Errata is a web journal written by Robert Davis who has neither spent a night in a ghost town nor pulled a turnip from the earth. He doesn't even know if turnips grow in the ground. Perhaps on trees, like candy corn. Therefore, Errata is a non-commercial project.

Observation #1: It may be appropriate, when leaving a movie theater, to say "mysterious."

Observation #2: It may be appropriate, when leaving a movie theater, to say "mysterious" at the top of your lungs. Bring your eyebrows together before you say it. Effective!

Observation #3: Same for books. Even at libraries.

There is a prize for people who correctly guess the thing about Metropolis, Nevada.

Except where the text specifically states otherwise, Errata's vagaries are indicated vaguely and its authors are indistinct in the traditional way of the Internet, except where the authors lay claim to their work. In some cases Robert Davis lays claim to work that is not his own but has been abandoned like so many ghost towns. Except where held presently, fistfuls of dirt are suspended via dispersal, or dispersed via suspension (in the air), and thus their dissolution is their transcendence, or their transcendence is their dissolution. And yet our eyes tear, and our vision is impaired, demonstrating for the umpteenth time that one entity's gain is another's fit of sneezes. Except where indicated, storms shall outlive the clay upon which they rain, unless storms are improperly delimited by their clouds, which dissolve, rather than by their inevitable return. Thus the clay loses, unless the clay is said to own the storm, to use it to make itself heavy, to make itself cling to white garments, refuse dispersal, cake upon the facades of abandoned buildings, and sit like Man [sic] upon the earth where it is pelted by a storm that it owns. In which case the clay still loses, if you ask us.

Some of the above is legally binding and should be considered a mental contract between Errata and those upon whom it acts. The bit about the prize should be considered an overstatement insofar as prizes differ from dirt and prize dispersal differs from dirt dispersal. Please recall that ownership is a weight and, therefore, hope that you do not win the prize.

One day Errata or its representatives will call upon you for a favor. It is expected that you will hop-to without delay.

You may contact Robert Davis by email unless it's about the rock that was thrown in anger. The rock is more properly called a clod. Why do you continue to raise the topic?

17 March 2004

Festival notes contain errors, some possibly deliberate

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Although we went to great pains to recruit only the brightest reviewers to write the film notes for the first ever Errata film festival, we've belatedly discovered a number of errors in their work. First, most historians agree that Josef von Sternberg did not "delete two vons" from his name when he moved to Hollywood, as the notes for Blue Angel state. Also the notes for The Battle of Algiers include photos of the actors, but one of the photos is incorrect. Below is the incorrect photo alongside the correct photo.

It has come to our attention that this may have been a deliberate substitution by one of our brightest reviewers who obviously has no sense of proper professional behavior. If pretending that Jafar Panahi was in The Battle of Algiers is someone's idea of a joke, we are only sad for that person, especially when he or she goes on to state that the actor's name is Bruno von Forestier and that his daughter once made a movie about apples, both untrue. Confusing two people only because they are both in the film industry or because one of them rarely wears fatigues makes us very very angry, very angry.

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