HBD the stimulating Iranian-born Swiss director Barbet Schroeder who was BOTD in 1941, turning 81 today. He started out as a critic for Cahiers du Cinema and was Godard's assistant on "Les carabiniers" (1962) before directing his own feature films such as "La Maitresse" (1976) and "Single White Female" (1992). "Our Lady of the Assassins" (2000), shot in Colombia, where he lived from age 6 to 11, is one of my favourite films of his