<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post6888775519554135120..comments</id><updated>2011-07-13T16:13:18.645-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Comments on Silliman&#39;s Blog: </title><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6888775519554135120/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/12/when-i-last-reviewed-film-here-michael.html'/><link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/"/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6888775519554135120/comments/default?start-index=26&amp;max-results=25'/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>26</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7647226472606361984</id><published>2007-12-07T14:20:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-12-07T14:20:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>That&#39;s a nice final question, Luther. Certainly th...</title><summary type='text'>That&#39;s a nice final question, Luther. Certainly there&#39;s plenty of avant poetry that I like, but that doesn&#39;t provide that &quot;oh, my, where on earth am I&quot; sense of disorientation. And some that does. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I disagree with your description of &quot;LangPo&quot; etc. in terms of atomization and levelling as a generalized description. I think it&#39;s a danger, that &quot;pure immanence.&quot; Occasionally, I think </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6888775519554135120/comments/default/7647226472606361984'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6888775519554135120/comments/default/7647226472606361984'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/12/when-i-last-reviewed-film-here-michael.html?showComment=1197055200000#c7647226472606361984' title=''/><author><name>Andy Gricevich</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04367834692026653431</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://www.princemyshkins.com/images/Detritus.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/12/when-i-last-reviewed-film-here-michael.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6888775519554135120' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6888775519554135120' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1668048852"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 07, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7936423244831869267</id><published>2007-12-07T09:39:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-12-07T09:39:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Curtis, I think there&#39;s a trajectory from the epic...</title><summary type='text'>Curtis, I think there&#39;s a trajectory from the epic to the classical idea of a Book of Nature, through to the 18th century Encyclopedists and Romantic extended poem, the great realist novels, ending with the high modernist epic: Cantos, Ulysses, Recherche.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Of course, Pynchon and Gaddis would be part of that project, but while I love their novels, they clearly are not the cultural </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6888775519554135120/comments/default/7936423244831869267'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6888775519554135120/comments/default/7936423244831869267'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/12/when-i-last-reviewed-film-here-michael.html?showComment=1197038340000#c7936423244831869267' title=''/><author><name>Luther Blissett</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05431159615586957896</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/12/when-i-last-reviewed-film-here-michael.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6888775519554135120' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6888775519554135120' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-901283303"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 07, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-878289811567032751</id><published>2007-12-06T18:13:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-12-06T18:13:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Well, &quot;obviously&quot;...hmm.Zukofsky, yes.  Pound, I&#39;m...</title><summary type='text'>Well, &quot;obviously&quot;...hmm.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Zukofsky, yes.  Pound, I&#39;m not so sure.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;You&#39;re right about Stevens--the &quot;Puritinism&quot; struggling with luxury (and sin, ha-ha...i.e., always on an &quot;ironic&quot; level, however).  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;My point isn&#39;t that Stevens influenced anyone--maybe someone like Stephen Rodefer, who isn&#39;t to my mind any kind of a Language Poet.  But I didn&#39;t intend even to imply that</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6888775519554135120/comments/default/878289811567032751'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6888775519554135120/comments/default/878289811567032751'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/12/when-i-last-reviewed-film-here-michael.html?showComment=1196982780000#c878289811567032751' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/12/when-i-last-reviewed-film-here-michael.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6888775519554135120' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6888775519554135120' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 06, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-393002004615818092</id><published>2007-12-06T15:27:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-12-06T15:27:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Curtis, I’m speaking of Ron’s phrase ‘straightforw...</title><summary type='text'>Curtis, I’m speaking of Ron’s phrase ‘straightforward narrative’ in general and attempting to identify the parameters of his statement.  I wasn’t talking about the epic poem, essays, works of prose, autobiographical reflection, or ‘telling a story’ through unconventional methods. My highlighting of trends of the poets I mentioned was an agreement that these trends moved away from ‘straightforward</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6888775519554135120/comments/default/393002004615818092'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6888775519554135120/comments/default/393002004615818092'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/12/when-i-last-reviewed-film-here-michael.html?showComment=1196972820000#c393002004615818092' title=''/><author><name>Ian Keenan</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16596558654735506132</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/12/when-i-last-reviewed-film-here-michael.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6888775519554135120' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6888775519554135120' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591342472"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 06, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6689660585814933097</id><published>2007-12-06T10:20:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-12-06T10:20:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Ian, you&#39;ve really left me scratching my head here...</title><summary type='text'>Ian, you&#39;ve really left me scratching my head here.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I thought we were discussing how Modern and post-Modern poetry had abandoned (long) narrative form, in deference to later modes of presentation, such as the novel (fiction), and later, cinema.  