101. No Man's Land (2001), UK
Author Comments: 

From http://www.foreignfilms.com/

Highlighting the ones I've seen.

If anyone out there can explain "Un Chien Andalou," please let me know.

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Top 100 Foreign Films
Parablesque08/14/2010

"If anyone out there can explain "Un Chien Andalou," please let me know."

There is a theme, a sort of narrative thread, that runs through the film: liberation. Liberation from the Church, liberation from 19th century morality, liberation from a linear reality.

That's not my interpretation of the subtext (is there any subtext in free-assocation?), but my view on the film as a historical document.

AJDaGreat08/16/2010

Un Chien Andalou: One thing it does to mess around with the few conventions that had already been established by narrative filmmakers, such as the idea that one shot which appears to segue into the next is a continuous story. Note for example, that in the famous opening sequence, we naturally assume that the man who sharpens the razor is the man who, mere seconds later, cuts the woman's eyeball. But take a closer look and you'll notice that the man who cuts the eye is seen wearing a tie, whereas the man who sharpens the razor is not. Those surrealists always liked to play against our expectations and assumptions.