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it did too! if you read 'close up' or anything in english written in the '20s about german or russian cinema, you will find precisely this dichotomy.

'chistmas wrapping' is it.

the 'classical hollywood canon of the '30s, '40s, and '50s does have a strong claim to be the 'rock' in film rockism -- but a lot of the love for it started as a popist move on the part of young (french) critics. for me it's almost *such* an ossified, gone-over thing, that it doesn't exist for...

seriously? yes, this is true. but coming down to cases, i don't think 'communism' is a useful term -- it's about as concrete as 'capitalism' here. what *kind* of communism did they want to harness their project? and what ddid this have in common with the actual history of the SU? there are...

the 'great russian cinema' connects meaningfully with a number of currents 'more meaningfully' (ie formally) than with the blockbuster: - with hitchcock (and other brit directors -- thorold dickinson, anthony asquith), with any number of documentary filmmakers, with jean vigo (who employed...

i wd have thought the absolute opposite -- this is the stuff peddled by uncut month after month! i like the 70s stuff fine, much as i like a lot of the musical rockist canon. but the way it's handled in uncut or in (obviously) biskind is *just like* how rock is treated by rockists. male...

he used the line 'the necessary murders', ie that to make war, even in a just cause, you must murder people. in other words he humanized the enemy. orwell could be an awful numbnuts. hmm, great! i dunno, abandoning stalinism isn't a 'rightwards move' imo. and becoming a trot sure as shit ain't...

u can buy it on dvd from '5 minutes to live' if renting a film from san francisco is beyond yr means. interesting point re the projector. i'm not 100% sure it's true -- obv the film is about the effect of rhythmic strobing, but doesn't the tv 'project' images at 25 fps anyway? i don't know the...

lol, what 'effect' did any of the 'approved' bands in this thread have? shellac, go4, pil, sonic youth -- what effect effect did they have? and what's contradictory about nirvana being on geffen?

k-punk on inevitability it was that old cold warrior isaiah berlin who wrote most forcefully against the hegelian-marxian notion of inevitability. but perhaps the capitalists have some round to the idea, while the left has abandoned it, over the past fifty years? in that time the marxist...

"'The Germans have given us the paranoid depths of Expressionism, the Italians created Neo-Realism, the French have perfected brooding Melodramatic Existentialism, while the British bask in the bathetic glow of a plucky little yokel, a couple of nude scenes and a happy-clappy sing-song finale."...

jesus! i'm tempted to say the thrills > the coral. that bad.

i think sienna is teh hott, also she is kinda interesting in that she's subverting the usual 'less famous g/f' of by totally pwning jude law and becoming a bigger star while his own thing has kind oif crashed and burned (too many bad movies).

it would be interesting to read a history of the interview form, would it not? they're so ubiquitous today, but the changing for of them... i know that once upon a time (and this is still true in places) it was customary to 'write up' answers as an article proper, hence film magazines would run...

but models don't give interviews in general, it's not just the divine kate.

i haven't read FN closely, but i don't think benevolence and helping "the herd" was high on the ubermensch's to do list.

mm. i'm not one of those saying 'be more british', whatever that means, but i don't think you can reduce criticisms of extreme islamism to 'west vs east'. that's what the islamists themselves want, here, a clear distinction. the first mosque in britain was, after all, set up but a white...

i don't see how that's 'mythical' -- given that the 'betterness' or 'democraticness' of the west are going to be interpreted inside the west's own categories, the argument is always going to be tautological. in western terms, the west is more western (ie, democratic) than the east! i can think...

this in a post citing said. this 'dichotomy' (no-one ever called it a dichotomy until it became to convert everything into binaries... and so to demolish same) was 'in reality' inasmuch as empire brought a massive inequality of power between west and east -- ie the very basis of the cultural...

absolute bollocks. this would be an incredibly minor phenom if that were all it went; any case it rests on the assumption of "the market" as something basically uniform IN the west, absent OUTSIDE the west, and "cultural life" as something SEPARATE from same in both west and east. bollocks.