Here you seem to &quot;see&quot; narrative &quot;trends&quot; in the work of a handful of contemporary poets whose efforts were largely devoted to the lyric (</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6888775519554135120/comments/default/6689660585814933097'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6888775519554135120/comments/default/6689660585814933097'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/12/when-i-last-reviewed-film-here-michael.html?showComment=1196954400000#c6689660585814933097' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/12/when-i-last-reviewed-film-here-michael.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6888775519554135120' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6888775519554135120' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 06, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4702325493375277804</id><published>2007-12-05T23:53:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-12-05T23:53:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>In this post there’s a logical construction where ...</title><summary type='text'>In this post there’s a logical construction where changes in middlebrow genre marketing are supposed to determine the ‘limits’ and characteristics of avant-garde work concerning narrative.  Dogma is also being created out of broad analysis of avant-trends, a thread that goes back to the signifier analysis in The New Sentence, and though banning the creation of limits from avant theory is limiting</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6888775519554135120/comments/default/4702325493375277804'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6888775519554135120/comments/default/4702325493375277804'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/12/when-i-last-reviewed-film-here-michael.html?showComment=1196916780000#c4702325493375277804' title=''/><author><name>Ian Keenan</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16596558654735506132</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/12/when-i-last-reviewed-film-here-michael.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6888775519554135120' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6888775519554135120' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591342472"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 05, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2117592932276212842</id><published>2007-12-05T12:20:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-12-05T12:20:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Let me respond to Luther, who I think is wrong her...</title><summary type='text'>Let me respond to Luther, who I think is wrong here:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&quot;Avants have tried to reverse this process. What attracts me to Susan Howe&#39;s work, or Ron&#39;s, is the attempt to write a &quot;world book&quot; or &quot;book of Nature&quot; all over again, to map out the entire field of social relations.&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;This is an interesting observation, but it makes more sense if you&#39;re referring to Lucretius&#39;s The Nature of </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6888775519554135120/comments/default/2117592932276212842'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6888775519554135120/comments/default/2117592932276212842'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/12/when-i-last-reviewed-film-here-michael.html?showComment=1196875200000#c2117592932276212842' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/12/when-i-last-reviewed-film-here-michael.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6888775519554135120' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6888775519554135120' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 05, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3306607071445982619</id><published>2007-12-05T12:09:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-12-05T12:09:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I don&#39;t think narrative and plot are necessarily s...</title><summary type='text'>I don&#39;t think narrative and plot are necessarily synonyms.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6888775519554135120/comments/default/3306607071445982619'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6888775519554135120/comments/default/3306607071445982619'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/12/when-i-last-reviewed-film-here-michael.html?showComment=1196874540000#c3306607071445982619' title=''/><author><name>John B-R</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01041221232768939991</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/12/when-i-last-reviewed-film-here-michael.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6888775519554135120' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6888775519554135120' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-574567698"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 05, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6250665625489548844</id><published>2007-12-05T11:46:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-12-05T11:46:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>The graphic novel is more like cinema than the lit...</title><summary type='text'>The graphic novel is more like cinema than the literary novel per se. Obviously, it&#39;s a multi-sensory medium, or at least multi-modal, with images as well as words. It also has many of the same conventions, at least in its narrative forms. There are examples that do &quot;break the rules&quot; in ways similar to cinematic rule-breaking of the conventions of narrative, plot, and character.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6888775519554135120/comments/default/6250665625489548844'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6888775519554135120/comments/default/6250665625489548844'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/12/when-i-last-reviewed-film-here-michael.html?showComment=1196873160000#c6250665625489548844' title=''/><author><name>Art Durkee</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/07463180236975988432</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://www.arthurdurkee.net/images/ADSTICK1.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/12/when-i-last-reviewed-film-here-michael.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6888775519554135120' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6888775519554135120' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1315265054"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 05, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5043674350308864721</id><published>2007-12-05T10:02:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-12-05T10:02:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>i can see how the observation might be made that t...</title><summary type='text'>i can see how the observation might be made that there has been an evolution in poetry&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;but to say that narrative is of&lt;BR/&gt;no bearing on modern sensibilites&lt;BR/&gt;in poetry&lt;BR/&gt;is to ignore something basic&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;do we ever outgrow the interest in the story?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;perhaps the elitist strain of poetix is found wanting in this&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;i am thinking that the narrative interest maintains</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6888775519554135120/comments/default/5043674350308864721'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6888775519554135120/comments/default/5043674350308864721'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/12/when-i-last-reviewed-film-here-michael.html?showComment=1196866920000#c5043674350308864721' title=''/><author><name>john hanson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/10043530995274885830</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/12/when-i-last-reviewed-film-here-michael.