Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by Victor Khomenko (M) on February 03, 2006 at 20:12:30

In Reply to: Mr. Khomenko a personal question... posted by BJordan on February 3, 2006 at 19:38:02:

I appreciate your nice comment, even though it is not really deserved - we have some truly wonderful people here, whose posts I enjoy reading, thinking how little I know about movies! People like Harmonia, tin, Patrick, and quite a few others... some of them post way too infrequently.

I started early, back during my days in the USSR, where foreign films were among the few real things you could find, if you knew where to look... and got hooked quickly.

Surprisingly, the Soviets used to buy a lot of good films, so much of the classics you could simply see on TV - we bought our TV in 1954. Many of them, of course, were purchased because of their propaganda value - things like the Bicycle Thief, showing hard life of common people, Nights of Cabiria, etc... those were the days!