Steve Fesenmaier writes: \”Facets Video, in Chicago, has produced a very useful guide to the “7 deadly sins of video collecting.”
Here they are briefly:
1. Forgetting that public libraries are not video stores.
2. Ignoring newer foreign and indie films.
3. Marginalizing or minimizing the video collection.
4. Animation=Disney=Children
5. Neglecting classic, indie, and foreign titles become of expense
6. Treating AFI list of 100 “greatest” as the gospel
7. Defining “indie” as “indiewood”.
Steve Fesenmaier writes: \”Facets Video, in Chicago, has produced a very useful guide to the “7 deadly sins of video collecting.”
Here they are briefly:
1. Forgetting that public libraries are not video stores.
2. Ignoring newer foreign and indie films.
3. Marginalizing or minimizing the video collection.
4. Animation=Disney=Children
5. Neglecting classic, indie, and foreign titles become of expense
6. Treating AFI list of 100 “greatest” as the gospel
7. Defining “indie” as “indiewood”. If you want to get a copy of the brochure, contact If you are looking for interesting videos and DVDs, check out www.facets.org – I do. Their website gives full descriptions of 35,000 items. Last year they released the “Decalogue”, 10 films by Polish director Kieslowski.\”
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