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walter 2012-05-25 09:16:31

Really bad

This movies was just about the dummest movie I ever watched. What was the story? It never develops a story. Don't rent it. Save your money and watch "Santa Claus 2". It was a thousand times better.

Antoine 2012-05-25 03:40:40

Fantastic

The third film from the Polish brothers is their best, most beautiful,imaginative film yet. Though many audiences will have a problem withNorthfork's lack of traditional dramatic structure, "Stick with it,Jack!".The plot is difficult to summarize, so just know that the story includes:agents trying to evacuate a city, God in a cowboy hat, the selling ofangelwings, and a sick orphan (but it all works). M. David Mullen'sextraordinaryphotography makes almost every frame exciting and wonderful to look at.Theperformances of the actors, working with the Polish Brothers' inspiringlyoffbeat script, are pitch-perfect and give the film its emotional punch.Thestrong-willed audience member will be moved by the mythology and folktaleof the story, the comic and moving actors, and finally the incrediblecourage and command that Michael Polish shows behind the camera. Againallof these incredible and seemingly disjointed elements come togethermagnificently in one of the most incredible things you should run out andexperience. A great, great, great movie!!!

2012-05-20 19:50:54

Spirituality's Haunting Landscape

The Polish brothers are drawn to dark, surreal themes and sly, wicked humor. (Twin Falls Idaho is a must-see). According to the supplemental footage I saw, this movie was a "wing and a prayer" production, made for an amazing two million dollars (roughly 1% of production on the current King Kong retread). When you see actors like James Woods, Nick Nolte, and Daryl Hannah essentially donating their time, you know you've got something special on your hands. Mark and Michael Polish have created a labor of love that is hauntingly beautiful and intriguingly surreal. Shot, almost inevitably, in stark and unforgiving black and white, the film creates an overwhelmingly powerful sense of place and mood. The plot, such as it is, has been covered sufficiently elsewhere. Suffice it to say that in a barren terrain a dam cannot be completed until a few holdouts are dislodged from the valley. But that is not the point at all. Northfork is an absorbing meditation on the nature of loss, sacrifice, and redemption - the stark realities of being human, painted on an austere but gorgeous canvas. The angels, especially Hannah, do much to inform our understanding while Woods is exceptional, as always, this time as the face of cold practicality. The scenes in Nolte's semi-destroyed church are visually spellbinding while the presence of a full-sized ark tips us off that this is a movie where symbols are probably more important than helicopter crashes. The cinematography is so elegant as to be painterly, making this quirky outlier eminently eligible for your permanent collection. Don't look for facile plot devices or easy answers in this film, but then, do any of the worthwhile questions have easy answers?

Jack Gattanella 2012-05-20 06:21:48

I didn't even recognize Forlani!

To those who can't quite understand (or care to) the story of Northfork, asmall town in Montana that's awaiting the flood of a dam, there still can beno denial of it's emotional effect during and after it's time on the screen. What makes the Polish brothers such stand-out craftsmen is their use ofsensations for the viewer to understand what and where these characters aregoing through the course of the movie. As I watched it Bunel came to mind,not because Northfork has a rush of surrealistic images (though it doesn'tlack them at times), but because of a feeling that humanity is somewherehere, and that is is connected to some attachment or detachment of faith. It is a unique effort.James Woods, looking worn however competant in his job, is an employee ofthe state, one of six evacuators who will go to the townspeople holdingtheir ground in Northfork and offer them a cash settlement to pack up andleave. There is this story, and parallel to it is another of a small boywho is given to a priest, played with a convincing compassion by Nick Nolte,and how the boy shifts between staying alive and in dreams among an oddgroup of people (one of which Daryl Hannah) who may or may not be citizensof the town. As the film progresses, the viewer gets to see the sides ofthe townspeople as well as the men in suits, and no one is really consideredas a villain. The fact that the characters, real or un-real, are presentedin a un-judgmental light rings the humanity truer than it would if it wasjust pure fantasy. It may not get a lot of business in it's present run (Isaw it at a near-exclusive engagement at the Angelika theater in New York),but it's surely worth it for the open-minded movie-goer. Grade: A, one ofthe better independent films of the year.

Rick 2012-05-15 06:27:44

Yes for Northfork!

