World Cinema

25/09/08 by gia

An interesting and glaring omission on this list is that there are few 'world cinema' films. Perhaps because the question was asked by the British Film Institute to mainly British people that the list contains mainly British, European or American films.

The exceptions are Yasujirō Ozu's Tokyo Story- nominated by directors, Gurinder Chadha and Joanna Hogg- and Satyajit Ray's Pather Panchali - nominated by composer Nitin Sawhney.

There have been a several write-in votes for World Cinema films. I will divide them by country.

Brazil
Fernando Meirelles and Kátia Lund's City of God nominated by Alison and Sheldon Smith, Andrew Crook, Chris Taylor

China
Ziang Zemou's Raise the Red Lantern and Red Sorghum nominated by Jean James, Paul, Alexander

Chao Wang's The Orphan of Anyang nominated by Miss Moo

Hou Hsieu Hsien's Flowers of Shanghai nominated by Peter

Tsai Ming- Liang's I Don't Want To Sleep Alone nominated by Annie Morrad

Wong Kar-Wai's films Chungking Express, 2046 and In the Mood for Love were nominated by Peter Wood, Michael O, Alan Wen, Priya Prakash, Ross Wilson, Mackandal

Egypt
Youssef Chahine's Le Destin nominated by Miss Moo

India
Satyajit Ray's Apu Trilogy nominated by Jean James

Ashutosh Gowariker's Lagaan nominated by Swords

Guru Dutt's Pyaasa nominated by Miss Moo

Iran
Abbas Kiarostami's The Wind Will Carry Us nominated by Miss Moo

Japan
Hayao Miyazaki's Spirited Away nominated by Rowan and Richard Wilcock

Shinji Aoyama's Eureka nominated by Ian

Yasujirō Ozu's Late Spring nominated by Lawrence Lynch

Yasujirō Ozu's Record of a Tenement Gentleman nominated by Martin Dumont

Takeshi Kitano's Hana-bi nominated by Victoria

Hayao Miyazaki's Princess Mononoke nominated by Seth

Kenji Mizoguchi's Sansho Dayu nominated by Victor Fong, Alan Boshier, Martin Russell, Frankie

Katsuhiro Otomo's Akira nominated by Richard Wilcock, Agacooker

Takeshi Kitano's Zatôichi nominated by Vivienne Ward

Akira Kurosawa's films Throne of Blood, Rashômon, Yojimbo, Sanjuro, Red Beard, The Hunter Where the Tiger Roams, Ikiru, Ran, Dersu Uzala and Seven Samurai were nominated by several people including The American Jean James, Mark Magee, Venkat Siddareddy, Rosie Gilbert, Mike, Miss Moo, Peter Wood, Fabrizio Catalano, Glenn Man, Gary Copping, Martin Slack, Nick Savvides, John Dee, Roland Rance, Hieronomous, Glyn, Ian France, Andy, Maria Beltane, Karl Flinter, Sam Lennox, Jon, Francisco, Frankie, TOny

Korea
Chan-wook Park's Oldboy nominated by Fabrizio Catalano, Nick Savvides, Mackandal, Andy

Lee Chang-Dong's Oasis nominated by Miss Moo

Mexico
Alejandro González Iñárritu's Amores Perros nominated by Nick Savvides, Tom Hickson
Alberto Gout's Aventura en Río nominated by Clermont Ferrand

Phillipines
Lino Brocka's Manila:In the Claws of Neon by Ungas
Ishmael Bernal's Himala nominated by Ungas

My own nomination? Takashi Koizumi's The Professor and His Beloved Equation.