| Posted by: Greg Bryant at July 11, 2006, 2:19 pm | | Topic: why does zombie movies have to be about zombies taking over? Forum: groupsrv | | On 7/10/06 11:56 PM, "tariq.1.rahim@spamgourmet.com" wrote: Quote:x-no-archive: yes I went to college in a time and a city where there were still many art movie houses, before the VCR and then the DVD made us a society of walled castles. There were so many great films showing that I could hardly expect to find a companion to watch many of them. Soon I stopped trying and watched them alone rather than trying to round up a reluctant friend. There I learned to love the noirs, the silents, the foreign flicks, not just the new Hollywood releases. The screens played out the landscapes and the glamor that were missing in my life. I would sit transfixed as silent-movie cowboys rode through a landscape of rural Los Angeles now lost to time, as elaborate back lots recreated medieval Paris or Berlin, as lovely women and their handsome heroes lived out a destiny in palaces and ballrooms that tied up neatly in two hours. ...Unless it was a noir, in which case even I could say that my life was working out better than the characters'. In almost all the movies the unbilled star, the sunshine of California, filled even a black-and-white screen with radiance. (David Hockney once said that, growing up in gloomy Britain, he noticed the crisp shadows in Laurel and Hardy comedies and realized that the sun must shine very brightly wherever they filmed. He resolved to live there someday.) This is not to say I did nothing tangible. I socialized and traveled and learned a couple foreign languages to fluency, living abroad for more than 2 years. But my efforts to find someone never worked, and I lacked the aggression or persistence to keep coming back for more abuse. I could identify with that. Lived in four different cities with great old art / repertory houses. Would be over at them sometimes two-three times a week. Everyone else always wanted to see the popular stuff, but I was over there watching old films, or newer eclectic films. Too bad, they never knew what they were missing. Sadly, the local repertory house is now closed (but has been converted into a Shakespeare festival). |
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