At the same time as we have a President preaching “America First,” that most American of cultural institutions, the Oscars, is going international at a dramatically quickening pace. It’s finally ...

Shockingly, it took until the final year of this seminal decade for another foreign language film to score a best picture Oscar nomination. The feature accomplishing this feat was "Z," a Costa-Gavras ...

They (probably) won’t be nominated for Oscars this year, but they sure as hell deserve to be…. Can we use this thread as a reference for the performances in Foreign Language Films that ought to be ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

During his 2020 Academy Award acceptance speech for Best Picture, “Parasite” director Bong Joon Ho said, “Once you overcome the one-inch tall barrier of subtitles, you will be introduced to so many ...

The film, which features five different indigenous languages (Cubeo, Huitoto, Ticuna, Guarano and Ocaina) takes viewers on a river journey in which Karamakate, a shaman played by Antonio Bolívar and ...