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Little to say. US cinema dominates. Hollywood has made good movies for 100 years despite generating a lot of trash. It has also created numerous excellent films who push all filmmakers.
Most UK films are in English, making them similar to US ones. His filmmaking is unaffected. UK directors and actresses dominate Hollywood. British directors Nolan, Scott, Boyle, and McQueen. Brits Helen Mirren, Kate Winslet, Michael Fassbender, Christian Bale, and Carey Mulligan. More?
Italy. Italy has 14 Oscars and 12 Palmes d'Or. After WWII, Luchino Visconti, Roberto Rossellini, and Vittorio De Sica reinvigorated Italian film. Post-Fellini and Antonioni. Sergio Leone invented Spaghetti Westerns. Ermanno Olmi, Bernardo Bertolucci, Giuseppe Tornatore, Gabriele Salvatores, and Roberto Benigni revitalised Italian cinema in the 1970s. Continue.
Polish directors include Polanski, Kieślowski, Holland, Wajda, Żuławski, Munk, and Skolimowski. Polish triumph brought Roman Polanski to Hollywood. Krzysztof Kiełlowski elevated Polish cinema. "Double Life of Véronique" and "Three Colors trilogy" are his greatest. Paweł Pawlikowski ("Ida") and Andrzej Wajda direct Polish films.
Realistic and religious/sexually honest Danish films. Carl Th. Dreyer. Erik Balling and Benjamin Christensen directed Olsen-banden. "Babette's Feast" (1987) and "Pelle the Conqueror" (1988) won Oscars. Lars von Trier co-founded Dogme. Nicolas Winding Refn and Susanne Bier influence global films.
French film was deliberate. French movies counted. The third-largest film market by admissions is France (after the United States and India). Filmmakers from France. Many directors were influenced by Godard, Truffaut, Renoir, Melville, Bresson, etc. French cinema is fantastic thanks to Audiard, Kechiche, and Assayas.
Bergman listed Sweden. Victor Sjöström, Lasse Hallström, Roy Andersson, Bo Widerberg, and Jan Troell are famous Swedish directors. 1950s Bergman popularised Swedish films. Bo Widerberg and Jan Troell elevated Swedish cinema in the 1960s. Swedish genre filmmakers succeed. "Let the Right One In" and "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" revived Swedish cinema.
Japanese films rule. Kurosawa's. Filmmaker. Akira He was brilliant—watch Rashomon, Seven Samurai, and Tokyo Story. Japanese film transcends Kurosawa. Masaki Kobayashi, Kenji Mizoguchi, Yasujirō Ozu, Nagisa Oshima, Kaneto Shindo, Masahiro Shinoda, Susumu Hani, and Shohei Imamura followed Kurosawa. Who could forget Hayao Miyazaki, the best animator? Takashi Miike's controversial films are popular worldwide.
Spain shares France's film history. Pedro Almodóvar and Luis Buñuel popularised it in the 1980s. Almodóvar makes fantastic movies. Besides him and Buñuel, Spanish cinema has had international success with films by Segundo de Chomón, Florián Rey, Luis García Berlanga, Juan Antonio Bardem, Carlos Saura, Julio Médem, and Alejandro Amenábar.
Polanski, Kieślowski, Holland, Wajda, Żuławski, Munk, and Skolimowski are Polish directors. Polish triumph brought Roman Polanski to Hollywood. Krzysztof Kiełlowski elevated Polish cinema. "Double Life of Véronique" and "Three Colors trilogy" are his greatest. Andrzej Wajda and Paweł Pawlikowski ("Ida") direct Polish films.