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
As an interesting aside, $10k in 1964 is $76k in today's cash. Pretty generous
grants from the ford foundation.
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It's worth noting that Time/Life always saw itself as protecting mainstream
(American) moralities, including sexual, by this treatment of underground
and bohemian arts and subcultures. Underground film was certainly one, Beat
poetry and culture another, as was the gay world. There's an article on
