Ah, Steve McQueen, video artist and Turner Prize winner (http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/turnerprize/history/mcqueen.htm ), his first feature. By all accounts extraordinary. I don't know about France or the US, but like McQueen I remember Bobby Sands' hunger strike. On the news every day, what I remember is the debate about whether there should be intervention or not (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Sands ).
I also think a future direction of narrative cinema will be this more poetic cinema. The cinema of attractions (the blockbuster hang on to your seat SFX thrill fest) is a fin-de-siecle sort of thing as popular cinema increasingly gets like opera (big, grand, expensive, indulgent and while significant, perhaps not terribly relevant in the scheme of things). When anyone can do FX on their own computer (witness the rise of fan feature films, for example remakes of Star Wars (<URL: http://www.smh.com.au/news/film/film-fans-put-themselves-in-the-picture/2008/02/19/1203190819018.html />) then what compels and justifies cinema going is not the spectacle but its elegance (artistry, poetry, style). well, at least I can hope... On 27/11/2008, at 10:22 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Why i am thinking that is born in the spirit vlogging ?? > http://www.traileraddict.com/trailer/hunger/trailer cheers Adrian Miles [EMAIL PROTECTED] bachelor communication honours coordinator vogmae.net.au
