CarrollBlog 5.8

La Strada

by George Bilgere

A dollar got you a folding chair

in the drafty lecture hall

with a handful of other wretched grad students.

Then the big reels and low-tech chatter

of a sixteen-millimeter projector.

La Strada. Rashomon. HMS Potemkin.

La Belle e Ie Béte, before

Disney got his hands on it.

And The Bicycle Thief, and for God's sake,

La Strada.

You can't find them

at the video store anymore. Only the latest

G-rated animated pixilated computer-generated prequels.

That's jus