----------------------------Original message---------------------------- > He loved true scholars, but hated the institutionalized "academics" who > limited his catholic view of films by categorizing them, excluding them and > establishing hierarchies and "theories" which kept people from the raw > material - the films themselves. Of course he encouraged critics, but > detested those who spoke authoratatively with little or no knowledge of the > subject. Hmmm...does this mean that I was right, if someone like Langlois seems to share my views on the "theoritical" views of filmmaking? Just wondering...don't really want to start all of THAT again now... Mike