Goodbye Cinema, Hello Cinephilia: Film Culture in Transition
It's what you're slowest to approve of that teaches you the most.
Jonathan Rosenbaum • Goodbye Cinema, Hello Cinephilia: Film Culture in Transition
people around the globe have more in common today than they've ever had before at any other time in history - if only because the globe is being run by the same people and corporations who are doing the same things everywhere.
Jonathan Rosenbaum • Goodbye Cinema, Hello Cinephilia: Film Culture in Transition
Community.
Ray has argued that the dated aspects of films directed by William Wellman are more valuable than the relative "timelessness" of those directed by HowardHawks because they have more to tell us about the worlds they came from-which is another way of saying that film criticism can and should be a way of writing about the world.'
Jonathan Rosenbaum • Goodbye Cinema, Hello Cinephilia: Film Culture in Transition
the unreasoning conviction that anything that educates us can't be pleasurable probably accounts for much of the rest.
Jonathan Rosenbaum • Goodbye Cinema, Hello Cinephilia: Film Culture in Transition
(I try to ignore plots, like all other vehicles, unless I'm driving: why miss all the scenery?)-and
Jonathan Rosenbaum • Goodbye Cinema, Hello Cinephilia: Film Culture in Transition
One critic I still read:
virtually demand to be hustled.
Jonathan Rosenbaum • Goodbye Cinema, Hello Cinephilia: Film Culture in Transition
"I would say that I take them more seriously than someone who has to write about them twice a week can afford to"
Jonathan Rosenbaum • Goodbye Cinema, Hello Cinephilia: Film Culture in Transition
Like Los Angeles itself, politics and criticism sometimes need to be disguised or de-emphasized in order to register with effectiveness as entertainment.