tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8591018003444406729.post4818754473841408043..comments2023-10-25T06:13:28.265-04:00Comments on The Conservative Wahoo: On the Viewing of Foreign FilmsThe Conservative Wahoohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17818674434286683162noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8591018003444406729.post-5577647634983299442011-04-11T08:55:18.677-04:002011-04-11T08:55:18.677-04:00I only read the first sentence of your comment but...I only read the first sentence of your comment but I have to call bullshit. I see you as a competent naval officer, an outstanding military theorist, a bit of a bureaucrat, and a blatant social climbing UVA prick, all in keeping with your training. As far as foreign films go, I like them as well.<br />There was a cinema (pronounced chenema, like cheese) just in front of the main gate in Vicenza, and it was cheap as dirt, like 500 lira. I used to go there quite often. Mostly domestic films but some American. You've never lived until you've seen Peter Bogdonovich's "The Last Picture Show" dubbed in Italian. <br />Also, while in college at good old Wassamatta U. they used to show free movies at the student center and a Maryland girl actually, dragged me to see the original La Cage Aux Folles. It was very funny, although strangely uncomfortable. To this day I love French comedies like "The Dinner Game". Now you start getting into these Marcello Mastroianni, vaseline coated lens bullshit and you lose me.<br />Oh yeah, I really like some of the commercial German films like Downfall and Baader-Meinhof that have come out recently. I will check out those films you mentioned though."The Hammer"https://www.blogger.com/profile/16342812251947807673noreply@blogger.com