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Wednesday, October 24, 2012

World Cinema Guide: Europe- Selected Countries (100 Greatest Films 1929-2005)

This is the final part of the World Cinema Guide: all 3952 films are now listed on this blog.

The title above says ‘Selected Countries’ because these are the minor film-producing nations of this continent- the ones where I could find less than 20 acclaimed films in total. Other more major film-producing nations from Europe have their own country entry: check the labels at the right of this paragraph and the many posts entitled ‘World Cinema….’

When I say ‘greatest’ in the title above I mean ‘most critically acclaimed, based on a consensus of opinion’ and for details of how I established that - and why this list only goes up to 2005 - please see ‘World Cinema Guide: Introduction’.

Within this list there is in effect a ‘best of the best’ list: the most critically acclaimed 10-20% of films from this country are marked with a *.

Note: There was one film from Greenland in the list and I’ve included it here in teh Europe section because Greenland is, as Wikipedia says, 'an autonomous country within the Kingdom of Denmark'.

Albania
2001 Slogans (Gjergj Xhuvani)
Austria
1987 '38' (Wolfgang Gluck)
1992 Benny's Video* (Michael Haneke)
1997 Funny Games* (Michael Haneke)
2002 Blind Spot: Hitler's Secretary (Andre Heller, Othmar Schmiderer)
Bosnia-Herzogovina
2001 No Man's Land* (Danis Tanovic)
Bulgaria
1972 The Goat Horn* (Metodi Andonov)
E.Germany
1968 I Was 19 (Konrad Wolf)
1975 Jacob the Liar (Frank Beyer)
1985 The Woman and the Stranger (Rainer Simon)
Estonia
1993 Darkness in Tallinn (Ilkka Jarvi-Laturi)
Finland
1955 The Unknown Soldier (Edvin Laine)
1971 Fuck Off! - Images of Finland (Jorn Dorner)
1985 Rosso (Mika Kaurismaki)
1987 Hamlet Goes Business (Aki Kaurismaki)
1987 Helsinki Napoli All Night Long (Mika Kaurismaki)
1988 Ariel* (Aki Kaurismaki)
1988 Plainlands (Pekka Parilka)
1989 Leningrad Cowboys Go America* (Aki Kaurismaki)
1989 Winter War (Pekka Parilka)
1990 The Match Factory Girl (Aki Kaurismaki)
1991 Zombie and the Ghost Train (Mika Kaurismaki)
1992 Bohemian Life (Aki Kaurismaki)
1994 Take Care of Your Scarf, Tatiana (Aki Kaurismaki)
1996 Drifting Clouds* (Aki Kaurismaki)
2002 The Man Without a Past* (Aki Kaurismaki)
2004 The 3 Rooms of Melancholia (Pirjo Honkasalo)
Greenland
1997 Heart of Light (Jacob Gronlykke)
Iceland
1991 Children of Nature (Fridrik Thor Fridriksson)
(2003 Noi Albinoi* (Dagur Kari)
Latvia
1991 The Child of Man (Janis Streics)
Macedonia
1994 Before the Rain* (Milcho Manchevski)
Norway
1950 Kon Tiki (Thor Heyerdahl)
1957 Nine Lives* (Arne Skouen)
1974 Wives (Anja Breien)
1986 X (Oddvar Einarson)
1987 Pathfinder* (Nils Gaup)
