Carol Donelan requests: > A colleague of mine is looking for films with plots featuring cultural > transition(s), i.e. someone going to a foreign country, or someone coming > home, and in both cases having to make some cultural adjustments and/or > resisting changes. > > Any ideas? Besides films already mentioned: TIME AFTER TIME (HG Wells in 20th century US) LA JETEE, THE 12 MONKEYS THE EMMIGRANTS/THE NEW LAND (especially the latter) EL NORTE COMBINATI0N PLATTER Med Hondo's SOLEIL O (but I don't know about availability) Bogdanovich's DAISY MILLER, from Henry James' novel PORTRAIT OF A LADY Merchant/Ivory's: THE EUROPEANS, THE BOSTONIANS, A ROOM WITH A VIEW the final portion of MALCOLM X, with his trip to Mecca and after PASSAGE TO INDIA Renoir's THE RIVER 7 YEARS IN TIBET THE UGLY AMERICAN THE QUIET AMERICAN APOCALYPSE NOW GOOD MORNING, VIETNAM COMING HOME BORN ON THE FOURTH OF JULY Hitchcock's REBECCA THE THIRD MAN BREAD AND CHOCOLATE (an Italian in Switzerland) COLD FEVER (a Japanese businessman in Iceland) Herzog's STROSZEK HOW TASTY WAS MY LITTLE FRENCHMAN, from Brazil Kuleshov's THE EXTRAORDINARY ADVENTURES OF MR. WEST IN THE LAND OF THE BOLSHEVIKS In the same country, but very different cultures: WALKABOUT Ditto for WITNESS Dated in a number of ways, but WALK DON'T RUN (Cary Grant's last film) might be of interest ANNA AND THE KING OF SIAM/THE KING AND I THE GODFATHER, Part II SAMMY AND ROSIE GET LAID HESTER STREET AVALON Several other films about immigrants in America: MOSCOW ON THE HUDSON COMING TO AMERICA FOUR FRIENDS AMERICA, AMERICA FAR AND AWAY RAGTIME He doesn't do all that much adjusting--but THE LIMEY might be of interest too SNATCH Don Larsson ----------------------------------------------------------- Donald F. Larsson, English Department, AH 230 Minnesota State University Mankato, MN 56001 ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu