No English Spoken Here.

"Over the past several weeks, I invited (or by extension invited) various people from critics to bloggers to professors and just plain movie fans to submit lists of their top 25 non-English language features so I could compose a list for a survey of all interest film fans to determine a Top 25 list similar to what the AFI does or what the Online Film Community recently did," announces Edward Copeland. "I now see how difficult list compiling can be." Nonetheless, the nominations are in from the committee and now you can choose 25 from the list of 121 films and get your ballot in by September 16.

The good news for Edward is that he's also got a nice batch of films to catch up with as well.

Posting their own lists with comments: Dennis Cozzalio, Jim Emerson, Jürgen Fauth, Ryland Walker Knight, Jonathan Lapper, Kimberly Lindbergs, Karina Longworth, Paul Matwychuk, Peter Nellhaus, Matt Zoller Seitz and the Self-Styled Siren.

The Shamus writes up a list to set alongside all these. Another from Dan Eisenberg. And Ted Pigeon comments on the project.

Posted by dwhudson at August 20, 2007 9:36 AM