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FILM COMMENT
November/December 1997
top 150 unreleased foreign language films of the nineties
part three
By Gavin Smith
photo: Nouvelle Vague
100. ANTIGONE
Straub/Huillet, Germany 92 34
LA GUERRE SANS NOM
Bertrand Tavernier, France 92 34
IP5: THE ISLAND OF PACHYDERMS
Jean Jacques Beinix, France 92 34
LIFE ACCORDING TO AGFA
Assi Dayan, Israel 92 34
104. GONIN
Takeshi Ishii, Japan 95 33
105. KRISTIN LAVRANSDATTER
Liv Ullman, Norway 95 32
MIDDLE OF THE MOMENT
Nicolas Humbert and Werner Penzel,
Switzerland 95 32
107. DEADLY MARIA
Tom Tykwer, Germany 95 31
JOHNNY 100 PESOS
Gustavo Graef Marino, Chile 93 31
MANNEKEN PIS
Frank Van Passel, Belgium 94 31
110. LE FILS PREFERE
Nicole Garcia, France 94 30
DOWN THE DRAIN
Shinobu Yaguchi, Japan 93 30
QUIET DAYS IN AUGUST
Pantelis Voulgaris, Greece 91 30
113. AND ALL THINGS FAIR
Bo Widerberg, Sweden 95 29
L'ANGE NOIR
Jean-Claude Brisseau, France 94 29
DIEU SAIT QUOI
Jean-Daniel Pollet, France 93 29
116. CARDIOGRAM
Darezhan Omirbaev, Kazakhstan 95 28
EARTH/TIERRA Julio Medem, Spain 96 28
118. AMELIA LOPES O'NEILL
Valeria Sarmiento, Chile/Spain/France 90 27
NARGESS
Rakhshan Bani-Etemad, Iran 92 27
THE RED SQUIRREL
Julio Medem, Spain 94 27
SIXTEEN OH SIXTY
Vinicius Mainardi, Brazil 95 27
122. AN INDEPENDENT LIFE
Vitali Kanevski, Russia/France 92 26
THE RIDE
Jan Sverak, Czech Republic 94 26
LE ZEBRA
Jean Poiret, France 92 26
125. ANGEL OF FIRE
Dana Rotberg, Mexico 91 25
BLUSH
Li Shaohong, China 94 25
TO HEAR THE BIRDS SINGING
Jorge Sanjinandeacutes, Bolivia 95 25
128. LA CABALE DES OURSINS
Luc Moullet, France 91 24
MADAGASCAR Fernando Perez, Cuba 94 24
THE SECOND TIME
Mimmo Calopresti, Italy 95 24
131. LOTHRINGEN
Straub/Huillet, Germany 94 23
THE NORTHERNERS
Alex Van Warmerdam, Netherlands 93 23
THE SECRET OF THE OLD WOODS
Ermano Olmi, Italy 93 23
THE SON OF GASCOGNE
Pascal Aubier, France 95 23
135. THE DAYS
Wang Xiaoshuai, China 93 21
DIEN BIEN PHU
Pierre Schoendorfer, France 91 21
MARKS
Yoichi Sai, Japan 96 21
NOBODY LOVES ME
Marion Vernoux, France 94 21
ONCE UPON A TIME CINEMA
Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Iran 91 21
SHADOW OF A DOUBT
Aline Issermann, France 93 21
TRAVELLERS
Bahram Beizai, Iran 92 21
142. THE BLUE VEILED
Rakhshan Bani-Etemad, Iran 95 20
FADO, MAJOR AND MINOR
Raul Ruiz, France 95 20
GOLDEN BALLS Bigas Luna, Spain 93 20
KING OF MASKS
Wu Tianming, Hong Kong/China 96 20
LANDSCAPE OF MEMORY
José Aranjo, Brazil 96 20
ROSALYNE AND THE LIONS Jean-Jaques Beineix, France 90 20
SINGAPORE SLING
Nikos Nikolaidis, Greece 90 20
THE SPOUSE
Mehdi Fakhimzadeh, Iran 94 20
TANGO
Patrice Leconte, France 93 20
TROP DE BONHEUR
Cedric Kahn, France 94 20
