Below, in chronological order, are the 100 greatest films that I have seen from Asian countries through 2008. I have included Ulrike Koch’s The Saltmen of Tibet (1997), a German documentary, because it is in the language of the host country and deals with Tibetans and Tibetan subject matter. Moreover, there is one film that […]

This is the second half of the list. 1974 46. STILL LIFE. From Iran, Tabiate bijan, by Sohrab Shahid Saless, is a minimalist study of lonely, isolated existence. Mohamad Sardari has spent thirty years at a remote outpost raising and lowering a gate to keep road traffic from crossing tracks when a train passes. He […]