JOHN!!!!!!!!
i grew up watching jacques tati's movies!!! ''mon oncle'' is my favorite.
tati's movies are still enormously popular here.
alas, i don't like many american movies [except perhaps for the old ones,
bette davis et al., the musicals, and ''the sound of music'', which i watch
once a month.]
my favorite european movies are ''the spirit of the beehive'' and ''el sur''
[both spanish and directed by victor erice], ''nosferatu'' [both versions:
werner herzog's and murnau's], any bergman, any almodovar, absolutely ALL
ERIC ROHMER!!!!!!!! [you may have seen his autumn tale in the us]. anything
with catherine deneuve. also, fassbinder. dario argento. wim wender's ''
wings of desire''. in fact, all my favorite movies are either european or
canadian, and i buy and buy and buy movies on video all the time. amazon.com
knows that i suffer from compulsory shopping behavior.
what we see less often here is australian cinema, although ''priscilla,
queen of the desert'' was a huge success. i think that 90% of what we see is
french, german and british.
wallyk, sad because the weather is beginning to look like spring. [sultry 15
celsius today!!!!!!!]
>At the other end of the spectrum, I never tire of the light-hearted
French comedy of Jacques Tati�s Monsieur Hulot � �Monsieur Hulot�s
Holiday� and �Mon Oncle�.
Cheers,
John (in Sydney).
