January Foreign Film Festival and World Cinema Series Links

Irène Jacob in Trois Couleurs: Rouge

I'll try and put up one of these link collection posts earlier in the month from here on out, but in the meantime here's a page where you can submit January foreign film reviews to either my Foreign Film Festival or Caroline's World Cinema Series.  While it'd be great if you could notify both of us whenever you have a film to add to the two lists, in all likelihood that won't be necessary since we'll probably be raiding each other's lists to make sure all reviews submitted for at least one of the events are accounted for on both anyway.  In any event, please let me know if you don't want your links added here for some reason.  Otherwise, I look forward to seeing which movies have caught your attention this month (note that I will probably list the movies alphabetically by title rather than by country since Caroline and I are defining "foreign film" status in slightly different ways for each event).  Cheers!

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January Foreign Film Reviews

• Alamak...Toyol!  (dir. Ismail Bob Hasim, Malaysia, 2011; reviewer: Nekoneko)
• Bar "El Chino" (dir. Daniel Burak, Argentina, 2004; reviewer: me)
• Bicycle Thieves [Ladri de biciclette] (dir. Vittorio De Sica, Italy, 1948; reviewer: Séamus)
• Caramel [Sukkar banat] (dir. Nadine Labaki, Lebanon, 2007; reviewer: Caroline)
• Cell 211 [Celda 211] (dir. Daniel Monzón, Spain, 2009; reviewer: TBM)
• C'est la Vie [La Baule-les-Pins] (dir. Diane Kurys, France, 1990; reviewer: Guy Savage)
• Cuadecuc/Vampir (dir. Pere Portabella, Spain, 1970; reviewer: Obooki)
• Drive (dir. Nicolas Winding Refn, USA, 2011; reviewer: Caroline)
• Everlasting Moments [Maria Larssons eviga ögonblick] (dir. Jan Troell, Sweden, 2008; reviewer: Caroline)
• The Fox Family [Gumiho gajok] (dir. Hyung-gon Lee, South Korea, 2006; reviewer: Obooki)
  

  • The Guard (dir. John Michael McDonagh, Ireland, 2011; reviewer: Sarah)
• Protektor (dir. Marek Najbrt, Czech Republic, 2009; reviewer: Guy Savage)
• Shaapit: The Cursed (dir. Vikram Bhatt, India, 2010; reviewer: Nekoneko)
• Shine, Shine, My Star [Gori, Gori, Moya Zvezda] (dir. Alexander Mitta, USSR, 1969; reviewer: Guy Savage)
• Sleepwalker 3D (dir. Oxide Pang, China, 2011; reviewer: Nekoneko)
• Soul Kitchen (dir. John Michael McDonagh, Germany, 2009; reviewer: Sarah)
• Szindbád (dir. Zoltán Huszárik, Hungary, 1971; reviewer: Dwight)
• Torpedo Bombers [Torpedonostsy] (dir. Semyon Aranovich, USSR, 1983; reviewer: Guy Savage)