From the Associate editor of IFC Rant re my letter to the editor below:
From: Erin Torneo <erin@...>
To: Northern Man <nyitalianm@...>
Subject: Re: Rant about Year of the Horse review
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 13:56:27 -0500
Dear Ray:
Thank you very much for your letter. We will be publishing it in the
May/June issue of ifcRANT. Please keep in touch and "rant back" whenever
you like.
We always like to hear from our readers.
Regards,
Erin Torneo
Associate Editor, ifcRANT
From: "Northern Man" <nyitalianm@...>
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 13:14:48 -0500
To: ranteditor@...
Subject: Rant about Year of the Horse review
To the editor:
I am compelled to "Rant" back at you after reading Brandon Judell's
butchering of Year of the Horse (p. 16 of Jan/Feb 2002). Judell shows his musical ignorance--Young and Crazy Horse are the best live band I have ever seen in terms of sheer musical intensity and pure rock and roll, and the songs featured in the movie are in fact some of his best. They don't have to dress up and prance around the stage to have stage presence. Maybe Judell should catch a show--it might change his mind. Young is the most influential singer-songwriter since Dylan and he is still writing and playing in his prime. His hypnotic guitar playing gets better with age. And it's a good film also. Jarmusch makes excellent use of different film stocks and camera angles and gives the live scenes an interesting look. This review is extremely misleading and unfair. You have a pretty good paper but this is embarassingly bad.
Ray C.
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