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March 14, 2006

Jareck-ing Ball, Part II: Paging Mr. Denby

Just a quick plug for my colleague Ray Pride, who features a mind-blowing interview with Why We Fight filmmaker Eugene Jarecki in this week's Pride, Unprejudiced column. Does it beat last month's Scarborough/Hendrix/Donahue tilt over on Kaiju Shakedown? Only time will tell, but any exchange this profoundly inteligent and concentrated in its dismissal of David Denby has my undivided attention:

I'm happy for you to write anything you want about David Denby. I honestly believe that David Denby has hurt too many filmmakers by writing things in the mainstream press that are vicious, that reveal a too-great distance from the creative process. If that makes me unpopular with David Denby, I think that any artist should be unpopular with any critic who sets tyrannical parameters about art. I also was angry at the insult he dealt my cinematographers, my crews. To call what they're doing stock footage ignores their work, it ignores the commitment they made to time in the field. They wrote a note about this; they were extremely upset about it and co-signed it, 19 of them. It's a big deal. And it sends a shock wave. It's kind of like, I guess, the way Mr. Denby would see the world, you're either with him or you're with the terrorists.

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Posted by stvanairsdale at March 14, 2006 03:10 PM

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