Monday, January 29, 2007

GenX Video ...

... is, as everyone knows, a mainstay of the cultural life of Waterloo and even Kitchener-Waterloo, along with the Princess Cinema. However, they seem to be in a turmoil at the moment, or else they have adapted something like Borges' Chinese Encyclopedia as a classification scheme. That is,
  1. Documentaries
  2. Movies sacred to the Emperor
  3. The Criterion Collection
  4. Nouvelle Vague
  5. TV Series
  6. New Arrivals
  7. Armenian Movies
  8. Stray Dog(s)
  9. others
  10. Movies made by Stanley Kubrick
  11. Godzilla
Or something like that. Anyway, it is good that I was looking for a Criterion movie (The Fallen Idol), or else I would have had to ask someone for help! The horror!

Another thing. They have a sticker that goes on a movie to identify it as Gay. I can't imagine why this should be necessary. You pick up a movie and it has a picture of two members of the same sex in a state of undress, or it has a title with Gay in it, or something like that -- and you say to yourself, aha, this is a gay movie, that is not my glass of tea, or it is, whatever -- so what is the sticker for? So gay people can zero in on them quickly? Or so non-gay people don't pick them up and go eek!

Ok, it's this, I want to get out "Angels in America" and it has a gay sticker on it. I'll have to send someone in.