Highbrow, lowbrow, middlebrow?

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Links for the Day (May 14th, 2008)
Published 5/14/2008 by Keith Uhlich (noreply@blogger.com) at The House Next Door
... : Dennis Cozzalio's epic appreciation of the Wachowskis' latest (time for me to get to work on my own). (Hattip: Jim Emerson ) [ "It’s hard for me to imagine getting up enough steam to be too bothered by the apparent contradiction of making an anti-corporate movie that’s funded by a major conglomerate like Time Warner. It’s like saying there’s hypocrisy inherent in any work of art that doesn’t ascribe credence or endorsement to the views of the big boys who laid out the money to make it. Of course the Wachowskis wouldn’t be able to create this universe without the infusion of ...

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Published 5/18/2008 by noreply@blogger.com (weepingsam) at The Listening Ear
... - Culture Snob - and Andy Horbal does his part to make blogs and criticism work better together, by means of a custom search engine. Meanwhile, the great cartoonist Will Elder has died - Quiet Bubble has an appreciation. And, somewhat to my surprise, the movie that seems to be generating the most conversation on the blogs right now - Speed Racer. It's got Jim Emerson's attention - he's been circling it, rounding up other comments and looking into what it reveals about criticism... All the talk got me to go ...