under 20 points in alphabetical order:
A LA VIE, A LA MORT
Robert Guediguian, France 95
ACCION MUTANTE
Alex de la Iglesia, Spain 93
ACCUMULATOR 1
Jan Sverak, Czech Republic 94
ALEX
Teresa Villaverde, Portugal 90
AND THE MOON DANCES
Garin Nugroho 95
ANIMAL LOVE
Ulrich Seidl, Austria 95
ANNA KARAMAZOVA
Rustam Khamdamov, USSR 91
L'ANNEE JULIETTE
Philippe Le Guay, France 95
L'ANNONCÉ FAITE À MARIE
Alain Cuny, France 92
ANTONIO'S GIRLFRIEND
Manuel Poirier, France 92
APPLE TREES/APFELBAUME
Helma Sanders-Brahms, Germany 92
AUX PETITS BONHEURS
Michel Deville, France 93
AVETIK
Don Askarian, Armenia/Germany 92
THE BILINGUAL LOVER
Vincente Aranda, Spain 93
BLUE NOTE
Andrzej Zulawski, France/Poland/Germany 91
BOATMAN
Gianfranco Rosi, India 94
CRADLE SONG/CANCIONE DE CUNA
Jos Luis Garci, Spain 94
CAUGHT IN THE ACT
Raymond Depardon, France 95
CELLULOIDE
Carlo Lizzani, Italy 96
CHILD MURDERS
Ildiko Szabo, Hungary 93
LE CONFESSIONEL
Robert Le Page, Canada 95
THE CONJUGAL BED
Mircea Daneliuc, Romania 93
THE CORRIDOR
Sarunas Bartas, Lithuania 95
A DANCE IN THE NIGHT
Aleko Tsabadze, Georgia 92
DARK AT NOON
Raul Ruiz, Portugal 91
DARKNESS IN TALLINN
Ilkka Jarvilaturi,
Finland/USA/Sweden/Estonia 93
DARTAGNAN'S DAUGHTER
Bertrand Tavernier, France 94
THE DELEGATION
Alexander Galin, Italy 96
DON'T FORGET YOU'RE GOING TO DIE
Xavier Beauvois, France 95
DON'T DIE WITHOUT TELLING ME
WHERE YOU'RE GOING
Eliseo Subiela, Argentina 94
DR. M
Claude Chabrol, France 90
DRUMROLL
Sergei Ovcharov, Russia 93
DUST OF ANGELS
Hsu Hsia Ming, Taiwan 94
DUST OF LIFE
Rachid Bouchareb, France-Algeria 94
THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Jan Sverak, Czechoslovakia 92
ELEPHANT SONG
Go Riju, Japan 94
THE ENCHANTMENT
Shunichi Nagasaki, Japan 90
LES EQUILIBRISTES
Nico Papatakis, France 91
THE EYE OF VICHY
Claude Chabrol, France 94
FLY HIGH, RUN FAR
Im Kwon-taek, South Korea 91
FORGET ME
Noemie Lvosky, France 95
FOURBI
Alain Tanner, Switzerland 96
THE GARDEN
Martin Sulik, Slovak Republic 95
THE GOLDEN GATE
Jurgen Reble, Germany 92
GUILT AND REMEMBRANCE
Egon Humer, Austria 92
HAMOON
Pariush Mehrjni, Iran 90
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TURKE
Doris Dorrie, Germany 91
HARAMUYA
Drissa Touré, Burkino Faso/France 95
HEY YOU WILD GEESE
Lydia Bobrova, Russia 91
HOMEWORK
Jaime Hermosillo, Mexico 90
I HIRED A CONTRACT KILLER
Aki Kaurismaki, Finland 90
THE INHERITANCE Vera Chytilova, Czechoslovakia 93
THE DIARY OF LADY M. Alain Tanner, Switzerland/Belgium 93
THE JOURNEY aka THE VOYAGE Fernando Solanas, Argentina 91
JUMP INTO THE VOID
Daniel Calparsoro, Spain 95
KIKUCHI
Kenchi Iwamoto, Japan 90
LABYRINTH
Jaromil Jives, Germany 92
LANGER GANG aka PASSAGES
Yilmaz Arslan, Germany 92
