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To: Revolting cat!
The only attempt at art there, to my knowledge, was The Pianist, which wasn't a Hollywood film and should have been entered in the foreign picture category.

The foreign category is "Foreign Language Film." The Pianist (or, The Antidote to Schindler's List, as I like to call it), starred an American, and featured a cast largely made up of Americans and Brits. It was filmed in English. It was financed with American money.

114 posted on 03/24/2003 3:28:36 PM PST by Heyworth
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To: Heyworth
The foreign category is "Foreign Language Film." The Pianist

Indeed. thanks for the correction. The Pianist, directed by a Polish speaking director, where at the end the main character comes out of city ruins wearing a German overcoat, shouting to the liberating Polish/Soviet soldiers: "Don't shoot! I'm Polish! I'm Polish!", which we are to understand: "Don't shoot, don't you see I'm speaking perfect American English, therefore I'm Polish!". You're right, the stink of American money is all over the film. (It is a great work, but...)

135 posted on 03/24/2003 4:05:18 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Could you pretty pretty please think of the possiblity of changing your tagline?)
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To: Heyworth
#114...and it was directed by a man who can't show his face in our courtry!......or he will be arrested.
158 posted on 03/24/2003 5:59:54 PM PST by Guenevere (...Taglines are our friend :))
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