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	HOW TO USE THIS POD/GROUP Read about all the things you can do here --  and elsewhere in the Community, about movies.	2	0	OTHER GAIA COMMUNITY DISCUSSION GROUPS ABOUT MOVIES Aug 12, 1:28 PM by 1Vector3
	WHAT ARE YOU WATCHING? What new or old movies have really grabbed and interested you lately?  Which ones are simply cool or made you think, or enriched your life, or made you laugh or cry?  Make your recommendations here for movies to catch OR to avoid !!!	23	37	Re: 'This is what democracy looks like' Aug 13, 4:35 PM by 1Vector3
	FEATURED FILMS OF THE WEEK One current, one old, comments invited! We post new pair every Sunday. Feel free to post comments on the current week's film(s), or any past film. Please post only comments on the designated films. Other movies go to some other Board.	43	50	Re: 9/7/08 OLD – Finding Neverland about 2 hours ago by Marmalade
	INSPIRING, UPLIFTING, CONSCIOUSNESS-RAISING FILMS Here also humor films, good-hearted films, feel-good films. Share about your present and past favorites !! You can just mention the title, or make comments, or go on and on !!!! Please post films about religion or spirituality or paranormal stuff in THAT Board.	10	14	Re: Michael Garfield's review of The Fountain Apr 24, 5:50 PM by Marmalade
	SPIRITUAL, RELIGIOUS, PARANORMAL FILMS Share here about any film that features what we might call transcendence of ordinary life, something "beyond."	5	4	Re: Mini-review "Next" with Nicholas Cage Jul 6, 9:18 AM by 1Vector3
	DOCUMENTARIES Guess they need their own place, partly because they are usually "limited release" films and thus not available generally in theatres. If you post about one, please specify if in theatres currently, or available on DVD.  And partly because most movies are "fiction" and documentaries are non-fiction.	2	1	"This is what democracy looks like," 1000 Journals, "Man on Wire" Aug 13, 4:41 PM by 1Vector3
	Introductions Who are you?  Tell us about yourself as a film-viewer, what kinds of films you like, the meaning of films in your life, etc. As part of this, you may invite folks to visit your profile and peruse your Movies list!	2	6	Re: The Marmalade has arrived!!! Apr 24, 5:43 PM by Marmalade
	Water Cooler Sound off about movies, films, stars, the industry, whatever. List points of possible pressure we could apply to movie-making decision-makers.	6	3	Re: Rambo-loney Feb 6, 12:18 AM by 1Vector3
	Bulletin Board List (link to) ongoingly available sources of movie reviews you are aware of, local or not, such as from the website of your local newspaper, or other websites. Know of any screenings that we should make it a point to see?  Tell us about it here. Call attention to special viewings available in your area.	5	0	FINDING INFORMATION ABOUT MOVIES Aug 12, 1:33 PM by 1Vector3
	International Board For non-English-language films WITH NO ENGLISH SUBTITLES. We will post one thread per language. Please post subtitled films as regular films, on the What Are You Watching? Board. Instructions for using the International Board are at http://pods.zaadz.com/zfilms/discussions/view/205087#205087 . It is the post titled How to Use The International Board.	14	0	How to use the International Board Nov 12, 2007, 9:50 PM by 1Vector3
	Pod Improvement Suggestions Board Post here any comments, wishes, additions, changes, deletions you think would make this pod more fun and useful!!	1	3	Re: Improvements Being Considered Aug 12, 1:52 PM by 1Vector3

Got that favorite film you're passionate about recommending, or just wish more people would see it?  Go ahead, discuss any movie here!

zFilms pod/Group is devoted to the open exchange of opinions, views, and reviews about movies, current and past.  (In theatres now, and on video/DVD. Sorry, no made-for-TV-movies.)

The “Movies” lists in our profiles are a GREAT source of recommendations, leads, suggestions, ideas. zFilms pod/Group offers more immediate interaction, and more space for information about the films.