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6888775519554135120' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6888775519554135120' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1850634495"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 05, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3780770724739389380</id><published>2007-12-05T08:00:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-12-05T08:00:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Upon further thought:What the novel did better tha...</title><summary type='text'>Upon further thought:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;What the novel did better than poetry or theatre was map out the social relations of the time.  The novel is the middle class genre; as such, it emerged as a form that gave the middle class a way to reflect its role as mediator.  The novel provided the most comprehensive map of increasingly complex social relations, culminating in the 19th century realist novel and </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6888775519554135120/comments/default/3780770724739389380'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6888775519554135120/comments/default/3780770724739389380'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/12/when-i-last-reviewed-film-here-michael.html?showComment=1196859600000#c3780770724739389380' title=''/><author><name>Luther Blissett</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05431159615586957896</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/12/when-i-last-reviewed-film-here-michael.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6888775519554135120' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6888775519554135120' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-901283303"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 05, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7646372641147391680</id><published>2007-12-04T22:48:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-12-04T22:48:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Tom, I think Levine just meant poems ought not try...</title><summary type='text'>Tom, I think Levine just meant poems ought not try to be more movie-like than movies.  In as short a poem as we were dealing with (about 14 lines or so), he felt it was confusing to jump around from place to place.  I don&#39;t know that he meant one could never do this, but my poem (the one being workshopped) lacked focus.  So in this case, Levine was right.&lt;BR/&gt;Helen Losse</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6888775519554135120/comments/default/7646372641147391680'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6888775519554135120/comments/default/7646372641147391680'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/12/when-i-last-reviewed-film-here-michael.html?showComment=1196826480000#c7646372641147391680' title=''/><author><name>DeadMule</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01209584859435270113</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/12/when-i-last-reviewed-film-here-michael.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6888775519554135120' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6888775519554135120' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1345957712"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 04, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-452135557239526808</id><published>2007-12-04T20:32:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-12-04T20:32:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Pound laughed himself silly to bad American films ...</title><summary type='text'>Pound laughed himself silly to bad American films in the balconies of Italian cinemas, the Surrealists would meet for meals at the movies, eating and conversing without following the plot lines, O’Hara watched endless plays and movies without being critical of any of them, Bernstein went to the movies during lunch hours of bad jobs to replicate the emotional distance from his co-workers.  In all </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6888775519554135120/comments/default/452135557239526808'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6888775519554135120/comments/default/452135557239526808'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/12/when-i-last-reviewed-film-here-michael.html?showComment=1196818320000#c452135557239526808' title=''/><author><name>Ian Keenan</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16596558654735506132</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/12/when-i-last-reviewed-film-here-michael.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6888775519554135120' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6888775519554135120' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591342472"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 04, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8560942895254881192</id><published>2007-12-04T20:07:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-12-04T20:07:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Ron, Kenneth Koch&#39;s Ko and The Duplications are mo...</title><summary type='text'>Ron, Kenneth Koch&#39;s Ko and The Duplications are modern narrative poems.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Also, Deadmule, I don&#39;t know why Levine says poet&#39;s don;t have multiple camera angles.  wasn&#39;t that one of the points of modernism (so much for Eliot)?  Levine says in his memoir he has been plundering Hardy his entire career.  That&#39;s fine, and I love Hardy, but you can see where he&#39;s coming from.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;And </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6888775519554135120/comments/default/8560942895254881192'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6888775519554135120/comments/default/8560942895254881192'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/12/when-i-last-reviewed-film-here-michael.html?showComment=1196816820000#c8560942895254881192' title=''/><author><name>Tom</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/14211378281642641041</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/12/when-i-last-reviewed-film-here-michael.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6888775519554135120' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6888775519554135120' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1642046747"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 04, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2539960718091182140</id><published>2007-12-04T17:48:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-12-04T17:48:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Of course, one reason genre novels are doing so we...</title><summary type='text'>Of course, one reason genre novels are doing so well relative to &quot;art novels,&quot; if you will, is that in many cases they&#39;re just better writing. I&#39;ll put up several SF writers against anything on the best-seller list, and even many of the critical darlings, any ol&#39; day.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;As for cinema, I am far more interested in non-narrative cinema (or video) than ever before, as that&#39;s what I find myself</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6888775519554135120/comments/default/2539960718091182140'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6888775519554135120/comments/default/2539960718091182140'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/12/when-i-last-reviewed-film-here-michael.html?showComment=1196808480000#c2539960718091182140' title=''/><author><name>Art Durkee</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/07463180236975988432</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://www.arthurdurkee.net/images/ADSTICK1.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/12/when-i-last-reviewed-film-here-michael.