I think a non-English Language list is overdue. I don't know many surprises there will be, other than gripes about the order, but it is still a worthy exercise. If you look at what foreign language titles placed on the previous decade lists you can already see the groundwork for what it will be...
MoFo Millennium (15): City of God, Amélie, Pan's Labyrinth, Old Boy, Spirited Away, The Lives of Others, Talk to Her, Let the Right One In, Downfall, Battle Royale, Werckmeister Harmonies, Hero, Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring, and Brotherhood of the Wolf
MoFo '90s (18): Princess Mononoke, Chunking Express, Man Bites Dog, Sonatine, Hana-bi, Three Colours: Rouge, Underground, The Double Life of Veronique, Whisper of the Heart, Three Colours: Blue, La Haine, All About My Mother, Life is Beautiful, A Brighter Summer Day, Fallen Angels, Close-Up, Farewell My Concubine, Fu*king Åmål, and The Hole (1998)
MoFo '80s (21): RAN, Fanny & Alexander, Come and See, Grave of the Fireflies, My Neighbor Totoro, Das Boot, Cinema Paradiso, Jean de Florette, Akira, The Sacrifice, Au Revoir les Enfants, Castle in the Sky, A City of Sadness, Wings of Desire, Spoorloos, A Time to Live, a Time to Die, Three Crowns of the Sailor, Shoah, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, The Decalogue, and A Visitor to a Museum
MoFo '70s (17): Stalker, Aguirre the Wrath of God, Enter the Dragon, Solaris, The Mirror, Cries & Whispers, Le Cercle Rouge, The Spirit of the Beehive, Suspiria, The Conformist, Hausu, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, Autumn Sonata, Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles, The Holy Mountain, and Fantastic Planet
MoFo '60s (35): Persona, 8½, Yojimbo, Woman in the Dunes, High & Low, Le Samouraï, La Dolce Vita, Harakiri, Playtime, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Pierrot Le Fou, Last Year at Marienbad, Z, Le Trou, An Autumn Afternoon, Andrei Rublev, Army of Shadows, Breathless, Red Beard, Repulsion, Onibaba, L'avventura, Contempt, The Virgin Spring, The Battle of Algiers, Belle de Jour, Late Autumn, Through a Glass Darkly, La Jetée, Red Desert, My Night at Maud's, Viridiana, Knife in the Water, The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer, and Black Sunday
MoFo '50s (29): The Seven Samurai, Rashōmon, The Seventh Seal, Ikiru, The 400 Blows, Tokyo Story, Wild Strawberries, Sansho the Bailiff, Throne of Blood, Pather Panchali, Le Strada, Ordet, The Wages of Fear, Rififi, Night & Fog, Smiles on a Summer Night, Les Diaboliques, Umberto D, Mon Oncle, Ugestu, The Hidden Fortress, A Man Escaped, Nights of Cabria, Hiroshima Mon Amour, Floating Weeds, The Music Room, Tokyo Twilight, The Human Condition I: No Greater Love, and The Cranes Are Flying
MoFo '40 (8): Bicycle Thieves, Late Spring, Day of Wrath, Children of Paradise, Drunken Angel, Stray Dog, Rome Open City, and Le Corbeau,
MoFo '30s (18): M, The Grand Illusion, The Rules of the Game, Trouble in Paradise, Vampyr, The Blue Angel, The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum, Olympia, Port of Shadows, Pépé le Moko, The Testament of Dr. Mabuse, Le Jour se Lève, L'Atalante, Humanity and Paper Balloons, I Was Born But..., La Bête Humaine, A Day in the Country, and Á Nous La Liberté
That is 161 titles right there, without even getting into the question of whether Silent films made in other countries count as foreign language entries. I could see Parasite and four or five others from the past ten years or so added into that mix, but that gives you a baseline idea of MoFo's general knowledge and taste when it comes to foreign language films. Yes, "only" twelve non-English films made the refreshed Top 100 (Stalker, Seven Samurai, Spirited Away, Persona, Come and See, City of God, Andrei Rublev, Pan's Labyrinth, 8½, Akira, Ikiru, and Suspiria), but to say that means MoFo doesn't have a wide variety of support for foreign films is incorrect.
I'm still game to do one, even though extrapolating from the previous decade lists you can pretty much see where this is heading. Still should be done, for the record.
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