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• 1. At 7:17pm on 07 Jun 2008, betsy trotwood wrote:

  The Culture Show, 6th June.
  If, as he claims, Mark Kermode hasn't wanted to watch the Sex and the City TV series, what gives him any right to condemn the SATC film which he dismissed it as a pile of dross? It wasn't a bad film and made no claims to be heavy-culture sturm-und-drang. I guess that half the women in this country will end up seeing it eventually and if that percentage of the nation isn't part of "culture" then I don't know what is. The film was safely entertaining and a lot less pretentious and much more original than a supercilious poser with a glued-on Morrissey clone haircut. No doubt Mark Kermode would have condemned Mozart in his day as nothing more than a populist musician, appealing to the uneducated masses! Next time, could we please have Lauren Laverne's appraisal of the film. Send Kermode out into his avant-garden and let him slide back under his sluggy bauhaus stone.

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• 2. At 10:30am on 09 Jun 2008, EllenW-web_producer wrote:

  What gives a critic the right to say anything about anything? They make a judgement about something and then we judge whether we think that their opinion is worth listening to. You don't have to agree with Mark, the curmudgeon.
  
  I would say, however, that this film has divided the Culture Show office – I've heard a good few people saying that they enjoyed it, but it holds no allure for me, and I'm a 30-something, fashion-loving woman. I did see a few episodes from the SATC series and they left me completely cold, and I certainly haven't been won round by the trailer. Ok, the film sets itself up as a bit of fun, but it's not my idea of fun, and no amount of articles on how to dress like Carrie Bradshaw are going to win me over. I talk to my friends about work, politics and what music we're listening to far more than our latest shoe purchases, or men.
  
  So it ain't a gender thing...

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• 3. At 2:01pm on 14 Jun 2008, Fist-of-Peace wrote:

  I think culture is a spiral of creation, confrontation and judgement, the clips from the Waiting Room and O Lucky Man looked really intriguing. And I like the idea of an "avant-garden", I guess Andrew Graham Dixon landed his helicopter in one of those on his trip to Scotland!

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• 4. At 08:29am on 16 Jun 2008, EllenW-web_producer wrote:

  Avant-garden is a nice twist on the usual horticulture joke (see Dorothy Parker).
  
  ;-)

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