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As I have said before, I am rather addicted to watching the movies of the 50's-70's they show on late night Telemundo, watching them over and over again. Because of that exposure, I've built up a rather impressive collection of the golden era of Mexican-Argentinian film making, have learned of many of the players from then.
Which gets me to wondering......are there other foreign film realms of the past that one should see?
Late Spring (1949)
Tokyo Twilight (1957)
Ordet (1955)
Pickpocket (1959)
Au Hasard Balthazar (1966)
Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975)
Andrei Rublev (1966)
M. Hulot's Holiday (1952)
Mon Oncle (1958)
Children of Paradise (1945)
The River (1951)
Brief Encounter (1945)
A Canterbury Tale (1949)
Forbidden Games (1952)
Hobson's Choice (1954)
"are there other foreign film realms of the past that one should see?"
"should" is an imperative word that requires a person to accept authority figures. Taste is individual, and hopefully always will be, making the only valid authority figure the viewer himself. In an increasingly regimented and intolerant world with too many people wanting to dictate values and actions, I loathe your use of the word "should" in this context.
The whole German expressionist school is a gold mine of films worthy of a look. The French film industry was a leader for years.
Can you list a few titles, directors, players, please, in order to zero in on what you mean?
I'd rather not get too specific, since the enjoyment comes from exploration and context that you can only get through digging around in the stacks. Start with Lang and Melies as directors and go from there.
Robert Wiene's The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
F. W. Murnau's The Last Laugh (1924)
Fritz Lang's M (1931), and Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse (1933)
G. W. Pabst's Pandora's Box (1929) and Diary of a Lost Girl (1929)
Josef von Sternberg's The Blue Angel (1930)
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