May 28, 2006

NYT gaffe of the day: "François Truffaut's 'Breathless.'"

From a pretty interesting article about copyright and the fair use of film clips in documentaries.

ADDED: And I can just hear some fact checker whine, but Truffaut's name is on the IMDB page!
Posted by Ann Althouse at 9:43 AM
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6 comments:

reader_iam said...

Oh. Dear.

I didn't know Godard and Truffaut were one and the same person! Who knew?

Neat trick, that.

5/28/06, 10:16 AM
reader_iam said...

Maybe the problem is that is the waning existence of fact-checkers, to begin with. Does the NYT still maintain a herd of such animals?

Of course, reporters/editors could double-check just as quickly.

"If it's on the INTERNET it must be true ... ."

5/28/06, 10:19 AM
Jim Hu said...

It's not like they even had to go elsewhere on the net to check - the link in the article to the NYT movie database shows Godard

5/28/06, 10:59 AM
Ann Althouse said...

What gets me is that someone who got to write about film in the New York Times didn't know something that belongs on a list of most basic facts in the history of film. You don't know who directed "Breathless," and you're writing professsionally about film? That doesn't make any sense.

5/28/06, 11:11 AM
reader_iam said...

It sure doesn't!!!

What's scary is that this sort of knowledge lack isn't necessarily confined to movies ... .

VH: Sqism

Heh! Well, now THAT'S a topic that hasn't raised its head on Althouse for a while.

ROTFL (while keeping a careful eye on the intro's of the Indy 500 drivers ... one must keep one's priorities straight)

5/28/06, 11:42 AM
KaneCitizen said...

Ouch! How painful!

Still, the gist of the article reaffirms for me what a bunch of self-defeating bullshit this whole rights-clearance thing has evolved into. Did you see "Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession" which was mentioned? It's awesome! They had a ton of film clips, and you know what they made me want to do? Go out and buy or rent EVERY MOVIE THEY SHOWED CLIPS FROM. I've already rented about 5 0r 6 that I would not have otherwise rented, and purchased one. For the life of me, I cannot understand why music and film rights-holders are so stubborn about resisting FREE ADVERTISING for their (almost always back-catalog) products!

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5/30/06, 7:49 AM

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