Short of traveling to a non-English-speaking country, watching a film in a language other than your own can offer one of the ...

This year, of the 10 films nominated for an Academy Award for best picture, three of them—Anatomy of a Fall, Past Lives, and The Zone of Interest—are non-English-language films. As a scholar of film ...

Chinese-language films can be a tough nut to crack if you’re from the other side of the Great Wall. The culture can seem forbiddingly complex, and for Millennials or older Americans, it’s likely ...

The response to English-language remakes of foreign-language films is usually something along the lines of, "Why?" If there is already a great film that exists, why not just leave it as is? Reading ...

The media landscape is overrun with nostalgia, remakes, reboots, and surprise sequels. Disney has made big bucks with its recent trend of live-action remakes, and old-school movies like A Star Is Born ...

The 77th Academy Awards show will not exactly be remembered for its foreign accents. Don’t expect the exoticism of 2001, for example, when the Chinese strands of Tun Dun‘s epic soundtrack for ...

China has one of the biggest box offices in the world, so it only makes sense that there is also a bombing industry for Chinese language films. While many Chinese language movies come from the ...