This is excellent. Made me rethink both Jimmy Dean and Streamers. But the best part of it was the connection to the CS Lewis lecture, which is so important to reread now and then. Thank you
Robert! your film essays continue to be awesome. They give me an appreciation of something important that I was only vaguely aware of… and make me want to watch these movies!
It's an interesting time for film history. You know, my childhood was in the 90s. Videotapes and movies on cable tv were always there. That was the normal, the default for me. But there was a time when that was a new, transformative technology and it's interesting to think about film history through that lens.
Any suggestions as to who to cover after this particular retrospective ends? We still have a ways to go... Altman worked into the 21st century.
It's wild to be on the other side of a major technology divide! For me, movies in theaters were the original default... ticket prices made it possible. My sister and I watched Raiders of the Lost Ark 5 times in the theater and my folks didn't find that over the top!
When videotapes (VHS and Beta) started hitting the scene, the mom & pop video store in our town had a typewritten list of what was available. And I'll never forget my junior year in high school, when I bought an enormous (size of a suitcase!!) VHS tape deck, complete with wood trim, with the proceeds of my graphic design pasteup job. I rented "Purple Rain" and "Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension".
Where to go next... HMMM!!! Are you looking to profile another director, another genre, another era?
This is excellent. Made me rethink both Jimmy Dean and Streamers. But the best part of it was the connection to the CS Lewis lecture, which is so important to reread now and then. Thank you
Robert! your film essays continue to be awesome. They give me an appreciation of something important that I was only vaguely aware of… and make me want to watch these movies!
Thanks so much, Eva!
It's an interesting time for film history. You know, my childhood was in the 90s. Videotapes and movies on cable tv were always there. That was the normal, the default for me. But there was a time when that was a new, transformative technology and it's interesting to think about film history through that lens.
Any suggestions as to who to cover after this particular retrospective ends? We still have a ways to go... Altman worked into the 21st century.
It's wild to be on the other side of a major technology divide! For me, movies in theaters were the original default... ticket prices made it possible. My sister and I watched Raiders of the Lost Ark 5 times in the theater and my folks didn't find that over the top!
When videotapes (VHS and Beta) started hitting the scene, the mom & pop video store in our town had a typewritten list of what was available. And I'll never forget my junior year in high school, when I bought an enormous (size of a suitcase!!) VHS tape deck, complete with wood trim, with the proceeds of my graphic design pasteup job. I rented "Purple Rain" and "Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension".
Where to go next... HMMM!!! Are you looking to profile another director, another genre, another era?