Don Larsson suggests: >A few foreign films, for contrast? Fassbinder's MOTHER KUSTERS GOES TO >HEAVEN, etc. ... and its predecessor, Piel Jutzi's 'Mutter Krausens Fahrt ins Gluck' (umlauts deliberately omitted, as they don't seem to appear as-is after processing through the listserv). 'M' (both the Fritz Lang and Joseph Losey versions) are worth a look, too. In particular, the fully restored version of 'M' includes the 'book-end' scenes of the mother being agitated at the kids singing a morbid rhyme about the murderer as the film opens, plus at the end sitting outside the courtroom remarking words to the effect of '...we should have looked after them more carefully.' In my 16mm print of 'M' you hear the line but the screen is black; I've seen a 35mm print in which we see the three mothers seated on a bench outside the court. Maybe Nazi sensitivities resulted in multiple versions. In any case I think that conclusion to the film is a very prescient comment on the way the Kurten case was handled by the mass-media at the time, one which has many modern parallels. Leo Dr. Leo Enticknap Director, Northern Region Film and Television Archive School of Arts and Media University of Teesside Middlesbrough TS1 3BA United Kingdom Tel. +44-(0)1642 384022 Fax. +44-(0)1642 384099 Brainfryer: +44-(0)7710 417383 ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu