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Thierry Jousse, editor of Cahiers du Cinema, wrote a piece in 1994 called "The Killers of the Image" in which he tried to understand the long-range consequences of such filmmaking:

Take, for example, Oliver Stone's film, Natural Born Killers. It's a child monster, a maelstrom of images, a whir…

One ex-Kaelite willing to talk on the record was screen-writer-director Paul Schrader. "Pauline Kael was my mentor. She got me into this business. I was going to a religious school, Calvin College, and my college and my church for. bade films-therefore I got interested in them. I took some film cou…

The original title of Divided Loyalties was Industrial Keys. The young Orpheus is awakened rudely to a world in which industry holds all the keys, and even personal life has a manufactured, industrial quality, as Adorno would say. Warren Sonbert's films have always had a trace of sociological inqui…

And the films themselves were sexy. I don't mean to say that the actors took their clothes off, they didn't, but what was sexy was the extremely fluid way the movies were put to-gether. The sound track of soul songs had something to do with it, but even more so the long hand-held tracking shots tha…

[...] it is Dreyer who eloquently lamented the absence of a consistent visual approach in Danish film, and who wrote: "What one feels regarding the photography of this film is first and foremost the absence of an artistic will that sets up a goal for itself and consciously works toward it."