NoYank. Remove All American Media And Culture From Your Life

Someone got me inspired to make this list, and I decided to share it here, since it fits the community. I've added only movies that had a Wikipedia page:

• Monica's Gang in an Adventure in Time (2007), Marvel ripped off this movie;
• Boy and the World (2013), I haven't finished watching this movie, but I would totally recommend, due to its impressive visuals;
• My Mom Is A Character (2013) (Wikipedia title), not sure if this one has been dubbed to English;
• Just Another Christmas (2020? It has been THIS LONG already??? worried face), this movie might feel similar to Click, but I don't really care, I like both.
• The Man Who Copied (2003), such a simple gem (maybe undubbed too).

And the list ends here because I couldn't think of anything else, but I'll try to add more to the list eventually.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sira_(film)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt26440747/

The film depicts the story of young nomad named Sira, who after a brutal attack refuses to surrender to her fate without a fight and instead takes a stand against terror. It is a co-production between Burkina Faso, Senegal, France and Germany.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JgURXn5aAE

https://imdb.com/title/tt32122656/ – A fisherman as he discovers a treasure lost for generations at the bottom of the ocean. Taking a small part of it home for himself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4G4Lkirx3o

https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=E4G4Lkirx3o

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/4774626

blorp.bot.nu/o/visual_cuisine

The total runtime is about two-and-a-half hours, split into two parts. There are two official YouTube uploads of the film — one which splits the two parts into different videos, and one which stitches them together into one video. I figure it's probably best to go for the two-video upload so we can stretch our legs and take a leak at the intermission.

Plot description from IMDb: ASSA is set in Crimea during the winter in 1980. A young musician (Bananan) falls for a mobster's (Krymov) young mistress (Alika). The parallel story line involves a 19th Century assassination plot.

I can also mention that this movie has a lot of musical numbers and experimental scenes, and is often looked at as a turning point for perestroika and rock music's position in Soviet popular culture.

Content warnings for I guess age gap romance, there's some very brief man ass in one scene, there's murder and other violence, "moderate profanity", and "mild alcohol, drugs & smoking".

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=Q_VgQyRdk78

https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=Q_VgQyRdk78

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_VgQyRdk78

Title is a pun on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hy-Brasil

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/60779044

Two widely followed Chinese public figures — one an editor for a state media outlet, the other the son of a former party chief — released identical outlines on Tuesday of countermeasures Chinese authorities are said to be considering in response to Trump's tariffs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhnZ4sk-UvY

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=MhnZ4sk-UvY

https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=MhnZ4sk-UvY

Hi. I am an animation fan looking for some animation that is not from the United States to watch. Preferably something from Europe or Asia (not Japan).

If anyone has any ideas, let me know.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0188030

https://tankie.tube/w/7qXHcWrCBqRQmaEzonYhL7

cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/26381293

Writer-director Alain Guiraudie must surely now be said to match Quentin Dupieux for the weirdest sense of humour in French cinema. But is comedy exactly what is happening here? Because this has to be one of the strangest films of the year – or the most deadpan of deadpan in-jokes. At one point, I thought I saw the performer playing a police officer almost laugh, but perhaps every single actor here was on the verge of cracking up throughout the shoot. It could be that every time Guiraudie yelled “Cut” everyone burst out laughing.

You could also call Misericordia queer cinema, with the word “queer” also working in its non-sexual sense. Guiraudie made his international breakthrough with his 2013 film Stranger By the Lake, but it’s now clear that the seriousness and vehemence of that psychosexual drama are atypical of the director’s real instincts, which are towards waywardness and playfulness and unreadable, inscrutable mischief. And here, as sometimes in the past, he looks as if he is making it up as he goes along.

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Perhaps this film is just too self-consciously odd, but you feel that you are watching a dream which has been minutely transcribed and re-enacted; or perhaps all the performers are sleepwalking in the most vivid and lucid way. The film is also notable for showing semi-erect penises very candidly.

Trailer

IMDb

Not sure if this is relevant here.

My tolerance for people faking a US accent when they sing has declined over the years, so a while back I started making a Spotify playlist with tracks where the (usually native English-speaker) vocalist sings in English with their real accent instead of a fake US one. And I called it "No Yankcent".

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4hrV8JElSFZsp9qcjkwrFZ

Maybe people have some tracks they can suggest.