Fri Jun 27, 2014 4:21 pm
Just to push this back to the top of the thread list...
I know Steve Massa is a Nitratevillain and I'm hoping that should enough people contribute to this, the funds will stretch to including a booklet like the one he did for the Musty Suffers. Those of you who are not familiar with Steve either from MOMA or the Silent Clowns or his great book, Lame Brains and Lunatics, (if you buy the Kindle edition, as I did, you will find they did not include the index, grrr....) should be aware that Steve talks about the movies and the personnel.
This may seem trivially obvious to you. However, if you've ever sat through a MOMA screening in which you have to listen for twenty minutes to some one introducing a Germaine Dulac film by explaining that Mme. Dulac was a lesbian and a woman, and this is what made her important to film; or introducing a Kalem film by talking about leftist politics in Chicago in the 1960s.... well, Steve knows that to people like me, the film is why we're there.
C'mon, Steve! What'll it take?
Bob
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boblipton on Fri Jun 27, 2014 6:33 pm, edited 1 time in total.
New and vigorous impulses seem to me to be at work in it,[the cinema] and doubtless before long it will drop all slavish copying of the stage and strike out along fresh paths. -- Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree