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World Cinema.


Montage Film Reviews (mfr) defines world cinema as non-English language.



Ahlamm, 2005
'Ahlaam: Redemption and Despair in Baghdad'

Au Revoir Les Enfants, 1987
'Malle’s unsentimental portrayal of a French boarding school during the holocaust'

Bangkok Love Story, 2007
'Cloudbursting'

Battle Royale II: Revenge (Batoru Rowaiaru II: Chinkonka), 2003
'Revenge or Requiem? Death and Violence in ‘Battle Royale II: Revenge’'

Bellissima, 1951
'The Realities Which Lie Beneath the Italian Silver Screen'

Black Moon, 1975
'Malle’s Failure of Surrealism in Black Moon'

Burnt by the Sun, 1994
'A Deceptive Aesthetic: Nikita Mikhalkov’s Burnt By The Sun and the Illusionary Power of Mise-en-scene'

Cet obscur objet du désir (That Obscure Object of Desire), 1977
'Frustration and Manipulation in Bunuel's Masterpiece’

Che? (What?), 1972
'Inconsistencies in the Auteur Theory regarding Roman Polanski'

Chuecatown (Boystown), 2007
'Comico-hetericidal Cinema'

Chung Hing sam lam (Chungking Express), 1994
'Post-1997 consciousness, and thus Hong Kong’s national identity in 'Chungking Express''

Dayereh (The Circle), 2000
'“That’s your problem, not mine”: Female Oppression in ‘The Circle’

Delicatessen, 1991
'How Does the Aesthetic Treatment Created by Jeunet and Caro in ‘Delicatessen’ Differ from the Hollywood Norm?'
'Sounds from The Belly of The Beast'

Estamira, 2004
'"Estamira": Alienation and Spirituality'

Funny Games, 1997
'“Someone’s here”: Levinasian Ethics of the Other in Michael Haneke’s 'Funny Games'’

Gojo reisenki (Gojoe), 2000
'The Abuse of Power in 'Gojoe''

Gonggongui jeog 2 (Another Public Enemy), 2005
'Another Public Enemy’s Portrayal of Extremes in a Civil Society'

Hayanbang (Unborn But Forgotten), 2002
'Regurgitate Indulgence: ‘Unborn but Forgotten’ and the Repetitive Fear Cycle of New Asian Horror'

Hoři, má panenko (Fireman's Ball), 1967
'Banality and Czech Identity in Miloš Forman's Fireman's Ball'

Il Casanova di Fellini (Fellini’s Casanova), 1976
Digital Decadence: (Re) Watching 'Fellini’s Casanova' in the Age of Hyper-Spectation'

Il Conformista (The Conformist), 1970
'The Politics of the Individual – Bertolucci and The Conformist'

Irma Vep, 1996
'A Tendency towards Pretension in French Cinema; Cahiers Critics as Filmmakers Today'

Irreversible, 2002
'Exploitation as Art House - Irreversible six years on'

J'ai rêvé sous l'eau (I Dreamt Under the Water) 2008
'Following the Dream'

KM31, 2006
'On the Subject of Fear: KM31'

Knallhart (Tough Enough), 2006
Social Realism and Commodity Fetishism in Detlev Buck's 'Tough Enough'

La Antena (The Aerial), 2007
'Updating Gunning’s Cinema of Attractions'

Laitakaupungin valot (Lights in the Dusk), 2006
'‘Lights in the Dusk’ a Film of Long Silent Stares and Monosyllabic Discussions'

La Noche de los Girasoles (The Night of the Sunflowers), 2006
'Male Brutality on Screen'

La Terra Trema, 1948
'The significance of the family in “La Terra Trema” by Luchino Visconti'

Le déclin de l’empire américain (The Decline of the American Empire), 1986
'The Decline of the Quebec Nation?'

Les Glaneurs et la glaneuse (The Gleaners and I), 2000
'The Power of Potatoes: Gleaning Haptic Imagery'

Le Souffle (Deep Breath), 2001
'Deep Dreams'

Les Yeux Sans Visage (Eyes Without A Face), 1960
'Nouvelle Visage, Nouvelle Femme'

Los 2 Lados de la Cama (The Two Sides of The Bed), 2005
'A Post-Almodovar Sex Comedy'

M, 1931
'In Sound and Silence: Fritz Lang Presents 'M''

Mephisto, 1981
'The Devil in Disguise – The Many Guises of Istvan Szabo's ‘Mephisto’'

Metropolis, 1927
'Birth of A Genre'

Milou En Mai, 1990
'A Bourgeois Reaction to Revolution'

Naboer (Next Door), 2005
'Collapsing Interiors of the Modern Home and the Mind'

Old Boy, 2003
'Revenge and the Burden of Knowledge'

Presque Rien (Almost Nothing), 2000
'Relationships, Not Relationship!'

Salo o le 120 giornate di Sodoma (Salo; or the 120 Days of Sodom), 1975
'Justice for The Forbidden Film'

Seishun zankoku monogatari (Naked Youth), 1960
'Is 'Naked Youth' Japan’s 'Rebel Without a Cause''

71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance, 1994
'Michael Haneke’s Highbrow Violence'

Shichinin no samurai (Seven Samurai), 1954
'What socio-historical tensions does the Samurai film ‘Shichinin no samurai’ reflect?'

Shimotsuma Monogatari (Kamikaze Girls) 2004
'Lace, Bikes and Counterfeit Goods'

Tagebuch einer Verlorenen (Diary of a Lost Girl), 1929
'Diary of a Lost Girl - Morality, Social Realism, and Gender roles in Silent Era Germany'

The Silent Duel, 1949
'Subtle Representations of War'

The Sixth of May (06/05), 2004
'Using Fiction to explore Facts and Political Ideology’

The Wonderful Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl, 1993
'Objectivity and ‘The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl'

Tuntematon Sotilas (The Unknown Soldier), 1955
'The Red Soldiers and White Officers of ‘The Unknown Soldier’'

Valehtelija (The Liar), 1981
'Found in Translation'

Zombie ja Kummitusjuna (Zombie and the Ghost Train), 1991
'Music and Alcohol: The Life of An Outsider'