Letter: Don’t Call Them ‘Films’
Saturday, May 25, 2013
To the Editor: As recent articles attest, increasing numbers of low-budget movies are now being made thanks to the availability of moderately priced digital cameras and computer-editing applications. No problem with that. However, when reporting on these projects, please don’t refer to them as “films.” Except on rare occasions, contemporary low-budget producers are not making “films.” These days, they’re making “files.” OK, let’s compromise and simply call today’s cinematic output …
Saturday, May 25, 2013
To the Editor: The recent boatload of letters bearing us back ceaselessly into the American literary canon shared a seeming unfamiliarity with Ernest Hebert’s novels. From the town meeting scene in The Dogs of March, to the charms of Estelle Jordan, the close-to-the-ground living in A Little More Than Kin, and its foreshadowing of Spoonwood, to the chapter “The Gauntlet” in The Old …
Saturday, May 25, 2013
To the Editor: Nicola Smith’s review of Michael Pollan’s most recent book (“Let Them Eat Whole Foods,” May 22), Cooked, seems more an opportunity for her to vent her ire at Alice Waters of Chez Panisse fame than an honest book review. She seems to accuse anyone, like me, who was immediately drawn to the book because Pollan wrote it, of being guilty, …