Re: Making movies

[chrisw@miso.wwa.com (Chris Williams)]

>     TLTCTC is purely self-indulgent. No problem for the rabid, uncritical
>fans (such as Steverino), but I am also a fan of film as an art form. I
>applaud The Lady for trying the impossible adventure of motion picture
>directing, always an arduous but rewarding task. Still, stringing together
>music videos is not a film.

   Stringing together music videos was the only way she could economically 
produce a film. If she *hadn't* made the film as a series of music videos, she 
would have had something that would not be distributed. She wanted it to be 
*seen*.

   Given that it *is* a bunch of music videos of unrelated songs, it is an
amazingly coherent storyline.

>     I'll take any of her songs, where her performance is perfect and the
>music sublime. And I'll remind the "cineaste" among you that David Lynch
>also directed WILD AT HEART, one of the singularly worst films of all
>time.

   If you think _Wild At Heart_ is "one of the singularly worst films of 
all time", boyo, you have *not* seen enough films!
   

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