RARA-AVIS: Re: Back by Popular Demand

From: jacquesdebierue ( jacquesdebierue@yahoo.com)
Date: 01 Dec 2007


--- In rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, JIM DOHERTY <jimdohertyjr@...> wrote:

> I'm more convinced then ever that, after THE LONG
> GOODBYE was released, God created a special circle of
> hell just for Robert Altman.
>

Let's let Altman rest in peace. He died quite recently and his body of work has already entered Film Parnassus. And let's not confuse a person with his work, let alone with one piece of his work. By playing Dante in this selective fashion, you could condemn Beethoven to a special circle for having written Wellington's Victory, a dreadful work, or Mozart, for having written some of those pieces where he was just spinning his wheels, or any writer who wrote a bad book.

Best,

mrt



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