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| Joe Vitus |
 Posted: Sat Oct 05, 2013 1:42 pm |
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Marc wrote: For me, a real hardcore film buff is the kind of person (me, for instance) who shows up on opening day for a film like GRAVITY. I've always done it. It really is part of the thrill of going to the movies. The vibe is different. The level of audience excitement is higher. I like being among the first to experience something extraordinary.
Oh, fuck off. You also have the money and the leisure time. How busy is your schedule? How many days do you have to put in at work that you have to make an effort to fit in the time to see every movie that comes along? I remember when you were struggling to make a go of your coffee shop in Taos, and you weren't running out at the end of your shift to catch opening days of important movies. You were barely catching enough sleep to make in through your next shift.
I have to be up at six every morning to educate people and I'm weary by the time I get done, which is generally not until after 7 pm. I've got so little money to my name at the moment, I'm wondering whether which I'm going to do: buy enough gas for my car or food for the week. I can't do both.
Yes I have higher priorities at the moment than seeing Gravity on opening day.
Maybe I'm only seeing one part of you on this site and it's not enough to really understand you, or maybe there's an inflection to your voice that isn't coming through on the page, but on the basis of what I glean from you here, you really are a self-centered prick. |
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| Marc |
| Posted: Sun Oct 06, 2013 1:59 am |
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Joe,
Quote: I remember when you were struggling to make a go of your coffee shop in Taos, and you weren't running out at the end of your shift to catch opening days of important movies. You were barely catching enough sleep to make in through your next shift.
I never "struggled." My business was a hit from day one. When I wasn't screening movies on opening day in my own theater, I always found the time to catch them at the local cineplex.
Right now, I have little leisure time. I write daily for a blog with 200,000 readers. I care for my 85 year old uncle. And I've been working non-stop on a store I'm opening called The Sound Gallery. 2500 square feet of vintage audio equipment, typewriters and even telephones. It will include a wine, juice and coffee bar. Mirgun and I will also be opening a food trailer outside of the store location on South Congress in Austin. I'm also launching a line of Sound Gallery custom-made turntables as well as a line of accessories: t-shirts, etc.
Sorry you have to wake up at 6:30 am. Since I own my business, I can make my own hours.
Joe this is a film discussion group. That's what we do. I would expect in such a group that people WOULD rush out to see what may be one of the most important films to be released in decades. But no, people have other things to do. I understand that but you can't blame me for expecting more of this site. |
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| Marc |
| Posted: Sun Oct 06, 2013 2:06 am |
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Here I am in my new project, The Sound Gallery.
Click on the picture to get a good look at that carpet.
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| Marc |
| Posted: Sun Oct 06, 2013 2:17 am |
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One of the guys that works for me, Ted, is a master at refurbishing old turntables.
He's already got well over 200 in pristine shape for the store. These are exquisite old machines made by Pioneer, Garrard, Philips, Thorens...
The Sound Gallery is going to be a thumb up the nose of the corporations that have reduced music to compressed mp3s that are floating around in sound clouds. When you buy something from my shop you can hold it in your hands. And the sound coming out of these turntables, amplifiers and speakers are warm and enveloping. Just plain awesome.
I am particularly proud of the vintage typewriters that we'll be selling. Beautiful machines resurrected from the dead. And sexy telephones in every color of the rainbow. |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Sun Oct 06, 2013 2:49 am |
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In what way is Gravity "important?"
It sounds like an immersive experience with a stripped down storyline and good use of 3D. But is there any message or meaning?
Where does important come in? |
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| jeremy |
| Posted: Sun Oct 06, 2013 2:52 am |
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"Gravity" doesn't have enough going on to be a masterpeice, but there's no doubting that it's a cinematic masterwork. It was a simple, but novel and brilliantly realised escape movie that surfed the strengths - minimalist, austere, short, underplayed (for the most part) - of the genre and the medium. That's how you do it Ron. ****
Watchout, the Spics are coming. As if out of nowhere, a generation of Spanish and Hispanic filmmakers - Alfonso Cuaron, Guillermo del Toro, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Pedro Almodovar et al - have seemingly risen to take over the world. Is it an amazing coincidence that so much talent arose out of the same culture simultaneously? Of course not, talent exists everywhere. For a brief moment, they got the world's attention and they siezed it by the lapels. Olé!
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| gromit |
| Posted: Sun Oct 06, 2013 3:07 am |
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| Uh, Spics is generally considered a derogatory insult ... |
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| Marc |
| Posted: Sun Oct 06, 2013 3:14 am |
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Gromit,
GRAVITY is important because it renews one's faith in the magic and possibilities of cinema. If you want meaning you can always read a book. If you want to experience the sheer beauty of images projected on a giant screen in ways that really haven't been seen before, go see GRAVITY. When we speak of Eisenstein, Welles or Tarkovsky we talk about their innovative use of cinema, not the subject matter. They are important because they transformed the medium.
This is the kind of movie Kenneth Anger, Bruce Connor or Stan Brakhage might have made had they the money. It is pure cinema. |
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| Marc |
| Posted: Sun Oct 06, 2013 3:15 am |
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| Next up from Jeremy is his take on Black cinema: The N*ggers Are Coming. |
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| jeremy |
| Posted: Sun Oct 06, 2013 3:40 am |
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As though I don't know. Would, it have been better if I'd said filmmakers of Spanish and Hispanic heritage? Maybe. I could have said Latinos, but that would have felt very Eurocentric and patronising - look at those Maxicans and Spaniards they are doing so well. By using Spic, I felt I was acknowledging the racism implicit in the statement by actually highlighting it. And all that, without really thinking about it at all. Race is to Americansm, what class is to Brits.
It was also a reference to Colin Bleadale's ridiculous "The British are coming" Oscar acceptance speech for the overrated "Chariots Of Fire." |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Sun Oct 06, 2013 3:54 am |
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| How about simply Hispanic ... |
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| jeremy |
| Posted: Sun Oct 06, 2013 4:00 am |
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| I didn't mean to offend anyone's sensibilities, I guess I like it a bit more rough and ready. |
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| Marc |
| Posted: Sun Oct 06, 2013 4:18 am |
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| I wasn't offended. I'm white. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Sun Oct 06, 2013 5:59 am |
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Marc--That studio is really a beauty. Congratulations! (Though the picture could and should have been smaller. It's fucked up this entire page, biyotch.)
Meanwhile, although Joe's "self-centered prick" was a clear overstatement, you do have more time than the average Dick or Peter or Willie. Don't deny it. |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Sun Oct 06, 2013 12:12 pm |
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Befade wrote: I get motion sickness. No matter how good this is not a movie for me.
Maybe in 2D, from the back row? 
I have occasional inner ear problems, so I'm with you on this. Lots of 3D films I wanted to see, but had to settle for the 2D version if they were highly kinetic. |
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