Summer reading. Wenders.

The loud and lurid are terribly overrated, and just because everybody seems to have accepted that they rule, some of us grudgingly - we shouldn't exclude the transcendental, the silent or the good as being part of our contemporary existence. Wings of Desire was making that point, and not, I think, by dwelling on the "art" aspects. And the way people all over the world embraced that alternative way of "purification" sort of proved my point, didn't it? That doesn't mean I can't dig the vulgar. Fassbinder's films as well as, let's say, Almodóvar's today have marvelously explored that territory, without glorifying it like for instance Lynch or Tarantino. With these guys I sometimes feel they try to prove their point so much that it becomes redundant. Not that I don't count them as two of the most brilliant stylists and innovators of our times. (I just dread their imitators...) But to come back to your question...

Actually, pointing to that excerpt, the idea is to get you to look at and explore Naked Punch.

Posted by dwhudson at July 15, 2005 10:45 AM