Thanks for that, Sven, very interesting (xmas spirit - no really :-)) I disagree with Scott about the visual aspect - it's too rare that it's taken seriously in mainstream films - there are so many competent films that are little more than records of performances. At the same time (as I've already made clear) I don't have much time for ART or Experimental films - which too often ignore content and are too "self-indulgnet" (as Colman might put it :-)) and often just formal stuff about form. I saw too many boring student films like that. The docs were generally much more interesting - especially when done with some sense of how visual style could add to the content, not just decorate it.

Encouraging that at 70 he's still so busy - I know what he means about work like his making you feel alive - on a minor scale photography gives me that feeling, next year I hope to get back to film-making, but with the new technology which means that low-budget films become so much more viable and are limited largely by one's imagination.

Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner - that I moved to Nice. Blog - Nice Experience