From: 40 Frames (email suppressed)
Date: Sun Aug 21 2005 - 10:42:18 PDT
Sam Wells wrote:
> This is depressing, or at least very telling not so much specifically
> for the rental decreases (I hate to sound like a Bushite neo-Lysenkoist
> on global warming, but what is the long term "mean shift" in such
> rentals ?) but indicates a certain superficiality in the involvement
> with SB films, as if watching the Criterion DVD indicates they have
> "consumed some Brakhage" and there's nothing else to see, when in truth
> there is far, far, far more to see in Brakhage films alone not to
> mention all the other works in what we might call "the tradition" ....
You'd appreicate this Sam. Just as I sent my last post I noticed a msg in
my inbox with the
subject heading:
"UNSEEN CINEMA on DVD"
Alain
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