[78-L] Vinyl documentary

[Mike Daley]

I liked Zweig's Vinyl doc. It certainly isn't perfect, and it focuses on the pathological aspect of collecting, which is uncomfortable for some of us, and true of all of our experiences to some extent. I like that he uses his doc to work through his own issues - he is not making fun of the eccentric collectors that he features, he is trying to understand them so that he can understand himself and his collecting urge. Certainly that approach is not to all tastes as well.
And he basically ignores the 78 collectors, which is probably appropriate given the title of the film. 

That said, I think that the doc is worth seeing by anyone interested in some of the psychologically messier aspects of the record collecting hobby.

Mike



On 2011-10-10, at 2:15 PM, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca> wrote:

> On 10/10/2011 1:32 PM, Michael Biel wrote:
>> From: Marvin Kaplansky<kaplanskym at gmail.com>
>>> Speaking of vinyl documentaries, "Vinyl" will be shown at 9PM on Wednesday
>>> October 19 (repeated three hours later) on TV Ontario.  Marvin Kaplansky
>> 
>> Are you sure that the film you are referring to being shown in Ontario
>> is not the morbidly depressing "Vinyl" that was done about ten years ago
>> by Alan Zweig?  That film is to be avoided if you wish to retain your
>> sanity.  Zweig's film is everything that my daughter Leah strived to
>> avoid in her video documentary about record collectors, "For the
>> Record".  Besides, her documentary is more about us shellac collectors!
>> 
>> The documentary Cary is linking to is different, and seems to be also a
>> more positive look at collectors like Leah's.
>> 
>> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
>> 
> I stood 20 minutes of Zweig's disaster and that was enough. If I recall 
> correctly, Mike borrowed my off-air copy of it. Unfortunately, he also returned it.
> 
> dl
>> 
>> On 9 October 2011 22:55, Cary Ginell<soundthink at live.com>  wrote:
>> 
>>>> 
>>>> http://www.marketwatch.com/story/new-documentary-film-focuses-on-vinyl-records-2011-10-03
>>>> Cary Ginell
>> 
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