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PC DVD players as tools of the flaneur.
A number of DVD player programs include the digital zoom feature. This should not be overlooked. It allows the reframing and cropping of films to one's own tastes by focusing on specific parts of the frame rather than the whole. I found it particularly useful when watching the highly dubious Lost in Translation.
“You remember something you once heard Andy Warhol say in a radio interview, when he told British art critic Edward Lucie- Smith that he liked to watch movies on TV--a 1960s movie followed by a '70s movie and an '80s movie. "I watch them for the shoe styles," Andy said. That casual remark, apparently so fey and glib, came packed with dynamite. Within it was coiled Warhol's cool and happy alienation from his own culture. "All those orchestras sawing away, all those actors trying to pluck at my heart strings, all those directors trying to direct my attention to this and that," Warhol seemed to be saying, "are wasting their time. I denature the movies I watch, I reedit them in my head in real time according to my own personal fetish for shoe design."