tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5161637385294744810.post9193912618795412960..comments2024-02-24T04:06:50.811-05:00Comments on The Most Beautiful Fraud in the World: To Watch in a Theater or To Watch at Home (is that really the question?Kevyn Knoxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17840497589713234794noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5161637385294744810.post-61264280231851187722012-04-25T12:38:55.080-04:002012-04-25T12:38:55.080-04:00Just stumbled this post, cool idea. Thank youJust stumbled this post, cool idea. Thank youtop moviehttp://watchmovie.dickstage.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5161637385294744810.post-30604373618571895292010-06-25T17:54:22.559-04:002010-06-25T17:54:22.559-04:00Thanx for the kudos.
Our theater is Midtown Cinem...Thanx for the kudos.<br /><br />Our theater is Midtown Cinema on Reily Street.<br /><br />Though viewing is preferable in a cinema (and preferably one w/o the obnoxia of the suburban multiplexes!) many films can only be seen at home. It is a great time that we can have so many movies available to us.Kevyn Knoxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17840497589713234794noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5161637385294744810.post-88281823607900053632010-06-25T09:06:53.955-04:002010-06-25T09:06:53.955-04:00Excellent editorial Kevyn! I am from that generati...Excellent editorial Kevyn! I am from that generation of Home viewers (born in 1983) junkies and I, like you, saw (thanks to public television in Quebec) many classics during summer evenings and nights in the dark of my basement. It fed my growing cinephilia even before I knew the meaning of that word...<br /><br />But, I think a film is like a record it should be watched and listened the way it was conceived: on a big screen in a theater and for a record on vinyl...<br /><br />I remember seing Chaplin's The Great Dictator in my favourite Art house and I think it was one of the best cinematic experiences I've ever had. To see a film made nearly 70 years ago the exact same way the people at the time discovered it was like going back in time! And yes I agree, almost a religious experience!<br /><br />So to answer the question (if there is really one answer to that question) theater is the best way to see a film but for classic cinema I prefer to watch it at home when it's not available at the theater. At home is better than not seing the film at all...MPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08366182655374603950noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5161637385294744810.post-75588171810461258102010-06-25T02:22:41.369-04:002010-06-25T02:22:41.369-04:00A lot to think about in this post. Where is your t...A lot to think about in this post. Where is your theater. I've been to Harrisburg several times and quite enjoy it. Your last paragraph reminds me of an article from the NY Times not so long ago about how even though we go to the theater, we're still, most of the time, just watching a projection of a DVD.<br /><br />The part about this piece that strikes me is something that I've been struggling with recently and something that has propelled me to change my blog into something more meaningful and thoughtful than just posting random stuff like news and trailers like I did when I started it. The issue of course is that a lot of film blogs offer either no intellectual worth or just follow a standardized formula that 100 others do, making them more or less redundant. It always reminds me of that line from Hearts of Darkness where Coppola says that one day film technology will be so advanced that any 13 year old girl can make a movie in her basement, and I always think yes, but why do we want that? Same with blogs, now anyway can have an opinion and even though we get great new voices with great new ideas, we have to wade through a ton of garbage in order to find them.<br /><br />Of course, as you point out, there are some pretty bad newspaper critics as well but the thing about them is, they have a job, they publish their work and they get paid all the same whether you like them/agree with them or not. Bloggers need to build a community in order to get their voices heard and that often means supporting blogs that aren't even worth your time of day. Glad to see you're not one of them.The Taxi Driverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04352371911592068643noreply@blogger.com