YES! YES! YES!
Keep film culture alive!
Join the Film Forum (NYC) or Cinema Arts Centre in Huntington, NY, where
its founder Vic Skolnick, who died about a year ago, now watches films in
Cinema Paradiso!
Join and support your non-profit cinema society so that it stays alive!
Lisa Flanzraich
Media and Reference Librarian
Benjamin S. Rosenthal Library
Queens College
Room 344
718-997-3673
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I'm with you, Jessica. The thought of trying to watch a movie or reading a
book on my cell phone (I have an EVO) is unthinkable. I'd be blind! There
is so much more to the movie experience than just being able to see the
image, especially an undersized one.
Christine Crowley
Dean of Learning Resources
Adjunct Faculty--Theatre
Northwest Vista College
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From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu on behalf of Jessica Rosner
Sent: Sun 4/10/2011 5:40 PM
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Subject: Re: [Videolib] NY Times article on movies as a shared experience
I could not agree with this article more, but I think a bit too much
emphasis is placed in the article on the first run movie experience.. Most
of us will be the last generation to remember the joy of seeing old
movies art movies at a rep theater, library, college or film society. I
am very old school. I rarely watch a film on DVD and I spent my off time
going to weird little gatherings of old and mostly obscure films shown
mostly in hotel banquet rooms. I argue often with friends who brag about
watching some film they found on an illegal ( or heck legal) download. I
get physically ill watching commercials advertising the latest cell phones
showing movies on 1 inch screen. I am not a purist on format though I
still love 16mm 35mm prints. I am less worried about losing the social
elements of film going like waiting in line or making a night of it, than
I am the experience of seeing a film with a group of other people, most of
whom you don't know. I can remember going to see THE THIRD MAN, I KNOW
WHERE I AM GOING, IT'S ALWAYS FAIR WEATHER and others here in New York. I
had actually seen all of them several times before, but it was and is
special to see them with others, especially people who have NOT seen them.
There is genuine electricity in the room.
We have gotten access to probably tens of thousands of films via legal
or illegal means while losing the entire experience of film going. Getting
a DVD to watch on your lap top or even your home theater system of a
previously rare or hard to see film is not remotely the same as seeing it
in a theater and it is in fact NOT better than not seeing it all in my
view. It is very, very sad.
On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 5:22 PM, Dennis Doros milefi...@gmail.com wrote:
This is definitely how I feel when we talk about the
digital future. That in return for easy access, we've given up the wonder
of (and complete attention to) the experience. I just asked my son about
seeing silent comedies at the Castro last year. He does realize how
special that was.
Dennis Doros
Milestone Film Video
milefi...@gmail.com
201-767-3117
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On Apr 10, 2011, at 1:02 PM, Deg Farrelly
deg.farre...@asu.edu wrote:
From Sunday's NY Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/10/movies/the-24-hour-movie-and-digital-technology.html?nl=todaysheadlinesemc=tha26
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Arizona State University
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