Well as MMcluhan said, with Alvy Singer standing by: "You know nothing of my work, you mean my whole fallacy is wrong. How you ever got to teach a course in anything is totally amazing."
--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], Bhairitu <noozguru@> wrote: > > > > Unlike you I grew up in a small town in the country and the nearest > > theaters were 20 miles away. Movies were a treat and not something > > to send the kids to do while shopping. Besides I got more hooked > > on the Friday night horror movies on TV most of which were old > > public domain films (so the station didn't have to pay much for > > the rental). The town where the theaters were had a liberal arts > > college where the rich sent a lot of their kids and so the theaters > > would often show some of the art films of the day. Those were my > > mainstay in high school and continued when I attended went to > > college in a large city that also had good supply of art house > > theaters. > > I grew up in movie theaters. My mother told me that > they could take me with them to the movies even when > I was a baby. I never cried; I would just shut up and > watch the screen. I don't remember that, naturally, > but I remember spending almost every weekend at the > double features, and then when we started living on > Air Force bases, the movies changed every night and > cost 25 cents. I saw a lot of movies. > > In college I discovered foreign and art films, and > from that point on I've been a goner. I think film has > been the most important medium of art on the planet > for most people of our age. For the newer generations, > TV has been more important. But there is a big differ- > ence between film and TV -- hot vs. cool. You'd have > to have read McLuhan to get the difference, but I > think it's a real one. > > > Like many here I don't particularly like to mingle with the > > hoards at a theater. In the US too many audiences are still > > rude, put their stinky tennies up the chair next to you, yap > > on their cell phone or to their girl friend which is enough > > to keep many of us away. > > I live in France. France has a love affair with the > movies that just won't quit, even in the day of DVDs > and home cinema. People go to the movies to watch the > movie; they don't talk. > > It's the hot vs. cool thing. Hot media suck you into > them and demand more of your focus. Cool media don't, > at least not as much. TV is cool, film is hot. You > can talk with a TV on in the background, but it's > inherently more difficult to talk with a movie on > in the background. A lot of the talkers in the theaters > these days are members of the TV generation. > > Here's a cute article you might like. It happened when > I was still living in Paris. It's about underground > cinema, literally: :-) > > http://film.guardian.co.uk/News_Story/Guardian/0,4029,1299449,00.html > > > BTW, the winner of the After Dark Horror Fest "The Abandoned" > > is being released in the US tomorrow. There were 8 winners > > in the fest and the 1st prize winner got a run in the theaters > > so is being released several months after the other 7 were > > released. I'm looking forward to seeing it. > > I'm looking forward to being in Sitges in October for > its film festival. It focuses on fantasy, science > fiction and horror films, which is just right up my > alley. Besides, I still own a tux from my Rama days, > so I can probably sneak into the after-ceremony > parties and hob-nob with the film folk. :-) >
