We have a film society at the Indian Institute of Science that screens films from all over the world twice or thrice a month.The films generally are from the 16 mm archives at Bangalore.We also have an arrangement with the Film federation of India by virtue of which we get occasional packages of foreign films that go round the country and in course of time come to us so that we can screen them for our members. The problem with this arrangement is that we have no prior information about the films and it has often turned out that the packages sent contain films of very poor quality. We again have been offered a package of five German films. Is there anybody on this list who has something to offer about one or more of the films and/or their directors? The films are as follows: 1)We can do otherwise --dir. Detlev Buck 2)The Wismut--dir. Volker Koepp 3)Waller's Last Round-dir. Christian Wagner 4)The Summer of the Falcon--dir. Arend Aghte 5)Mailna--dir. Werner Schroter We have the choice of screening Ivan's Childhood (Tarkovsky) and Ikiru (Kurosawa) if we donot screen these. So an opinion about the German films 'weighed' against the possible alternative (what a preposterous demand!!) would be very helpful. Thanks. Sumit =========================================================================== SUMIT BASU Research Student (Ph.d.) 'J'Block,Apartment-3, Department of Mechanical Engineering Indian Institute of Science, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore- 560 012. Bangalore-560 012. Ph: 91-80-3092429 Ph: 91-80-3092598 ============================================================================ #---------------------------------------------------# | I am. That's all. Had words been ever mine? | | As I look beyond, from one horizon to next, | | To have life, not words, suffuse my every pore, | | I have wetted my sightless eyes with the night. | #---------------------------------------------------# ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.sa.ua.edu/screensite