Occupation: Film Critic Birth: June 19, 1919 Death: September 3, 2001
If you're afraid of movies that excite your senses, you're afraid of movies..
Good movies make you care, make you believe in possibilities again. If somewhere in the Hollywood-entertainment world someone has managed to break th….
if you think it so easy to be a critic, so difficult to be a poet or a painter or film experimenter, may I suggest you try both? You may discover why….
For some strange reason we don't go to charming, light movies anymore. People expect a movie to be heavy and turgid, like "American Beauty." We've be….
Writers who go to Hollywood still follow the classic pattern: either you get disgusted by 'them' and you leave or you want the money and you become t….
Is there something in druggy subjects that encourages directors to make imitation film noir? Film noir itself becomes an addiction..
An avidity for more is built into the love of movies. Something else is built in: you have to be open to the idea of getting drunk on movies. (Being ….