On the Heidegger discussion, I think Joseph's comments on how to read H are very useful. You just have to get into the right way of looking at things - or rather, of not just looking at things and thinghood. Then the language is clear. Even so, I am in Susanna's camp. I am wary of the 'ontological need'. Adorno, who is a wonderful philosopher of art, is also the author of the best critique I know of Heidegger - 'Negative Dialectics'. (Aside. Is either one though a filmphilosopher? Is cinephilia a prerequisite? or philosophilia?) Ross