A few weeks ago I posted a query about magical realism in film. I thought I would thank everyone who helped me with this (still incomplete) project, and that I might summarize some of the results. My original list of films went something like this: Arau, _Like Water for Chocolate_ Cox, _Walker_ Di Sica, _Miracle in Milan_ Jodorowsky, _Santa Sangre_ Kaufman, _The Unbearable Lightness of Being_ Schlondorff, _The Tin Drum_ Tarkovsky, _The Sacrifice_ Wenders, _Wings of Desire_ and maybe _Brazil_ Further, I referred to the article by Jameson ("On Magical Realism in Film" _Critical Inquiry_ 12:2 (Winter 86): 301-325), in which he discusses Agnuszka Holland's _Fever_ [thanks for those who suggested where I might get a copy of this], Jacobo Penzo's _La Casa de Agua_ and Francisco Norden's _Condores no entierran todos los dias_. Jameson's own definition of magical realism (which he suggests might be "a possible alternative to the narrative logic of contemporary postmodernism" [302]) is, in part, that it "depends on a content which betrays the overlap or the coexistence of precapitalist with nascent capitalist or technological figures" (311). At the same time, he also refers to the more conventional definition of its being "not a realism to be transfigured by the 'supplement' of a magical perspective but a reality which is already in and of itself magical or fantastic" (311). Responses from cinema and screen lists suggested the following as possible candidates for magical realist films: _El Norte_, _Erendira_, _El Topo_, _Stalker_, _Solaris_, _Barton Fink_, _Eraserhead_, _Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me_, _The Butcher's Wife_, _Grand Canyon_, _Prospero's Books_, _The Fisher King_, _Field of Dreams_, _Heaven Can Wait_ and the films of Nicolas Roeg. Written texts suggested included Carpentier's _The Kingdom of the World_, Paul Coates' _The Realist Fantasy_ and John Izod's _The Films of Nicolas Roeg_. In afterthought, I've also wondered about parts of _Northern Exposure_ as marking an accessible introduction to some of the effects of magical realism. If all this sparks any further ideas, please email me. Otherwise, thanks to everyone for their help. Jon Beasley-Murray University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee [log in to unmask]