----------------------------Original message---------------------------- >----------------------------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 Norwegians, the Finns, the >>Danes, the >> >> Luxembourgois,the Austrians, the Germans, the former Yugoslavians, e >> >> 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 Good ideas both: 1) Discussing Canadian films --and may I add that it would VERY GOOD FOR ALL to be aware of the rich exhibition of films from all over, including Francophone, in Canada, a much more sophisticated country than the U.S.A,, as well as one where the cost of smoking makes it easier to quit. 2) Yes, the more people identify themselves, the better. I am changing my signature to make it fuller. Merci Monsieur Lev Edwin Jahiel, Cinema Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign " Le mauvais gout mene au crime" (Stendhal)