1989 A Handful of Time (Martin Asphaug)
1995 Zero Kelvin (Hans Petter Moland)
1996 The Other Side of Sunday (Berit Nesheim)
1997 Insomnia* (Erik Skjoldbaerg)
2001 Elling* (Petter Naess)
2003 Kitchen Stories (Bent Hamer)
Portugal
1942 Aniki-Bobo* (Manoel De Oliveira)
1963 The Hunt (Manoel De Oliveira)
1963 The Passion of Jesus* (Manoel De Oliveira)
1971 A Bee in the Rain* (Fernando Lopes)
1975 Benilde of the Virgin Mother (Manoel De Oliveira)
1981 Francisca (Manoel De Oliveira)
1982 A Ilha Dos Amores (Paulo Rocha)
1985 Un Adieu Portugais (Joao Botelho)
1989 Recollections of the Yellow House (Joao Cesar Monteiro)
1990 No, Or The Vainglory of Command * (Manoel De Oliveira)
1993 The Valley of Abraham (Manoel De Oliveira)
1997 Voyage to the Beginning of the World (Manoel De Oliveira)
1999 La Lettre* (Manoel De Oliveira)
2000 Capitaine De Abril* (Maria De Medeiros)
2001 I'm Going Home* (Manoel De Oliveira)
2001 Porto of My Childhood* (Manoel De Oliveira)
2002 The Uncertainty Principle* (Manoel De Oliveira)
2003 A Talking Picture* (Manoel De Oliveira)
Romania
1965 The Forest of the Hanged (Liviu Ciulei)
1968 Reconstruction (Lucian Pintilie)
1985 Glissando (Mircea Daneliuc)
1992 The Oak (Lucian Pintilie)
1993 Asphalt Tango (Nae Caranfil)
1998 Train De Vie (Radu Mihaileanu)
2001 Every Day God Kisses Us on the Mouth (Sinisa Dragin)
2002 Philanthropy* (Nae Caranfil)
2005 Moartea Domnului Lazarescu (Cristi Puiu)
Switzerland
1945 The Last Chance (Leopold Lindtberg)
1969 Charles, Dead Or Alive (Alain Tanner)
1969 Le Chagrin Et La Pitie* (Marcel Ophuls)
1971 The Salamander* (Alain Tanner)
1973 L'Invitation (Claude Goretta)
1976 Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000* (Alain Tanner)
1976 The Memory of Justice* (Marcel Ophuls)
1979 Messidor (Alain Tanner)
1981 Les Annees Lumiere (Alain Tanner)
1981 The Boat Is Full (Markus Imhoof)
1983 In the White City* (Alain Tanner)
1984 Dangerous Moves (Richard Dembo)
1990 Journey of Hope* (Xavier Koller)
Yugoslavia
1960 The Ninth Circle (France Stiglic)
1965 Man Is Not a Bird (Dusan Makavejev)
1965 Three (Aleksandar Petrovic)
1967 I Even Met Happy Gypsies (Aleksandar Petrovic)
1967 The Switchboard Operator* (Dusan Makavejev)
1968 Innocence Unprotected (Dusan Makavejev)
1969 Early Works* (Zelimir Zilnik)
1969 The Battle of Neretva (Veljko Bulajic)
1971 W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism* (Dusan Makavejev)
1985 When Father Was Away on Business* (Emir Kustirica)
1986 Hey Babu Ribaa (Jovan Acin)
1988 Time of the Gypsies* (Emir Kustirica)
1995 Underground* (Emir Kustirica)
1996 Pretty Village, Pretty Flame * (Srdjan Dragojevic)
1998 Black Cat, White Cat* (Emir Kustirica)
1998 Cabaret Balkan (Goran Paskaljevic)
2004 Life Is a Miracle (Emir Kustirica)

