why i like the nytimes

i want to thank the nytimes for being so great for cinema lovers. as i've posted before it's been a bad past month for folks that like great cinema, but the times has done something i very much care about and they've done it is a rather perfectly new york way - by taking two great new york filmmakers and having them talk about their relationships to these great, recently deceased filmmakers from other places (other worlds almost).

the end result has been as fitting a tribute to greatness as a newspaper should (or frankly could) produce. scorcese's piece of antonioni and allen's piece of bergman are perfect homages to these great filmmakers, but they're also perfect homages to people who love great films - and I suppose to cinema itself. the otherworldly quality of the great auteurs has been brought to a real and personal level that everyone can understand simply by showing that great and otherworldly auteurs think and feel the same way the rest of us rabble feel about great and otherworldly auteurs - they are amazed at how well they move us with their craft. and of course, they are so moved.

there - i've gone and had my annie hall moment for the weekend; now i'm going to stalk mia farrow.