One Of The Gifts One Movie Lover

Only Enormously Talented People Could Have Made Death To Smoochy . Those With Lesser Gifts Would Have Lacked The Nerve To Make A Film So Bad, So Miscalculated, So Lacking Any Connection With Any Possible Audience.

Film Theory Has Nothing To Do With Film.

A Film Like Hoop Dreams Is What The Movies Are For. It Takes Us, Shakes Us, And Makes Us Think In New Ways About The World Around Us. It Gives Us The Impression Of Having Touched Life Itself.

We Can't Help Identifying With The Protagonist. It's Coded In Our Movie-going Dna.

My Newspaper Job … Is My Identity.