The Raid is
the only foreign language film to make our top ten this year — see it now, before the inevitably - inferior Hollywood remake.
The only foreign language film to make our top ten this year, the Spanish generic hybrid The Skin I Live In saw leading man Antonio Banderas reuniting with filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar for the first time since 1990's Tie Me Up!
Not exact matches
(Note: Because so much of the impact of
foreign comedies relies on
language, we've
only included English
language films on this list.)
It has been used on
foreign language films for decades (this trailer for Wong Kar - Wai's 2046 is a perfect example), but it's
only in recent years that it has caught on in a broader sense.
most noms for a
film that did not make my top ten list: Sicario (10 nominations) which came in at # 13 on my year - end list most noms for a
film not nominated for Oscar's Best Picture: Carol (19 nominations) most noms for a
film nominated for Oscar's Best Picture: Mad Max Fury Road (16 nominations) most noms for a
film I was lukewarm on: Straight Outta Compton (4 nominations) most noms for a
film I didn't like at all really: The Revenant (2 nominations) most noms for a
film that received ZERO Oscar attention: Spy (7 nominations) most noms for a
film that received
only 1 Oscar nomination: Creed (6 nominations) most noms for a
foreign language film: Phoenix (2 nominations)... hmm.
When: March 8th Why: Park Chan - wook isn't the
only foreign director making his English -
language debut this month, as Niels Arden Oplev follows up his award - winning Swedish version of «The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo» with a new
film that reunites him with star Noomi Rapace.
TOP 100
FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILMS FOR 2017 Listed By US Box Office Gross
only Title links go to reviews = still in theaters Note: Figures are as of January 21st, 2018
In the last 25 years, nine best - actress nominees have come from
foreign -
language films, compared to
only three best - actor nominees.
Non-American
films rarely see much glory in the best picture category — The Artist was able to win, for example,
only because it didn't contain any
foreign language.
With very few exceptions, the Ross is the
only Lincoln theater for
foreign language, documentary and short
films.
The first
foreign language movie ever nominated for the best picture Oscar, this most celebrated of antiwar
films had a host of admirers, including Orson Welles, who once said, «If I had
only one
film in the world to save, it would be «Grand Illusion.»»
Warner doesn't bother with their usual
foreign language options, treating the
film to no dubs and
only one subtitle translation (in Spanish).
Coming - of - age stories Moonlight and Call Me by Your Name also made a big impact, and Toni Erdmann was the
only foreign -
language film to crack the top 10 (seriously, check it out if you can).
It's a beautiful thing about making a
foreign film is that you really are there listening to the
language of, you know, listening to the music of their
language, listening to the way they would speak, listening to the way — you can
only direct to a certain point because you're really trying to be a vessel to allow the country to speak.
It is now one of the four highest - grossing
foreign -
language films ever in the U.S., ranking behind
only «Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon» (Taiwan), «Life is Beautiful» (Italy) and «Hero» (China).
Four of them — «No,» «Fill The Void,» «I'm So Excited» and «Wadjda» — are among the 15 highest grossing
foreign language films of the year, and make up four of
only nine non-Bollywood
foreign films to hit $ 1 million this year.
3 -4-5-6 nominees, give me a break, especially when having
only three
foreign -
language films make all of BFCA seem like a bunch of amateurs who don't watch
foreign films (which is probably true, for the most part).
Also, how are there
only three
foreign language films nominated.
Angelina Jolie's First They Killed My Father was the
only nominated
foreign language film with a female director.
Even Joe Konrath, as high - profile a proponent of the revolution in publishing as I know of, claims
only that for many authors paper is becoming a subsidiary right, like
foreign language or
film rights (note that Konrath first blogged about this almost four years ago.