Cross-posts of film mentions and reviews and comments from elsewhere in the Community are specifically invited !!

zFilms pod/Group has two purposes: 
1. To enable more-informed voting with film-viewing dollars so we can help change the world, and
2. To help us all find better films to watch and the ones to avoid.

1. VOTING INFORMEDLY WITH FILM DOLLARS

Movies, films, the cinema are an important part of most of our lives. Don't you think that voting with your film-viewing dollars is an important way to support/encourage the changes you want to see in the world? Don't you think you need more information about movies, to vote intelligently?

Everyone is looking for ways to “go green,” these days. Well, how about “going green” re movies, in the sense of giving your money to those which promote your values? zFilms can serve as your “Green Guide.” A uniquely Gaia Community-flavored compendium of commentaries about movies.

Look up Megatrends 2010 in Gaia Books to find this quote:

Recent Quotes: Wed Feb 28 20:31:23 UTC 2007
Source: Megatrends 2010: The Rise of Conscious Capitalism, Page: 25
Contributed by: ~C4Chaos. Patricia Aburdene said
   Welcome to the Dawn of Conscious Capitalism-a popular, decentralized, broad-based crusade to heal the excesses of capitalism with transcendent human values. Every day Conscious Capitalism wins new converts in the paneled boardrooms of global business…. Equally important, the actions millions of us take, “from the supermarket to the stock market,” are drafting a more wholistic brand of free enterprise which will forever outshine the Chicago School-and win someone somewhere a brand-new Nobel Prize.

[[“the actions millions of us take…..” That's what this pod is about, for movies. Join us, and contribute and enjoy!]]

We look forward to synergy. We look forward to exerting pressure, however strong or weak, on those whose decisions result in the films available for people to see.

We look forward to co-creating, with you, our new world of movies.

2. FINDING GOOD STUFF TO WATCH

The more we share, the more easily each of us can find films for ourselves and our families to watch which are enjoyable, entertaining, inspiring, uplifting, consciousness-raising, and/or spiritually relevant. And we can also make note of films we might want to skip!! 

We think that sharing recommendations about films is worthy of at least equal attention to sharing information about books or Green resources in general. We hope you will join us, become active, and really USE the resource of this pod/Group. Then you'll go to the video store with ideas, not just cruising the aisles, hoping. Then you'll look at the film ads with information, not just a few shreds of recos from friends or the media.

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Note: we are not at this time able to deal with the world of videos ordinary folks are producing and posting everywhere on the web. Who wants to start or refer us to THAT resource/pod? zFilms is pretty much restricting itself to “mass-media.”
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HERE ARE SOME TIPS FOR POSTINGS:

INCLUDE A VIOLENCE RATING  It would be fabulously helpful if you would include a “rating” (your own description, or the standard one) of any film you mention, ESPECIALLY with respect to violence. Some of us forgo many excellent films because we just can't hack all the violence.

ASSIGN A CATEGORY  It would also be marvelously helpful if you mention the category of film: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance, Musical, etc.

DON'T SPOIL THE PLOT  Hey, have a heart and don't give away the plot or special stuff for anyone who hasn't seen the movie yet.

CHECK OUT What Can You Do in zFilms pod/Group? on this Board.

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OTHER GAIA COMMUNITY DISCUSSION GROUPS ABOUT MOVIES AND FILMS

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FINDING INFORMATION ABOUT MOVIES

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TIP FOR USING THIS GROUP
You'll find zFilms much more useful if you add it to the list of pods/Discussion Groups you receive Notifications of. Top right of any page, hover on your name, click on drop-down menu “Settings,” then click on Notifications of Discussion Group. Then you will receive in your regular email either a notice of, or full text of, anything new posted each day (if you choose Daily Digest, which we recommend.)

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So, join the fun, tell us all your opinions and likes, suggest further improvements to this pod, and let's BE the change by behaving in new ways with respect to the movies we pay to see and rent!!!