Great thread here recently on summer reading. Got to pick up Christian Bok's "Eunoia" and "The Sea Came in at Midnight" by Steve Erickson. Can't remember if it was someone on this list who recommended it but I'm just ordered a weird sci-fi/horror book called "Satan Burger" by Carlton Mellick III. Though I'm sure it will take up my next few weeks to catch up on recommendations I get from y'all here, I was wondering if anyone wanted to share some titles of favorite foreign / cult movies. I'd be glad to start. Jan Svankmajer: Czech director who was supposedly a big influence on the Quay Brothers- uses stop-motion (think that's the right term) animation within the films, mixed with child-hood nightmarish tales. Just seen Little Otik and Conspirators of Pleasure (both recommended) and heard that Alice and Faust were also worth seeing. Lars Von Trier: The Element of Crime is a very languid, dream-like psychological crime thriller (wonder if it was an influence on Angel Heart). He did Europa later. He's also responsible for the Danish TV series The Kingdom (aka Riget, available on video) which has a bizarre cast of characters: a med student whose nightmares come true, a somewhat crackpot clairvoyant who pursues the ghost of a little girl, a Swedish doctor who hates and berates the rest of the staff, a kitchen crew who speak in allegories and metaphors, etc.. Sean Guilette: Pi is about a mathematician who's going insane trying to figure out the connection between number sequences and the stock market and Jewish mysticism. Not foreign but definitely cult. Takashi Miike: Visitor Q is one of the most unsettling movies I've seen in a while- lots of violence (including a teenager beating his mother) plus incest and necrophilia (the later of which provides an especially disturbing yet somehow funny scene). I've heard that another film of his, Audition, is even more graphic. Best, Jason -- Perfect Sound Forever online music magazine with warped perspectives http://www.perfectsoundforever.com