there is something in the quality of Ruiz's imagination that summons up those primal Hollywood pleasures, something that connects to our first film-going experiences, when we weren't old enough to follow the plots and still too young to care. Lucas and Spielberg pursue these same memories in their films, but they're too literal minded, too committe

Eijanaika

as Robert Preston performs it, it's a tinglingly joyous moment, the only drag act in film history that is not humiliating, but genuinely expansive.

meretriciousness

Jouissance

But in the movies-and surely this is part of Godard's point-to change forms is to address audiences.

Jonah

Each image is the product of so many different associations and connections that it becomes, in away, unmoored. The overburdened images overwhelm their referents and float free. Losing their centeredness, their core of meaning, the images are liberated from the system of language; they no longer occupy fixed positions in a hierarchy of meaning, but

That's one of the marks of a great film artist, I think-the ability to compress, condense, to find resonance in the simplest of images, and to never waste an image, making it work on a number of levels.