tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18252740.post5679581374537792848..comments2024-03-04T15:03:23.304-08:00Comments on KINO SLANG: From Gum-Chewing Audience to Snifter Audience, Eisenstein and Mexico Still Hanging Inbetween.Andy Rectorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15870363285627741234noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18252740.post-18692498929233697192008-03-01T23:24:00.000-08:002008-03-01T23:24:00.000-08:00Romero's DIARY OF THE DEAD is also getting treated...Romero's DIARY OF THE DEAD is also getting treated like a red-headed step-child here in Los Angeles as we speak -- this is no way to treat a film that is undoubtably one of the finest north american films of the year. <BR/><BR/>But who would feel the need to stop a screening of THERE WILL BE BLOOD? The amplification of a villain, even capitalist (the more complicated, the better for the capitalist), moves nothing.Andy Rectorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15870363285627741234noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18252740.post-49658240821054751302008-02-29T13:59:00.000-08:002008-02-29T13:59:00.000-08:00Well, you know, these are precisely the questions ...Well, you know, these are precisely the questions that have been bothering the likes of Pedro Costa and Abel Ferrara (let's not even mention Godard, Kiarostami, Moretti...) for what must be like ages now: who today stops screenings, who initiates them?<BR/><BR/>The whole thing seems to be a mess nowadays, and I think that was a word Costa actually used in an interview. Like what happened with NO TOUCHEZ PAS LA HACHE in Canada: the film was programmed to be released february 22. At the day of its release, the distributor simply pulled all the ads from the newspapers, from their official site and so-forth... In other words: they pulled the plug of the whole thing. The film simply disappeared, vanished. Just like that. You can read (in portuguese) the whole account of what happened in http://olhodehochelaga.zip.net/<BR/><BR/>Mind you that we're talking about a film that got raving reviews everywhere it was shown, is a period film, and, you know, IT'S IN FRENCH! I'm sure that in the whole of Canada they can perhaps find some people familiar with the language and, who knows, maybe would be willing to pay to see such a film (Guillaume Depardieu, Piccoli, is a period film etc.).<BR/><BR/>The whole thing seems to be getting just outright more and more criminal. It's stupid even trying to be ironic with the fact that we're talking about a film spoken in French that goes undistributed in Canada - let alone that the film is from Rivette and is one of the loveliest things produced in this decade.bruno andradehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01095044358084108887noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18252740.post-81999335951023232232008-02-29T02:03:00.000-08:002008-02-29T02:03:00.000-08:00brigado Bruno! Wish I'd written it with the ole WP...brigado Bruno! Wish I'd written it with the ole WPFL timers...<BR/><BR/>Who today stops screenings? Who initiates them?<BR/><BR/>yours!<BR/>andyAndy Rectorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15870363285627741234noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18252740.post-84005676919553216662008-02-28T05:47:00.000-08:002008-02-28T05:47:00.000-08:00This is the best damn post I've seen in a while in...This is the best damn post I've seen in a while in any blog.bruno andradehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01095044358084108887noreply@blogger.com