mizoguchi's "An Introduction to "Foreign Films""

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Largely setting aside personal taste, here’s a list of films i think will together make a good starting point for newcomers to world cinema- hopefully a decent and accessible mix of styles and periods

  1. 1.
    Seven Samurai (The Criterion Collection)
    by Akira Kurosawa
  3. 3.
    Cinema Paradiso
    by Giuseppe Tornatore
  4. 4.
    Pather Panchali [VHS]
    by Satyajit Ray
  5. 5.
    City of God
    by Fernando Meirelles
  6. 6.
    Grand Illusion (The Criterion Collection)
    by Jean Renoir
  7. 7.
    Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
    by Ang Lee
  8. 8.
    The 400 Blows (The Criterion Collection)
    by François Truffaut
  9. 9.
    Pan's Labyrinth
    by Guillermo Del Toro
  10. 10.
    Tokyo Story (The Criterion Collection)
    by Yasujirô Ozu
  11. 11.
    Y Tu Mama Tambien
    by Alfonso Cuarón
  13. 13.
    Hong Gao Liang (Red Sorghum)
    by Zhang Yimou
  14. 14.
    Metropolis (1927)
    by Fritz Lang
  15. 15.
    Amelie

  16. 16.
    My Neighbor Totoro
    by Hayao Miyazaki
  17. 17.
    Aguirre, the Wrath of God
    by Werner Herzog
  18. 18.
    Chungking Express
    by Kar Wai Wong
  19. 19.
    A Man Escaped
    by Robert Bresson
  21. 21.
    Bicycle Thieves (The Criterion Collection)
    by Vittorio De Sica
  22. 22.
    Oldboy
    by Chan-wook Park
  23. 23.
    Children of Paradise (Les Enfants du paradis)
    by Marcel Carné
  24. 24.
    Spirit of the Beehive (The Criterion Collection)
    by Víctor Erice
  25. 25.
    Sansho the Bailiff (The Criterion Collection)
    by Kenji Mizoguchi
  27. 27.
    L'Atalante (1934)
    by Jean Vigo
  28. 28.
    Jean De Florette / Manon of the Spring (Double Feature)
    by Claude Berri
  29. 29.
    Battle Royale (Director's Cut Collector's Edition)
    by Kinji Fukasaku
  30. 30.
    Belle de Jour

  31. 31.
    Run Lola Run
    by Tom Tykwer
  33. 33.
    The Lives of Others
    by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
  34. 34.
    Persepolis [2007]
    by Vincent Paronnaud & Marjane Satrapi
  35. 35.
    8 1/2 (The Criterion Collection)
    by Federico Fellini
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Created by mizoguchi on Jul 16, 2008.
 

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