Mine, will not tank like this film...


editor's comments: I don't know why I posted this on my crs1un.com blog, since it obviously belongs here...
Also, I'm working on an article about B-Boy Charles/Goku from Climax/Soul Control and am hoping to have a companion posting from a member of Wizards maybe?


Reposted from crs1un.com:
If excessive run time on a documentary is the fat, and the film is the body, then you could say that Among B-Boys is the "Bobby Lee" of Asian American Documentaries - a little bit round, a lot of fun, but you couldn't think of it any other way. That's what I'm hoping it is at least. Right now I'm feeling some pressure to slice and cut away sections in order to make it more succinct as a film. But what's really in a film's length? I remember at LA City College when I was taking the documentary history class, we watched an hour or two of Claude Lanzmann's 9 1/2 hour Holocaust documentary Shoah, and it was considered a good film. Well, the teacher considered it good. I think I agreed it was just long. But I'm not not talking 4 hours... shit, I'm not even talking 2 hours. I need to get it just under an hour for PBS, or just under an hour and a half. I'm actually under some pressure just to prove I can hold a half hour (no doubt in my mind). So the dilema in having it long is that I need to be able to hold the audience the entire time, not just inform - I must captivate and entertain!

I must be Bobby Lee!

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