----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Wheeler Dixon's call for attention to a range of important and underdiscussed filmmakers is admirable and I wholly agree -- but it also presumes that access to the films of these figures is free and easy. I live in a city with some art cinemas and pretty good video stores -- many on this list probably do not. And it is by no means easy for me -- and trust that I'm willing to try anything new -- to see these films. I mean, it's near impossible enough to see Godard's most recent work, or to keep up on Brakhage -- if Mr. Dixon is able to see the work of all the filmmakers he lists on a regular basis, then he has my complete envy. His suggestion that we all expand our range is one I second; how to do so in the current film culture is another matter. And if he or anyone else has suggestions as to how and where to see more exciting, cutting-edge films, I and others would love to hear it. (Finally, whatever one thinks of PULP FICTION as art -- to use a very old term -- it has been used by this list to discuss questions of race, homophobia and sexism, narrative structure, and other such topics -- not exactly the lowbrow attention Mr. Dixon implies.)