Do documentaries count? "GENGHIS BLUES" follows blind bluesman Paul Pena as he learns the esoteric art of Tuvan throat singing and then travels to the central Asian republic to compete against the masters of the genre. I'm a sucker for anything Mongolian (Tuva borders on Mongolia and shares much common history) and some of the throat singing is breathtaking.
   I think its kind of a shame that the Academy Awards has a foreign film category because this often precludes foreign language films from being nominated for the big awards. The two best movies I saw all of last year, "PAN'S LABYRINTH" and "OTHER PEOPLE'S LIVES" were nominated as foreign films, "OTHER PEOPLES LIVES" won, but both were better than any of the American films in the best picture category.