>I guess you'd never see it that way, as in your choice of movies there isn't much of the rest of the world, and even when there is, it's never made in the country it was about. But then, I should have guessed you'd never think of movies as a source of knowledge about other countries, if you think of them as solely entertainment - but my predictions are suboptimal most of the time anyway.

I think you would really enjoy the Telluride Film Festival. It's an absolutely beautiful area (one of my favorites - make sure you drive the entire San Juan drive) with some terrific foreign films every September usually Labor Day weekend. When I was living in Grand Junction, we would drive down every year. There were also some great music festivals there that we attended every year.