Truly an orginal film, and those are the best kind. Wonderful, and unlike anything you've seen-probably. If you like quirky odd films, Cohen brothers?, this film should also fit for you.

Galina 2012-05-14 22:53:25

Northfork, Montana (1776-1955)

A dreamy, stunningly atmospheric film takes place in a small town ofNorthfork, Montana in 1955. The government officials arrive to evacuatethe town about to be inundated by a new hydroelctrical dam. There arethe other visitors in the town, the angels from another time but theyonly seen by a dying boy Irvin. A local priest (Nick Nolte in a quietheartbreaking performance) takes care of the boy. Irvin pleads with theangels to leave the place with them...There is some unearthly quality in the film, some dignified mourningand sublime sadness when you suddenly realize the inevitable finalityof everything - humans and their relationships, cities, countries,civilizations, the whole world as we know it. Death and birth havesomething in common - we go through them in the ultimate loneliness. I cannot recall the film that affected me in the same way and as deeplyas "Northfork" did, the film so beautiful and so tender, so quiet andso powerful, so heartbreaking and so moving. Even now, after severalweeks since I saw it, tears come to my eyes when I only think of it.After I saw it, I had to talk to somebody about it. I sent a PM to oneof my friends and I asked, "Please tell me what I just saw?" And myfriend replied with the words, "You just saw one of the greatest filmsof modern times. One of these days others will see the light."

benjamentabros 2012-05-09 20:30:31

Western Surrealism

I saw this magnificent movie at Sundance this year called NorthFork.This movie was extremely different from others that I had seenthere.The Polish brothers crafted an exquisite landscape for which dreamscanroam. North Fork starts out with a coffin floating in water andendswith a death of a town. What happens in between these two moments isoneof the most original movies I have ever seen.James Woods gives an Oscar winning performance as he leads a gangofgovernment officials extracting North Fork citizens. Nick Noltecarriesthe weight of these citizens and takes care of an orphan named Irwin.Asthis boy becomes ill, he dreams of ragamuffin characters that toywithhis reality. North Fork becomes a high wire act that only the talentedfilmmakers could walk, we as an audience can only sit with fascination.It's not a wonder that North Fork is named after a river, because itflows naturally into territories that we can only dream

2012-05-09 02:04:51

Pretentious Garbage

This is a film I wanted to like but couldn't. As it turns out, there was nothing there to like, so I don't feel so bad.I knew I was in trouble when the preacher, in the begining of the film, misread the Bible when retelling the flood story (the "bow" God sets in the air is a rainbow, not a bow (rhymes with wow) as in ship.) And why do they call the preacher "Father?" There is nothing at all to indicate that he or his followers are Catholic (nor would they likely be in that area). And nobody builds an outhouse with a cross on it--particularly in the Bible Belt. The Christianity in this film is like a pastiche written by somebody who has no inkling of what Christianity is about. The writer must also be young-- men back then didn't wear hats indoors! I also suspect the writer is from NYC or California because 1.5 acres of property would not have been a sizeable award in that era--let alone that locale--even if it were lakefront!This film has more loose ends than a pair of worn out socks. Why does the child have a foreign accent? What is that strange creature (a.k.a. man on stilts)? Who are the "angels"? Why does one of them have a head full of safety pins? Why does another have interchangable hands? Why is another dressed as a drag queen? What was that scene in the diner all about? Why do the men in black give out wings?And then there is the bad Foley--the plague of movies nowadays. Why does everything have to make a sound? Somebody touches a feather, and you hear crinkling noises. Somebody touches skin and you hear "shhhhhippp." Footsteps on open ground can be heard from 50 feet away. Too bad the sound people didn't pay more attention to reality (that musical door chime would have sounded like crazy when the door was open and closed).The score? It was lovely until they brought in cheap Casio synthesizer sonorities. And enough with the digital-synth-as-music-box!Far from "A Masterpiece! A Visionary Epic!" as the sell-out critic Roger Ebert squeals, Northfork is a classic exercise in pretension. Characters are cardboard, scenes go nowhere, there is no real plot, and if you look very carefully, you'll notice that most of the "artsy" editing is done in the first 20 minutes and then abandoned--as though they wanted you to know the movie was "art," then got it over with.This silly, puffed-up piece of trash ranks among the worst movies of recent memory. Flood the town already!

