Lists of Bests: mizoguchi's "An Introduction to "Foreign Films""

Send to Printer mizoguchi's "An Introduction to "Foreign Films"" 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.		Seven Samurai - Criterion Collection - 3-Disc Remastered Edition by Akira Kurosawa
	2.		The White Balloon (Badkonake sefid [Non-US Format, PAL Region 2]) by Jafar Panahi
	3.		Cinema Paradiso by Giuseppe Tornatore
	4.		Pather Panchali by Satyajit Ray
	5.		City of God by Fernando Meirelles
	6.		Grand Illusion - Criterion Collection by Jean Renoir
	7.		Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
	8.		The 400 Blows - Criterion Collection
	9.		Pan's Labyrinth by Guillermo del Toro
	10.		Tokyo Story - Criterion Collection by Yasujiro Ozu
	11.		Y Tu Mama Tambien by Alfonso Cuarón
	12.		The Seventh Seal - Criterion Collection by Ingmar Bergman
	13.	?	Hong Gao Liang (Red Sorghum) by Zhang Yimou
	14.	?	Metropolis (1927) by Fritz Lang
	15.		Amelie by Jean-Pierre Jeunet
	16.		My Neighbor Totoro by Hayao Miyazaki
	17.		Aguirre, the Wrath of God by Werner Herzog
	18.		Chungking Express by Kar Wai Wong
	19.		A Man Escaped by Robert Bresson
	20.		Los Silencios del Palacio (Samt el Qusur) [NTSC/REGION 0 DVD. Import-Latin America] by Moufida Tlatli
	21.		Bicycle Thieves (Criterion Collection) by Vittorio De Sica
	22.		Oldboy by Chan-wook Park
	23.		Children of Paradise (Les Enfants du paradis) [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.4 Import - Australia ] by Marcel Carné
	24.		Spirit of the Beehive - Criterion Collection by Víctor Erice
	25.		Sansho the Bailiff - Criterion Collection
	26.		All About My Mother - Todo Sobre Mi Madre - Original Spanish by Pedro Almodóvar
	27.	?	L'Atalante (1934) by Jean Vigo
	28.		Jean De Florette / Manon of the Spring by Claude Berri
	29.		Battle Royale Directors Cut by Kinji Fukasaku
	30.		Belle de Jour
	31.		Run Lola Run by Tom Tykwer
	32.		La Belle et la Bête (Beauty and the Beast) ORIGINAL FRENCH [Criterion Collection] by Jean Cocteau
	34.		The Lives of Others
	36.	?	Persepolis [2007] by Vincent Paronnaud & Marjane Satrapi
	37.		8 1/2 - Criterion Collection
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