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beltmann
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 Posted: 08.31.2006 2:53 am Post subject: Scorsese Set To Become Film Critic |
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From IMDb:
| Quote: | | Famed director Martin Scorsese has been hired as a film critic for a satellite TV service after complaining about their movie review system. The Aviator director will pen a monthly column for On DirecTV, a magazine and program guide for people who subscribe to DirectTV. Scorsese will offer critiques of overlooked films on DirecTV. Executives at the company came up with the idea when Scorsese, a DirecTV subscriber, wrote to the firm to suggest changes in the movie review system. |
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Michael Scrutchin
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| Posted: 08.31.2006 3:08 am Post subject: |
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That is awesome. Scorsese is more knowledgeable, insightful, and entertaining in the film commentary/criticism department than 99.9% of film critics. I love listening to him talk movies. I don't have DirecTV, so I probably won't have access to his stuff, but I can't think of any other filmmaker I'd rather see writing movie reviews.
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beltmann
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| Posted: 08.31.2006 12:40 pm Post subject: |
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| Michael Scrutchin wrote: | | That is awesome. Scorsese is more knowledgeable, insightful, and entertaining in the film commentary/criticism department than 99.9% of film critics. I love listening to him talk movies. I don't have DirecTV, so I probably won't have access to his stuff, but I can't think of any other filmmaker I'd rather see writing movie reviews. |
Not only is he more knowledgeable and more passionate than most critics, he has what the vast majority of reviewers lack: A point-of-view. He knows that so-called objectivity yields a totally bland response to art.
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Danny Baldwin
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| Posted: 09.01.2006 12:36 am Post subject: |
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This is one of the few times I have been happy about the fact that our street didn't come cable-ready so we had to get satellite.
The frequent outages have nothing on Scorsese.
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beltmann
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| Posted: 09.01.2006 12:59 am Post subject: |
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We have cable now, but we had DirecTV for a couple of years. I know experiences vary, but for us the outages were pretty rare... I don't remember it really being a problem at all.
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Danny Baldwin
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| Posted: 09.02.2006 1:46 am Post subject: |
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I think the outages may be due to the new DV-Rs they provide for customers rather than standard receivers. It seems as though the majority of our problems have been in the past two years; perhaps the DV-Rs are less receptive of the satellite signal?
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