Several good movies come to mind:

1. The Milagro Bean Field War - which is a story about people of spanish
amerindian descent that live in New Mexico that have losted water rights
for subsistence agriculture to grow beans and corn to a developer. This a
very funny and moving film as well as bueatiful [forgot how to spell in
english this word] or bonita pellicula directed by R. Redford.

2. The film "Gorrillas in the Mist" is very good too and a friend at Fordham
Univ. uses it in a introduction to environmental ethics course, starring
Sigurny Weaver I believe, also very moving etc.

3. "Clearcut" is a Canadian movie and is based in Northern Ontario where a
native band attempts to stop a large forest products firm from clearcutting
in traditional hunting lands. I enjoyed it but friends who work for a pulp
company in Chile did not have much to say about it one way or the other. It
is worth a watch. I think the story revolves around the ethics of violence
versus non-violence with the moral that those who use violence succumb to
violence themselve's in the end.

4. Werner Hertzog I believe directed the ultimate environmental movie called
"Where the Green Ants Roam". It is about some aboriginal people living in
the outback of Australia and it involves an Uranium mining company which
attempt to build a mine in their lands. The aboriginal people are against
this since they believe the earth is a living organism. If the earth is
disturbed, then they believe that the "green ants" will come to the surface
of the earth and destroy the people. I have not seen this one but so many
film afficionado's love this film that it needs to be seen.

5. Another one is "Redwood" starring the famous hollywood actor Kirk
Douglas and I think Ava Gardner. It is about a group of religious people
living in N.California who are faced with losing the forests they love to
the timber barons as the land opens up to railroads and shipping at the turn
of the century or earlier.

I think "Gorrillas in the Mist" is the best one here.

John Foster

Clearwater, BC
Canada

"Men occupy a very small place upon Earth....All humanity could be piled up
on a small Pacific islet"
Antoine De Saint-Expury




At 03:48 PM 9/15/1998 GMT, you wrote:
>Later this semester I am due to be give a (fairly low level) lecture
>entitled 'Hollywood, whales and rainforests' to second year students
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