BBC's_100_Greatest_Foreign-Language_Films

BBC's 100 Greatest Foreign-Language Films

BBC's 100 Greatest Foreign-Language Films

2018 list of international films voted to be the best


BBC's 100 Greatest Foreign Language Films is a list compiled in 2018 by BBC Culture, as part of their annual critics' poll.[1][2][3]

Selection Criteria

BBC Culture polled 209 film critics from 43 different countries, asking them to submit their list of the 10 greatest foreign-language movies (i.e. not in English). As with other BBC Culture 100 Greatest polls, the ranking was established by a point system: ten points awarded to the film ranked first, nine to the film ranked second and so forth.[1]

Criticism

Writing for Vanity Fair, K. Austin Collins lamented the predictability of the list - "heavy on works from Europe and East Asia; low on women; low on avant garde and documentary filmmaking" - and the absence of popular genres such as Nollywood, Bollywood or Giallo, arguing that "a truly worthy list of this nature wouldn’t be so snobby about high and low culture. It’d be a glorious, messy mix of arthouse and pop, as any list about the greatest art—rather than the greatest textbook art—should be."[4]

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References

  1. Sharf, Zack (2018-10-30). "BBC's 100 Greatest Foreign-Language Films Ever: 209 Film Critics Crown 'Seven Samurai,' 'In the Mood for Love,' and More". IndieWire. Retrieved 2022-05-02.
  2. Clarke, Donald. "The 100 greatest foreign-language films revealed". The Irish Times. Retrieved 2022-05-02.
  3. "BBC reveals list of 100 Greatest Foreign Language Films". New Age | The Most Popular Outspoken English Daily in Bangladesh. Retrieved 2023-01-12.

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