Posted by Don MalcolmUser icon on 7/1/2021, 10:35 am, in reply to "Re: Toward a Top 25 Non-English Language Film Noir List"
Here is a way into the lists provided by ChiO and ChiBob that can serve several purposes at once...

The films are separated into groups based on their overall status in "cinephilia," with those that have become familiar to American laymen at various stages of "foreign film penetration" shown first (divided into two time frames, pre and post-2000).

Then the films that are moving toward "anointment" in the years when both MCP and FNF were sceeening foreign films. (There are more of these, but they were not listed as Top 25 candidates, so we show only the three that have made inroads over the past 5-6 years. RAZZIA has been known for many years, but it was long relegated to the "back bench" due to the praise/hype afforded to three other iconic 50's French heist films--GRISBI, RIFIFI and BOB LE FLAMBEUR.) In the case of these three films--MCP screened them first, with MCP following suit in 2020.

Then the Latin American films that FNF has championed, though only the Argentine films are uniquely their discoveries for US audiences. (The Mexican films all screened prior to FNF involvement at UCLA and several other "arthouse circuit" venues in 2011-2013.)

Those four categories total 25 films, one less than the number of top-flight films exclusively introduced by MCP in its various festivals from 2014-19. Out of that list of 26 films, seven were from countries other than France.

Finally, there are three films that our two intrepid international explorers discovered all on their own without any help.

16 of the 54 films are "canonical" with respect to noir/noirish foreign films recognized critically with enough repetitive force to become familiar to American cinephiles. That represents about 30% of the list: the other 70% is what has been uncovered in recent years.

Of the 54 films on this list, 37 of them have been screened by MCP from 2014-19, and 17 have been screened by FNF at various times from 2014 to 2020. There is obviously some overlap in those screenings: of the films on the list, MCP and FNF have overlapped on five of them (and this total is higher when we take into account titles that were not listed in a "Top 25" context by Owen and Bob).

We'll note the films that appeared on both of their lists a bit further below.

FILMS ANOINTED IN THE “FOREIGN CLASSICS” CANON PRIOR TO 2000 (9)
Pepe le Moko (1937) F
9. La quai des brumes Marcel Carne 1938**
1. Le jour se leve Marcel Carne 1939**Ω
Stray Dog (1949, Japan) F
Touchez pas au grisbi Jacques Becker 1954
Rififi (1955) F
Les diaboliques Henri-Georges Clouzot 1955∆
2. Un condamne a mort s’est echappe Robert Bresson 1956Ω
Le samourai Jean-Pierre Melville 1967† F

FILMS ANOINTED IN THE “FOREIGN CLASSICS“ CANON FROM 2000-2014 (7)
Le Corbeau Henri-George Clouzot 1943∆
14. Ossessione Luchino Visconti 1943, Italy** F
21. Les dames du Bois Boulogne Robert Bresson 1945Ω
Riso Amaro (1949, Italy)Ω
3. Uni si jolie petite plage Yves Allegret 1949∆
Le trou Jacques Becker 1960
La verité Henri-Georges Clouzot 1960Ω

FILMS SCREENED BY MCP APPROPRIATED BY FNF (3)
24. Razzia sur la chnouf Henri Decoin 1955
16. Hanyo aka The Housemaid Ki-young Kim 1960, Korea
4. Pale Flower Masahiro Shinoda 1964, Jap

LATIN AMERICAN NOIR CHAMPIONED BY FNF (6)
18. La mujer del puerto Arcady Boytier 1934, Mex
Le Otra (1946, Mex)
Victimas del pecado (1950, Mex)
En la palma de tu mano (1951, Mex)
No abras nunca esa puerta 1952, Arg.
25. El vampiro negro Roman Vinoly Barreto 1953, Arg.

FILMS SCREENED BY MCP IN VARIOUS FESTIVALS 2014-2019 (26)
8. Voyage sans espoir Christian-Jaque 1943
Le portes de la nuit (1946)
Les jeux sont faits (1947)
Non coupable (1947)
5. Dedee d’Anvers Yves Allegret 1948
Maya Raymond Bernard 1949
Les eaux troubles Henri Calef 1949
Les amants de Verone Andre Cayette 1949
7. Maneges Yves Allegret 1950**
Camino Del Infierno (1951, Mex)
10. Les salauds vont en enfer Robert Hossein 1955
Meewen sterven in de haven (1955, Belgium)
12. O drakos Nikos Koundouros 1956, Greece
15. Voici le temps des assassins Julien Duvivier 1956**
23. Retour de manivelle Denys de la Patelliere 1957
13. Toi, le venin Robert Hossein 1958
Cairo Station Youssef Chachine 1958, Egypt
17. Nuit des espions Robert Hossein 1959
Un temoin dans la ville Edouardo Molinaro 1959
20. The Wild, Wild Rose Tian-Lin Wang 1960, Hong Kong**
19. The Scarlet Dove Matti Kassila 1961, Finland**
11. Le septieme jure Georges Lautner 1962**
Assault on the Pay Train Roberto Faria 1962, Brazil**
Leviathan (1962)
6. Chair de poule Julien Duvivier 1963**
22. La mort d’un tueur Robert Hossein 1964

FILMS NOT SCREENED BY EITHER MCP/FNF (3)
La Chienne (1931)
Il Grido (1957, Italy)
It Happened in Broad Daylight Ladislao Vajda 1958, W. Ger

LEGEND
**on both lists
† arguably neo-noir (“color” Melville starts here)
Ω screened by MCP
F screened by FNF
∆ screened by both FNF and MCP, but not (necessarily) due to “appropriation”

FILMS ON BOTH LISTS
9. La quai des brumes Marcel Carne 1938**
1. Le jour se leve Marcel Carne 1939**Ω
14. Ossessione Luchino Visconti 1943, Italy** F
7. Maneges Yves Allegret 1950**
15. Voici le temps des assassins Julien Duvivier 1956**
20. The Wild, Wild Rose Tian-Lin Wang 1960, Hong Kong**
19. The Scarlet Dove Matti Kassila 1961, Finland**
11. Le septieme jure Georges Lautner 1962**
Assault on the Pay Train Roberto Faria 1962, Brazil**∆
6. Chair de poule Julien Duvivier 1963**