Even today mainstream media shows mostly ignorance and disrespect towards all non normative forms of film making. At least in 1964 they were bothered enough to attack experimental cinema, today they do not even care enough to do that.
About Sarris- I lived in NYC in the early 80s and read his VV reviews every week for fourteen months and in all that time Sarris did not have anything positive to say about any of the films he had to watch. Nothing. It made me feel sorry for him, he came across as as caricature of a film critic.... 2014-06-01 12:57 GMT-04:00 Chris Kennedy <ch...@signaltoground.com>: > As an interesting aside, $10k in 1964 is $76k in today's cash. Pretty > generous grants from the ford foundation. > _______________________________________________ > FrameWorks mailing list > FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com > https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks >
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