Thanks guys!

[culpster]

Two new quotes that made me happy all over:

"Cinema is the art of appropriation-whether taking that which is before the camera or that which has already been filmed. We'll never know who first discovered the possibility of re-editing existent footage, but, as Jay Leyda noted in his pioneering Films Beget Films, "We can be sure that the practice is

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[frandroid]

I think Christgau confuses democracy for mass-market populism. Like, seriously. That's like saying Walmart is more democratic because it appeals to more people and offers more stuff.

[culpster]

Well, no. Did you check it in context? He's talking about his own specific evaluation of individual works within each idiom. It's not an ideological position, it's a critical evaluation. That's what I love about it.

If Wal-Mart offered a lot of good shit, a real discussion would have to be had about it. But they don't, so it's not relevant. And he's not defending capitalism, although he does defend some of its products in a non-idealistic way.

Anyway my movie project really hammers his POV home. Have you seen Joyce Wieland's feature The Far Shore? It's the ASS, and I don't give a fuck what it signifies. Any number of Dunning-Link movies kick it around the block, for precisely the reasons he enumerates.

[culpster]

And anyway, what's the high-art equivalent? It ain't Dufferin Grove Market. Lululemon maybe? I'll take Walmart ;)

[culpster]

Hey, you gonna engage me on this? This is all central to the emerging thesis of my book so I need to test my rhetoric ;)