As Downhill – the underwhelming US remake of Ruben Östlund’s Force Majeure – hits the cinemas, we present the finest reimaginings of foreign-language films
The giant Japanese lizard has become a
Hollywood fixture in recent years, but it wasn’t always that way. In the west, until the mid-90s, Godzilla – or Gojira, as the purists would have it – was the preserve of supercool hipsters fixated on the rubber-suit kitsch of the original films. This all changed when Roland Emmerich got hold of it; it rivals his previous film, Independence Day, for turbocharged mayhem. Though it got pretty bad reviews at the time, it now looks like a presentiment of the trauma launched on
New York on 9/11.