this year i turn......30. i agree with the other posters; age does not determine a person's receptiveness to 'foreign' pictures. i started watching 'foreign' movies when i was seven, and if we count japanese television programming, 'foreign' influencing began when i was 4 quickly going on 5. of course, my first movie going experience [3 or so] was 'cabaret,' so let's assume that my experience is not the norm.  

because i've moved around so much, there's a real rootlessness in my life. it never occurred to me think of something other than in terms of 'pleasuring' and 'not really pleasuring.' that's one reason why i've put foreign in quotes because the idea of 'foreign v. hollywood' is well, foreign.

another reason -- movies strike me as the closest thing to a universal language. theoretically, the concern about foreigness should be irrelevant. of course, as mary pickford once said, you'd think that silent movies would be where movies evolved to, not where they evolved from....

i think i've babbled enough for now.

saw imamura's 'the eel' yesterday. absolutely wonderful. 