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Don't be loyal to any oen country, beloyal to movie art

Of course all this post of yours is just a bitter hollow smoke - seems like only those who believe that Hollywood is the Holy Grail of movie making do divide the world into two parts - as you are doing it here.

I would love to remind you that there are probably at least fifty more countries where movies, both good and bad, are being made. So Hollywood is really just one of twenty or more places that deserve consideration.

Unlike you, I am not stuck on any such division - I watch all sorts of movies, and then I say what I feel - without paying any attention to my special attachments. So I just as routinely call a French or a Rusasian film a kaka as I do an American one. You, OTOH, have that heavy bias, one I used to see in the Soviet leaders, paranoid about any criticism of their land. And I thought I left that mindset behind twenty five years ago. I guess people are people everywhere.

What I do is the only honest approach - call them ALL as they are. I don't have particular attachment to any one country or continent. Modern Russian movies mostly suck these days - I have no problem with stating this. You apparently do.

"Now" see Hollywood films? I shall let you in on one secret - I have been watching American films since I was about five... or four... we bought our TV in 1954. Great many I saw while still in Russia - surprisingly, they also are not stuck on their own as the world best - take your hint from them. American and European films have always been shown there, old classics to smaller audience, of course.

My wife and I brought our love for good American films with us here, and we never lost it. But we also never lost the quest for quality in films. So while we dearly love many American films (true, fewer and fewer from the later years - not our fault), we are also naturally more exposed to the tremendous volume of trash that Hollywood produces every year.

Living in Russia we were largely sheltered from that trash. Now we have to swim in it.

So all your ranting shows one thing - that you have no idea of what you are talking about, but posturing and beating your chest.

I said before that I often watch ten or twelve movies a week - most of them American, natch.

Finding good films from elsewhere is hard here - thank to the narrow-minded approach many Americans take. Unfortunately, if you talk to many young people here they don't know the rest of the world even exists. Like it or not, that tendency is far less pronounced in say, Europe.

Lot of hot air in your post. Lot is simply not true.

If I were a movie lover not able to discover the rest of the world on my own, I would be grateful to someone taking time to bring us the information about the world out there. As I stated before, you may attack me personally, and my posts all you want, but one thing is certain - if someone simply blindly followed all my recommendations, he would end up quite well versed in the wonderful world of movies, the movies from all over the world. He woudl end up seeing things he didn't even know existed... like Finish films (thank Patrick for taking a lead in that area).

He would most likely disagree with some of my choices, but there is no doubt he would be much better off than if he simply ignored all my recommendations and stuck to Hollywood production.

What should I say about your silly dismissal of the movies from the rest of the world as "dreadful art house films"? I presume you simply wrote it without thinking.

Kukushka a dreadful art house movie? Beay Travail? Closey Watched Trains? Maelstrom? Mirror? Are you trying to show us how missguided you are?




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