Jimi wrote:
> when not shilling for EVERY damned inch of
self-important, underwhelming celluloid shot by his
idols (speilberg, depalma, alan freaking rudolph, for
goodness' sake)
Hey -- you can knock Spielberg and Rudolph, but De Palma is cool. Who else makes a movie about a lesbian thief and doesn't punish her at the end or pair her off with the male hero?
> while this can provide a warm sense of shared
shadenfreude when he tears into someone asking for
it -- lars von trier, say
The reason he doesn't like Von Trier is that Von Trier won't sugarcoat his vision like Spielberg/Rudolph.
White wants uplift -- Capra for the 21st century, not Von Trier's gloomy realism.
Brian Dauth Queer Buddhist Resister