World Cinema Guide: Asia- Selected Countries (57 Greatest Films 1929-2005)

The title above says ‘Selected Countries’ because these are the minor film-producing nations of this continent- the ones where I could find less than 20 acclaimed films in total. Other more major film-producing nations from Asia have their own country entry: check the labels at the right of this paragraph and the many posts entitled ‘World Cinema….’

When I say ‘greatest’ in the title above I mean ‘most critically acclaimed, based on a consensus of opinion’ and for details of how I established that - and why this list only goes up to 2005 - please see ‘World Cinema Guide: Introduction’.

Note that within this list there is in effect a ‘best of the best’ list: the most critically acclaimed 10-20% of films from this country are marked with a *.

Afghanistan
2003 Osama* (Siddiq Barmak)
Armenia
2003 Vodka Lemon (Hiner Saleem)
Bangladesh
2002 The Clay Bird (Tareque Masud)
Cambodia
2003 S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine (Rithy Panh)
Georgia
1997 A Chef in Love (Nana Dzhordzhadze)
Indonesia
1985 Mementos (Teguh Karya)
1995 And the Moon Dances (Garin Nugroho)
1998 Leaf on a Pillow* (Garin Nugroho)
1999 Unconcealed Poetry (Garin Nugroho)
Iraq
2002 Jiyan (Jano Rosebiani)
Israel
1955 Hill 24 Doesn't Answer (Thorold Dickinson)
1964 Sallah (Ephraim Kishon)
1970 The Policeman (Ephraim Kishon)
1987 Wedding in Galilee (Michel Khleifi)
1999 Kadosh (Amos Gitai)
2000 Kippur (Amos Gitai)
2003 Checkpoint (Yoav Shamir)
2004 Ushpizin (Giddi Dar)
2005 Paradise Now* (Hany Abu-Assad)
Lebanon
2004 In the Battlefields (Danielle Arbid)
Macau
2002 Love Is Not a Sin (Doug Chan)
Malaysia
2003 The Big Durian* (Amir Muhammad)
Mongolia
2003 The Story of the Weeping Camel* (Byambasuren Davaa, Luigi Falorni)
Nepal
1999 Caravan (Eric Valli)
Pakistan
2003 Silent Waters (Sabiha Sumar)
Palestine
2002 Divine Intervention (Elia Suleiman)
2002 Rana's Wedding (Hany Abu-Assad)
Singapore
1995 Mee Pok Man (Eric Khoo)
1997 12 Storeys* (Eric Khoo)
2003 15 (Royston Tan)
Sri Lanka
1956 The Line of Destiny* (Lester James Peries)
1965 Gamperaliya (Lester James Peries)
1987 Viragaya (Tissa Abeysekera)
1997 Death on a Full Moon Day (Prasanna Vithanage)
1997 Walls Within (Prasanna Vithanage)
2003 August Sun (Prasanna Vithanage)
2005 The Forsaken Land (Vimukthi Jayasandara)
Tajikistan
1998 The Flight of the Bee (Biong Hun Min, Jamshed Usmonov)
1999 Luna Papa (Bakhtyar Khudojnazarov)
Turkey
1964 Dry Summer* (Metin Erksan, David E. Durston)
1970 Umut* (Yilmaz Guney)
1977 The Girl with the Red Scarf (Atif Yilmaz)
1978 The Herd (Yilmaz Guney)
1982 Yol* (Yilmaz Guney)
1983 The Wall (Yilmaz Guney)
1996 The Bandit (Yavuz Turgul)
2002 Uzak* (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
2004 Lovelorn (Yavuz Turgul)
Vietnam
1984 When the Tenth Month Comes* (Dang Nhat Minh)
1993 Scent of Green Papaya (Tran Anh Hung)
1995 Cyclo* (Tran Anh Hung)
1995 Nostalgia for the Countryland (Dang Nhat Minh)
1999 The Building (Viet Linh)
1999 Three Seasons* (Tony Bui)
2000 At the Height of the Summer (Tran Anh Hung)
2004 Buffalo Boy (Minh Nguyen-Vo)
2005 Bride of Silence (Doan Thanh Nghia, Doan Minh Phuong)

World Cinema Guide: South and Central America- Selected Countries (46 Greatest Films 1929-2005)

The title above says ‘Selected Countries’ because these are the minor film-producing nations of this continent- the ones where I could find less than 20 acclaimed films in total. Other more major film-producing nations from South and Central America have their own country entry: check the labels at the right of this paragraph and the many posts entitled ‘World Cinema….’

When I say ‘greatest’ in the title above I mean ‘most critically acclaimed, based on a consensus of opinion’ and for details of how I established that - and why this list only goes up to 2005 - please see ‘World Cinema Guide: Introduction’.

Note that within this list there is in effect a ‘best of the best’ list: the most critically acclaimed 10-20% of films from this country are marked with a *.

