Comments on: Sound The Death Knell (Again): A Brief History Of The Death Of Cinema https://staging2.theplaylist.net/sound-the-death-knell-again-a-brief-history-of-the-death-of-cinema-20121002/ Sat, 03 Sep 2016 20:07:15 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: Christopher Bell https://staging2.theplaylist.net/sound-the-death-knell-again-a-brief-history-of-the-death-of-cinema-20121002/#comment-68246 Fri, 13 May 2016 11:24:50 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2012/more/uncategorized/sound-the-death-knell-again-a-brief-history-of-the-death-of-cinema-105354/#comment-68246 Don't forget:
Gabe Toro, March 10 2011, "Battle: Los Angeles" review:
http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/review_battle_los_angeles_is_cynical_soulless_video_game_movie

]]> By: tyrannosaurus max https://staging2.theplaylist.net/sound-the-death-knell-again-a-brief-history-of-the-death-of-cinema-20121002/#comment-68254 Fri, 13 May 2016 11:24:50 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2012/more/uncategorized/sound-the-death-knell-again-a-brief-history-of-the-death-of-cinema-105354/#comment-68254 I cracked up at that last one. Great piece, Playlist. Thank you.

]]> By: d https://staging2.theplaylist.net/sound-the-death-knell-again-a-brief-history-of-the-death-of-cinema-20121002/#comment-68253 Fri, 13 May 2016 11:24:50 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2012/more/uncategorized/sound-the-death-knell-again-a-brief-history-of-the-death-of-cinema-105354/#comment-68253 YES. My thoughts exactly, Playlist. "Cinema is dead" is a total cliche at this point. But someone's always going to be saying it

]]> By: Archer Slyce https://staging2.theplaylist.net/sound-the-death-knell-again-a-brief-history-of-the-death-of-cinema-20121002/#comment-68252 Fri, 13 May 2016 11:24:50 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2012/more/uncategorized/sound-the-death-knell-again-a-brief-history-of-the-death-of-cinema-105354/#comment-68252 Wow, very interesting survey/timeline, really. And I loved that last line too !

]]> By: DG https://staging2.theplaylist.net/sound-the-death-knell-again-a-brief-history-of-the-death-of-cinema-20121002/#comment-68251 Fri, 13 May 2016 11:24:50 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2012/more/uncategorized/sound-the-death-knell-again-a-brief-history-of-the-death-of-cinema-105354/#comment-68251 A thing changing is not the same as a thing dying

]]> By: Jeff https://staging2.theplaylist.net/sound-the-death-knell-again-a-brief-history-of-the-death-of-cinema-20121002/#comment-68250 Fri, 13 May 2016 11:24:50 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2012/more/uncategorized/sound-the-death-knell-again-a-brief-history-of-the-death-of-cinema-105354/#comment-68250 Seriously great reporting here, guys. I'm usually a fan of O'Hehir, but I rolled my eyes, my head, and everything else when I read his piece.

]]> By: Macmac007 https://staging2.theplaylist.net/sound-the-death-knell-again-a-brief-history-of-the-death-of-cinema-20121002/#comment-68249 Fri, 13 May 2016 11:24:50 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2012/more/uncategorized/sound-the-death-knell-again-a-brief-history-of-the-death-of-cinema-105354/#comment-68249 What these writers are suffering from is a real thing — it's called critic fatigue.

Pauline Kael felt the same way when she wrote "Why are movies so bad?" back in in 1980. And that was the year we got Raging Bull, Airplane!, The Blues Brothers, Dressed to Kill, The Elephant Man, Stardust Memories, Melvin and Howard, The Empire Strikes Back, Private Benjamin, Ordinary People, Coal Miner's Daughter, Mad Max, Brubaker, The Shining…

]]> By: JD https://staging2.theplaylist.net/sound-the-death-knell-again-a-brief-history-of-the-death-of-cinema-20121002/#comment-68248 Fri, 13 May 2016 11:24:50 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2012/more/uncategorized/sound-the-death-knell-again-a-brief-history-of-the-death-of-cinema-105354/#comment-68248 That David Denby piece is arrogant, overwritten, virtually incoherent nonsense. It's got one–exactly one–valuable insight, when he defines the aesthetics of corporate cinema. Otherwise, it's main purpose seems to be to rally movie snobs behind hating THE AVENGERS. (Now they can cite Denby's piece for why THE AVENGERS is a bad movie and it's terrible effect on modern cinema without actually having to SEE it.) Yeah, it's sort've a low point for movies right now, but they weren't great in 1929, 1968, or 1987, and from each of those eras arose golden ages in the history of cinema.

