Monday, May 5, 2008

Our Fate

Freud, Reich and Nabokov didn't care for music, but what did Lenin think of cinema? Ken Kalfus tried to knit some threads but the question hovers.


I have rather appreciated Joel's essays as well as his attempts at torque concerning what doesn't belong in the canon.




Perhaps there is a genre, auteur or actor that Feral Calliente would propose as an upcoming anchor, a lodestar for our blinded privateer?

3 comments:

the feral professor said...

Lenin on cinema . . . ? Intriguing perhaps the folks over at Lenin'sTomb(http://leninology.blogspot.com/)
or perhaps simply post a question to the Lenosphere. Anyway, in asking for an anchor of sorts, are we looking for delimination of the "Friends of Shelby Foote" project? Do we define "hotel cinema" and explain why some is and some is not, i.e., all hotel cinema are films I would watch, not all films I would watch are hotel cinema? What of the machines driving other machines, machines being driven by othe machines, with all the necessary couplings and connections?

jon faith said...

There is a considerable bandwidth of perpsective and competence upon Lenin's Tomb. Honestly, some of the folks scared me.

Many films, indeed, remain bodies without organs. Has it ever been established that Shelby Foote was ever graced by the "appearence" of Kurt Russell?

jon faith said...

Happened to see Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay. I have pondered the slippery pillars of Hotel Cinema and whether it would resonate thematically if Harold's wonky uncle turned out to be Oldboy.