Bolivia
1966 Ukamou (Jorge Sanjines)
1969 Blood of the Condor* (Jorge Sanjines)
1971 The Courage of the People (Jorge Sanjines)
1973 The Principal Enemy (Jorge Sanjines)
1989 The Clandestine Nation (Jorge Sanjines)
Chile
1967 Bloodstained Nitrate (Helvio Soto)
1968 Three Sad Tigers (Raul Ruiz)
1969 Jackal of Nahueltoro* (Miguel Littin)
1970 The Vote and the Gun (Helvio Soto)
1971 Companero Presidente (Miguel Littin)
1973 The Promised Land (Miguel Littin)
1975 The Battle of Chile: Part 1* (Patricio Guzman)
1977 The Battle of Chile: Part 2* (Patricio Guzman)
1979 The Battle of Chile: Part 3* (Patricio Guzman)
2004 Machuca* (Andres Wood)
Columbia
1985 A Time to Die (Jorge Ali Triana)
2000 Our Lady of the Assassins (Barbet Schroeder)
2004 El Rey (Antonio Dorado)
2004 Maria Full of Grace* (Joshua Marston)
2005 La Sierra (Scott Dalton, Margarita Martinez)
Cuba
1962 The Twelve Chairs (Tomas Gutierrez Alea)
1964 I Am Cuba* (Mikheil Kalatozishvili)
1966 Death of a Bureaucrat* (Tomas Gutierrez Alea)
1967 The Adventures of Juan Quin Quin (Julio Garcia Espinosa)
1968 LBJ (Santiago Alvarez)
1968 Lucia* (Humberto Solas)
1968 Memories of Underdevelopment* (Tomas Gutierrez Alea)
1968 The Hour of the Furnaces* (Santiago Alvarez)
1969 The First Charge of the Machete (Manuel Octavio Gomez)
1971 Days of Water (Manuel Octavio Gomez)
1975 The Other Francisco (Sergio Giral)
1976 La Cantata De Chile (Humberto Solas)
1976 The Last Supper* (Tomas Gutierrez Alea)
1977 One Way Or Another* (Sara Gomez, Julio Garcia Espinosa, Tomas Gutierrez Alea)
1979 Portrait of Teresa (Pastor Vega)
1985 A Successful Man (Humberto Solas)
1995 Guantanamera (Tomas Gutierrez Alea, Juan Carlos Tabio)
1999 Buena Vista Social Club* (Wim Wenders)
Haiti
2000 Lumumba (Raoul Peck)
Jamaica
1972 The Harder They Come* (Perry Henzell)
Nicaragua
1982 Alsino and the Condor* (Miguel Littin)
Peru
1988 The Lion's Den (Francisco J. Lombardi)
1998 Don't Tell Anyone (Francisco J. Lombardi)
Uruguay
2000 25 Watts (Juan Pablo Rebella, Pablo Stoll)
2004 Whisky* (Juan Pablo Rebella, Pablo Stoll)
Venezuela
1959 Araya (Margot Benacerraf)

World Cinema Guide: Philippines (22 Greatest Films 1929-2005)

World Cinema Guide: Mexico (45 Greatest Films 1929-2005)

When I say ‘greatest’ in the title above I mean ‘most critically acclaimed, based on a consensus of opinion’ and for details of how I established that - and why this list only goes up to 2005 - please see ‘World Cinema Guide: Introduction’.

In the alphabetical table of contents at the right you will also find similar lists for many countries: World Cinema Guide China, World Cinema Guide France, World Cinema Guide Germany etc

Note that within this list there is in effect a ‘best of the best’ list: the most critically acclaimed 10-20% of films from this country are marked with a *.

