From: Cari Machet (email suppressed)
Date: Thu Mar 26 2009 - 16:34:40 PDT
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On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 10:35 AM, Fred Camper <email suppressed> wrote:
> I posted an opinion of a film, just a few sentences, and got ensnared in
> yet another "meta" thread. As malgosia so clearly pointed out, if stating an
> opinion of a film is going to lead, as it did here and for me too, to "being
> attacked, disrespected, patronized, required to provide credentials,
> inducted into a group-therapy session, bored to death," then we are in big
> trouble.
>
> Cari, I have some questions for you. Where and in what year did you see
> "Gabriel," and in what format? And have we actually met, and where and in
> what year and in what city? I have a terrible memory for faces and for
> social encounters, but you write as if we are online and offline pals. We
> are not. And if "i have actually seen freds actual body and have experienced
> his writing many times," what and where were those times you saw my "body"?
> As for the "many times" you have experienced my writing, I'd question that
> too, because you didn't seem to know that I've written on many avant-garde,
> Hollywood, and other filmmakers.
>
> If you are also saying that my status as an "authority" in your mind makes
> me less eligible to express my opinions, then I beg to differ. Frankly, if,
> say, P. Adams Sitney expresses reservations about a film I love, or love for
> a film I dislike, I will take that more seriously than the opinion of
> someone from whom I have learned nothing.
>
> Let me again point out that this all started because you responded to my
> criticism of a film not with comments on the film but with a personal attack
> on me.
which was about your film criticism not you personally
i didn't comment on your race, hair, shape of nose...
that is different
i criticized your body of work as a critic
fred do you get it?
you can't take criticism of your criticism?
fred you are funny
always good for a laugh - thanks
>
>
> Fred Camper
> Chicago
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