My Foreign Film Picks

Here's how I voted in the best non-English language list-making thingy on the Internet. I presume the final tally will go up on this site soon; I'll run another link to it when it does.

1. Late Spring - Ozu (Japan)
2. Pickpocket - Bresson (France)
3. Rules of the Game - Renoir (France)
4. Exterminating Angel - Bunuel (Mexico)
5. Marriage of Maria Braun - Fassbinder (Germany)
6. Persona - Bergman (Sweden)
7. The Decalogue - Kieslowski (Poland)
8. In the Mood for Love - Wong (Hong Kong)
9. Yojimbo - Kurosawa (Japan)
10. Talk to Her - Almodovar (Spain)
11. The Conformist - Bertolucci (Italy)
12. Aguirre: The Wrath of God - Herzog (Germany)
13. Stolen Kisses - Truffaut (France)
14. Last Year at Marienbad - Resnais (France)
15. M - Lang (Germany)
16. Red Desert - Antonioni (Italy)
17. Band of Outsiders - Godard (France)
18. Open City - Rossellini (Italy)
19. Playtime - Tati (France)
20. Raise the Red Lantern - Yimou (China)
21. Come and See - Klimov (Russia)
22. Celine and Julie Go Boating - Rivette (France)
23. Throne of Blood - Kurosawa (Japan)
24. My Night at Maud's - Rohmer (France)
25. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon - Lee (Taiwan)

Some films I wish I could have voted for that didn't make the final nominations cut: Louis Malle's Murmur of the Heart (France), Andrzej Wajda's Kanal (Poland) and Jan Kadar and Elmar Klos' The Shop on Main Street (Czechoslovakia). And, of course, hundreds of others.