1933 Woman of the Port* (Arcady Boytler, Raphael J. Sevilla)
1935 Let's Go with Pancho Villa* (Fernando De Fuentes)
1936 Over at the Big Ranch* (Fernando De Fuentes)
1936 The Wave (Fred Zinnemann, Emilio Gomez Muriel)
1941 Passion Island (Emilio Fernandez)
1943 Flor Silvestre (Emilio Fernandez)
1944 Maria Candelaria* (Emilio Fernandez)
1946 Enamorada* (Emilio Fernandez)
1946 The Pearl* (Emilio Fernandez)
1947 Rio Escondido (Emilio Fernandez)
1949 Peblerina (Emilio Fernandez)
1950 Los Olvidados* (Luis Bunuel)
1952 El (Luis Bunuel)
1952 El Bruto (Luis Bunuel)
1954 The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (Luis Bunuel)
1954 Wuthering Heights (Luis Bunuel)
1955 Raices* (Benito Alazraki)
1955 The Criminal Life of Archibaldo De La Cruz (Luis Bunuel)
1959 Nazarin* (Luis Bunuel)
1960 Macario* (Roberto Gavaldon)
1962 The Exterminating Angel* (Luis Bunuel)
1962 The Important Man (Ismael Rodriguez)
1962 Tlayucan (Luis Alcoriza)
1965 Simon of the Desert* (Luis Bunuel)
1971 Reed : Insurgent Mexico (Paul Leduc)
1982 Erendira (Ruy Guerra)
1985 Dona Herlinda and Her Son (Jaime Humberto Hermosillo)
1986 Empire of Fortune (Arturo Ripstein)
1986 Frida (Paul Leduc)
1991 Cabeza De Vaca (Nicolas Echevarria)
1991 Danzon (Maria Novaro)
1991 Homework (Jaime Humberto Hermosillo)
1991 Love in the Time of Hysteria (Alfonso Cuaron)
1991 Woman of the Port (Arturo Ripstein)
1992 Angel of Fire (Dana Rotberg)
1993 Cronos* (Guillermo Del Toro)
1995 Midaq Alley* (Jorge Fons)
1996 Deep Crimson (Arturo Ripstein)
2000 Amoros Perros* (Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu)
2001 De La Calle (Gerardo Tort)
2001 The Devil's Backbone (Guillermo Del Toro)
2001 Y Tu Mama Tambien* (Alfonso Cuaron)
2002 Japon* (Carlos Reygadas)
2004 Duck Season (Fernando Eimbcke)
2005 Battle in Heaven* (Carlos Reygadas)

World Cinema Guide: Belgium (26 Greatest Films 1929-2005)

When I say ‘greatest’ in the title above I mean ‘most critically acclaimed, based on a consensus of opinion’ and for details of how I established that - and why this list only goes up to 2005 - please see ‘World Cinema Guide: Introduction’.

In the alphabetical table of contents at the right you will also find similar lists for many countries: World Cinema Guide China, World Cinema Guide France, World Cinema Guide Germany etc

Note that within this list there is in effect a ‘best of the best’ list: the most critically acclaimed 10-20% of films from this country are marked with a *.

1933 Borinage (Joris Ivenshenri Storck)
1965 The Man Who Had His Hair Cut Short (Andre Delvaux)
1967 Le Depart* (Jerzy Skolimowski)
1970 Paix Sur Les Champs (Jacques Boigelot)
1975 Amir's Son Is Dead (Jean-Jacques Andrien)
1976 Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai Du Commerce* (Chantal Akerman)
1978 Les Rendez-Vous D'Anna* (Chantal Akerman)
1982 All Night Long (Chantal Akerman)
1986 Golden Eighties (Chantal Akerman)
1988 The Music Teacher (Gerard Corbiau)
1991 Toto Le Heros (Jaco Van Dormael)
1992 Man Bites Dog* (Remy Belvaux, Andre Bonzel, Benoit Poelvoorde)
1993 Daens (Stijn Coninx)
1994 The Sexual Life of the Belgians (Jan Bucquoy)
1996 La Promesse (Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne)
1997 Ma Vie En Rose (Alain Berliner)
1999 Les Convoyeurs Attendent (Benoit Mariage)
1999 Maputo, King of Zaire (Thierry Michel)
1999 Rosetta (Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne)
2000 Everybody's Famous! (Dominique Deruddere)
2000 La Captive* (Chantal Akerman)
2001 Pauline and Paulette (Lieven Debrauwer)
2002 De L'Autre Cote (Chantal Akerman)
2002 Le Fils* (Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne)
2004 Innocence* (Lucile Hadzihalilovic)
2005 L'Enfant* (Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne)