However, I have kept my eyes open for interesting omnibuses and for those who are also interested in or curious about episodic cinema a fantastic opportunity will be available this Halloween. In my defense, copies of these films are not exactly falling from the sky. Unfortunately, I’ve yet to get around to seeing the particular anthologies we discussed in class: “In Our Time” (1982) and “The Sandwich Man” (1983) from the dawn of the Taiwanese New Wave. We had the option of hitting the theater for a screening of “Three… Extremes” (2004) as part of our final projects. I later learned he was something of an expert on the topic. My interest was eventually stirred by Professor David Scott Diffrient, whose opinion I quickly came to value. I’m never quite sure how I feel about them and for a long time I made a special point of avoiding even well-regarded omnibuses. They are usually decried as uneven and disjointed, often because of varying quality between the segments, conflicting visions of multiple directors or the failure of a central theme to gel. Portmanteau films, also called omnibuses or anthology films, tend to live in the shadows of regular features.
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