A Daunting Task
Submitted by jim on Tue, 10/19/2004 - 09:42
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Errata on The Universe of Movies:
The universe of movies is staggering. It's smaller than the universe of literature, of course, which is the deception: a hundred years of movies seems containable and knowable, until you try to contain them and know them. I saw 140-some movies in theaters last year and I'll see well over 200 this year. That doesn't count video. And yet every single time — well almost — someone asks me if I've seen such-and-such, I say, "Wow, no, I haven't seen that."
Like this: "Have you seen Sky Captain?" "No, but I like to call it Sky Cap'n." That's my contribution to the discourse!
It's a short piece, but it perfectly captures the joy and frustration with trying to become cinemaliterate (cinerate?).