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6888775519554135120' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6888775519554135120' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1315265054"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 04, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3973860875157076442</id><published>2007-12-04T16:44:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-12-04T16:44:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Thanks for the illuminating response, Ron.  (And t...</title><summary type='text'>Thanks for the illuminating response, Ron.  (And thanks, commenters, for the illuminatingly fractious response.)  Tyrone says some of what I was thinking initially -- but I certainly wasn&#39;t demanding anything of Ron here.  (There&#39;s a line about free ice cream that one quotes in this context.)&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I&#39;ve been thinking about this question since I was writing on JH Prynne, 10 years ago or so -- </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6888775519554135120/comments/default/3973860875157076442'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6888775519554135120/comments/default/3973860875157076442'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/12/when-i-last-reviewed-film-here-michael.html?showComment=1196804640000#c3973860875157076442' title=''/><author><name>Vance Maverick</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/07477306994564623348</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/12/when-i-last-reviewed-film-here-michael.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6888775519554135120' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6888775519554135120' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-876395077"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 04, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6556491277187269304</id><published>2007-12-04T16:28:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-12-04T16:28:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>please explain how a novel length version of short...</title><summary type='text'>please explain how a novel length version of short narrative poem (like Traveling through the Dark, or whatever) is a more efficent use of narrative. I mean what you&#39;re saying is that ALL narratives are best presented in large doses (as in a novel or a movie)?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;what about this...i can hear my kids crying up stairs and I just got hope from work. the babysitter needs to leave as soon as </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6888775519554135120/comments/default/6556491277187269304'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6888775519554135120/comments/default/6556491277187269304'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/12/when-i-last-reviewed-film-here-michael.html?showComment=1196803680000#c6556491277187269304' title=''/><author><name>peter</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05327429647175738328</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/12/when-i-last-reviewed-film-here-michael.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6888775519554135120' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6888775519554135120' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-2035658647"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 04, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8500544995795071755</id><published>2007-12-04T16:20:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-12-04T16:20:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Having been involved in films of all types, from &quot;...</title><summary type='text'>Having been involved in films of all types, from &quot;underground&quot; student avant etc. to big blockbuster Hollywood productions, and having also been involved in poetry on every level, from writing it, reading it aloud, performing it, editing, publishing, contest judging, teaching and running weekly reading series in various major cities over five decades, of all types, including political, avant of </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6888775519554135120/comments/default/8500544995795071755'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6888775519554135120/comments/default/8500544995795071755'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/12/when-i-last-reviewed-film-here-michael.html?showComment=1196803200000#c8500544995795071755' title=''/><author><name>Lally</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05310472614196384595</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='30' src='http://www.yourmanfriday.com/backdoor/Lally9.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/12/when-i-last-reviewed-film-here-michael.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6888775519554135120' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6888775519554135120' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-778757446"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 04, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5719764563256833218</id><published>2007-12-04T15:55:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-12-04T15:55:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Jeannine:I never sought narrative in poetry.  I gr...</title><summary type='text'>Jeannine:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I never sought narrative in poetry.  I grew up being read to as a child, and then moved on to my own &quot;grown-up&quot; narratives--The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come, Uncle Tom&#39;s Cabin, Cannery Row, The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze--but when I first discovered poetry--Wilfred Owen, E.E. Cummings, Archibald MacLeish, May Swenson, T.S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens--it was all about</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6888775519554135120/comments/default/5719764563256833218'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6888775519554135120/comments/default/5719764563256833218'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/12/when-i-last-reviewed-film-here-michael.html?showComment=1196801700000#c5719764563256833218' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/12/when-i-last-reviewed-film-here-michael.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6888775519554135120' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6888775519554135120' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 04, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2952765197825890001</id><published>2007-12-04T15:40:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-12-04T15:40:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I think Vance makes a very interesting point.  I&#39;v...</title><summary type='text'>I think Vance makes a very interesting point.  I&#39;ve thought about this before.  It&#39;s odd how lines tend to get drawn.  For instance, in our culture, we tend to draw a line between poetry and prose to the point of considering them different mediums.  Whereas, in film, we just divide things into genres.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;In fact, there are veins of cinema that are easily comparable to Langpo.  There are </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6888775519554135120/comments/default/2952765197825890001'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6888775519554135120/comments/default/2952765197825890001'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/12/when-i-last-reviewed-film-here-michael.html?showComment=1196800800000#c2952765197825890001' title=''/><author><name>Iain</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/15197666388360786350</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/12/when-i-last-reviewed-film-here-michael.