Comments on: Arse Gratia Artis http://dcairns.wordpress.com/2012/02/28/arse-gratia-artis/ david cairns Sun, 19 May 2013 16:30:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: dcairns http://dcairns.wordpress.com/2012/02/28/arse-gratia-artis/#comment-43184 Tue, 28 Feb 2012 15:05:02 +0000 http://dcairns.wordpress.com/?p=18583#comment-43184 From what I’ve seen, there’s Melies, because he’s first with everything, then Segundo de Chomon, who repeated everything Melies did and did it better and added animation, then there’s Zecca, who added toilet jokes.

]]> By: David Ehrenstein http://dcairns.wordpress.com/2012/02/28/arse-gratia-artis/#comment-43182 Tue, 28 Feb 2012 14:41:57 +0000 http://dcairns.wordpress.com/?p=18583#comment-43182 The late great Raymond Durgnat was a big Zecca fan. Somehting tells me Kenneth Anger is too re Eaux d’Artifice.

]]> By: dcairns http://dcairns.wordpress.com/2012/02/28/arse-gratia-artis/#comment-43177 Tue, 28 Feb 2012 14:03:30 +0000 http://dcairns.wordpress.com/?p=18583#comment-43177 Dranem and weep!

It’s hard to say if the film is funny because it’s actually performed with any skill, or just because it’s so joyously crass and stupid.

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