I apologize if this is a second appearance of my posts. I tried to post the lists to usenet, but it seemed to me that the post was not distributed to the list. I have combined here the two posts I wrote listing films for Dr. Courington. --------------------------- In addition to the suggestions already made, I would suggest taking a look at the following films: WILD REEDS, France (1995?) -- which explores race, class and sexual orientation in a particular group of teens during the Algerian War. RAISE THE RED LANTERN, China (?) 1991 (?) -- which deals a devastating blow to gender and class treatment and fatality. A beautiful and powerful film. STRAWBERRY AND CHOCOLATE, Cuba (1995?) -- which deals with homosexuality on the social and the political fronts and weaves literary appreciation and art with exploration of sexuality, sexuality biases, and politics left and right. HATE, France (1996?) -- which deals with race (Arab, Black and Jewish) and class and the police and the media and so on and so forth. Extremely powerful for students, I would think. LAS LIBERTARIAS, Spain (1996?), which deals beautifully with gender issues, regarding nuns, prostitutes and women as soldiers during the Spanish Civil War. It deals with class and religion as a class issue, given its political context. And it touches on variations of sexuality and sexual orientation. BANDIT QUEEN, India (?) -- a relatively biased political account that deals in detail and great depth with gender and class issues. And is sure to provoke discussion. HAPPY TOGETHER, Hong Kong (1997) -- for its treatment of homosexuals without analysis of sexual orientation -- a breath of fresh air, in my opinion, for its moving beyond. MAYBE . . . MAYBE NOT, Germany (1996?) -- which deals with sexual orientation and cross-dressing in a farcical, but somehow not judgmental context. The most iffy of the bunch in terms of quality, but might be interesting. More films that may be worth looking into: BROKEN ENGLISH, New Zealand (1997) -- intermarriage, Croatian and Maori. Problem here is the ostensibly over-the-top sexuality that got it an NC-17 rating. LA BELLE EPOQUE, Spain (1995?) -- gender and sexual orientation --. I liked it less than the Academy did, and it also has some explicit sexuality, if I recall, but it's interesting. CAFE AU LAIT, France (?) -- interracial relationships, strange resolution, imo. FIRE, India, (in current release) -- class and same-sex relationships, though not necessarily sexual orientation. Shari L. Rosenblum ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.sa.ua.edu/screensite