You might learn as much about how to write by reading Shakespeare, Tolstoy, Wallace Stevens, Raymond Chandler, Saul Bellow, Paul Muldoon or a hundred other good novelists or poets than by seeing another round of John Ford revivals.
The Nazis, for him, are merely available movie tropes--articulate monsters with a talent for sadism. By making the Americans cruel, too, he escapes t… - David Denby
The Nazis, for him, are merely available movie tropes--articulate monsters with a talent for sadism. By making the Americans cruel, too, he escapes t…
- David Denby
Entertaining the reader is a good function. - David Denby
Entertaining the reader is a good function.
Mi-yammi! The extraordinary city, with its Judeo-Cubano population, its mix of surgical-appliance and sex-fetishist obsessions, takes the American me… - David Denby
Mi-yammi! The extraordinary city, with its Judeo-Cubano population, its mix of surgical-appliance and sex-fetishist obsessions, takes the American me…
Trivial details have been summoned, in part, to make a satirical point about upper-middle-class marriage-that the whole thing can slip away between t… - David Denby
Trivial details have been summoned, in part, to make a satirical point about upper-middle-class marriage-that the whole thing can slip away between t…
The director, Antoine Fuqua, relies on small details, which anchor the vigilante-as-saint myth in at least a minimal degree of reality. - David Denby
The director, Antoine Fuqua, relies on small details, which anchor the vigilante-as-saint myth in at least a minimal degree of reality.
Never throw fruit at someone who understands the theatrics of the situation better than you do. - David Denby
Never throw fruit at someone who understands the theatrics of the situation better than you do.
Art talk is punk. Let the movie do your speaking for you. - David Denby
Art talk is punk. Let the movie do your speaking for you.
The greatest all-around American film actor is James Stewart. - David Denby
The greatest all-around American film actor is James Stewart.
The action comes at us through a buzz of nattering remarks. - David Denby
The action comes at us through a buzz of nattering remarks.
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