tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8617857852696675419.post8866208601280902954..comments2024-03-11T02:18:33.966-05:00Comments on Kritik: Cinema on the iPhoneAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13200566567765991464noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8617857852696675419.post-421955593608544742008-05-10T14:32:00.000-05:002008-05-10T14:32:00.000-05:00Nice comments here. I'm writing about many of the...Nice comments here. I'm writing about many of these issues in my book, and the "cinema studies in crisis" narrative has bothered me for some time.<BR/><BR/>There is an analogous "Hollywood in crisis" narrative that you also mention through the allusion to Lynch's comments about the iPod that I find equally troubling (and a number of stodgy film critics such as David Denby have similarly lamented watching "Lawrence of Arabia" on an iPod). Both Denby and Lynch (and many others for that matter) assume that watching movies on portable media players will be seen as a substitute for moviegoing when in fact watching movies on portable media players usually happens in spaces of enforced waiting (doctor's offices, airport terminals, etc). <BR/><BR/>Like you, I am excited about these shifts and think it is an incredibly exciting moment to be studying cinema and, in fact, studying the new (and old) ways in which audiences are encountering motion picture entertainment.<BR/><BR/>In other news, I wish I had a dollar for every time a critic used "Lawrence of Arabia" as his or her (usually his) primary example of why we can't watch movies on portable media players. I could probably retire my student loan debt by now if somebody made that offer.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8617857852696675419.post-16045106852892888702008-05-09T13:21:00.000-05:002008-05-09T13:21:00.000-05:00The title of the piece is indeed a reference to Da...The title of the piece is indeed a reference to David Lynch's much circulated (and humorous) rant about the evils of watching movies on the iPhone. After I saw that, with proper Dostoevskian perversity, I immediately loaded <I>Eraserhead</I> and <I>Lost Highway</I> onto my iPod Touch (I'm guessing the three hours of <I>Inland Empire</I>, however, will defeat my tiny screen).<BR/><BR/>Also, recent issues of <I>Cinema Journal</I> have featured articles on South <I>Korean</I> time travel films, not "South <I>Koran</I> time travel films" What a difference an e makes. If anyone in Hollywood would like to option my idea for Islamic time travel travel films set in the American antebellum South (rich in tradition), however, I am willing to discuss payment options. Call my agent.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8617857852696675419.post-31501969344292409362008-05-06T14:23:00.000-05:002008-05-06T14:23:00.000-05:00this reminded me of David Lynch's remarks on the i...this reminded me of David Lynch's remarks on the iphone:<BR/><BR/>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKiIroiCvZ0Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com