> >The point being: there is a huge quantity of non-USA cinema out there. >It never gets to the mainstream *in the USA* but it's in the mainstream >in its own culture. If only this were true!! My read on this topic is that it's not about getting "foreign" films into US cinemas, but getting indiginous films (if they even ever get made) onto the screens in their own countries. Well, that does not happen. Canadian films: A) do not get made (how will they get distributed, make money etc??) B) what very few are made, do not get exhibition, unless they are an item that fits into a major (US) distributor's pattern (like "Crash") C) tend less and less to benefit from financial incentives because of US complaints through NAFTA against "unfair trade practices" Cinema prices in Toronto are: $8.50 for regular screens, $9.50 in the new deep dish, large screen cinemas. Sorry. The same old song. Chris Chris M. Worsnop Consultant, speaker, workshop leader, writer media education, assessment, writing Homepage: <http://www.screen.com/mnet/eng/speakers/cw/worsnop.htm> 2400 Dundas Street West Email: <[log in to unmask]> Unit 6, Suite 107 Phone: (905) 823-0875 Mississauga Ontario, Canada L5K 2R8 "It is better to give than to lend - and it costs about the same" Phillip Gibbs. ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.tcf.ua.edu/screensite