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I’ve never seen a film of director Anne Fontaine’s (How I Killed My Father; The Girl From Monaco) before. I was reminded at a few moments in this film of the visual style of Sofia Coppola, which is a good thing in my book. I look forward to seeing Fontaine’s style grow and evolve in [...]

Every time I’ve chopped wood or watched anyone else do it, the basic motion is the same. The axe hangs slack, then swings back and behind the body in a sweeping arc over the head and down, splitting the log in two and embedding itself slightly on the block. It is a movement that mixes [...]

If you’re looking for something out of the ordinary, you’ve come to the right place… here we have fourteen fantastic foreign films for you to choose from. Let’s take a look at what’s new this month:

Departures was for me both a surprising and rejuvenating work of dramatic cinema I yearned for to kick off the new year. 2010 is already off on the right foot with blockbusters The Hurt Locker and Sam Rockwell’s one man show Moon and I can only hope those two don’t overshadow a gem not to [...]

We’ve received some excellent Foreign Films in the past 30 days, including Video Station favorites (Lorna’s Silence), Oscar winners (Departures) and a whole lot more. Try out a few of these hidden gems:

The Dardenne brothers, here directing their fifth feature (Rosetta, La Promesse, The Son, and L’Enfant), have another singular creation. Always solidly in the sphere of Rossellini working-class neo-realism, les Dardennes have this time chosen the story of a young Albanian immigrant in Liege, Belgium, who does what she must to survive, instinctively behaving morally as [...]

It’s our December Foreign Film Feature, and we’ve rounded up the latest releases from around the world just for you – don’t miss our recommendations, marked with the red star!

Lemon Tree (Etz Limon) is about a Palestinian widow whose property has hundreds of lemon trees, planted by her father and thriving for over 50 years. The Israeli Prime Minister and his wife move in to the house adjacent her property. Their Secret Service deem the lemon trees a threat to their security, and order [...]

Buñuel. Wenders. Kiarostami. Loach. Von Trier. Makavejev. Costa-Gavras. – these are just a few of the directors whose films have been reissued on DVD over the last few weeks. Add to that some fresh talent from Belgium, Portugal, Israel, Italy and you’ve got a wide variety of interesting cinema from overseas to choose from…

Giulio Andreotti, the seven-time prime minister of Italy, has one take on his story told here in most entertaining fashion by director Paolo Sorrentino and actor Toni Servillo (Gomorra). Andreotti, still alive and appointed senator-for-life, has been tried, convicted, and acquitted many times for the murders and disappearances of rivals, and being Italian, perhaps he [...]