Another Jarmusch movie worth checking out, especially with the possibility of a renewed interest in Westerns is Dead Man, with Johnny Depp. I will warn you, though, Brad. I could hardly sit through half an hour of it the first time I got it from Netflix. My friend who told me about it made me try again, and now it's in my top ten.

Another director worth looking into might be Jean-Pierre Melville. The influence his movies, especially Le Samourai (my favorite of his) and Le Cercle Rouge can be seen in a lot of recent crime movies (I'm sure that Collateral is and Americanized Le Samourai),

I would like to share what my Film teacher told me about the booing at the Oscars, though. Citizen Kane was booed, because Orson Welles was a first time writer/director, and he got his start in radio. The cast was made up of his radio actor friends, so no "Hollywood" actors were used. We all know that Hollywood is full of cliques, so the booing was really due to the fact that it was an outsider movie. If anything, they felt threatened.

The video with the Fight Club music was cool.

Other great American films have certainly come along since then and maybe dislodged this masterpiece from the top spot, "The Godfather" (preferably part two, in my humble opinion) probably chief amongst them, but few motion pictures will ever be near as important to the world of cinema as an art form then this one. "Citizen Kane" is a film I revel in, could never grow tired of and could probably watch until the very fabric of the world was ripped asunder into tiny little pieces. For me, it is a picture every person who claims to love, work or talk about cinema should go back to every so often to be reminded of what true greatness is, and every chance to see it should be treated as a gift worthy of ecstatic celebration.