As the end of the year approaches, the list of various annual films will soon increase as is customary. Although many film masters have said that filmmaking is not a sports competition, each spends its own eyes, it is difficult to divide one, two, three and four, the champion and the runner-up. However, for the melon-eating audience, in the face of chaotic and chaotic movie repertoire, seize the time and look at the classics first, such lists are one of the shortcuts to Tu Suoji.
The Seven Samurai
On 30 October, the BBC unveiled the "Top 100 Foreign Language Films in Film History" – films whose dialogue is not primarily in English. As a result, Japanese film master Akira Kurosawa's "Seven Samurai" ranked first, and Chinese filmmakers Zhang Yimou, Chen Kaige, Ang Lee, Wong Kar-wai, Yang Dechang and others also had many works shortlisted.
Citizen Kane
In the past few years, the BBC has conducted three voting campaigns for "Best American Film in Film History", "Best Film of the Century" and "Best Comedy in Film History", with "Citizen Kane", "Mulholland Drive" and "Passion like Fire" coming out on top. This time, the BBC invited 209 film critics from 43 countries and regions around the world to list the top ten non-English films in their minds. The first place film on each list gets ten points; the second place has nine points, and so on. After all the ratings are finally accumulated, the top 100 works are listed.
Mulholland Road
Directed by 67 new and old directors, this 100 works come from 24 countries and regions around the world, including Chinese, Japanese, French, German, Italian, Korean and a total of 19 languages. Among them, French films are far ahead with 27 films, 12 Chinese films, and 11 Japanese films and 11 Italian films. In terms of geographical map, East Asian films occupy a quarter of the list, with exactly 25 works from Japan, South Korea and China, which is quite gratifying. Interestingly, according to the BBC, although "Seven Samurai" ranked first on the list, none of the six Japanese film critics who voted for the vote selected "Seven Samurai" or any other work by Akira Kurosawa into their list of non-English film history classics.
"Passion like fire"
In the top ten of the list, Akira Kurosawa and Italian director Fellini each accounted for two films, which fully illustrates their position in the minds of contemporary film critics. Looking at the list of this hundred works, most of them have been alive for decades and have experienced the baptism of time. The most recent work today is Iranian director Farhati's "A Parting".
BBC's List of Top 100 Foreign Language Films in Film History:
1. Seven Samurai (1954) / Akira Kurosawa
Bicycle Thieves (1948) / Vittorio de Sica
3. Tokyo Story (1953) / Yasujiro Ozu
4. Rashomon (1950) / Akira Kurosawa
5. The Rules of the Game (1939) / Jean Renoir
6. "The Mask" (Persona, 1966) / Ingmar Bergman
7. Eight and a Half (8 1/2, 1963) Fellini (Federico Fellini)
8. The 400 Blows (1959) / François Truffaut
9. The Fantasia (2000) / Wong Kar Wai
La Dolce Vita (1960) / Fellini
11. Breathless (1960) / Jean-Luc Godard
12. "Farewell to the Overlord" (1993) Chen Kaige
13. M is the Murderer (M, 1931) / Fritz Lang
Jeanne Dielman (23 Commerce Quay, 1080 Brussels, 1975) / Chantal Akerman
15. Pather Panchali (1955) / Satyajit Ray
16. Metropolis (1927) / Lange
Aguirre, the Wrath of God, 1972/ Werner Herzog
18. City of Sorrows (1989) / Hou Xiaoxian
The Battle of Algiers (1966) / Gillo Pontecorvo
20. The Mirror (1974) / Andrei Tarkovsky
A Separation (2011) / Asghar Farhadi
22. Pan's Labyrinth (2006) / Guillermo del Toro
23. The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) / Carl Theodor Dreyer
