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IHT sees the light on French student protests | 21 comments (21 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)
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My bet is that Pfaff, or a senior editor, had to front the article with the partyline anti-Euro crap to get it past the paper's corporate minders who skim the lead couple of para only.  Call me cynical, but I have heard and read enough about corporate owner/advertiser pressure on us newspaper and newsrooms to expect this kind of thing.

I am trying to recall the name of the Eastern European film maker -- Polish?  Hungarian?  Czech? -- who said, of his courageous dissident work under the Soviet regime, something like this:  State censorship is difficult, but you can get around it or under it or fool it somehow;  but the censorship of money is almost perfect, it is much harder to get around that.  Anyone remember this man or the correct quotation?  it was on a printed flyer for a showing of one of his films, a bit of ephemera which I had in my office about 2 yrs ago and which has since sunk into the midden layers.

The difference between theory and practise in practise ...

by DeAnander (de_at_daclarke_dot_org) on Thu Mar 23rd, 2006 at 06:02:58 PM EST
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Are you thinking of:

There's no such thing as freedom in any film industry,'claims Soviet emigre director Andrei Konchalovsky. 'Filmmaking requires an enormous amount of money, and it doesn't matter if that money is state money or corporate money. People who pay for the music order the tune. It's the censorship of power or money.'

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She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. -- Jean-Paul Sartre

by ATinNM on Thu Mar 23rd, 2006 at 06:11:39 PM EST
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My guess was Polanski, but I found it was another famous Polish director, Andrzej Wajda, in a quote by a Guardian reporter:

Wajda once said to me, when I asked him whether he would prefer the freedom of Western film-making to the artistic constraints of the Eastern bloc, that there were always ways of getting round political censorship but no way to avoid the censorship of money. Later in his career, when his disillusion with the Communist party was complete, he showed - with Man Of Iron, Man Of Marble and several other outstanding films - exactly what he meant.


*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Thu Mar 23rd, 2006 at 06:20:07 PM EST
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DoDo gets the virtual cookie!  gee, that was spookily fast.  was that person knowledge, or should I hang my head for shame that I did not hit wikipedia or google or  imdb with the appropriately long and iterative search string?

The difference between theory and practise in practise ...
by DeAnander (de_at_daclarke_dot_org) on Thu Mar 23rd, 2006 at 06:59:49 PM EST
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The latter :-) Though, admittedly, I could narrow down the search using a select few directors' names.

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Thu Mar 23rd, 2006 at 07:03:40 PM EST
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aha, so you did have a store of personal knowledge to commence the search operation.  I find that googlish success is dependent on the searcher having just one valid and specific clue.  with just that one clue (like a list of names, or the name of a school or atelier, or an event or a movie title, or a character in a movie, or the book on which it was based, or the year in which a showing provoked a theatre closing) all else can be tracked down.  but w/o that one specific key one can wander in the weblerness (sorry, there must be a better horrid neologism someone could think of) for tens of minutes getting nowhere.

The difference between theory and practise in practise ...
by DeAnander (de_at_daclarke_dot_org) on Thu Mar 23rd, 2006 at 07:45:39 PM EST
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Yeah, I made similar experiences...

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Fri Mar 24th, 2006 at 03:20:56 AM EST
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IHT sees the light on French student protests | 21 comments (21 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)
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