Jean Renoir is persuasive on how technological progress ruins any art—especially cinema!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKCrOLcDbjE

7 more movies:

In April I listed seven—well, nine—and even at that didn't get them all. Here are seven more:

PICK-UP ON SOUTH STREET http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwe12-Sr-e8

CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOhq0AyRNjY

THE PINK PANTHER (David Niven version)

BELLE DE JOUR http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJXLCYZMGQ8

CONTEMPT http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjBUy2U1g04

LOLITA (the Kubrick version) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVMUY-zdgRk&feature=fvst

DARK EYES http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58rQlmFiiSY

HOW TO STEAL A MILLION http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPStHOzjQWU

TOBY DAMMIT (Fellini's part of SPIRITS OF THE DEAD) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdpyOwOZTtU

e. e. cummings

when god decided to invent
everything he took one
breath bigger than a circus tent
and everything began

when man determined to destroy
himself he picked the was
of shall and finding only why
smashed it into because