When Movies Mattered: Reviews from a Transformative Decade
All these people you’ve known and loved – “they suffered and struggled so much, and then life is over,” said Scorsese. “You get to the point of saying, ‘Well, what does it all mean?’ It doesn’t matter what it means. You have to live it. And if you choose not to live it, you choose not to live it; that’s up to you. But you are existing and you live ... See more
Zach Baron • Martin Scorsese: “I Have to Find Out Who the Hell I Am”
Martin Scorsese: “I Have To Find Out Who The Hell I Am.”
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The conditions of a minimal underground classic—that the shape of a film be discernible in any single frame; that a single-camera strategy be the basis for the movie’s metaphysic and any situation within the film; that the repetitions of the camera, which is always obviously present, creates a spirituality; and that the field of examination be more
... See moreManny Farber • Farber on Film: The Complete Film Writings of Manny Farber: A Library of America Special Publication
INVOCATION: Dear readers, help us to deliver ourselves from our enslavement to production values, our ridiculous attachment to slickness which makes filmgoing in most sectors an exclusive subscription to the puerile pastimes and philosophies of stupid, vulgar millionaires.