Sorry, there is a difference.” So far, wine fans have been kind to Sideways, even though it echoes Gopnik at points-perhaps this is the best testament to how winning the movie is. … I have been pleasantly drunk on fine wine and cheap lager. “The twin pleasures of the wine and its alcohol combine to produce an intoxicating effect, but to collapse the former into the latter is to effect a fruitless reduction. In online chat rooms, aggrieved wine lovers weighed in: “The enjoyment of wine qua wine, distinct from the joy of imbibing alcohol to get drunk, seems lost on Mr. (Miles is forever getting tanked and nursing hangovers.) In The New Yorker’s recent food issue, Adam Gopnik caused some gnashing of teeth among oenophiles when he claimed that the rituals and rigors of wine appreciation are essentially a smokescreen, a way of prettifying the grubby business of getting bombed. It suggests that all the sniffing, swilling, and pontificating is ultimately BS and that, even for an aficionado like Miles, the real point of tasting fine wine is to catch a nice buzz. Murray Schafer, a Canadian composer and writer who brought the concept of the soundscape to widespread recognition and pioneered the field of acoustic ecology the relationship between. Much superior to most of the junky reference books that have followed.Sideways casts a bemused eye at wine geek culture generally. Easily the most comprehensive and intelligent guide to 'queer cinema' I have come across. The 200 detailed personality profiles and more than 300 expansive film reviews are exceptional.Īnd when you consider the boom in gay and lesbian filmmaking in the last 20+ years, we definitely need a new volume.īut even if you may consider this too old a reference guide to bother with, think again as it is chock full of still relevant information and is a first-rate encyclopedia of gay/lesbian film history. Sections divided up into: Favorite Directors / Favorite Stars / The Arts / Of Queer Interest / Of Lesbian Interest / Of Gay Interest / Of Transgender Interest / Camp / Honorable and Dishonorable Mentions complete with a very thorough index. just a pity no one ever got around to updating it.Ī very handsome book with an excellent easy to follow format and boasting an awesome collection of some 400 well-chosen photos which places this work way above the ordinary. This is a terrific guide to Gay and Lesbian films up to 1996.
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