edit: "in" a digital economy

Yeah. I also like to think of it has a gamble. Your'e not paying for the jackpot, your'e paying for a ticket to scratch that may or may not win you some money. Just as the lottery skews the perception of your chances at winning the jackpot, film studios skew the perception of their film with trailers, advertisements,…

Those artists are ignorant of the realities a digital economy.

It's good customer service for any business to give no questions asked refunds but it is not a right. Financial transactions are based on two intelligible parties that are aware of the costs and benefits of doing business. If one of the those parties is uninformed than it is most likely their fault. Now it doesn't…

I don't want to play semantics but I think by criticism you mean analysis, that is a non-judgmental investigation and explanation of a film. A review should have criticism because it is a weighing of the pros and cons of a film and whether it is worth paying for. Reviews are commercial whereas analysis is academic.…

Media vs. Medium
When going to a theater you are not paying for the contents of the film but the context of it, i.e. the seats, the screen, the sound system, the print, etc. Art has value but it doesn't have a price. When paying for art, we are paying for the physical manifestation of it such as a canvas, a CD, or a…

The Dancer from the Dance
Dear Tarkovsky's Former AD,

I think Tarkovsky actually makes some good points here which are once again lost in his ramblings. At least he presents an argument rather than merely a list of films that make fun of Hitler without presenting why this is important. And I don't think it is an accident that the films made during the war are better and…

The great thing about this show
is that even when things are not going in the planned direction, these characters still move forward. I think futility is the wrong word to choose here. These characters can and will not just give up as the suicide of John Goodman's character has shown this is not the right answer.…

@Tarkovsky's Former AD

THE Rutles
Their songs actually stand on their own without ever hearing the Beatles and in some cases are superior to the songs they are mocking. Also the film is better than Spinal Tap.

A list from someone who considers Soderbergh greater than Jarmusch

Also, I'm not saying Elmo is a good or bad character or what the filmmakers intentions were with him or that I necessarily agree with them. Elmo is really a human pastiche and some might find him unfunny or ineffective in satirizing the disconnect but what is important is that he is open for interpretation because he…

There is no moral or emotional risk in art. It is all illusion. It is all constructed. It is precisely because this film is superficial that makes it great. It defies any preconceived notions or expectations and thus becomes difficult to watch. It really is new (which is different from original). Even surfaces have…

My interpretation of Elmo is that he is a satire of nihilism, that is, the film constructs a character out of meaninglessness which in turn creates a meaning of its own. There are never going to be no ideas and even when those ideas are not comprehensible, their very existence is enough to build some foundation to…

it's that we don't know where to go.

It's not that we can't escape…
http://www.youtube.com/watc…

The Generation X
This album is not only the peak of Sebadoh's career but really the Generation X defining album. Not many bands can pull off sincere love ballads along with angst-driven grunge songs but Sebadoh is strengthened by having multiple songwriters and a willingness to experiment on all their records. My…

But do you still appreciate them sober?

Is there a perception of jazz that you have to have some musical training to enjoy it? If there is, its wrong because any music should be enjoyable on the visceral experience alone. I know nothing about composition and such but still enjoy listening to classical music. I don't know how to play the guitar but can still…