jotix100 2012-05-05 01:50:25

Angels in Montana

Michael Polish's hypnotic "Northfork" is a film that will stay in one'smemory for quite a long time. This exquisitely crafted movie thatMichael and Mark Polish wrote, is visually one of the best things thatcame out last year from the world of independent films. The movie issplendidly photographed by M. David Mullen, with a haunting score byStuart Matthewman.If you haven't seen the film, perhaps you should stop reading here.The idea to set the film in Montana was a great coup for the Polishbrothers. Never has the majestic views of the country and mountainsbeen so vividly captured as in "Northfork". We don't need any color!The beauty is in the dark tones of the film that enhances the story ofthe desolation in this remote outpost.At the center of the story is Irwin, the sick child under the care ofthe mysterious Father Harlan. This boy is seen in his bed where thekind priest is administering the medicine for his body. But is hereally there at all? We watch him interacting with the odd group thatwe first encounter around the cemetery. There are two freshly opengraves. Will one of them be for Irwin? At the same time, another plot line plays parallel to this first theme.We see the six men in black that have come to the area in order toremove from the area as many people as they can. This will be the bedfor the man made lake that will be created. Their reward is one acreand a half of lake front property if they move a certain amount ofpeople.The third story line centers on the mystical group composed by FlowerHercules, Cup of Tea, Cod and Happy. They are following a possibilityof a link to an angel that has been injured in this area. When Irwinmeets them at the cemetery, he offers to help, only if they take himaway at least a thousand miles from here. We watch as the quartetexamine the feathers the boy has placed among the pages of his bible.Could Irwin be that angel? The closing sequence show us all parties leaving Northfork in differentdirections. The men in black riding their automobiles, perhaps goinghome to enjoy the newly acquired properties given to them as a reward.The mystical group is seen boarding a plane and taking off for a higherplace. We also realize that the child in Father Harlan, in spite of themedicines and the care he received from the saintly figure, has died.Michael Polish got one of the best ensemble acting from all theprincipals. Nick Nolte, as Father Harlan turns a low key performance inhis portrayal of this kind man. James Woods, as Walter, one of the menworking for the developer, does a fine job. The biggest surprise isDuel Farmer, who makes an excellent impression as Irwin. This childactor, with the right guidance, shows great promise.The mystical group is brilliantly acted by Daryl Hannah, Robin Sachs,Ben Foster and Anthony Edwards, the man with the funny spectacles.Peter Coyote, Mark Polish, Ben Foster, and the rest of the cast areflawless under Mr. Polish direction.The beauty of the film relies in its simplicity. Mr. Polish's visionwill haunt one's memory. The images of Montana, as perhaps an unreallandscape is one of the best things in American films in quite a while.

guyb 2012-05-04 08:55:18

This movie is a sham

We rented this DVD on the pluses of:- four star review from Ebert- James Woods and several good actorsBut the movie was just a poorly made "artsy flick." It had three sub-plotsthat were poorly weaved together. Each sub-plot didn't make any senseeither. Some reviewers have compared this to artsy movies like "Wings ofDesire." No comparison in our opinion. We watch a lot of differentmovies and this one was like some hollywood types ripped off theirproducers. No content; no depth; waste of talent, etc.We're shocked that James Woods actually was a producer. Boy, he has reallyfallen in recent years....maybe too much hollywood glitz andgolf!

iledefra 2012-04-27 09:18:20

ZZZZZZZ, two hours

This is a good time to say how good I think of this site: it gives methe opportunity to feedback all the frustration I lived for two hours,awaiting for something to happens, for something to be said, to beshown, to be insinuated subtly, for a symbol, an idea, whatever. No,just long, endless violins, alternated by a tired piano. Tired voices,tired actors and bored characters and situations. Boring is the longdeath of the mind, and this movie is, from that point of view, a publicenemy. How many thousands of live hours will be still stolen to anotherthousands of innocent spectators. I don't claim for my money back, justfor my time and the time of persons I invited to watch this thing... ohGod !

joeatauc 2012-04-27 03:39:28

NorthFart: The smell of death

I tried to be patient and open-minded but found myself in a coma-likestate.I wish I would have brought my duck and goose feather pillow...Iapologizeto all of the great actors in this movie. Maybe it takes a degree fromMITto understand the importance of this movie.

