Here's how the Edinburgh Festival is celebrating the publication of Tim Lucas' Bava book:

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/edinburgh2007/s...2144742,00.html

Good to see that you don't just have to be fresh out of college to cobble together other people's stuff and dress it up as your own work because it's all too "out-there" or "underground" for your peers to find on their own. Anyone can juxtapose two different styles, mediums, arts - whatever - to "create" new meaning but WHYYYYY? I think I'll combine RIVERDANCE with SAW and call the show LAST MAN STANDING.

Victor

Those aren't charges normally lobbed at The Wooster Group, who have been dovetailing high and low art for years in lower Manhattan. The Wooster Group is, some of you will know, where Willem Dafoe got his start.

Just picturing the look of smug condescension plastered all over that Guardian writer's bovine features while he typed his oh-so-clueless attempt at an article makes me want to smash my own keyboard into a thousand pieces, ram the jagged fragments into his self-satisfied fizzog, call it an art installation critiquing the man-machine interface and what it implies for the human condition, then force him to review his own ruined soon-to-be-corpse favourably for the Arts pages.

That's the way I roll. :)









(I just remembered I forgot to take my Lithium today.)

I can't help wondering if source story author Renato Pestriniero (one of the father's of Italian science fiction and always its primary practitioner) is seeing any coin or acknowledgement from this venture. I doubt it. <_<

"B-movie"... perhaps. "Low culture"... perhaps not.

Steve, I'd like you to star in my planned remake of 'The Rebel'

My lip curled at "... a 1965 Italian sci-fi horror movie of questionable artistic merit..." but I actually made it as far as the theater chick saying "Our dramaturg is a film specialist." before I gave up.

Would a combination of high and low art include printing the piece on a roll of toilet paper and installing it in a public bathroom?

But then, I guess that's to be expected from a theatre group named after a city in Ohio.

Look, if XANADU could become a big Broadway musical, there's no reason why PLANET OF THE VAMPIRES shouldn't be boffo as an opera. Hey, the JERRY SPRINGER "opera," now playing in Chicago, is terrific.

If it hits, sign me up for BLACK SUNDAY: THE BALLET, a mimed BLOOD AND BLACK LACE, a children's theater BAY OF BLOOD, and whatever other cross-cultural potpourris that can be extracted from the Bava canon. If nothing else, these will keep Tim Lucas in program notes for years ("It was always the Maestro's intent to stage DANGER: DIABOLIK as a puppet show"). :)

Everything we currently regard as high culture - including Shakespeare's plays and Mozart's operas - is simply the low culture of the distant past.

Part of me is a bit fascinated by the idea of melding Bava with Cavalli, though I just don't see any good coming of this. But, it IS the Wooster group, and they have done some fascinating work, in the past.

The article itslef is typical "hipster" trash talk. Worthless, except for the announcement.