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...such rare masters as D. W. Griffith and Sergei Eisenstein, the vast majority of films a decade ago were little more than pale reflections of the the ater or the novel. The New Cinema has developed a poetry and rhythm all its own. Traditionally, says Cahiers Editor Jean-Louis Comolli, "a film was a form of amusement - a distraction. It told a story. Today, fewer and fewer films aim to distract. They have be come not a means of escape but a means of approaching a problem. The cinema is no longer enslaved to a plot. The story becomes simply...
There are any number of critical theories running around the world, each more insistant than the last that it alone is on to what the cinema should be. In last month's Cahiers Jean-Louis Comolli called for salles claires, half-lighted movie theatres to point up the auteur's conscious intent. Good films, like this one, create their own clarity...
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