I admit I have seen very few foreign-language films of the 40s and only had 3 on my list which is a lot fewer than previous decade lists.
Rome Open City was one I meant to watch and just didn't get round to before the deadline.
Rome Open City was one I meant to watch and just didn't get round to before the deadline.
I think people tend to gravitate towards films they've heard are great then if they are like Cricket and end up watching an insane amount they follow up with directors of those "great films" other movies and find some lesser praised gems that work for them. The 40's has less heavily praised foreign language films than everything after, think there's maybe 10-20 Foreign films you see in general "best of the 40's" discussions unless you dig deeper and most of us didn't have to dig deeper since we weren't able to watch enough.