Tag: cinema critique

pdf: escape from alcatraz Introductory Notes To The Cinema (February 2005) ” It is the audience who makes the art…. What an audience! Whoever wants to look the twentieth century in the face cannot do better than stand behind the screen in a big cinema… The audience of the music hall are bright, consciously convivial, aware of…

Interpretation of movies by film reviewers, regardless of whether they’re anarchist/marxist/whateverist or  merely conventional professional cineastes, make me think of the comment on “The Cadre” in the situ-influenced movie “Call It Sleep”: “The more that silence surrounds the worker and his alienation, the more the intellectual feels obliged to provide meaningful social commentaries. The intellectual…