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In Reply to: Videos v. Movies posted by clarkjohnsen on April 26, 2001 at 11:10:41:
***"It's the stockpile of videos that paradoxically takes the hunger and the urgency out of film education."Exactly the opposite happens to me. When I see all those unseen titles around me I get too excited, and I get too many to carry home. My problem is not finding enough that I would like to see.
It is like going to the SPCA - you just want to take EVERY dog and cat home with you.
After all - why be so concerned with the Star Wars culture around us? What is so wrong with doing what YOU would love to be doing? Read that Kafka and watch that Potemkin...
Yes, I khow, I know, the burning desire to share... to discuss... to enjoy it in a company of good friends and co-hobbyists...
Sometimes that gets me too. Nice to have a wife, or a dog at least, who shares your interests...
Tired of being a long woolf, Clark?
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Don't you mean a lone woof?Your response is that of a man obsessed by the need to see it all. Indeed, videos satisfy your appetites. But the writer's point was something else, that there is no longer a sense of Occasion about movies that would lead younger people into becoming film buffs in the first place.
Plus one of the great experiences in life is to leave a movie theater with a friend or friends and talk about what you've all just seen, sometimes at great length! I have never seen a video engender such enthusiasm.
clark
Clark,I'm in "emotional agreement" with what you and Mr. Shepherd posit about the film experience. Seeing a film in the theater, the "sense of occasion," the big screen, the social experience; for me it is THE RIGHT WAY TO SEE A FILM.
But...sigh. Not everyone feels this way. A pal of mine still likes to see films in theaters but the building must be as empty of human life as possible (3:00 afternoon weekday showings etc.) lest he be bothered by someone else. Creeps me out - we stopped going to films together.
For me, the more packed the theater the better! Nothing like standing in a line up first day for an eagerly anticipated film. The rush you feel rippling through an audience when the film begins. My fondest film memories almost always include images of me and my friends in a movie line-up for a premier, communing with other eager fim-nuts. Movie going isn't a "real" social event? Puh-leese.
I always feel mildly disturbed when I hear people say "I'd rather watch films alone at home - no crowds to bother me." Then others who feel the same may chime in, rolling their eyes "yes, the crowds of people...why let them bother you when you can watch the movie quietly at home." It just sounds so sad and misanthropic - trying to avoid contact with their fellow man. Some of my friends are like that, but whenever I do actually persuade them to get their butts out the door to a movie they always enjoy it. I never hear "Well, that sure sucked because I wasn't on my couch watching it at home."
But that's my "emotional" take on things. I do understand that there are some who truly do enjoy viewing movies at home more than at a movie theater.
Rich H.
Couldn't agree more! Thanks for a really interesting post.clark
***Your response is that of a man obsessed by the need to see it all. Indeed, videos satisfy your appetites.Alas, yes, as the life is getting shorter the realization that so much is still remaining untried is growing...
***But the writer's point was something else, that there is no longer a sense of Occasion about movies that would lead younger people into becoming film buffs in the first place."Young people"? You mean that "lost" Titanic generation that no one is going to miss?
Aren't we discussing the endless beauty of sailing onboard the Tea Clipper? Those were the days...
But what's gone is gone, Clark. Never mind those good movies, we are losing the 2-channel, for Pete's sake! You are crying over spilled wine at the Titanic dinner table.
***Plus one of the great experiences in life is to leave a movie theater with a friend or friends and talk about what you've all just seen, sometimes at great length! I have never seen a video engender such enthusiasm.
I DO have such friend, Clark - my wife. I have never been after large crowd of "friends" in the first place. We watch and we discuss, and we fight overs some of what we watch.
At some point the crowd begins to matter less and less, fuck it, and we stick to those who REALLY matter in out lives.
This is called getting wiser, or so I've heard.
I still recall the art movies theater opening in Wilmington many years ago. There were six or eight people in the room, Autumn Sonata was on the screen, and four of those six were wondering how on Earth they ended up in that misty room with no action on screen. The theater closed just few weeks after opening.
But I believe all this lamenting is largelly misplaced. In ANY field fine stuff is appreciated by a small minority, pens, shoes, arms, books... how many people read "Golden Ass"? Red October will do.
So in a nutshell I don't think there is anything NEW happening, more of the same old, same old...
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