And it's not just the rejection of Netflix and streaming that's the problem, but the truth - in hard numbers - that "non-English-language film culture has experienced a serious slippage in currency. ... For half a century or more, starting after World War II, what we referred to in America as 'foreign films' (a parochial term, to be sure, since they’re not foreign in other places) found a way to be part of the conversation. They were movies that periodically produced lines around the block. With rare exceptions, that’s no longer the case."
Article source here:Arts Journal
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