Chris Lichti's Foreign Film Night
I sometimes host an Obscure Foreign Film Night, showing a foreign film and providing food from the same country as the film. Here are some selections from past foreign film nights:
- Esperando al Mesías (Waiting for the Messiah)
- Director: Daniel Burman
- Country: Argentina
- Runtime: 98 minutes
- Language: Spanish, Yidish
- Buy from Amazon
- About the film:
Review Wikipedia
- Run, Lola, Run
- Director: Tom Tykwer
- Country: Germany
- Runtime: 76 minutes
- Language: German
- Buy from Amazon
- About the film:
Review Wikipedia
- Solaris
- Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
- Country: Russia
- Runtime: 165 minutes
- Language: Russian
- Buy from Amazon
- About the film:
Review Wikipedia
- The Eye
- Director: Danny Pang, Oxide Pang
- Country: Hong Kong
- Runtime: 99 minutes
- Language: Cantonese
- Buy from Amazon
- About the film:
Review Wikipedia
- Das Boot
- Director: Wolfgang Petersen
- Country: Germany
- Runtime: 209 minutes
- Language: German
- Buy from Amazon
- About the film:
Review Wikipedia
- Paradise Now
- Director: Hany Abu-Assad
- Country: Israel
- Runtime: 90 minutes
- Language: Arabic
- Buy from Amazon
- About the film:
Review Wikipedia
- Shall We Dance
- Director: Masayuki Suo
- Country: Japan
- Runtime: 136 minutes
- Language: Japanese
- Buy from Amazon
- About the film:
Review Wikipedia
- Lagaan
- Director: Ashutosh Gowariker
- Country: India
- Runtime: 224 minutes
- Language: Hindi, English, Bhojpuri
- Buy from Amazon
- About the film:
Review Wikipedia
- Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring
- Director: Kim Ki-duk
- Country: Japan
- Runtime: 103 minutes
- Language: Japanese
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- About the film:
Review Wikipedia
- Battle Royale
- Director: Kinji Fukasaku
- Country: Japan
- Runtime: 114 minutes
- Language: Japanese
- Buy from Amazon
- About the film:
Review Wikipedia
- il Mare
- Director: Lee Hyun-seung
- Country: South Korea
- Runtime: 105 minutes
- Language: Korean
- Buy from Amazon
- About the film:
Review Wikipedia
- Nang Nak
- Director: Nonzee Nimibutr
- Country: Thailand
- Runtime: 100 minutes
- Language: Thai
- Buy from Amazon
- About the film:
Review Wikipedia
- Chi-hwa-seon
- Director: Im Kwon-taek
- Country: South Korea
- Runtime: 117 minutes
- Language: Korean
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- About the film:
Review Wikipedia
- City of God
- Director: Fernando Meirelles, Kátia Lund
- Country: Brazil
- Runtime: 130 minutes
- Language: Portuguese
- Buy from Amazon
- About the film:
Review Wikipedia
- Dolls
- Director: Takeshi Kitano
- Country: Japan
- Runtime: 114 minutes
- Language: Japanese
- Buy from Amazon
- About the film:
Review Wikipedia
- Himalaya
- Director: Eric Valli
- Country: Nepal
- Runtime: 108 minutes
- Language: Tipetan, German
- Buy from Amazon
- About the film:
Review Wikipedia
- The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi
- Director: Takeshi Kitano
- Country: Japan
- Runtime: 116 minutes
- Language: Japanese
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- About the film:
Review Wikipedia
- Yeopgijeogin geunyeo (My Sassy Girl)
- Director: Kwak Jae-yong
- Country: South Korea
- Runtime: 137 minutes
- Language: Korean
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- About the film:
Review Wikipedia
- Shaolin Soccer
- Director: Stephen Chow
- Country: Hong Kong
- Runtime: 93 minutes
- Language: Cantonese
- Buy from Amazon
- About the film:
Review Wikipedia
- Rockers
- Director: Ted Bafaloukos
- Country: Jamaica
- Runtime: 100 minutes
- Language: English (sort of)
- Buy from Amazon
- About the film:
Review Wikipedia
- Kaena: La prophétie
- Director: Chris Delaporte, Pascal Pinon
- Country: France
- Runtime: 85 minutes
- Language: French, English
- Buy from Amazon
- About the film:
Review Wikipedia
- Appleseed
- Director: Shinji Aramaki
- Country: Japan
- Runtime: 105 minutes
- Language: Japanese
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- About the film:
Review Wikipedia
- Last Life in the Universe
- Director: Pen-Ek Ratanaruang
- Country: Thailand
- Runtime: 112 minutes
- Language: Thai, Japanese, and English (seriously, all three mixed together)
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- About the film:
Review Wikipedia
- Parineeta
- Director: Pradeep Sarkar
- Country: India
- Runtime: 130 minutes
- Language: Hindi
- Buy from Amazon
- About the film:
Review Wikipedia
- Musa the Warrior
- Director: Kim Seong-soo
- Country: South Korea
- Runtime: 158 minutes
- Language: Madarin/Korean
- Buy from Amazon
- About the film:
Review Wikipedia