The current cinema, "Praise the lord and pass the ammunition" edition

2 Comments

• MarkVH says:

  January 13, 2012 at 5:07 pm

  Best head­line ever. Nicely done.

• DeGuire says:

  January 14, 2012 at 6:21 pm

  I enjoyed that The Descendants “tele­visu­al” debate was called back in, of all places, a Joyful Noise review. Hey, why not? Because that sub­ject was on my mind recently while read­ing Kael’s review of La Grande Illusion. I found this quote par­tic­u­larly apt, “In cinema there is the artistry that brings the medi­um alive with self-conscious excite­ment (Potemkin, Kane) and there is the artistry that makes the medi­um dis­ap­pear (Grande Illusion, Shoeshine).” It’s a shame, though not sur­pris­ing, that visu­al style which does­n’t call atten­tion to itself is so eas­ily ignored, often by those who con­sider them­selves film savvy.