I've been slowly going through the Arts & Letters Daily archive, and I just read the following. What's the opposite of timely insight?
Scenes from a Revolution, by Norman Lebrecht
"DVD is killing CD - what will it do to the book?" What in the world? The essay turns out to not even be about music or books, but films, and Lebrecht predicts a curious future where the ability to buy old films will doom those flashy TV shows, all of us having devoted our time to the classics. This argument might benefit from a brief examination of the DVDs people actually buy.
And then there's the general "Wow, get a load of these DVD things!" feel, from a piece written in the grimy analog past of distant November 2005.
Scenes from a Revolution, by Norman Lebrecht
"DVD is killing CD - what will it do to the book?" What in the world? The essay turns out to not even be about music or books, but films, and Lebrecht predicts a curious future where the ability to buy old films will doom those flashy TV shows, all of us having devoted our time to the classics. This argument might benefit from a brief examination of the DVDs people actually buy.
And then there's the general "Wow, get a load of these DVD things!" feel, from a piece written in the grimy analog past of distant November 2005.
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I am amused by his suggestion that no-one would ever have greenlighted a remake of The Manchurian Candidate if they'd known the original would be on DVD. Even though the IMDb reports that the original has been on DVD since 1998. So, unless it took over six years to produce the remake...
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