Nice... thanks Cab! I wondered after this post if I had simply been swept away by Scorsese's cool glasses....
January 21, 2010 at 9:14 AM
I'm not a huge fan of Martin Scorsese's movies (too brutal, oftentimes, for delicate art critics--oh, ok, just lifetime scardey cats--like me).
But I caught a speech by the acclaimed director on last night's Golden Globes broadcast, and I have to say he makes a damn eloquent case for film preservation, one which can be easily extended to the practice of cultural-artifact preservation/collections curating in general, I think.
Scorsese's points on cultural memory and image memory are also interesting, no matter what the boredom on the celeb audience's faces might imply. (Best quote: "The past is never dead; it is not even past." -- William Faulkner) Just make sure to skip the montage-which-turns-into-a-commercial (or, you know, not) by starting at the 6 minute mark, and enjoy.
"Scorsese Makes Unwitting Case for the Existence of Museums Everywhere"
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Here Here! /Cab
January 20, 2010 at 9:57 AM
Nice... thanks Cab! I wondered after this post if I had simply been swept away by Scorsese's cool glasses....
January 21, 2010 at 9:14 AM