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A Small Set Of My Favorite Movies: magnolia,Bob Le Flambeur, Good Theif,Crash, Killer of Sheep, To Sleep with Anger,Sweet Smell of Success,Donnie Darko (?), the Searchers, Apocolypto, Boogie Nights, Raising Arizona,No country For Old Men, Stop -Loss, Rashomon, Judgement at Nuremberg, Witness for the Prosecution, Some Like it Hot, Q.&A,
Cronenberg, Scorsse, Coppolla, Smaauel Fuller, Herzog, Fassbinder,Kusterica,Tarr,

About Me:: Have loved movies since I was a kid...remember seeing films at my smalltown movie house at 4 or 5...became a compulsion...film classes in college, L.A. production work w/ directors and finally some of my own documentary work on Homeless and overseas in Yugoslavia during the Balkan War.
Will give any film a chance, but my cat has to dig it too. She's more particular than I am. I enjoy new asian cinema, french new wave -goddard, melville, truffuat, Renais. Love cinematography =integral in film I watch...teach English as a second Language. Have travelled a lot -lived over seas in London for 2 years, worked with refugees in Balkan for 9 years..came home to USA and found not that many folks understood what I had gone thru or seen...always find solacein a movie theater or on a tube. Divorced last year. Hang out with my cat -knows what she likes, yet doesn't talk back - very visually oriented. ALWAYS open to suggestions and other peoples reviews...I shpouuld write more considering all the films I see/have seen. more later.

Movies are away of life...life's way of giving us a look at how it all evolves around the world Continue

Posted on June 16th, 2008 at 6:38pm — No Comments (Add)

At 8:18pm on May 1st, 2008, phred said…: one -is not "the loneliest#" anymore! what a super idea Mortthere are plenty of films especially coming outta the middle east, afganisthan -pre-volitile pre explosion stuff, just what ur talking about...off the top of myyhead i can't come up with titles...Frednch director Melville did film(s) on the people in the resistanceWW2 andfollows what happens to them, some German films:Europa Europa...we'll knock it around and -u know what - i don't know how to gwet in touch w/u except on this page -email me how atfredliss100@yahoo.com -let's marchahead and do it!

At 8:08pm on May 1st, 2008, Mort in Detroit said…: What about something like films showing a real perspective or globally significant events, crises and conflict? Should the time frame include all history or more recent times? Post-Vietnam? Post-WWII? Call it Our World or Current/Recent/Historical Events in Film? I think it would be great to have a place to discuss films like this because I'd like my eyes opened to things I hadn't known or considered possible and to see what others got that I didn't see in films I've seen. I'm just unsure about how open or narrow the focus should be. What do you think?

At 11:23pm on April 30th, 2008, Mort in Detroit said…: Have you thought about starting a group more specialized than the existing "foreign films"? I don't know if you'd want it focused around conflicts or the Balkans, but I'd enjoy either.

At 1:26pm on April 27th, 2008, phred said…: IT'S GOOD THAT THERE IS SOME DISCUSION ABOUT FORGEIN FILMS.BALKANS ETC.
KEEP IN TOUCH SECRET AGENT! AND U TOO DETROIT MOTORCITY FILM GUY

At 11:01am on April 27th, 2008, Secret Agent Gal said…: Hi Phred, I admire your life experience, and especially your working with refugees in the Balkans. If more people do what you've done, the world would be in better shape... I too love films - it's like a universal language. Loved No Country For Old Men, Judgment at Nuremberg.

At 10:07pm on April 24th, 2008, Mort in Detroit said…: I saw No Man's Land & enjoyed very much. Tito and Me was my first Balkan film, many years ago. Saw Before The Rain a dozen or so years ago. Warriors is the only movie I've seen about the conflicts made from the outside. Have you seen it? I've seen nothing by Kusturica--will add to my queue.
I was raised by two liberal school teachers who, at least, tried to teach me that learning is fun & lifelong, to be aware globally (to be a better world citizen) and open to new experiences.
So many tragedies--It would be nice if one stunningly nice thing could happen this year. Zimbabwe? Darfur? Peace in Colombia or Sri Lanka?
My movie collection is far less erudite or artistically meaningful than those you mentioned in your profile: Merchant/Ivory, Bridget Jones, Harry Potter and Frankenstein. I made a list on Netflix of what I like most of the DVDs I own:

http://www.netflix.com/StrangerLists?prid=138407411&showList=49327

At 10:18pm on April 23rd, 2008, Mort in Detroit said…: Nine years in the Balkans? Incredible. You're right in that Americans ignored it. Probably because they think the Balkans are that family who bought the house around the corner: Serbia, Montenegro and their lovely daughters Croatia, Bosnia and Slovenia. The world needs more like you. Teaching ESL must be challenging too. Are many Americans interested?

At 12:03pm on April 18th, 2008, phred said…: check the early stuff. What horror films do you really like? I saw the new Prom Night and thought it sucked...Jamie Lee Curtis was much better in the first one..Did u like SAW(s)...Ringmaster,the haunting? House on haunted hill -60's is one of my favs. what else do you like to watch and do?

At 9:17am on April 18th, 2008, horrorfan247 said…: i will check out more Dario Argento films. i have seen a few of his movies and really liked them.