CineSavant Column
Hello!
We had a good time reading and reviewing Joseph McBride’s latest book last month, I Loved Movies, But… — but we also enjoyed this piece from FilmInt, an interview of the critic / author / educator conducted by Jonathan Monovich, from June 19.
Monovich gets quite efficiently to the center of Joe McBride’s main issues … his personal connection to film history through directors like Orson Welles and John Ford, his writing for the trades, for the AFI and for a major cult film. That’s capped by decades of experience teaching film.
The best thing about Joseph McBride is that his opinions don’t waffle — you always know where he stands. We can hear that in any of his audio commentaries. The best are as good as film history gets, as with his tracks for a set of John Huston’s WWII informational films.
Are the movies dead? Is film education dead? Are new generations disconnecting from classic film appreciation? The ever-opinionated Joe has sharp thoughts on several topics.
and the Evolution of Film Education
An in-progress Disc Organization Report.
Some readers are following the oh-so-important CineSavant project of making the horde of discs here more manageable. I’ve been doing it for maybe 6 hours a week since February or so, and so far it appears to be going okay. After being ill for a week I’m looking forward to getting going again on ‘enveloping’ more discs.
In the process of logging old CineSavant and DVD Savant Columns, I came across an article entry from DVD Savant in 2008. It’s funny — I’m whining about the exact same problem, apparently with the hope that a reader-correspondent will write in with the perfect solution. If my present project does work it will be by following the lead of friend Craig Reardon, who never let his disc collection overwhelm his house space or organizational capacity.
I have crossed the 3,000 mark in disc – filing, and have cleared 1.5 rooms of stacked boxes. I’m guessing I might be enveloping as many as 4 or 6 thousand more individual discs. Knowing what’s there and being able to Find Stuff will be an enormous benefit, besides not leaving an impossible mess for somebody else to straighten out / dispose of. It’s a worthy quest — I hope.
Here’s the link to the old 2008 article, with its reader responses, from David Martin, Jordan Benedict, Bill Shaffer, Dick Dinman, David Fletcher and Stuart Galbraith IV:
Thanks for reading! — Glenn Erickson