24. Battleship Potemkin (1925) / Sergei M Eisenstein
25. "One One" (2000) Yang Dechang
26. Cinema Paradiso (1988) Giuseppe Tornatore
27. The Spirit of the Beehive (1973) / Victor Erice
28. Fanny and Alexander (1982) / Bergman
29. Old Boy (2003) / Park Chan-wook
30. The Seventh Seal (1957) / Bergman
31. The Lives of Others (2006) / Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
32. All About My Mother (1999) / Pedro Almodóvar
33. Playtime (1967) / Jacques Tati
34 Wings of Desire (1987) / Wim Wenders
35. The Leopard (1963) / Luchino Visconti
36. La Grande Illusion (1937) / Renoir
37. Spirited Away (2001) / Hayao Miyazaki
38. "Juvenile Murder Incident on Muling Street" (1991) / Yang Dechang
39. Close-Up (1990) / Abbas Kiarostami
40. Andrei Rublev (1966) / Tarkovsky
41. Alive (1994) / Zhang Yimou
42. City of God (2002) / Fernando Meirelles
43. Forbidden Love in the Military (Beau Travail, 1999) / Claire Denis
44. Cleo from 5 to 7 (1962) / Agnès Varda
45. The Adventure (L'Avventura, 1960) / Michelangelo Antonioni
46. Children of Paradise (1945) / Marcel Carné
47. "4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, 2007"/ Cristian Mungiu
48. Viridiana (1961) / Luis Buñuel
49. Stalker (1979) / Tarkovsky
50. L'Atalante (1934) / Jean Vigo
51. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) / Jacques Demy
52. Au Hasard Balthazar (1966) / Robert Bresson
53. "晚shun" (1949) / Yasujiro Ozu
54. Men and Women in Eating (1994) / Ang Lee
Jules and Jim (1962) / Truffaut
56. Chongqing Forest (1994) / Wong Kar Wai
57. Solaris (1972) / Tarkovsky
58. The Earrings of Madame de..., 1953 / Max Ophüls
59. Come and See (1985) Elem Klimov
60 Contempt (1963) / Godard
61. Doctor Yamaguchi (1954) / Kenji Mizoguchi
62. Journey of the Coyote (Touki Bouki, 1973) / Djibril Diop Mambéty
63. Spring in a Small Town (1948) / Faymu
64. Three Colours: Blue (1993) / Krzysztof Kieślowski
65. Words (Ordet, 1955) / Dreyer
66. Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1973) / Rainer Werner Fassbinder
67. The Exterminating Angel (1962) / Buñuel
68. Rain and Moon (1953)/Kenji Makiguchi
69. "Amour, 2012" / Michael Haneke
70. Eclipse (L'Eclisse, 1962) / Antonioni
71. Spring Breaks (1997) / Wong Kar Wai
72. The Desire to Be Born (1952) / Akira Kurosawa
73 Man with a Movie Camera (1929) / Dziga Vertov
Pierrot Le Fou (1965) / Godard
Belle de Jour (1967) / Buñuel
76. "Your Mother Too" (Y Tu Mamá También, 2001) / Karon (Alfonso Cuarón)
77. The Conformist (1970) / Bernardo Bertolucci
78. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) / Ang Lee
79. Chaos (1985) / Akira Kurosawa
80. The Young and the Damned (1950) / Buñuel
81 Celine and Julie go Boating (1974) / Jacques Rivette
82. Amélie, 2001/ Jean-Pierre Jeunet
83. La Strada (1954) / Fellini
84. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972) / Buñuel
85. Tears of the Wind (Umberto D, 1952) / De Sica
86. The (La Jetée, 1962) / Marquet (Chris Marker)
87 The Nights of Cabiria (1957) / Fellini
88. The Tale of the Dead Chrysanthemum (1939) / Kenji Mizoguchi
89. Wild Strawberries (1957) / Bergman
90. Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959) / Alain Resnais
91. The Man's Fight (Rififi, 1955) / Jules Dassin
92. Scenes from a Marriage (1973) Bergman
93. "The Big Red Lantern Hangs High" (1991) / Zhang Yimou
94. Where is My Friend's Home? (Where Is the Friend's Home?, 1987) / Abbas
95. "Floating Clouds" (1955) / Naruse Mikio
96. Shoah (1985) / Claude Lanzmann
97. Taste of Cherry (1997) Abbas
98. Sunny Days (1994) / Jiang Wen
99. Ashes and Diamonds (1958) Andrzej Wajda
Landscape in the Mist (1988) / Theo Angelopoulos