THE LAST DAYS OF IMMANUEL KANT
Philippe Collin, France 92
LATINO BAR
Paul Leduc, Mexico 1991
LEA
Ivan Fila, Germany 96
LIBERA ME
Alain Cavalier, France 93
THE LIFE AND DEATH OF THE HOLLYWOOD KID
Jung Ji-Young, South Korea 94
A LIGHT SENSITIVE STORY
Pal Erdoss, Hungary 93
LOVE IN THE TIME OF HYSTERIA Alfonso Cuaron, Mexico 92
LOVE Valeri Todorovsky, USSR 92
LA MADRE MUERTA/THE DEAD MOTHER
Juanma Bajo Ulloa, Spain 93
THE MAN WHO READS MUSIC
FROM THE PLATES
Jan Jakub Kolski, Poland/France 95
MAN OF THE STORY
Adoor Gopalakrishnan, India 96
MARIE'S SONG: I WAS I KNOW NOT WHERE
Niko Brucher 94
MEN OF THE PORT
Alain Tanner, Switzerland 95
METAL and MELANCOLIA
Heddy Honigmann, Netherlands 94
THE MOST TERRIBLE TIME IN MY LIFE
Kaizo Hayashi, Japan 94
MY MOTHER'S COURAGE
Michael Verhoeven, Germany 96
NIGHT OF THE FILMMAKERS
Edgar Reitz, Germany 95
NO LIFE KING
Jun Ichikawa, Japan 90
NUIT D'ÉTÉ EN VILLE
Michel Deville, France 90
ONCE MORE
Paul Vecchiali, France 90
ONO
Serghei Ovtcharov, USSR 90
PARI
Daryush Mehrjui, Iran 95
PARPAILLON
Luc Moullet, France 92
THE PATRIOTS
Eric Rochant, France 94
PEACEFUL AIR OF THE WEST
Silvio Soldini, Italy 90
PUSHER
Nikolas Winding Refin, Denmark 96
THE ROAD TO EDEN
Robert Peso, Austria 95
RED DAWN/ROJO AMANACER
Jorge Fons, Mexico 90
SARA
Dariush Mehrjui, Iran 93
SATURDAY, SUNDAY, MONDAY
Lina Wertmueller, Italy 90
SEVILLANAS
Carlos Saura, Spain 92
THE SEXUAL LIFE OF THE BELGIANS
Jan Bucquoy, Belgium 93
SHADOW ON THE SNOW
Attila Janisch, Hungary 91
THE SILENCE OF NETO
Luis Argueta, Guatemala 94
SIX DAYS, SIX NIGHTS
Diane Kurys, France 94
THE SMILE
Claude Miller, France 95
THE SNAIL'S STRATEGY
Sergio Cabrera, Colombia 94
SONS
Zhang Yuan, China 95
THE SQUARE CIRCLE
Amol Palekar, India 96
STELLA POLARIS
Knut Erik Jensen, Norway 93
STING OF DEATH
Kohei Oguri, Japan 90
A SUMMER IN LA GOULETTE
Ferid Boughedir, Tunisia/France/Belgium 96
THE TIT AND THE MOON
Bigas Luna, Spain
TO THE STARRY ISLE
Park Kwang-Su, South Korea 94
TO YOU, FROM ME
Jang Sun-woo, South Korea 94
TRAUM, WAS SONST, EIN?,
Hans Jurgen Syberberg, Germany 94
TSAHAL
Claude Lanzmann, Israel 94
TWILIGHT
Gyorgy Fehér, Hungary 90
VASKA EASOFF
Péter Gothar, Hungary 96
VIRGINA
Srdjun Karovic, Yugoslavia 91
VIVA CASTRO!
Boris Frumin, Russia 93
WHEN THE STARS MEET THE SEA
Raymond Rajaonarivelo, France/Madagascar 96
WILD TARGET
Pierre Salvatore, France 93
WIZARD OF DARKNESS
Shinako Sato, Japan 95
THE WOMEN ON THE ROOF
Carl-Gustav Nykvist, Sweden 90
WORK ON THE GRASS
Tetsuo Shinoharu, Japan 94
THE WORLD OF JAQUES DEMY
Agnes Varda, France 95
THE WRITTEN FACE
Daniel Schmid, Japan/Switzerland 95
YOUCEF, OR THE LEGEND
OF THE SEVENTH SLEEPER
Mohamed Chouikh, Algeria 93
© 1997 by The Film Society of Lincoln Center
