Who's on your Mount Rushmore of International Movies?!
I've gotta go with...
1. Rashomon (1950)
2. Solaris (1972)
3. The Vanishing (1988)
4. The Secret In Their Eyes (2009)
Honorable Mention:...
Stalker (1979), Run Lola Run (1998), Seven Samurai (1954), Godzilla (1954)
You??
Aren't all or nearly all well-known movies international? I don't know of any that were only ever released in one country. Do you mean foreign-made (from the perspective of an American) movies?
shareOh STFU and answer the question! U know what I meant.
share"U know what I meant."
No, I don't, which is why I asked, obviously. It would help if you knew what your choice of words mean before using them in a sentence. Either way, judging from this asinine reply of yours, you're a childish, irrational idiot and therefore you're now on ignore.
I love when someone says something that positions them as the mature adult, then says something like "Now you're on ignore" like a child would.
He knew EXACTLY what I meant, which is why he wrote "Aren't all or nearly all well-known movies international."...no way you ask that question without knowing what I meant.
I see the "non sequitur", "tacit concession" guy is at it again. š Congrats on being quickly put on Ignore by him. He played the same game on me a couple of days ago: https://moviechat.org/general/General-Discussion/66bfbba0e2b59409e700e6d6/Campbells-Chicken-Noodle-soup?reply=66c2e7489580f75ad229dacb
shareIsn't it a bit of an oxymoron/contradiction to rank International films in terms of Mt. Rushmore?
shareNo.
shareWhat makes you say that? Mt. Rushmore is an American national monument, after all. How is that an apt comparison for non-American movies?
shareOMFG, what's up with you people? Referring to a group of 4 items as "Mount Rushmore" simply means you're comparing them to the all-time greats. I can say "What's your Mount Rushmore of foods?" without some clown saying "Wait a minute...you're comparing foods with a mountain!" It's simply an indication of what's the best four at any certain topic. But I imagine you know this already and were just being a dick.
sharePolice Story
Godzilla Minus One
Are you assuming that everyone on this site is from the USA?
shareNo I'm assuming that when someone says "What your Mount Rushmore of International Movies", they know I'm asking about non-English speaking films. Admittedly, with all the idiots in America, that was probably a terrible assumption. If you have a problem with how I worded it, then you really need to stop watching the Oscars, as they have a whole category with the title of the award referring to "International" films! Why would they do that?? ArE tHey aSsuMinG eVerYOne waTcHinG iS fRom the UsA?!?! ...That's you...See what a clown you sound like??
shareUnfortunately, it seems that several posters were unsure of what you meant too.
Letās say I was French, then to me an International Film would be anything that isnāt French, meaning that I could quite easily nominate four English speaking films.
To an English person, an American film could be thought of as International.
Perhaps if you had made it clear that you meant non English language films, then everyone would have understood.
BTW, I donāt watch the Oscars as I find award ceremonies boring.
Finally, there was no need to be rude, as I was not being rude to you, I merely asked a question.
Yes. My picks are:
1. Citizen Kane
2. Taxi Driver
3. The Godfather
4. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans.
I don't really blame the OP for this, but I dislike terms like 'international cinema' or 'foreign film' when you're talking to a global audience.
Talk about national cinemas. It's French or it's Japanese or it's Korean or it's Czech. 'International film' and its equivalents is useful in awards ceremonies -- because you're awarding your domestic film industry and then you've got your category for everything that isn't domestic (The US does this. France does this. Japan does this. It's fine.) -- but outside of that context it feels like there is AMERICA as the default and then there is A HOMOGENISED BLOB OF FOREIGNNESS.
But no terminology is ideal in this regard. And, yeah, it's not the OP's fault. (Could stand to be less aggressive about it though.)
I felt that using the word International on a site that is international meant that the question was unclear. The term ānon English languageā would have been less ambiguous.
shareI agree.
To be honest, even if the OP was 'non-English language' I'd still have a hard time whittling that down to four. It's a big old world out there with all sorts of variety. But that might just be me.
I haven't seen enough non-English speaking movies to say. I've seen some, but not enough to list the 4 greatest.
Four personal faves - Das Boot, Downfall, The Lives of Others, Godzilla (1954)
Thank you, a regular response without attempting to argue or sounding like a moron! Nice. Oh yeah, I forgot about Downfall...probably should have been in my "Honorable Mention" list.
shareIkiru (1952)
8Ā½ (1963)
Persona (1966)
Solaris (1972)
La Strada
The Battle of Algiers
Umberto D
Sult
Honorable Mentions:
Shadows In Paradise
The Seventh Seal
Ikiru
Bicycle Thieves
Seppuku (1962)
City of God (2002)
Les diabolique (1955)
Le samourai (1967)