The phrase
"language film" refers to a movie that is primarily spoken in a language other than the viewer's native or most commonly understood language.
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An openly trans actress presented for the first time, and her movie, A Fantastic Woman, won best
foreign language film.
At least in his
English language films he is so devoid of personality and charisma that he stops the picture dead in it's tracks whenever he is on screen.
A critic who doesn't mention a single foreign
language film in his year end round - up is a failed critic.
Always one of the toughest categories to pick, the foreign
language film category has some very strong entries this year.
This is the director's first
German language film, and one in which he uses his bilingual cast well.
Best foreign
language film of the year «The Broken Circle Breakdown» Belgium «The Great Beauty» Italy * WINNER «The Hunt» Denmark «The Missing Picture» Cambodia «Omar» Palestine
The director, who emigrated from Warsaw to London when he was 14, won the best foreign
language film Oscar for his period drama Ida in 2015.
STOKER, the debut English
language film from Korean director Park Chan Wook (OLDBOY, THIRST), is all set to premiere at Sundance.
The film grossed more than $ 600m when it played in cinemas in the US, and became thehighest grossing
non-English language film of all time.
The first English
language film by Chilean director Pablo Larraín, «Jackie» is an unpredictable biopic, following Kennedy through the chaos of the week following JFK's assassination in 1963.
Two years ago Yorgos Lanthimos made his English
language film debut with The Lobster and cemented his place in the hearts of diehard cinephiles.
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LANGUAGE FILM FILM EDITING and CINEMATOGRAPHY PRODUCTION and COSTUME DESIGN SOUND EDITING and SOUND MIXING ORIGINAL SCORE and ORIGINAL SONG
With three prestigious
French language films in play this year, how did a crowd - pleasing international box - office phenomenon backed by Hervey Weinstein prevail?
Filmed entirely in Spanish despite Farhadi being unable to speak the language, Everybody Knows is only the second
Spanish language film ever to open the festival, following in the footsteps of Pedro Almodóvar's Bad Education all the way back in 2004.
Its feature film business has been fueled by such recent successes as the blockbuster first installment of The Hunger Games franchise, The Twilight Saga Breaking Dawn — Part 2, Now You See Me, Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain, Warm Bodies, Snitch, Texas Chainsaw 3D, The Expendables 2, The Possession, Sinister, Arbitrage and Pantelion Films» breakout hit Instructions Not Included, the highest - grossing Spanish -
language film ever in the U.S.
As he noted in the statement, Farhadi in 2012 won the best foreign -
language film award for «A Separation.»
The first all - English
language film released by promising new distributor Broad Green Pictures, Learning to Drive was something of a minor hit in theaters late last summer, grossing $ 3.5 million from a max theater count of just 339 on decent but not exceptional reviews nearly a year after its 2014 Toronto International Film Festival premiere.
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LANGUAGE FILM Blue Is the Warmest Color Drug War No The Broken Circle Breakdown The Hunt
The film, by director Andrey Zvyagintsev, won the Golden Globe for foreign
language film on Sunday, making it the first Russian movie to win a Globe since 1969's «War and Peace.»
«I am thrilled that Searchlight is our partner on Luca Guadagnino's much anticipated first English
language film after «I Am Love.»
Tilda Swinton, Jake Gyllenhaal, Paul Dano and more star alongside several Korean actors in the English and
Korean language film, including lead An Seo Hyun, who plays Mija, a young girl trying to protect a large creature from the grips of a multi-national corporation.
First - time feature directors Kevin R. Adams and Joe Ksander helm the English -
language film which the streamer won a competitive bidding for.
At the end of the day, Philippe Claudel's film could be the beneficiary of serving France in the foreign
language film race, in addition to a potential bid for Best Original Screenplay.
Then Bollywood, the Bombay (now known as Mumbai) based Hindi
language film industry, which is the largest film production centre in the world.
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LANGUAGE FILM BPM First They Killed My Father Loveless The Ornithologist The Square
Based on that opening number, Toni Erdmann is certain to be one of the top - grossing foreign
language films here this year, excluding Bollywood titles.
Bollywood, formally known as Hindi cinema, is the Indian
Hindi language film industry, based in the city of Mumbai (formerly Bombay), Maharashtra, India.
(There's a good reason for the latter, however: its unusually high total the year before was a result of releasing the Swedish -
language films based on Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy.)
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Departures, a Japanese meditation on death, was the other odd winner, taking the best foreign
language film prize from the much - fancied Waltz With Bashir and The Baader Meinhof Complex.
While 2013 may have seen foreign
language films take a back seat to the large number of truly great English - language features and documentaries, Romanian cinema and its current king, Cristian Mungiu, hit 2013 with one of its truly great pictures.
On top of what reads as an almost encyclopaedic account of English - language writing on and debates around mise en scène, Martin offers appropriate engagement with French film scholarship — both in translation and in the original — plus the thriving world of trans - national Spanish -
language film criticism.
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