A Quick Guide to World Cinema:









British films are about people with bad table manners; 


French films are about paranoid gallery-owners who wear turtlenecks; 


Italian films are about Monica Bellucci's cleavage and scooters; 


Japanese films are about girls in schoolgirl outfits fighting tentacle monsters;


Chinese films all star Bruce Lee, someone who was related to Bruce Lee, someone who looks like Bruce Lee, or Jackie Chan; 


Russian films are about tattoos, vodka, clothes made of burlap, and bread; 


American films are about either confused twenty-somethings in knitwear, or someone trying to blow up the biggest thing they can before someone else stops them, in ninety-minutes or less. And boobs.