THE CYNEPHILE » foreign film https://www.cynephile.com "The cinema is cruel like a miracle." -Frank O'Hara Fri, 17 Jul 2015 21:18:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.37 Why do foreign films have to be so foreign? https://www.cynephile.com/2011/11/why-do-foreign-films-have-to-be-so-foreign/ https://www.cynephile.com/2011/11/why-do-foreign-films-have-to-be-so-foreign/#comments Sun, 13 Nov 2011 08:56:49 +0000 http://www.cynephile.com/?p=1169 I found it – the utterly asinine and sexist beer commercial that Scorsese referred to this 1993 letter to the New York Times.The ad is obviously satirizing a Fellini film, and was part of a larger campaign with the tagline, “Why ask why? Try Bud Dry.”

Fostering willful idiocy as a sales tactic? Yup, sounds like America.

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