----------------------------Original message---------------------------- > Kristine Butler writes: > "I'd like to elicit a mass brainstorming effort: I'm working on an idea > concerning films in which a pre-recorded message plays a part in conveying > narrative information (an answering machine, a tape player, etc.). Re/Recording Machines/ Bad Timing; a sensual obsession - Dir.: Nick Roeg with Art Garfunkal as an American shrink in Vienna, trying to cure the damaged Terressa Russell, and only damaging her more, till he mortally damages her by ignoring his answering machine. (Good/weird turn by Harvey Kietel as Viennese cop.) Randy Kennedy Toronto Locations/The Kinetic Opera Co. 156 Curzon Street, Toronto M4M 3B5, CANADA Ph.: (416) 501 6338, internet: [log in to unmask]