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But in the movies-and surely this is part of Godard's point-to change forms is to address audiences.
Dave Kehr • When Movies Mattered: Reviews from a Transformative Decade
In the years since I’d been a book reviewer, everyone had become a reviewer, and everything had become a subject for reviews.
John Green • The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
Technology / Media Ecology
Thomas Klaffke • Visualizing Minimalist Design
The movie is thoroughly a product of Seventies sensibility: the integrity of things as they already stand, the presentation of a text as a concrete object, and out-front admission of the means of production.
Manny Farber • Farber on Film: The Complete Film Writings of Manny Farber: A Library of America Special Publication
The gags in Used Cars are as tattered, crass, and intentionally second-rate as its subject matter, and they’re funny because they are so depressingly familiar. The humor taps into a collective unconscious of half-remembered kiddie shows, situation comedies, and B movies—the dregs of popular culture. There is no other humor to apply to this debased
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