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For two months this summer the only movies I watched were movies about the war on terror. While other moviegoers were enjoying cinematic treats like You Don’t Mess with the Zohan and The Happening, or the revival of Kobayashi’s The Human Condition, or that Norwegian movie about Norwegian yuppie wri…

For two months this summer the only movies I watched were movies about the war on terror. While other moviegoers were enjoying cinematic treats like You Don’t Mess with the Zohan and The Happening, or the revival of Kobayashi’s The Human Condition, or that Norwegian movie about Norwegian yuppie wri…

Farber states that he is not interested in pronouncing movies good or bad, but he is still always for or against something. If we see his influence in the nonjudgmental quality of our film critics today, who celebrate the great diversity of the regime of image-making practices, choices, and…

By the mid-1970s Farber knew what he wanted from audiences. He wanted them to be Farber. “The audience,” he said, “should be fantastically dialectical, involved in a continuing discussion of every movie.” He wanted the same from filmmakers: “The person making the movie should be held responsible fo…

In a series of bad dreams, Brad Pitt combines with Forrest Gump, E.T., Oliver from The Brady Bunch, the baby from Eraserhead, Tom Waits album covers, Dr. Zhivago, Dick Cheney/Donald Rumsfeld, on and on, like robot locusts eating the inside of the movie theater for three hours.