Naomi requests: "I'll appreciate any help in finding titles of the 2 subjects: Desire and creativity The dream in the cinema and the cinema as a dream" Depending on how far out you want to go with these, there are a lot of poss -ibilities. In regard to the first, there are scads of films about artists and thinkers, ranging from documentaries to Hollywood biopics to other types of film. A few that come to mind: LE MYSTERE PICASSO (Clouzot) ANDREI ROUBLEV (Tarkovsky) 8 1/2 (Fellini)_ Many films by Ken Russell (if you dare!) CARMEN (flamenco version by Saura) THE MAN WHO LEFT HIS WILL ON FILM (Oshima) DOUBLE SUICIDE (Shinoda) Several Bergman films, including SUMMER INTERLUDE and PERSONA Welles's F FOR FAKE and THE IMMORTAL STORY THE RED SHOES ALL THAT JAZZ Cocteau's ORPHEUS TOTAL ECLIPSE (about Verlaine and Rimbaud) THE GOLDEN COACH (Renoir) Sally Potter's ORLANDO MY BEAUTIFUL CAREER THE PIANO HEAVENLY CREATURES For the second, one can go from Hollywood to highly experimental films: LAURA MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON SPELLBOUND UN CHIEN ANDALOU DREAMCHILD KUROSAWA'S DREAMS VAMPYR 8 1/2 (again) and a lot of more typical Hollywood fare, including NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET Don Larsson, Mankato State U (MN) ---- To signoff SCREEN-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF SCREEN-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]