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[Chris Knipp]

Thanks, Oscar. I hope these disk releases will move to rental availability because I don't buy disks just to watch a film except in very rare cases.
Cinemabon, Egypt, you're referring to me? Yes and I also worked more briefly in Morocco but it's been a while. More significantly I have put a lot of time into studying Arabic. But how did this come up? not on this thread? Not sure exactly how US audiences for foreign films have changed. I'm no expert on that. I'm guessing that there are also a lot more film festivals all over the US - all over the world - and that also makes new global cinema in closer reach to people. I think that's another important "platform." Yes, if you live in the San Francisco Bay Area and spend significant time in NYC, you get a chance to see most of the foreign releases.

Some great non-US films releasing soon that I saw in the NYFF - watch for these, please!
BURNING (Lee Chang-dong)
ASH IS PUREST WHITE (Jia Zhang-ke)
ROMA (Alfonso Cuarón)
COLD WAR Paweł Pawlikowski)
SHOPLIFTERS (Hirakazu Koreeda)
and the French ones
HIGH LIFE (Claire Denis) I didn't dig it, but there's probably a lot there I missed.
NON-FICTION (Olivier Assayas)
SORRY, ANGEL (Christophe Honoré)
A FAITHFUL MAN (Louis Garrel)

Also coming in Feb. with one-week Nov. release:
NEVER LOOK AWAY (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck) The maker of THE LIVES OF OTHES made a good one this time. It's in German about an artist, whose life, like Gerhard Richter's, spans from the early Thirties till today and he becomes one of Germany's most important artists. I saw this in a screener, it's being distributed by Sony Pictures Classics. The others above I saw at the NYFf. See my reviews in the Festival Coverage Section