The Death of Cinema pt. 94

As this thread proves, the real problem with cinema is that cinephilia refuses to fucking die.

this is an interesting discussion and i'm sorry to say i don't have much to add to it, except that whenever e.g. godard pops his head out of his hole to proclaim the d"eath of cinema" every two years or so my kneejerk reaction is usually "stfu"

what do you call cinephilia when it doesn't actually involve watching the movies you're talking about

'napoleon dynamite' isn't populist

Yeah, that's why I see VOTE FOR PEDRO tees on the street

I will watch Knocked Up when it hits DVD shortly. Given the track record of people who love it, I'll send the universal $11 cost of a NYC film ticket to my creditors instead, thanks.

great attitude.

As this thread proves, the real problem with cinema is that cinephilia refuses to fucking die.

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what do you call cinephilia when it doesn't actually involve watching the movies you're talking about

Every cinephile I know does this. We're not all working critics, after all.

Yeah, attitude? It's hardcore personal economics.

also stfu w/ "populist" forever and ever and ever

at this point i don't think a Hollywood youth-orientated comedy can ever appeal to me again. too late for Zoolander 2.

tonight hollywood weeps

they'll get over me, in time.

s1ocki, I have been writing a little about film for just over 8 months (for the first time since college) without benefit of a single free screening or DVD screener, so tell me who's supposed to subsidize my seeing all the 'important' films like KU.

Culturally discerning [sic?] 25-year-olds who would've seen and discussed every Godard film in the mid '60s now reserve their passion for Knocked Up

Are you ever going to let this go, Morbs? Like "cinephiles" didn't love Mazursky or Blier.

whatever dude, if you can't afford to see it, maybe hold back on criticizing it

i could care less if you ever see an apatow film but if you're going to talk shit about them i might take your opinions a little more seriously if you had a clue what you were talking about

As for the topic at hand: most critics find sentimentality irresistable (every Gore Vidal essay bemoaning the Death of the Novel to thread)

So ... the death of cinephilia = the price of tickets

That's not the only reason, but is a contributing factor to my being well over the cinephilia as gluttony thing.

it's not difficult to identify things about a film you either know you dislike or strongly suspect you will dislike esp. now you can read fairly detailed synopsis on wikipedia ;)

it's dead where it used to be alive and vice versa.(thank you asian cinema for keeping the light)
but generally speaking,there are less good movies per year compared to the past,imo.

All this talk about the Golden Age of Foreign Films is merely a bunch of critics fetishizing the act of going to a Bleeker Street theatre or whatever and having long arguments afterwards about Bergman's use of dwarfs in The Silence. These communities still exist and the discussion continues.

the thing is,Bergman was shown in smaller,less central places than nyc, and now,"art directors" like him are shown ONLY on cities like nyc.
there are less audience for that "art" movies.

Maybe we should stop thinking that the medium had a golden age, then. Mourn the lack of enthusiasm, or maybe its transition into something else. (Something very annoying.)

i think we should just keep talking ourselves in circles forever.

Knocked Up's postrelease prestige print ads featured a scintillating line about how marriage differs from Everybody Loves Raymond as an example of its Wilder-caliber screenwriting. I'll be pleasantly surprised if I like it, but I know the way to bet.

I've seen one episode of The Sopranos, let's talk about that now.

"Wilder-caliber screenwriting" often didn't even meet Wilder's standards.

i think we should just keep talking ourselves in circles forever.

Whatever keeps us from actually watching movies, right?

That "Everybody Loves Raymond" line was v. lame

I bet it'll be the clip for its Best Original Screenplay nom

Irony: I am going to see Knocked Up tonight for $2 at the awesome cheap theater near where I live. Well, no, I guess that's not really ironic at all.

ok i am not going to have this argument again, if your really think you don't actually have to watch movies to pass judgment on them, i dont think we have much to talk about

To be fair, he wasn't passing judgement on Knocked Up but an archetype that overlaps with a perceived fanbase for that film.

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food critics, Christ

Morbs contructs these phony binarities: if you love Apatow films, you're a meathead who will ignore a Tsai Ming-Liang release.

Can't one hate both?

I mean, wtf, a Renoir or pre-American Lang film wasn't getting the George Cukor Radio City treatment.

no, I actually don't believe that particular phony binary

food critics, Christ

-- Dr Morbius, Thursday, September 13, 2007 3:37 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

haha

To be fair, he wasn't passing judgement on Knocked Up but an archetype that overlaps with a perceived fanbase for that film.

-- Eric H., Thursday, September 13, 2007 3:35 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

and ya whatev, it's all ill-informed sophistry to this food critic.

xp

(That 'binary' is, of course, true 99% of the time; check the b.o. tallies)

actually lang was pretty well distributed in the '20s. renoir, no; but shit, hollywood brought over just about all the major talents, front and behind camera, from germany in the early '20s.

lang was not an art-house director: he was making big-budget films in a studio as big as any in california.

The b.o. discrepancy can be attributed to the fact that people who would be into TML movies are all paying off their grad student loans.

oh, and buying every new Criterion DVD sight unseen.

i'm not going to say Knocked Up (or numerous other youth-orientated Hollywood flicks) is a bad film (because i haven't seen it) but i stand by my 'this looks like i will hate it' thing and still find it interesting to look at why that is (not here tho). morbs probably doing a different thing ala momus vs tarantino.

and i def wouldn't bother making judgement about apatow fanbase - esp. not when his films get the love they do on ILE.

oh, and buying every new Criterion DVD sight unseen.

like the people on their forum? (actually if you think ILE/F threads are bad...)

i don't think TML is very good. doesn't much to speak to my experience, doesn't much create forms that interest me.

like the people on their forum?

Like all cinephiles in flyover country.

is Knocked Up YOUTH-oriented? Appears aimed squarely at 21-34 to me. But that is the New Adolescence, I guess.

hah i was gonna say "speaking to my experience" = why i rate apatow highly (well, not the only reason)