Ricardo wrote: RC> The Sandglass (Wojciech Has) One of my all-time top 10. Has is great generally but particularly shines in the fantastic: _Sandglass_, _Saragossa Manuscript_ (hey, check out the article on Potocki in the current issue of The Believer), _Tribulations of Balthazaar Kober_, and _Memoirs of a Justified Sinner_ (based on the early American gothic novel by James Hogg). RC> Valeria y la semana de las maravillas(Jaromil Jires): RC> (By the way, if someone knows how to get a video copy RC> of this film, I would be very acknowledged). It was released on PAL/VHS in the UK by Salvation/Redemption, maybe 5 years ago ... their site shows it out of print but it might could turn up on ebay UK. Speaking of which label, their release of the early short films by Clive Barker (as experimental maker, not horror-film scriptwriter) is highly recommended, especially for the second film. I rate Merhige's _Begotten_ pretty highly, too. If by "cult" one were to mean "nigh-on unseeable" I'd give big ups to Ivan Zulueta's _Arrebato_ (released for about 30 seconds in the anglophone world under the title _Rapture_), one of the best films i've ever seen (speaking as a once+future experimental filmmaker) about what shooting film does to you. About equally disappeared, Claude Faraldo's _Themroc_ (1972), with Michel Piccoli as a defeated Parisian worker who reverts to caveman. As if Ballard were adapted by Tati (well, if he were first possessed by Pasolini) ... IIRC *all* of the dialog is in pre-lingual grunting. I'd love to be able to show this one to people who think the concept "Modern Primitive" was invented by Re/Search, but where is it? Oh, all of the features by midwest master Richard Meyers have just been released on DVD, available from Canyon Cinema ... not particularly cheap ($50 a pop) but multiple viewings are pretty mandatory so i'd argue the value is returned eventually; start with _Jungle Girl_ or _37-73_. And hopefully everybody here is already aware of the new Brakhage DVD and is planning to act accordingly ;-). -- Jim Flannery newgrange@newgrangemedia.com One cannot judge the value of an opinion simply by the amount of courage that is required in holding it. -- George Orwell np: MEV, _Rome_ nr: Dennis Lehane, _Prayers for Rain_ (yes, it IS summer)