https://www.europesays.com/2114010/ Korean Thriller ‘Big Deal’ Trailer About a Soju Company in the 1990s #BigDeal #BusinessDeal #Conflicts #ForeignFilms #gukbo #KoreanMovie #LeeJeHoon #NorthKorea #SojuCompany #SojuWar #SouthKorea #ToWatch #trailer #YooHaiJin

https://www.europesays.com/uk/7108/ Must See Full Trailer for Japan’s ‘Bullet Train Explosion’ Thriller Reboot #BulletTrainExplosion #BulletTrainMovie #Entertainment #ForeignFilms #Japan #Movies #Netflix #Remake #ShinjiHiguchi #shinkansen #speed #streaming #ToWatch #trailer #TrainMovie #TsuyoshiKusanagi #UK #UnitedKingdom

https://www.europesays.com/1921553/ Trailer for Freaky Body Horror Film ‘The Ugly Stepsister’ from Norway #AneDahlTorp #BodyHorror #ForeignFilms #horror #IndieHorror #indies #LeaMyren #Noreg #Norge #norway #nyheter #StepsisterMovie #SundanceFilmFestival #TheUglyStepsister #TheaSofieLochNaess #ToWatch #trailer

When Americans talk about foreign films it is usually a short-hand for movies that has dialog in a #language other than #English (which at times has included Australian films - e.g. the original Mad Max).

What is surprising is that many people in other countries have vaguely the same definition (excepting their own language). So in an #Icelandic #VideoStore the majority of titles were in English and then a section for "foreign films". Of course there are so few Icelandic films that a shelf was enough for those. Kids films were the only ones which were dubbed so that was another section entirely.

The ubiquity of #Hollywood made English language films into a separate category, not domestic, not foreign.

We used to have Icelandic titles for every film, including #Hollywood stuff. So Jaws was known as "Ókindin" which is actually fantastic because it sort of means "not a sheap" (though the real meaning is monster). Then there came a point when most people (at least the movie-going ones) understood what Lethal Weapon meant so it was silly to refer to it as "Tveir á Toppnum" (two on the top). We often did pronounce things with an Icelandic tilt so I sometimes slip into a weird accent when referring to films such as Terminator (Ter-mean-ah-tor with rolling Rs).

The side is was that many "international" films are known primarily by their English titles. I have no idea what is the original title of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and we didn't really use an Icelandic one. If I know the original it is because it was known by that title in the USA. So I known Rashomon and Yojimbo (but not Rashōmon or Yōjinbō). I do try to combat this tendency of mine by using the original or an Icelandic translation but I often end up having to clarify my meaning by using the English title.

If I had a point I would add it here but I am basically thinking by writing. Sorry to disappoint you.

L'immensità: Penélope Cruz mothers a trans child in 1970s Rome https://oldaintdead.com/limmensita-penelope-cruz-mothers-a-trans-child-in-1970s-rome/ #EmanueleCrialese, #ForeignFilms, #Limmensità, #LGBTQ+, #LuanaGiuliani, #MaríaChiaraGoretti, #PatrizioFrancioni, #PenélopeCruz, #PenélopeNietoConti, #Transgender, #VincenzoAmato #Review #movies