Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 13:55:15 -0700
From: Stephen Spence <zurn-AT-unm.edu>
Subject: Re: Film Students



== Ethan Gunning originally sent this about "Film Students" === on Friday, February 25, 2000 10:14 AM -0800. =
> I am an undergraduate film student and I am offended by the recent posts.
> I love watching films with a slower pace or longer takes. I always want to
> watch films such as Dreyer's Day of Wrath, Dovzhenko's Earth, Wender's
> Kings of the Road.

> The
expectations of the audience may be constantly changing, but it doesn't
> mean that film students can't love film.

Of course not, but the film students of any given period probably reflect 
those changing audience expectations fairly closely--with the exception of 
individuals like yourself who also have other expectations.

Don't take too much offense, for surely with tastes such as those you 
describe you find yourself in the minority.  That is, within general 
audiences and by extension your average "Intro to Film" class at a larger 
University.  Maybe your school has students that agree with you.

As for this question:

> What does Miami Vice have to do with anything?

I think that's a much more difficult one to answer.



-steve
=====================================on my turntable:  Prince -- Prince


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