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Elaine May gets my nod as the best of directors, and this as her best film. Both Cassavetes and Falk offer their best performances. But it's a film about acting, about individual performance....much like the finest stage plays of any generation...so of course it couldn't overcome the sensationalist bent of film promoters and reviewers. Now, 42 years later, it's still magnificent!

To me, Schlöndiorff's "Baal" is the greatest film of both S. as director and Fassbinder as actor. Also, an astonishingly accurate film version of Brecht's early play. What does it say, and what does it mean? I'm not at all ready to judge. Apparently Brecht's widow opposed the release for about 50 years ... which is as inexplicble as Berg's widow opposing that of the magnificent third act of "Lulu". Thank you all so much.

The professional reviewers must be nuts. "Kika"is wildly funny with lots of typically Almodovar twists, gorgeously acted and stunningly filmed. I have seen most of his films, and each is so different that it's hard to compare them, but this is right at the top along with "Talk to Me", "Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown", and one or two others. I just love it. Were the Oscars not enormously influenced by Hollywood money this would have won best film, actor, actress, and cinematography.