I noticed that in America, we seem to not do national releases of very many foreign movies from overseas in theaters. When was the last time we had a foreign movie that spoke entirely in a foreign language? Hidden Dragon, Crouching Tiger? That other movie with a dude on a boat with a tiger? Talking about the last 20-30 years up until streaming services.
I think the American entertainment industry is trying to keep americans isolated. So they can't see movies from other countries where they can compare it to American made movies. So we can't see how bad american made movies are. To keep us from seeing other cultures and to see their perspective.. to see that they don't use ugly goblinas or trannies or POC. If you watch a chinese, korean or japanese movie.. most of the cast are handsome or pretty/cute and are like 99.9% asian lol. Maybe our country will be less woke when we actually see what other cultures around the world is doing.
Even with streaming services (which i dont use since they are all woke as hell), last big name was Squid Games? After that not much foreign things that took off. Maybe that Shogun show, but its niche.
I also notice.. movies aren't butchered as badly with translations and localization when compared to video games. But that is for a different day hehe.
Don't you have Boutique Art House Cinemas there? We have quite a few in Australia that show plenty of foreign films - and also our local Industry indie films. We also have a dedicated Channel on Tv and Streaming which is remarkably good if you love foreign films. (SBS World Movies - I'm watching American Hustle on it right now)
I quit going to art house theaters and cinema since the start of the collapse. Venturing into the exceptionally disgusting exceptionally liberal infested part of the city, stepping over homeless and syringes, is just too much for me. Can't enjoy anything when I'm malding over the deliberate destruction of my country.
I remember going to an arthouse cinema in the Mission District of San Francisco (the Roxie, I believe), and being utterly appalled by the state of the subway/metro station we got off at, to go there...
This situation just doesn't exist, for the most part, outside the US. Arthouse cinemas are generally in the inner city, or, if they aren't, they're in "trendy" inner-city neighbourhoods, some of which have only gentrified relatively recently (Haga in Gothenburg, Trojborg in Aarhus, Carlton/Fitzroy in Melbourne), so, while there are definitely plenty of "liberals" around, sipping lattes and such, there definitely isn't the drug-and-crime-riddled situation you see in North America, with such places...
At least not visibly, anyway.