![]() The fact that it does so in highly readable prose makes it all the more attractive. A collection of updated posts from the blog, “Minding Movies: Observations on the Art, Craft, and Business of Filmmaking” looks more deeply into film than most journalists can even imagine these days. ![]() David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson’s popular Observations on Film Art blog is one of them. Happily, the past decade has seen the birth of a number of blogs about film that feature intelligent analysis, not just evaluation, but in a more accessible style than academic writing. At the other extreme were the scholarly books or articles full of vertigo-inducing sentences about Eisenstein or Ozu. First there was the consumerist newspaper review, a 300-or-so-word affair with a plot summary, typically some comments about the acting, and a short evaluation (“it’s a tour de force”) followed by a number of stars. ![]() ![]() With a handful of significant exceptions like Pauline Kael and Roger Ebert, writing about movies in this country once seemed to fall into two main categories. ![]()
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