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A movie that appeals to the family audience doesn’t really appeal to anyone; it gives neither parents nor children a reason to leave the television set, while children’s movies are alive and well and are known as network programming.

Dave Kehr • Movies That Mattered: More Reviews from a Transformative Decade

The point isn’t that people don’t have many sides to their character, but that the filmmakers, going for hot and heavy scores, bend the material for spiking effects.

Robert Polito • Farber on Film: The Complete Film Writings of Manny Farber: A Library of America Special Publication

fact-bound writer can’t go: worlds of imagination, rumination and fantasy. In return we enter into a more forgiving contract with him, allowing him to come at his subject slowly, discursively, obliquely, elliptically or just plain densely if that’s his vision. Density, in fact, is one of the qualities that William Faulkner’s fans most like about

William Zinsser • Writing to Learn: How to Write - and Think - Clearly About Any Subject at All

Movies, TV, music, books, and video games should expand our consciousness, jumpstart our imaginations, and introduce us to new worlds and stories and feelings. They should alienate us sometimes, or make us mad, or make us think. But they can’t do any of that if they only feed us sequels and spinoffs. It’s like eating macaroni and cheese every singl... See more

Adam Mastroianni • Pop Culture Has Become an Oligopoly

granular feedback and the iterative process to improve his work, perhaps a holdover from his math background.

Kyle Chayka • Filterworld

Maybe the emotional payoff of a fixed narrative is too ingrained in audiences to be eliminated. It certainly hasn’t been easy for Hustwit to adapt “Eno”to the commercial conventions of streaming and DVDs.

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‘They Want to Own the Artist’: Inside the Making of ‘The Brutalist’

David Fear rollingstone.com

Here we see a really pivotal moment of change, when art must become something that does not make people uncomfortable, so that they will spend money. The kind of person who is expected to consume art is transformed in the mind of the producer. The people who might very possibly love being expanded by what they see are never given the chance. They'