Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by clarkjohnsen (R) on March 23, 2003 at 10:59:07

I refer you to a pretty good (not great) article in the Boston Globe called "Once Upon a Classic". The money shot is these two paragraphs:

Video destroyed that world by exiling old movies to the small screen and fatally compromising their impact. "I don't think there's any film I've seen for the first time on video that is my favorite film," says McCarthy.

And while the revival theater offered a community of dreamers, with video you're more likely home alone. "It used to be exciting to go see a wide variety of movies that today would be considered fringe," says Curtis Hanson, director of L.A. Confidential, a neoclassic 1997 crime thriller that appears on many of the students' lists of favorites. "In the '70s, cool people were doing it. Women were doing it. It spoke much more to the culture of the times. Whereas to sit at home and watch them on DVD, well, that almost makes you kind of a loser."

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"A kind of loser." Hah!

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• http://www.boston.com/globe/magazine/2003/0323/coverstory_entire.htm