]]> By: Bakunin https://staging2.theplaylist.net/sound-the-death-knell-again-a-brief-history-of-the-death-of-cinema-20121002/#comment-68247 Fri, 13 May 2016 11:24:50 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2012/more/uncategorized/sound-the-death-knell-again-a-brief-history-of-the-death-of-cinema-105354/#comment-68247 The art form has undergone rapid changes, but it is far from dead. Everyone should check out the new book "Film After Film" by J.Hoberman, it does a great job of summing up cinema's evolution since 2000.

]]> By: Paul Anthony Nelson https://staging2.theplaylist.net/sound-the-death-knell-again-a-brief-history-of-the-death-of-cinema-20121002/#comment-68245 Fri, 13 May 2016 11:24:50 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2012/more/uncategorized/sound-the-death-knell-again-a-brief-history-of-the-death-of-cinema-105354/#comment-68245 While the latest calls for cinema's death time are as hyperbolic as ever, that piece was worth it all for the that hilarious final line.

]]> By: jimmiescoffee https://staging2.theplaylist.net/sound-the-death-knell-again-a-brief-history-of-the-death-of-cinema-20121002/#comment-68244 Fri, 13 May 2016 11:24:50 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2012/more/uncategorized/sound-the-death-knell-again-a-brief-history-of-the-death-of-cinema-105354/#comment-68244 bunch of complainers

]]> By: s https://staging2.theplaylist.net/sound-the-death-knell-again-a-brief-history-of-the-death-of-cinema-20121002/#comment-68243 Fri, 13 May 2016 11:24:50 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2012/more/uncategorized/sound-the-death-knell-again-a-brief-history-of-the-death-of-cinema-105354/#comment-68243 JAWS killed the movies right? We've been living in "Blockbuster" world for 37 years, longer than the silent era, the studio era, the roadshow era, or the golden age (about 1966-1974). There's no going back.

]]> By: Archer Slyce https://staging2.theplaylist.net/sound-the-death-knell-again-a-brief-history-of-the-death-of-cinema-20121002/#comment-68238 Fri, 13 May 2016 11:24:49 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2012/more/uncategorized/sound-the-death-knell-again-a-brief-history-of-the-death-of-cinema-105354/#comment-68238 Here's David Bordwell's take on the subject : http://www.davidbordwell.net/blog/2012/10/15/got-those-death-of-filmmoviescinema-blues/

]]> By: JD https://staging2.theplaylist.net/sound-the-death-knell-again-a-brief-history-of-the-death-of-cinema-20121002/#comment-68242 Fri, 13 May 2016 11:24:49 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2012/more/uncategorized/sound-the-death-knell-again-a-brief-history-of-the-death-of-cinema-105354/#comment-68242 Old people all like to pretend their medium is dying because it terrifies them to think that it will live on without them.

]]> By: Alan https://staging2.theplaylist.net/sound-the-death-knell-again-a-brief-history-of-the-death-of-cinema-20121002/#comment-68241 Fri, 13 May 2016 11:24:49 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2012/more/uncategorized/sound-the-death-knell-again-a-brief-history-of-the-death-of-cinema-105354/#comment-68241 I knew the Denby piece would eventually invoke God in his piece, because – as Jonathan Rosenbaum puts it – the guy has an "inside track" with the almighty: "Every other Hanukkah, it seems, just as the studios are wheeling out their heaviest Oscar bids, New York magazine’s David Denby has a blinding religious illumination affording him an inside track to the Film Critic Upstairs. “Even God would be frightened by this movie,” he said of JFK. Of this movie he says, “Spielberg has converted rather than jettisoned his instincts as an entertainer — it’s as if he understood for the first time why God gave him such extraordinary skills.” Is there anything more lame than a critic that invokes God to give his material some intellectual heft: God knows, his overwritten prose ain't doing him much favors.

]]> By: Celluloid Liberation Front https://staging2.theplaylist.net/sound-the-death-knell-again-a-brief-history-of-the-death-of-cinema-20121002/#comment-68240 Fri, 13 May 2016 11:24:49 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2012/more/uncategorized/sound-the-death-knell-again-a-brief-history-of-the-death-of-cinema-105354/#comment-68240 "Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it" – George Orwell

]]> By: Moon patrol https://staging2.theplaylist.net/sound-the-death-knell-again-a-brief-history-of-the-death-of-cinema-20121002/#comment-68239 Fri, 13 May 2016 11:24:49 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2012/more/uncategorized/sound-the-death-knell-again-a-brief-history-of-the-death-of-cinema-105354/#comment-68239 I think the purpose of this statement is that there has been a lack of innovation. Some of the changes I've seen are Quenton Tarrantino's use of editing parallel timelines and the home-video movie-style in films such as Cloverfield and Quarantine. Digital images have altered the way we see films. Andre bazin said that "film is reality at 24 frames per second." I don't think that is the case anymore, but whats important is that we maintain awareness of the medium. The experience in the movie Amadeus where poor Mozart's body is thrown in a mass grave with the white lyme powder, says so much more than words could. If we can keep using film to give us these kind of experiences then it is not a dead art form.

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