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.

Such is our tortured ambivalence about fun as well as edification

"I'm out to follow an argument, not seduce people."'

galvanized

Mythologies about macho power and the pride of wanton blood-spilling are arguably at the roots of what put George W. Bush twice into office, but this is something we've generally allowed ourselves to laugh at only after it's too late to undo most of the damage.

intentionality is generally a hornet's nest.

"I would say that I take them more seriously than someone who has to write about them twice a week can afford to"

caesura

One used to assume, whenever one saw a person walking down the street speaking loudly to no one in particular, that this person was insane. Today one commonly assumes that this same person is a sane individual speaking to someone else on a phone, but it might also be possible to assume that the implied rejection of one's immediate surroundings sugg