“Be careful, don’t be noticed, they say that endlessly in this country.” The first part of this line is an underlying message, if not the outright moral from any classic fairy tale… given those stories were designed to keep children in line.
Read MoreWe have over 25 fresh new Foreign Films to choose from this month! Be sure to check out our recommendations, marked with the red star below:
Read MoreImagine for a moment that, back in 2002, when Steven Spielberg was tweaking E.T., instead of changing all the guns into walkie-talkies, he added more guns. And maybe more aliens, too, making them considerably less friendly (and presumably rather less intelligent). And set everything at night in an already-sinister London housing block? To top it [...]
Read MoreOver the years, a number of films have been made about the 1937 Japanese occupation of Nanking, China. Most were documentaries, although the 2009 film, John Rabe, was about the German businessman of the same name who saved many of the occupied Chinese from the massacre and atrocities committed by the Japanese (a la Schindler’s [...]
Read MoreWe’ll start with the premise of the film, then decide if “that conversation” needs to happen again. Milos (Srdjan Todorovic), a semiretired Serbian porn star, finds it hard to provide for his family on the savings left from his career. A father with a gentle, hangdog demeanor (except onscreen as a “Balkan sex god”), his [...]
Read MoreIn England, Steve Coogan has been a popular BBC actor for nearly 20 years, his cavalcade of characters such as Paul Calf, Tommy Saxondale and, most famously, Alan Partridge having made him something of a household name for comedy in the UK. In the US, he has a small slice of fans, Anglophiles mostly, which, [...]
Read MoreHow about something with subtitles tonight? We have a ton of great new foreign film features to choose from, check out the synopses below:
Read MoreThis might have been our biggest Foreign Film month yet, with the arrival of thirty new films from nearly every continent, many of them Criterion Collection releases, film festival favorites, and even an Oscar winner:
Read MoreEven if you didn’t know that director Susanne Bier’s In a Better World had won the Oscar for Best Foreign Film, you’d at least be able to tell it was nominated. It’s gorgeously shot, deals with a timely topic in a thoughtful way, and gives you a teary but relatively happy ending.
Read MorePolice, Adjective is about as low-key a police procedural as you’re ever likely to see. It does have some of the ingredients of the Hollywood Cop Drama–a young, conscientious detective who is defiant against his bureaucratic superiors, scenes of pursuit and concealment, even a taste of the detective’s home life–but they are expressed with such [...]
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