Re: [bomp] the thirties were a hard one to deal with?

[weisbaker <roky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

i'm impressed by kane but prefer ambersons and am awed by touch of evil


i think nostalgia is tough to talk about: periodically great things get 
revived because they are great, but because of their initial outsider status 
(guston's late paintings, agee's film criticism, stanley bros mercurey 
recordings, HD's poetry) they will always be under commercial radar: because 
interest is revived every generational twenty years or so by new critics 
does not mean instead of going to Target people are going to line up for Ozu 
film festival. Replacing contemporay mores, tastes, and fashions with the 
same from a diff era is very rare. i'm 49 and i've never seen a flapper, 
walked like Philip Marlowe,  or talked seriously with anyone re sally 
bowles, even though i love those isherwood novels. digging astaire from 
that's entertainment is more a testament to his triple threat genius and to 
the fact that besides James Brown he's the greatest entertainer of last 
century.

Give me the good old days of the future.

I yearn for 1603 anyways.

NP
Seger RG Man

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "jumpinginthenight" <jumpinginthenight@yahoo.com>
To: <bomp@xnet2.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 1:05 PM
Subject: Re: [bomp] the thirties were a hard one to deal with?


>
> I remember a roommate with Talking Heads LPs
> telling me he wasn't "too impressed" with CITIZEN
> KANE.  He wasn't too impressed by Buddy Holly
> either!
> --- Michael Snider <lasciviumdei@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> ItsBoss9@aol.com wrote:
>>
>> And the 70s had VERY strong 50s nostalgia. The
>> 40s
>> nostalgia was
>> more in the early part of that decade.
>>
>> Just saw CABARET a few months ago, and there
>> was some looking back at the
>> '30s during the '70s... especially when you add
>> the Marx Brothers into the mix,
>> who did cut their first movie in the late '20s,
>> though. They saw a huge
>> revival during the '70s.
>>
>> I wasn't really thinking of the whole Weimar
>> Berlin fad spawned by Cabaret- in a way thats
>> never ended, because that period was so damn
>> cool (despite of or because of its really
>> tragic ending)
>>
>>  CITIZEN KANE also had its reputation boosted a
>> lot during
>> the '70s... not sure what year that film was
>> from off hand... wasn't it 1939?
>>
>> 1940
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Sexual orgies, homosexual or not, eliminate
>> social tensions and should be encouraged. -
>> Justice Vincent Scalia
>>
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