I saw the film "Downtown 81" acouple of days ago on the Sundance Channel. I stars the late artist Jean-Michel Basquiat roaming the streets of NY in 1981. Its a fictional story but he keeps running into a lot of bands playing, either in studios or clubs. DNA plays a couple of tunes in their typical spaz style of the day. James White and the Blacks get quite a bit of time as well w/ Bernie Nix on guitar and I think Joseph Bowie's in the band as well. There's some crummy bands also(Plastics, Kid Creole) but overall its fun to watch. Basquiate kisses a bag lady near the end of the film and she turns into Debbie Harry. I think it shows again on Thursday night. I saw the film "Rivers And Tides" a couple of weeks ago. Its a documentary about Andy Goldsworthy, the Scottish artist who creates pieces using materials he finds on his walks in nature: stone, wood, ice, whatever. He usually creates works that will change over time. Usually his only document of them is his photographs, but this film uses a lot of time lapse filming that helps to illustrate the changes. The visuals are beautiful and his descriptions and stories are very interesting. The soundtrack was by Fred Frith. At times atmospheric( kind of in the "Clearing" vein), and other times the music was Eastern European sounding. The other musicians in the group were unfamiliar to me but had Eastern European sounding names. I wonder if the soundtrack is going to be released? Anyone else see these films? Cheers, John Threadgould