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- Title: Do Movie Critics Matter? Armond White Lays Down the Law to a Hollywood Awards Gala (Opinion)
- Author : Armond White
- Release Date : January 01, 2010
- Genre: Religion & Spirituality,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 65 KB
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It's always a good year at the movies, even if the great films can be counted on a few digits and never get mentioned at the Academy Awards. That's why we need film critics--to help us understand the state of movies, our cultural life, and our general moral and political being. On the occasion of the New York Film Critics Circle's Seventy-Fifth Anniversary and Awards dinner, my duties as the circle's chairman led me toward one unavoidable fact: The practice of critical thinking about film is under assault. It seems that film critics, as a breed, survive even though so much else in our culture is moving further and faster away from intelligence, individuality, morality, and literacy: As the filmmaker James Toback put it, "the deterioration of life as we know it." Still, film critics persist, just as great movies--such as Jan Troell's Everlasting Moments, Michael Jackson's This Is It, and the Coen Brothers' A Serious Man--persist, in the face of technological changes that leave little room for art, reflection, or human expression.