The Phantom Image

In the TLS, Martin Scorsese responds to a review of his film Silence. His article, "Standing up for cinema," lives up to its title: it stands up for a much maligned creative process, and an undervalued creative product. Scorsese makes many good points, in so many beautiful lines. Definitely worth a read.

If you feel inspired, here are the films he mentions:

• Battleship Potemkin (HU DVD 43)
• Lawrence of Arabia (HU DVD 3935)
• The Searchers (HU DVD 1808)
• The Shining (HU DVD 2168)
• There Will Be Blood (HU DVD 4196)
• Marketa Lazarová (HU DVD 2904)
• The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (HU DVD 4225)
• 2001: A Space Odyssey (HU DVD 1817)
• Greed (DVD 7490, Library Use Only)
• Strangers on a Train (HU DVD 339)