>PART ONE.

somewhere between C and D

>
>PART TWO.

>If you answered "C", what are some of the pre-1970 movies
>you've been meaning to get to? Do they have priority?
>
i'm watching ossessione right now..and im tryin to get into more visconti...i tried to watch la terra trema and just couldnt..but i loooove the leopard, so i know theres gotta be some good stuff.

other stuff on my queue
I Vitelloni
Open City
Rocco & His Brothers
Death in Venice
Divorce, Italian Style
Au Hasard Balthazar
Yankee Doodle Dandy
The Professionals
I Am Cuba
The Virgin Spring
Diary of a Country Priest

>If you answered "D" or "E", what are a couple of the most
>recently released movies (of the last couple years) you liked?
> Would you consider any of these as having the potential to be
>"classics", i.e. being not just a great film in 2004, for
>example, but beyond that?
>
born into brothels
i heart huckabees
machuca
team america
oldboy

i think huckabees, machuca and oldboy, especially oldboy could go down as classics.

>
>PART THREE.
>
>If you can think back to the kind of "movie watcher" you were
>just five years ago or so, how dramatically, if at all, has
>your tendency towards pre-1970 film changed? If you can
>identify the source of the change, what was it?
>
quite a dramatic change. i couldnt stand black and white, old movies. i still think a lot of them can be cheesy, but with the best of them i can overlook the cheesiness and appreciate their greatness..but i probably still hold a lot of opinions on these older movies that would be quite unpopular..for instance, i cant stand hitchcock at all.

the source of it would probably be that ive grown more patient as ive gotten older and i have a greater appreciation for history and the things that u can learn from something that came before your time. i mean a lot of these films give u great insights into the times and culture in which they were produced.