Sublime

Jonah

Why is all the attention going toward the De Niro charm as a displaced country boy who is out of his depth, unless the authors are obsessed by Industry staples?

The camera is the dread X-ray machine of all things false.

The purer the novel, the purer the play, the worse the film.

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.

hated the acclaimed Magnolia, which he found pretentious and hollow, “100% gradschoolish in a bad way.”

‘In film everything is a constructed reality’ (Berry 2001: 73):

tetchy

For Wood, the discovery of what he considers to be positive moral values in a film is a prerequisite to his appreciation of it-a