mavmaramis 2012-04-22 00:34:50

Utterly Bizarre

Basic premise: Dam is built which is about to flood the town ofNorthfork. Everyone is evacuated except for the "die hards". In come agroup attempting to evacuate the remainder - attempt to persuade themto leave.Well it sounded interesting enough on the back of the DVD box so Irented it.A more bizarre film populated with the weirdest characters I haven'tseen. And the pace - it was just so turgidly slow. If it was supposed to belanguid it wasn't, it was terminal. An hour and 20 minutes I watched insilence as more and more strange, and frankly inexplicable thingshappened in front of me.To be honest after that point I just got bored....it was just so slow.The washed out colour, the strange soundtrack with it's languid andslow orchestral pieces mixed with radio jazz from the 40s.And the characters...I keep coming back to these strangecharacters...the "Cup of Tea" character living in a house with a verynear sighted...well I didn't know what to make of him, some sort ofrobot perhaps...with interchangeable hands...and strange guy with asuitcase and a lady with a wig.It was all so...well bizarre...I couldn't make heads or tails ofit...and normally I'm the kind of guy who enjoys mystery and unusualcharacters.The DVD also said "A cross between Twin Peaks and Six Feet Under" -well if you couldn't get to grips with Twin Peaks then avoid this film.In one sequence, the boy runs from a swing to a house after seeing somestrange creature on stilts...the creature reminded me of one seen inJim Henson's "The Dark Crystal" I honestly couldn't take any more afterand hour and 20 minutes...perhaps I should have tried to stick it untilthe end but an hour and twenty minutes seemed like an eternity and Igave up.Two stars - might have been 3 if cinematography had been better,desolate landscape notwithstanding.

Chris Knipp 2012-04-21 17:06:40

Orphan angel: the spectral plane is drab, but crystal clear

Never having seen a Polish brothers movie, I approached this with noexpectations.Somewhere in Montana in 1952 (though everything suggests an earlier date andthe cars, as usual, are too perfect looking), a plain is to be flooded by adam and a team of men in black suits is sent out to coax the fewrecalcitrant remaining inhabitants to vacate the properties. Each pair ofevacuators is supposed to be awarded one and a half acres of prime lakefrontproperty if they can prove that 65 locations assigned to them have beenvacated. One team is James Woods (as Walter O'Brian) and his son Willis(Mark Polish). They're also supposed to remove Wood's character's wife'scoffin because graves are supposed to be dug up to prevent the coffins'floating up in the flooded land. Needless to say, this makes little literalsense: the references here are to the American frontier mentality, toimperialism, land grabbing, materialism, and impiety, which the Polishbrothers are impressionistically dealing with throughout this strange andhighly allegorical film.Meanwhile Nick Nolte is Father Harlan, a deranged priest running a decrepitorphanage to which a fleeing couple return a small boy they adopted earlier(Duel Farnes, who is fine) because, they say, he was `defective,' beingsick all along, and is now too sick to travel.Much of what follows revolves around the boy and may constitute his dyingdelirium or fantasy that he is an angel. He meets Daryl Hannah (FlowerHercules) in a graveyard in a wig and Elizabethan costume and goes back withher to see her pals, Cup of Tea (Robin Sachs, also in Elizabethan drag),Happy (Anthony Edwards, with a bizarre complex of adjustable spectacles on),and Cod (Ben Foster, a wordless young man in a bejeweled cowboy hat), andbegs them to take him away from this place with them – 1,000 miles away, heinsists. They bargain over the distance: this may constitute the denialand bargaining of the dying person. At its center the film cuts back and forth with lugubrious regularitybetween this scene, in which the boy tries to claim he has scars from wherehe used to have wigs and a halo (Cup of Tea is unconvinced, Hannah isweepily sympathetic, Happy is scientifically neutral, and Cod is mute) – andscenes focused either exclusively on the band of evacuators or, as the filmprogresses, on them in encounters, variously hostile, fearful, orunfriendly, between them and the stubborn or oblivious holdouts on the land.One team is shot at, their car nearly demolished. Woods and son deal with aman with two wives who's built an ark. They fail to convince all three toleave, and, having evidence of only 64 evacuations, receive no landdocument.Nick Nolte all the while is seen trying to save the boy, whom at one pointhe offers to Kyle McLaughlin and wife (Mr. and Mrs. Hope: this begins tosound like Pilgrim's Progress), but they aren't allowed to view the boy upclose, only through a window, so they leave empty-handed (Hope without Faiththus disappointed). Nolte, Father Harlan, also goes to a pharmacist andgets antibiotics which he injects in the boy; he bathes him, reads to him,etc., but all efforts fail and the boy dies, apparently. Meanwhile scenesof the boy with Daryl Hannah et al. continue. In the end they all fly awayin a big plane just like the little one in the boy's lap. Cod is hisco-pilot.Much is made of a set of putative `angel's wings,' big snowy white bird'swings which inexplicably are carried around in a large suitcase and shownboth to the man with two wives and to Hannah and company.Though no doubt enormously puzzling and open to many interpretations, itmust be said that compared to something like Alejandro Joderovsky's El Topo,which this inexplicably reminded me of, Northfork makes much coherentnarrative sense. Somehow the apocalyptic mood and the presence of dubiouspriests, spectral landscapes, and semi-mythological characters also bringCormac McCarthy to mind, but the movie lacks McCarthy's vivid regionalcharacter and colloquial down home talk.What it all means is more than I can venture to say in any more detail here. The tedium of the pacing might be more unfortunate if it were not to someextent relieved by an omnipresent sense of humor and also by a loyal andable cast and a stunning cinematography that combines colorless dimness withexquisite clarity in ways that heighten the pervasive sense of the surreal. There is no doubt at all that the Polish brothers are originals. If hipyoung people and art film cultists like this film as much as Roger Ebert(who inexplicably believes the loquacious and visually acute Happy to beboth blind and mute), Northfork will be on some level a stunning success. To many it is likely to remain arid and incomprehensible . . .and not sexyand scary like David Lynch. But the vision is unique -- and not asincomprehensible as it may seem.

