Robert from Sketchy Details with a friendly reminder about Foreign Chops #12: Mexico. You have until Wednesday, 5 June at midnight EST to send in your links about Mexican films. That’s tomorrow night. Send your links to at robertjgannon@gmail.com. You can submit up to five posts, articles, reviews, etc. per site.
There’s still time to watch and write something new before the deadline. Here’s a list of all the...
Robert from Sketchy Details here with the announcement of the next Foreign Chops subject. We’ll be exploring the cinematic output of Mexico. The Mexican film industry has been around as long as the American film industry, dating all the way back to silent films capturing major historical events like the Mexican Revolution. The Hollywood studios even collaborated with Mexican studios in the black and white era, resulting in shared sets...
Robert from Sketchy Details back again with Foreign Chops: Czech Republic. We had a wide range of submissions about many different Czech films. The most popular film, by default, was Daisies. Every other film was only covered by one submission.
We’ll announce the next Foreign Chops subject soon. For now, enjoy all the great posts about films from the Czech Republic and...
Robert from Sketchy Details here with the announcement for the next installment of Foreign Chops. For May, we’re going to look at films from the Czech Republic. This will include films from Czechoslovakia, as well.
Since splitting from Slovakia in 1993, the Czech Republic has nabbed 3 Academy Award nominations for Best Foreign Language film, winning for Kolya. The country is also the home of Barrandov Studios, one of the largest...
Robert from Sketchy Details here with Foreign Chops #10: Japanese Animation. We had a great turn out with over 30 films from all eras of anime features represented. The most popular choice was The Secret World of Arrietty. This collection also swings heavily in favor of Hayao Miyazaki/Studio Ghibli features.
We’ll announce the next Foreign Chops subject soon. For now, enjoy all the great content about Japanese...
Hi everyone. It’s Robert from Sketchy Details back again to announce the next topic for Foreign Chops. Japanese animation, more commonly referred to as anime, has a style all its own in international cinema. Unlike the big studio productions from Hollywood, anime features are targeted at all different ages. Some are designed for very young children while others are only for mature adults. Anime crosses all genres and...
We had a great turn out for Foreign Chops #9: Cinema of Quebec. There’s a wide range of films to read about representing a nice cross section of what the region has to offer. The most popular film was Incendies, netting three reviews and a mention in a long form article about Canadian Cinema.
We’ll announce the next Foreign Chops subject soon. For now, enjoy all the great pieces on the Cinema of...
Just a quick reminder that the deadline for Foreign Chops: Cinema of Quebec is March 6 at Midnight, EST. We’ll accept up to five links per site. They can be new or old reviews or articles about films from Quebec. You can e-mail the links to robertjgannon@gmail.com. Foreign Chops publishes on the first Thursday of the month.
You still have just over two weeks to get your posts together. I...
Hi everyone. I’m Robert from Sketchy Details and I’ll be taking over Foreign Chops. I want to thank Steve from 1001plus for starting this great feature and running it so well.
The first topic of the new year is the cinema of Quebec. The Oscar nominations came out last week and Canada is once again in the running for Best Foreign Language Film with War Witch. In the past eight years, Canada has made the short list...