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6888775519554135120' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6888775519554135120' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1107385782"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 04, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1839156992082729907</id><published>2007-12-04T14:54:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-12-04T14:54:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>A conservative praise prevails against a disguise ...</title><summary type='text'>A conservative praise prevails against a disguise throughout the backward pulp genres. Post-avant poetry recovers from Ron Silliman next to the anatomy. Ron Silliman connects a censorship throughout the moved knight. Your winning drip trails opposite a winner. Post-avant poetry despairs.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The voluntary yawn expands beneath a killing executive. Should movies rent a greater lamp? A rhythm </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6888775519554135120/comments/default/1839156992082729907'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6888775519554135120/comments/default/1839156992082729907'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/12/when-i-last-reviewed-film-here-michael.html?showComment=1196798040000#c1839156992082729907' title=''/><author><name>Scott</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05438113276020491913</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/12/when-i-last-reviewed-film-here-michael.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6888775519554135120' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6888775519554135120' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1936634055"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 04, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8606398904199401497</id><published>2007-12-04T13:12:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-12-04T13:12:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Ron,I just don&#39;t agree. Every generataion that enc...</title><summary type='text'>Ron,&lt;BR/&gt;I just don&#39;t agree. Every generataion that encounters poetry for the first time wants a narrative just as cinema goers want narrative - it just might not be the kind of narrative the previous generation was used to. For instance, members of the &quot;texting generation&quot; crowd the aisles of the Manga section at the bookstores, so they may be looking for a different kind of storyline and </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6888775519554135120/comments/default/8606398904199401497'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6888775519554135120/comments/default/8606398904199401497'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/12/when-i-last-reviewed-film-here-michael.html?showComment=1196791920000#c8606398904199401497' title=''/><author><name>jeannine</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16419593830749483323</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://www.webbish6.com/images/j9pic.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/12/when-i-last-reviewed-film-here-michael.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6888775519554135120' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6888775519554135120' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-679745349"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 04, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1741832728868692595</id><published>2007-12-04T11:22:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-12-04T11:22:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I think Ron&#39;s presented an overly simplified visio...</title><summary type='text'>I think Ron&#39;s presented an overly simplified vision of how genres pass the baton.  It&#39;s quasi-Hegelian: the movement of Spirit through the genres and modes.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;First off, I do not think it&#39;s accurate to see the novel as primarily concerned with plot.  The first major novelists, such as DeFoe and Richardson, were character-centered.  It was the modes that became &quot;genre fiction&quot; that were </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6888775519554135120/comments/default/1741832728868692595'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6888775519554135120/comments/default/1741832728868692595'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/12/when-i-last-reviewed-film-here-michael.html?showComment=1196785320000#c1741832728868692595' title=''/><author><name>Luther Blissett</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05431159615586957896</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/12/when-i-last-reviewed-film-here-michael.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6888775519554135120' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6888775519554135120' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-901283303"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 04, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7291514211934467174</id><published>2007-12-04T10:22:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-12-04T10:22:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Cinema has a different history than literature.  I...</title><summary type='text'>Cinema has a different history than literature.  Interesting to wonder how, over time, it will change and develop--and in some senses, it has been a recapitulation of literary forms and techniques of literary fiction.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Narrative answers to an intense curiosity, and there is no indication that people need, or want, narrative, less, now, than they did 100 years ago.  Prior to &quot;fiction&quot; or</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6888775519554135120/comments/default/7291514211934467174'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6888775519554135120/comments/default/7291514211934467174'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/12/when-i-last-reviewed-film-here-michael.html?showComment=1196781720000#c7291514211934467174' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/12/when-i-last-reviewed-film-here-michael.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6888775519554135120' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6888775519554135120' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 04, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7981943879701592482</id><published>2007-12-04T09:23:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-12-04T09:23:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I thought the original comment was directed at the...</title><summary type='text'>I thought the original comment was directed at the question of &quot;expertise&quot; and &quot;familiarity&quot;-that we tend to be drawn to the most traditional.conservative elements of art and genres we know the least about. or are only peripherally involved with, as artists or critics...&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Tyrone</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6888775519554135120/comments/default/7981943879701592482'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6888775519554135120/comments/default/7981943879701592482'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/12/when-i-last-reviewed-film-here-michael.html?showComment=1196778180000#c7981943879701592482' title=''/><author><name>tyrone</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16935038795606768217</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/12/when-i-last-reviewed-film-here-michael.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6888775519554135120' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6888775519554135120' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-875213121"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 04, 2007"/></entry></feed>