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Re: Faithfully Dangerous
On Fri, 12 Apr 2002, Don Smith wrote:
> I don't quite have them categorized by genre, exactly.
'Twould be difficult to do, I think, since so many films cross genres. I
recently sent a friend a list of my DVDs, grouped into various categories,
and I had to choose whether to put _Spartacus_ with the ancient epics or
with the Stanley Kubrick films (or, for that matter, with the other
Criterion Collection discs), and I had to choose whether to put _The
Prince of Egypt_ with the ancient epics or the non-Disney cartoons, and I
wasn't entirely sure whether the _Toy Story_ boxed set belonged with the
Disney cartoons because they were *really* made by Pixar, etc.
Plus, to group films according to *genre*, you would have to break up the
boxed sets that some films come in. I have all three Woody Allen boxed
sets, and those films cover romantic comedy (_Annie Hall_), serious drama
(_Another Woman_), nostalgia (_Radio Days_), faux-documentary (_Zelig_),
fantasy (_The Purple Rose of Cairo_), science fiction (_Sleeper_), spoofs
of European film and literature (_Love and Death_, _Shadows and Fog_),
existentialist moral parables (_Crimes and Misdemeanors_), etc.
> My dad tried once putting his movies in chronological order, not by
> production year, but by the year/era in which the narrative is set. And
> then he watched them all through in that order over a few months. It
> makes for an interesting perspective on history. :-)
Oh, weird. How did he handle time-travel movies, then? Parts of _Back to
the Future Part II_ are set in 2015, and other parts are set in 1955 --
would he have watched this before or after _2001: A Space Odyssey_?
Which reminds me, when the BttF boxed set comes out, I want to re-edit all
the footage in chronological order and see what sense it makes. :)
--- Peter T. Chattaway --------------------------- peter at chattaway_com ---
"I detected one misprint, but to torture you I will not tell you where."
Winston Churchill to T.E. Lawrence, re Seven Pillars of Wisdom
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