[lbo-talk] more on why movies suck

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Fri Nov 20 17:38:09 PST 2009


Joanna wrote:
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> Yes and...It goes beyond that; Eisenstein defined 1/2 the art of cinema, with the Germans defining the other half.

I loved Eisenstein's films, and quite a few Grman films, but this sort of sweeping essentialism is very close to plain lunacy.

Did you ever see Birth of a Nation?

How many films made before 1920 have you seen?

I'm not a film critic, but this sort of statement is false about any nations at any time in reference to any art form.

Carrol



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