On 12/31/15 5:50 PM, JOANNA A. wrote:
> The films of the sixties and even the seventies marked a particular moment in the history of American cinema. Nothing before or after quite matched it.
Is it possible that there's some genre conflation here? A comedy is not meant to be a tragedy, after all.
The Twentieth Century. Some Like It Hot. It Happened One Night. The Great McGinty. The Palm Beach Story. The Bank Dick.
One could go on and on, but are we blaming Aristophanes for not being Euripides? Everybody rightly hates the splenetic book reviewer who damns the book under his eye because it's not the book he would have written, if he could write books.