“It’s not important if a critic ‘like’ or ‘doesn’t like’ a movie. What is important is that he engages with it fully, brings to his responses the conviction, the passion, that the director brings to the films’ making. Opinion is evanescent, but the work abides.” Martin Scorsese in the introduction to SCORSESE BY EBERT.
Archive for the ‘random quote’ Category
December 31, 2009
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Random Quote– AV Club’s Scott Tobias’ New Year’s Resolution
By Scott Cederlund in random quoteUP on GreenCine Daily, they have a New Year's resolutions by film makers and critics. For some reason, the AV Club's Scott Tobias' really jumped out at me: “My biggest resolution is to get back in touch with the young man who voraciously devoured cinema of every stripe back in college—working through that dog-eared copy [...]
March 23, 2009
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Random Quotes– Mark Millar on… well, just read it yourself.
By Scott Cederlund in random quoteFrom a Millarworld thread about Millar’s THE CHOSEN book: “Sodomy was all the rage a few years back but a bit tired now…” And here I guess I just missed the rage a few years back. While I’ve got the book in a box somewhere, I actually haven’t read it to see what Millar’s actually [...]
Tags: Mark Millar
February 5, 2009
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Random Quotes– Grant Morrison on what he chose to “leave out” of Final Crisis #7
By Scott Cederlund in comics, random quoteWell, this Grant Morrison quote at Newsarama sure explains some of the disjointedness of Final Crisis #7: I choose to leave out boring, as I saw it, connective tissue we didn’t really need for this story to work. I choose to leave out long-winded caption-heavy explanations that bring readers ‘up to speed’, even as they [...]
Tags: Fina Crisis, Grant Morrison
January 29, 2009
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Random Quotes– Ande Parks on “great art” & Frank Robbins
By Scott Cederlund in comics, random quoteAnde Parks blogs far too infrequently. Today he gives us two little great nuggets of info and schoolin’: … great comic art happens when the artist tells his story well and efficiently. I do not believe that comic art is about making the prettiest lines, or even the loveliest drawings. The best comic art isn’t [...]
Tags: Ande Parks, Frank Robbins
September 19, 2008
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Random Quotes: critic as teacher
By Scott Cederlund in random quoteI love it when Roger Ebert writes about the life and profession of a film critic. In his latest blog entry,“CRITIC” IS A FOUR LETTER WORD, he talks a bit about why he writes and what he hopes to achieve with his own criticism. “I believe a good critic is a teacher. He doesn’t have [...]
Tags: Roger Ebert
September 11, 2008
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Random Quote: Richard Johnson on movie criticism
By Scott Cederlund in random quote“And critics were around to initiate the conversation. That assumed there would be a conversation and that it was important to be a part of the conversation. But now, the conversation is dominated by gossip, and what can you say about gossip? Can you review gossip, parse it, compare it with other gossip from other [...]
August 5, 2008
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Random Quote– An Aircel comics reference???
By Scott Cederlund in random quoteTom Spurgeon on what comics have or haven’t become. “And screw the 1987 mentality that comics = fantasy genre. If Comic-Con is going to have shit that’s not comics, there’s no reason I can think of it shouldn’t be a Tom Wolfe lecture as opposed to another panel hyping a movie about teenage werewolves. Why [...]
July 25, 2008
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Random Quotes–
By Scott Cederlund in random quoteJim Emerson from Scanners: Like so many things in life, brand spankin’ new movies hold a magical appeal… at least until you see them. Afterwards, even if you really liked the picture, it loses some of the luster it had only a couple hours ago when it was still something to look forward to. Now [...]
July 17, 2008
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Random quote– “commitedly vulgar frickin’ superhero movie”
By Scott Cederlund in random quoteGlenn Kenny at The Auteurs Notebook on his mood going into a viewing of The Dark Knight: Because, trust me, as I made my way to the screening I was feeling well and truly sick of superhero movies. I’m not a guy—or for that matter a critic—who believes or has ever believed in genre hierarchies, [...]