>You got me thinking - I believe you watch a lot of foreign films, right? What are your favorites? Here are some of mine:
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>La Meglio Gioventue
>Jean de Florette
>Salmer fre k(something) (kitchen stories)
>Babette's Feast
>Pan's Labyrinth (this movie was just plain cool)
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>I didn't list this one originally because I realize it is a sensitive subject, but I really did think it was well done:
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>Grabavica (not sure of the spelling, I guess I could look it up, but I'm lazy tonight)

That'd be Grbavica - it's, IIRC, a part of Sarajevo, northeast or midnorth. "Grba" means hump, and the hill does look somewhat that way, like a camel's hump (though my last time there was a quick drive-through in 1989, during the very first gas shortage ever - I was only looking for gas, had to make it to a convention in Dubrovnik). Looking at IMDB, if they got Mirjana Karanović to play the mother, then this may be a right thing, not another propagandistic piece. I remember her from amateur theater - the guy who organized the troop (or troupe?) was from my town, actually our mothers worked together, so they had a somewhat higher number of gigs there :).

And my frequent mentioning of foreign movies is mere nostalgy. I love them and I fondly remember them. Back home, being a poor country and all that, we had foreign movies galore, from "all four corners of the globe", if I may borrow the stupid reporters' phrase. I've seen all the Bergman, Kurosawa, Fellini, Tarkovsky, Altman, Buñuel, Ken Russell, Wajda, Kieszlowsky, Agnieszka Holland, Wenders, Fassbinder, von Trier, Forman (even before he's gone Hollywood), Kubrick, Bondarchuk, Kaurismaki... all of them, some on TV, some in the movies. Actually, domestic production was at an disadvantage, and it wasn't until late seventies, when they went out of their own black wave (not noir in the American sense) that they started making commercially viable movies, and then even a wave of real cult classics.

Coming to the US, I thought I'd have a chance to see all those movies that the communists were hiding from us - all the, I don't know, movies from South America, Spain, Norway, whatnot. You can imagine how disappointed I was when I realized how provincial the cinematographic repertoir is here.

IOW, how would I know what foreign movies to watch if I couldn't even find a movie channel in the cable's digital lineup? It probably got lost between twenty baseball and forty basketball advertising channels.