[lbo-talk] The Illusionist (was Borat)

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

On 11/11/06, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
>
> On Nov 11, 2006, at 5:46 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>
> > Nowadays, with reviews, trailers*, stars and directors' promotional
> > appearances on talk shows, etc. offering everything from excerpts to
> > outtakes to analyses of the movies' cultural import, as well as ever
> > shorter intervals between first runs and DVD releases, the only movies
> > you actually want to pay their full prices for are those whose quality
> > can be only appreciated on a big screen.
>
> Wow. You should start running reviews in MRZine by people who haven't
> seen the movie or read the book. You could start a whole new genre. I
> bet Page Six would pick it up.

I have a feeling that's already done.  By Slavoj Zizek perhaps.

A new genre might be a review of a film that does not exist.
-- 
Yoshie
<http://montages.blogspot.com/>
<http://mrzine.org>
<http://monthlyreview.org/>