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...filmgoer had to be diverted by the beautiful people in an Antonioni cast: stunners like Marcello Mastroianni, Jeanne Moreau, Alain Delon and especially Monica Vitti, the director's mistress and muse for five crucial films. These stars helped Antonioni make anxiety glamorous, passivity photogenic, entropy entertaining. You could say he made "boring" interesting...
...future, Bujalski’s films find only a limited audience of cinephiles. The influences film critics have said they see in his work—John Cassevetes, Jean-Luc Godard, Eric Rohmer—link him with other brilliant artists whose work is largely unnoticed by the casual filmgoer...
Directed by Bennett MillerSony Pictures Classics4 StarsThe Harvard-immersed filmgoer should be uniquely equipped to appreciate the pathos of Bennett Miller’s new film, “Capote,” chronicling the time Truman Capote spent researching and writing his novel “In Cold Blood.” Haven’t we all encountered at least one remarkably talented but socially stunted genius like Capote? And what undergrad worth his Literature and Arts A requirement is not interested in a deconstruction of the literary process?If that weren’t enough, Miller directs...
...HFA’s greater failing, however, was its lack of contextualizing materials for the filmgoer new to Kwon-taek’s oeuvre, or Korean cinema and culture in general. A brief essay on the politics and culture of late 19th-century Korea would have gone a long way towards improving the viewing experience...
...topics that film critics enjoy discussing more than the Role of the Film Critic. The argument is typically framed as a battle between the audience and the critic, as if their interests somehow diverge as they enter the movie theatre. The debate often starts over a single movie; a filmgoer will watch a movie that they loathe, notice a critical consensus surrounding it and redirect their animosity towards the “out-of-touch” critics. The critics will respond in kind with an admonition of the masses’ susceptibility to Big Hollywood, making blunt attempts...