CROSSPOST: an interesting item about film/video resources on the Internet. (From H-Film.) ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1993 17:27:27 -0600 From: "Steven Mintz, U. Houston" <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Guide to Film and Video on the Internet From: Cheryl Malone <[log in to unmask]> Sender: Kristen Garlock <[log in to unmask]> Hello to everyone - A few weeks back my partner, Lisa Wood, and I posted requests to several listservs and news groups regarding film and video resources on the Internet. We received many helpful replies for which we are extremely thankful! Our guide is now nearly complete and includes information on many resources such as listservs and USENET news groups on topics related to film and video, film review databases, filmographies, etc. The guide will be available after December 15th, 1993. After that date, we will be happy to send a copy (absolutely free) through e-mail to anyone interested, or you can access this guide (as well as many others on different topics) in the following manner: anonymous FTP: host: una.hh.lib.umich.edu path: /inetdirsstacks Gopher: via U. Minnesota list of gophers menu: North America/USA/Michigan Gopher .link file: Name=Clearinghouse of Subject-Oriented Internet Resource Guides (UMich) Type=1 Port=70 Path=1/inetdirs Host=una.hh.lib.umich.edu Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) for WWW/Mosaic: http://http2.sils.umich.edu/~lou/chhome.html or gopher://una.hh.lib.umich.edu/11/inetdirs This guide was created as a part of the Internet Resource Discovery and Organization course at the School of Information and Library Studies (University of Michigan). If you are in the Ann Arbor, Michigan area, you may be interested in coming to our class open house Wednesday, December 8 from 1-3pm at the School of Information and Library Studies. Ten groups of students will be presenting samples and demonstrations of their Internet guides, which cover many different subject areas. Once again, thank you to everyone who provided information and assistance with our guide. If you have any questions about the guide or the open house, please feel free to send us a message. Thank you, Kristen Garlock ([log in to unmask]) Lisa Wood ([log in to unmask]) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1993 18:57:26 -0600 From: "Steven Mintz, U. Houston" <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: Suggestions for a film as literature course From: [log in to unmask] As far as westerns go-- I'm sure you have many first class pictures to show, and I won't bother with my two cents, part-timer that I am. But-- if the class is assigned any books at all, there are only two that really matter to my mind: first and foremost Charles Portis' True Grit, a true masterpiece nothing like the movie, and Ron Hansen's The Assasination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford a distant second. Lonesome Dove third place. But True Grit for sure. Read it yourself-- it'll take you two hours. Josh Ozersky Department of History University of Notre Dame [log in to unmask] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1993 19:14:49 -0600 From: "Steven Mintz, U. Houston" <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Monte Hellman From: [log in to unmask] Chris, Did you see Quentin Tarentino's essay on Monte Hellman in Sight and Sound a few months back? He mentions the two pictures you do, but mainly talks about another one, whose name I forget. I'm not a big western buff myself, but I could watch Reservoir Dogs all day long (and I often do). Anyway, thought you might be interested. Here's something for the thread: I can't believe that there are actually people who know something about film, or even for that matter any people at all, who group Reservoir Dogs and The Bad Lieutenant together other than as good/evil dualities in the cosmos of artistic achievement. Abel Ferrar is the worst director in America. I would rather watch the outtakes of Beethoven's 2nd that that man's best scene. To think that he is compared to Quentin Tarentino makes my blood boil. I will go as far as to say that I can never sit at table with a man who countenances such a comparison. What does everybody think about the decision to let Spike Lee direct "Clockers"? Josh Ozersky Department of History University of Notre Dame [log in to unmask] ------------------------------ End of H-FILM Digest - 12 Dec 1993 to 13 Dec 1993 *************************************************