----------------------------Original message---------------------------- <[log in to unmask]> $B$N!" (J "Re: Antonioni" $B$K$*$$$F!" (J Gloria Monti <[log in to unmask]> $B$5$s$O=q$-$^$7$?!# (J >----------------------------Original message---------------------------- > No, he was there! Did you see? And he was crying and couldn't even >talk--just said "Grazie." I was crying too. >> > I might have been puzzled by the Japanese commentator, who said something to the effect that Antonioni was one of the directors to whom the distinction between "movie" and "film" mattered, right when he got the award, and I heard the woman who was with A. (commentator: his wife) saying something about silence and film, and that for A., silence had always mattered, and therefore he wouldn't say anything. I found that witty - didn't notice that he was simply too moved to speak. BTW, if anybody ever comes up with how stupid Japanese TV is, I am going to hold up the Award show as topping the "how dumb&numb TV can be"-chart. Birgit Kellner Institute for Indian Philosophy University of Hiroshima