----------------------------Original message---------------------------- > These schools are quite good for film production, but none of them are > really good for Cinema Studies per say. If you are interested in film > theory, history, or criticism, your best bet is in the United States, this > is especially true at the graduate level. > > The Canadian schools that offer courses in Cinema Studies -- like the > University of Toronto, York University, Concordia University, University > of British Columbia (UBC), etc.-- can't compete with the likes of NYU, > Iowa, Madison, USC, UCLA, and countless others. The American schools Why not come to Montreal for a real course in cinema studies? The course will be in French at the University of Montreal or at the Universite du Quebec a Montreal, but these are the only places in North America where you can get a culture on all the world cinema. Montreal is the only city in North America where you can see films from all over the world: Chineese, Russian, Latin Americam, Europe, etc., usualy in original version with subtitles in French or in English. And Montreal is a real good city to live... Yes Lever