Whoa, I would really like to see this, and I see from your hyperlink that you viewed it via Kanopy, which my library subscribes to too, so I *can*.
I'm so glad! TCM and the Criterion Channel are sort of our home viewing staples (plus spatch watches some amount of regular TV via the Roku—like, there's a channel that does decades of game shows, which fascinates me), but Kanopy has been a godsend this year.
I still haven't watched Brother from Another Planet, though, so I'm developing a queue.
Honestly, I am delighted and honored by the idea of our marathon spinning off little mini-marathons of its own.
... I feel bitter at how the American imagination can't ever quite wrap itself around true internationalism
I don't think the American imagination is incapable of it, but I do think it has a rough time in Hollywood. And there's no reason for it to—just think of how wholeheartedly audiences responded, including at the box office, to the international-interpersonal bridging of Pacific Rim.
This sounds genuinely cooperative--obviously it's only a fantasy and an ideal, but at least the director wanted to articulate that as an ideal, you know?
It certainly doesn't hurt that it is an ideal I am also in favor of.
Re: The Silent Star
I'm so glad! TCM and the Criterion Channel are sort of our home viewing staples (plus
I still haven't watched Brother from Another Planet, though, so I'm developing a queue.
Honestly, I am delighted and honored by the idea of our marathon spinning off little mini-marathons of its own.
... I feel bitter at how the American imagination can't ever quite wrap itself around true internationalism
I don't think the American imagination is incapable of it, but I do think it has a rough time in Hollywood. And there's no reason for it to—just think of how wholeheartedly audiences responded, including at the box office, to the international-interpersonal bridging of Pacific Rim.
This sounds genuinely cooperative--obviously it's only a fantasy and an ideal, but at least the director wanted to articulate that as an ideal, you know?
It certainly doesn't hurt that it is an ideal I am also in favor of.