2012-04-20 06:21:10

A Masterpiece

An emotional and difficult film which handles (in its own odd way) a variety of profound issues.These appear as short episodic arcs within the main narrative, and include lost loved ones, perspective on long time relationships, people's attachment to physical things (land, homes, graves...)The list goes on - in it are religion, money, government...The film intertwines these but remains coherent, therein lies its greatness.It is celebration and great grief indistinguishable.A Masterpiece.

psychdiva1 2012-04-20 04:09:16

But its so simple..

Northfork is not an inscrutable mess. Whether you wish to view the morefanciful scenes as literal or the product of a dying boy's imagination,one strong theme connects all the stories. Change happens. Eachsub-story revolves around a profound change. The little boy is dying.The town is being evacuated. The movie illustrates how we get draggedalong by changes we are powerless to stop. We should ideally make thebest of them and accept whatever heartache they cause. Some lookforward towards a new freedom (the little boy) and some obstinatelyrefuse to accept them (the ark family). And Walter has to learn thelesson that there are some changes we think are over and done with thatmust be relived (reburying his wife). Just because we think we'veburied a chapter in life under the ground doesn't make it so. This isshown so clearly by the conversations between Walter and his sonWillis. I say that if you really want to know what the movie is aboutwatch the scene that begins in the outhouse. And pay special attentionto the Willis's speech about caring for his car. Its a beautiful moviethat gains meaning for me every time I watch it.

William 2012-04-13 04:07:51

Dream/reality... life/death... town/boy

Well, I guess my title is pretentious enough. I saw the movie at a small theatre in St. Petersburg, FL. 80% of the audience was over 80 I think. I heard quite a bit of snoring.If you like movies that don't wrap themselves up in a bow for you then you may want to check this one out. Plenty of excellent visuals... a bunch of quirky humor... and, as my buddy says, a whole lot of "symbology".

