I?ve been reading Chilean filmmaker Raúl Ruiz?s book Poetics of Cinema, and in light of the recent announcement for Harry?s ironically titled?Boring Art Films? blog-a-thon, I thought I?d bring up some of Ruiz?s thoughts on boredom and the cinema.Ruiz believes that mainstream cinema operates by the?central conflict theory? (?a story begins when someone wants something and someone else doesn?t want them to have it. From that point on, through various digressions, all the elements of...
