re: Foreign films you have recently watched

The Ascent- Larisa Shepitko

Two Soviet soldiers leave their starving unit to search a nearby farm for supplies. When they see the Germans have reached it first, they have to retreat deep into enemy territory.

Wings- Larisa Shepitko

A former pilot used to military ideas of service and obedience cannot adjust to life in peacetime.

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Chungking Express
I loved this movie. Haven't seen it in a while.

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That's the one that stuck with me the most from the films I listed. I definitely need to check out some more Wong Kar-Wai films, 2046 is the only other film of his I've seen.

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Ong Bak is a modern classic martial arts film.

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Ong Bak is an entertaining flick.

It's a low budget, foreign film so given that baseline, it was very well done.

I have Elle sitting in my queue. Haven't watched it yet, but it's close to next up. I guess my last foreign films were a rewatch of Seven Samurai (still great) and Force Majeure (very good).

Oh, I take that back. I finished up The Past, which is another datapoint in the argument that Farhadi is the world's greatest working director. He made a beautiful film in a language he doesn't even speak (he's Iranian, the film is set in Paris). Great, great movie.

Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters

Just watched "The Man from Nowhere."

Holy shite that was a good movie. Highly recommend it.

Also re-watched Waking Ned Devine recently. It's in English but technically foreign. One of my favorite movies.

Tons of great Korean movies on Netflix lately. I watched Man From Nowhere a while back and ended up watching most of the ones I could find there.

Kundo
War of Arrows
Oldboy
I Saw The Devil
The Good, The Bad and the Weird (Good Bad & the Ugly remake)
Woochi
Commitment