brazilfox 2012-04-12 10:03:05

Southend, not Northfork

(Don't worry about plot-spoiling if you read this text. Actually, foldyour wings! There's no plot to spoil!)I rented this DVD based on a preview of the film in another DVD, and onRogert Ebert's review.And of course, in the preview I was immediately impressed by the cast(Nick Nolte, James Woods, Daryl Hannah, Peter Coyote), photography,lighting, film stock, wide vistas and the carefully crafted visual moodof the film, all of which could have been the frame for a great film,that is, great story-telling, because that's what films are! Period.And based on this natural assumption I rented the film. I could notmiss something that looked so extraordinary, beautiful and intriguing.But... oops, some 30 minutes into the film, apparently what were justvignettes, kept piling up... and still there was no one on screen thatyou could really care about (despite a perfect casting in Nick Nolte).What's THIS? Am I watching an expensive and luxurious PowerPointpresentation?Where's the STORY, folks?And don't judge me wrong: I'm a Brazilian-American pretty much used tomagic realism, both in literature and in films. I'm drawn tochallenging, unusually-structured films, I have a Web site entirelydedicated to "Mulholland Drive" and I'm a fan of films like "Memento","Adaptation" or "21 Grams", and yes, talking about angels, Wim Wender's"Wings of Desire" is a classic which is still remembered whilebeautifully shot Northfork will be forgotten underwater, unfortunately.North Americans should have care when approaching this kind ofmaterial, and that's what great, daring but mature directors usuallydo, like David Lynch, Tim Burton, or Robert Redford did in "MilagroBeanfield War". Even the remake of "Wing's of Desire" with NicholasCage and Meg Ryan, despite its high-cuteness factor, is moreemotionally involving and spiritually-minded than Southend, despitebeing "plain" and not having the latter's impressive well-craftedvisuals.In the Northfork DVD interviews you will hear how the director startednot with a story, but a "concept" about angels' wings beingcommercialized. Humm… interesting! But, undaunted, with greatcinematography, director Michael Polish is sure that he could do awaywith the 2000 year-old three-act structure, maybe because it waseasier, not having a real story to tell to start with. (Hum… I thinkI'll just wing it!)But not even tampering immaturely with film structure is the mainproblem here. It's when you break the more basic rules of screenwriting that things really get bad… and boring. Like the unbelievablygratuitous scene (among many) where the agents enter a coffee shop andtake precious film-time until they decide to order a soup from anodd-looking old waitress.Rule #1 of screen writing & editing: if it does not move thestory/plot/argument along, it shouldn't be there. And indeed, that'sthe scene in the film where your finger starts to hover on thefast-forward button. But you relent. You don't want to miss thosebeautiful celestial-looking shafts of natural light and long shadows:it's a photographer's film!But in my view, not having a solid spiritual core to start with, thisfilms also reeks of pretensions about spirituality and"otherworldliness", and it's all (beautiful) fluff passing as depth, asa typical Paulo Coelho book. And Paulo Coelho, and cute soft angels,are very popular worldwide.Conclusion?Northfork, undoubtedly a beautifully photographed film, stands as aproof that just great cinematography and set-up do not a great filmmake. If you want to see what a film with great story AND greatcinematography looks like, you should rent something like RidleyScott's "The Duelists". You'll notice the difference. There are noangels. But you won't miss them, neither will you need wings to fly onbeauty and drama for two hours.

2012-04-11 08:05:07

An Absurdist Study on Life and Death, perhaps?

I loved this movie. It seemed to me to be a study, a meditation, an exploration on life and death, on the absurdity of it, on fate, on existential truths, on transience,on permanence, black humor, silly humor, utter, profound sadness, religion and being human, human spirit, soul, the love of God, detachment/attachment,loss, family, - the whole big ball o'wax - and MORE!! It seemed an amalgam of Buddhism, Christianity, nihilism - and MORE!!Plus, it contained what I believe to be the key to it all: you may be an orphan, but you're a child of God. I loved this movie and would put it on my favorites list.

craenen 2012-04-10 14:45:50

a great movie to discuss!!

Last September I joined a small movie discussion group here inRotterdam, that was just starting up. It remained very quiet until abuttwo weeks ago, when I was invited to the first get together. 10 dayslater I ended up picking the movie, leading the discussion, and beinghostess in my own home! The movie buff who was going to bring the movieand lead the discussion copped out 5 days ahead of time. I'd seenNorthfork 6 months earlier and loved it! As I'd hoped, the 15 people(aged 27 to 80!) who came all had enough to say about the movie afterwe watched it together. The discussion came spontaneously, mainlybecause everyone had their own, very diverse opinion of the movie, andall were impressed by the fantastic scenery shown. Some found it verydifficult, others fantastic, but all enjoyed it. The most difficultpart was translating the information and comments I'd collected frominternet into dutch beforehand!! Now, however, I have a problem... theyall want a repeat performance and, although I enjoyed doing it thistime, I don't know all that much about movies!! I'd appreciate somesuggestions for a suitable movie to discuss the next time.