Movies and national origin.
Here is a list of the films I watched this year, sorted by national origin, and then listed alphabetically.
As far as where the movies I watched came from, the US is the top country, with a total of 23. The next was Hong Kong with 12 and then Korea with 10.
Movies by country of origin
China:
Ashima
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
Suzhou River
Quitting (Zuotian)
A Walk in the Dark
The World
Czechoslovakia:
Valerie and Her Week of Wonders
France:
… and God Created Woman
Bacchanales Sexuelles
Clean
The Closet
Diary of a Country Priest
Immortel
Triplets of Belleville (too grotesque for me)
Germany:
Metropolis (w/restored footage)
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
Holland:
Venus in Furs
Hong Kong:
2046
An Autumn’s Tale
Clans of Intrigue
Crazy ‘n’ the City
Divergance
House of Fury
Kung-Fu Hustle (Hated it!)
The Legendary La Rose Noire
My Life as McDull
Perhaps Love
Sex and Zen II
Slim ’til Dead
Japan:
Baby Cart 1: Sword of Vengance
Baby Cart 2: The River Styx (L’Enfant Massacre)
Fantastipo
“Feichang Nu Sheng. Feichang Nan Sheng”/”High School Teacher”
Multiple Personality Detective Psycho: Malice Spreads like Disease (miniseries)
One Piece movie: _____________ Island Animal King
One Piece movie: Legend of the Cursed Sword
Quill
Stray Cat Rock: Sex Hunter
Korea:
The Anarchists
Doggy Poo (strange religious claymation starring piece of poop)
Fighter on the Wind
Plastic Trees
“Thousand Year Lake”/”Legend of the Evil Lake”
Singapore:
Talking Cock
Taiwan:
The Wayward Cloud
Thailand:
Beautiful Boxer
Sex Phone
UK:
About a Boy
Dirty Flithy Love
Franz Kafka’s It’s a Wonderful Life
Peter Greenaway shorts, including:
Vertical Features Remake
A Walk through H
Water Wrackets
Preaching to the Perverted
US:
Black Narcissus
Cleopatra Jones
A Day at the Races
A Day without a Mexican
A Dirty Shame
The Doll Squad
Eating (Henry Jaglom)
The Hebrew Hammer
Buster Keaton shorts:
The Goat
My Wife’s Relations
The Killers (TV version)
The Life and Death of Peter Sellars
Mad Monster Party
Night of the Hunter
In the Realms of the Unreal: The Mystery of Henry Darger
Saved!
A Series of Unfortunate Events
Sex: The Annabell Chong Story
Sideways
The Spongebob Squarepants Movie
Supersize Me
Tarnation
They Live
What’s Up, Doc?
Multinational:
The 400 Million (Joris Ivens)
Bride and Prejudice
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
Max Mon Amour
The Raspberry Reich
Venus in Furs (Jess Franco)