My point exactly...have you seen the latest Schepisi...since he went Hollywood?.....these wonderful Australian nationals are no longer Australian...they are somewhere and nowhere...as is Bill Forsyth... and others. is there a National cinema anymore in any country? Sandy > > >(My memory ls going with my age...but...there wa > >>s Gregory's Girl...I loved that film!...Tight little island... > >>Local Hero...." What happened to Bill _______(can't remember hsi > >>name). And look what happened to Peter Wier and Fred Scheppsis? > >>Sandy > >-------+ > >Sandy-- > >As long as I'm in reference mode: > > > >GREGORY'S GIRL and LOCAL HERO were made by Bill Forsyth, a Scottish > >director. What happened to him? He just made BEING HUMAN, starring Robin > >Williams, and it's getting very bad reviews. > >--Richard > > And as long as we're all in a reference mode, please recall that Peter Weir > (spelling) and Fred Schepisi(spelling) are both Australians, though > Schepisi's first non-Australian film, _Plenty-, was made in Britain (but > starred Meryl Streep doing a British accent!) The point is not to be too > didactic, or worse, but certainly in this day and age, to question the > notion of "national" cinema on a very practical level. > > DD > > _____________________________________ > David Desser, Cinema Studies > 2109 FLB > 244-2705 > -- +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ + Sandy Dwiggins Internet: [log in to unmask] + + Building 82, Room 111 Phone: (301) 496-7406 + + Bethesda, Maryland 20892 Fax: (301) 480-8105 + +------------------------------------------------------------------------+