From: Cari Machet (email suppressed)
Date: Mon Oct 31 2005 - 20:50:03 PST
marylyn - u are as generous as stan
thanq
c
--- Marilyn Brakhage <email suppressed> wrote:
> On Thursday, October 27, 2005, at 05:20 PM, Cari
> Machet wrote:
>
> > i am super happy for stan and happy that he would
> have
> > been pleased - my point is that
> > he would have been more pleased to be saying
> > "i got a huge chunk of change to paint on 35mm"
>
> Yes, Stan would have liked to have money to do more
> work in 35 mm. He
> was known to occasionally express the general
> sentiment--amongst family
> and friends -- that "I don't want anymore of their
> honors and awards
> -- I want them to give me money!" (But in actual
> fact, I think he
> sometimes kind of liked the honors and awards, too.
> -- Though he had to
> be careful not to let that interfere with his actual
> work -- not to let
> ego, mastery, etc. get in the way at all.) And
> you're right, in the
> case of Hollywood, a lot has been borrowed from Stan
> and a few other
> avant-garde filmmakers without much return to them
> directly. Martin
> Scorsese was a rarity in even acknowledging any
> debt. Once when Stan
> was feeling particularly financially strained, he
> tried to put out the
> word that he was selling framed strips of IMAX
> hand-painted material,
> and Scorsese actually bought a couple. But that was
> as far as it went.
> (He didn't ever buy prints of any of Stan's films,
> for example. At
> least not to my knowledge.) On the other hand, he
> and some other
> Hollywood people have supported avant-garde film
> work indirectly,
> through, for example, the Film Foundation's funding
> of preservation
> work. . . . And maybe the acknowledgment by the
> Academy will set a
> precedent, and lead to more such acknowledgments.
> (Not, of course, any
> of that "and the winner is . . ." sort of nonsense.
> But just an
> occasional special tribute or something.) And that
> might in turn lead
> to more film sales, etc. . . . People simply
> wanting to buy film
> prints is probably the best acknowledgment, anyway
> -- the best honor --
> and could support further filmmaking while the
> filmmaker is still alive.
>
> > as i posted to adam
> > i am not against the ART of hollywood
> > more the politics and hierarchical adherence
> > (lack of knowledge of the importants of marxist
> > theory?)
> > as far as adherence with stans' metaphor
> > i think that the marriage of poetry and the novel
> > is successful in terrence mallick and few others
>
> Yes, Stan was an admirer of Mallick also.
>
> Marilyn
>
>
> > ________________________________
> > For info on FrameWorks, contact Pip Chodorov at
> <email suppressed>.
> >
>
>
>
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> For info on FrameWorks, contact Pip Chodorov at
> <email suppressed>.
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For info on FrameWorks, contact Pip Chodorov at <email suppressed>.