----------------------------Original message---------------------------- > >> The consciousness of cinema in Europe is light years ahead of that in the > USA. > >> The Brits, the Scots, the Irish, the Welsh, the French, the Italinas, the > >> Greeks, the Czechs, the Poles, the Spaniards, the Portuguese, the Belgians, > >> tghe Dutch, the Swiss, the Swedes, the Nowegians, the Finns, the Danes, the > >> Luxembourgois,the Austrians, the Germans, the former Yugoslavians, the > >> Bulgarians,the Cypriots, the Hungarians (am I missing someone? The > >> Albanians perhaps? the Maltese? The Slovaks? or the Turks of Ankara and > >> Constantinople) > >> ....are very strong (at least in circles equivalent to ours) in American > >> cinema, while we are near-zero on non-American cinemas. > >> > >> In Madrid, London, Paris, Barcelona, Geneva, Athens, Brussels, etc. > >> (speaking from first-hand knowledge) there is a wealth of films from around > >> the world. In Montreal, and Toronto, and VAncouver also, good films are made every year... I invite my fellows Canadians to discuss them... A suggestion: for us, the non-American, could the correspondant identify the city from which they write. The indication YYY university or ZZZ college are not enough... Yves Lever, Montreal