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he does see trouble in the glut of franchise and comic book entertainment that currently makes up much of what you can see in a theater. “The danger there is what it’s doing to our culture,” Scorsese said. “Because there are going to be generations now that think movies are only those—that’s what movies are.”

I think people already think that.

Martin Scorsese: “I Have To Find Out Who The Hell I Am.”

Here on my screen was the distillation of a peculiar American illness: namely, that we have a profound and dangerous inclination to confuse art with moral instruction, and vice versa.

Opinion | Art Isn’t Supposed to Make You Comfortable

As Andre Bazin once said, all films are created equal. Whether they play at the Biograph (as will Violette) or the Chicago (as will Halloween), we owe them the same consideration, the same right to succeed or fail on their own terms.

Dave Kehr • When Movies Mattered: Reviews from a Transformative Decade

FEW THINGS ARE more mysterious than someone else’s favorite film. To hear it named is to be puzzled. You appreciate its merits but not how it can be preferable to all others. Perhaps your favorite film isn’t the one that you like best but the one that likes you best. It confirms you on first encounter, and goes on to shape you in some irreversible

Teju Cole • Known and Strange Things

Appearing during the early Reagan-Thatcher years, Blade Runner is an outline of a reconfigured relationship to an emerging global consumer culture that would be more securely in place by the 1990s. Rather than tracking any kind of split between the self and this milieu, the film affirms a functional assimilation of the individual into the circuitry

Jonathan Crary • 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep

The film lionizes the rejection of narrative but, in a notable irony, places Brad Pitt at its centre. Neatly contradicting its own thesis,

John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them

Denis Lavant and Julie Delpy in Leos Carax's MAUVAIS SANG, #NowShowing as part of "Love and Other Drugs: The Cinema of Leos Carax".

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Scorsese said he wanted to see how the Band’s music was made. Where did it come from? “I wanted to see what that magic was,” he said. “But ultimately there’s a lifestyle, too, that goes along with it. And a lot of it has to do with partying. And, okay: Partying went way out of hand for me. Because I didn’t know how to control it. But, I also wanted... See more

Martin Scorsese: “I Have To Find Out Who The Hell I Am.”

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