Also, the format of the poll is (Name of Film) - (Name of Director) 

I just named multiple films from nations for this. There are so many foreign films to choose from as well. 

I have only seen 6 of these.

Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa) gets my nod.

I don't think I can EVER decide which one I like best ... check out my website and see 500 reviews of which 400 of them belong to foreign films of all kinds and there are too many things out there, to be able to make a real choice of something more special than any other.

I kinda "grew up" loving Bunuel and Godard, mostly because of their I don't give a poop about what you think and always create something that violated your idea of what a movie, or idea, or this or that should be ... and it was always fun to watch. from a film that goes around all the characters heads to a film claiming "FREEDOM" (shouted just like Marlon Brando) and ending in a murder ... well, into a painting, anyway! I still cherish that vision ... but then, he had started with the picture of Jesus laughing some 40 years earlier (something like that) and even had a fantastic last supper on one film, so it was hard to now appreciate the humor in the whole thing. Godard was funny in that he disliked the mechanical attitude about making films and his camera, and everything else were always "independent" to the point that the characters go left, and the camera goes right and he tells you that their talk is boring and maybe we will find something better over here! That's a lot of fun, although it throws us off because it is not a Hollywood crapper at all, and film school doesn't like to talk about it because it destroys their idea of "what film should be", specially in America!

There is a lot to like. The literary/novel like idea of some films by Berri (specially Jean and Manon), and then the visual designs for Kurosawa, someone that had massive fights with Japanese folks because they didn't want art films, they wanted money and he went out and got money everywhere else except in his own country and in the end ... he is remembered and they are all just idiots that no one knows otherwise.

Bergman is special in the sense, that few folks knew how to make an actor look better, although I really think that this was more of a design by Nykvist than it was Bergman's, and the cinematographer made the detail in the film better, and Bergman allowed for the visual to linger a bit more which gave the films an incredible emotional edge that surprised a lot of folks.

Fellini, for me, was more about how to tell the Italians to go to hell, and leave the __________ behind, and no scene EVER tells me more about him, than the opening of INTERVISTA which you must see ... that kid is Fellini ... and we still don't get it ... the kid would never know or understand what all the hoopla and bullsheepdip was all about ... and that in itself is neat and special! We still don't look at films that well, when we see this! It's not about this or that ... it's about your kid having to do what he must ... regardless!

Too many things.

One special director ... Pedro Olea, and one film specially ... THE FENCING MASTER which is such a magnificent film, and I wish that the Spanish authorities had enough class to re-issue that film properly and make it available for an English audience. Without that the film is dead on its tracks and it's not only beautiful, it is tightly directed, clean and far out ... not to mention the best fencing film EVER made that had nothing to do with showing off like Hollywood!

Lol - foreign films. Anyway, my favorite foreign film could be either The Shining, Sunset Boulevard or Mulholland Drive... These foreigners certainly made a lot of great movies, so that's really just scratching the surface.

Oh yes, there are many American (USA) films amongst my favorite foreign films! I could vote for every film on this current list, except Les parapluies de Cherbourg (I'm not fan of musicals, especially when they sing everything, including "I'm going to get the butter from the fridge..." - ridiculous).

Because I could vote for all, I will single out just one, because it is one of those tremendous works of art that hardly anyone has seen: Bela Tarr's Satantango!

Les Uns et Les Autres (One and the Other) (1981)

I didn't even know the Americans remade it, but I'm not surprised TBH. 

These are among of my favourite foreign films

A Hard Day's Night

All the President's Men

Amadeus

Att Angöra en Brygga (Docking the Boat)

Das Boot (The Boat)

Citizen Kane

Dr. Strangelove

Ed Wood

Das Leben der Anderen (The Lives of Others)

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Modern Times

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Monty Python's Life of Brian

The Nightmare Before Christmas

Shrek

This is Spinal Tap

Todo Sobre mi Madre (All About my Mother)

Der Untergang (The Downfall)

Hi,

LOVE IT!

I don't usually review many "Hollywood" films, because there are so many reviews and they are all chartbusters, and everyone has seen it anyway. 

Just recently I picked up the book "Altman on Altman" and it was a fascinating read for me, considering how much I have been busy with writing a book on improvisation, and while I had never really enjoyed Altman for some reason or other, I can now see the reason why ... it was intentionally done that way to break apart the conventions of film in America ... and they had more improvisation than we could ever conceive, and this also included the camera and other elements of the film, including giving actors the wrong lines. Lots of fun to read! Massive fun!

But in general, I don't mind seeing things like Pulp Fiction, but it bothers me that Jean-Luc Godard is not even appreciated in America, but a Hollywood film can copy and make fun of it (cheeseburger is one, and that is done more than once in Godard films!) ... but no one will bother to check the originals and find how it was that the copy came about ... more or less!

This is possibly the worst thought out title for a poll that I’ve seen! 😄🤪🤪

It’s got me wondering, though, if some of my favourite films are Kiwi…. 🤔

My favourite NZ film is Perfect Strangers: a thriller starring Sam Neill & Rachael Blake. 

I’ve not seen that one. Sam Neill has definitely been in many good Kiwi films, though…

Hi,

40 years later, and after being thoroughly familiar with THE GOON SHOW, and its sound antics, I find that this film is a visualization of a lot of things that Spike Milligan had created for THE GOON SHOW 10 years earlier, but was never accredited, since it was RADIO, and you used your imagination on these sound bits. But seeing it on film, was not as much fun ... something was missing ... a bit of the soul and spirit behind it.

Spike Milligan in an interview once stated that it was all taken from the show, and I did not really thought about it, then, until I saw it again a few years ago, after hearing that same interview with Spike by accident and all of a sudden, wow ... a total visual interpretation of the sound effects!

The Anders wrote: ... Dr. Strangelove ...

I still think that this is the best of Stanley Kubrick's films, and I am not sure this film would have gotten off the ground so well, without Peter Sellers, who obviously created the characters on his own more than likely and was allowed the freedom to flow, since it was one of his specialties, and it showed in the ending sequences on the wheel chair ... but there were other really fun performances, and George C. Scott is an incredible highlight, as is Sterling Hayden and Slim Pickens. And the film is just full of really juicy bits!

Some wonderful stuff listed, btw!

I think contemporary Directors like Quentin Tarantino, Adam Wingard and J.J. Abrams represent, to a certain extent, the death of the auteur and are broadly analogous to what we might call 'Post-Modern Prog' bands like Wobbler, Black Bonzo, Flower Kings, Big Big Train et al i.e. you can tell they've mastered their craft and drilled right down to the minutiae of their inspiration but do they really have anything new to bring to the table? (apart from modern production, fidelity values and genre homages?)