Movies That Mattered: More Reviews from a Transformative Decade
“The packaging of all moving images as equitable content “has created a situation in which everything is presented to the viewer on a level playing field, which sounds democratic but isn’t,” Scorsese continues. “If further viewing is ‘suggested’ by algorithms based on what you’ve already seen, and the suggestions are based only on subject matter or... See more
Thomas Klaffke • Visualizing Minimalist Design
I think there's this weird thing at work now with the way people relate to, specifically, mainstream cinema. When they watch those movies, they like to be on the receiving end . . . and the sound is so loud, and the images are so powerful, they want to be totally passive. But then, a few months later, the salve film is on DVD, and they can watch it
... See moreJonathan Rosenbaum • Goodbye Cinema, Hello Cinephilia: Film Culture in Transition
The drop-off in quality that followed the original-content revolution was immediate and precipitous. Lines grew tentative, poses awkward, compositions static, backgrounds nonexistent. Feet, notoriously difficult to draw in realistic depth, all but disappeared from the panels, and noses were reduced to the simplest variations on the twenty-second le
... See moreMichael Chabon • The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Strange things have been happening in American advertising. It’s becoming less poetic—and more effective.
Jack Trout • Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind
There is a vast amount of wishful thinking in science fiction films, some of it touching, some of it depressing. Again and again, one detects the hunger for a “good war,” which poses no moral problems, admits of no moral qualifications. The imagery of science fiction films will satisfy the most bellicose addict of war films, for a lot of the satisf... See more
Susan Sontag • The Imagination of Disaster
he does see trouble in the glut of franchise and comic book entertainment that currently makes up much of what you can see in a theater. “The danger there is what it’s doing to our culture,” Scorsese said. “Because there are going to be generations now that think movies are only those—that’s what movies are.”
I think people already think that.
I think people already think that.