Go isn't about a mystic conspiracy of computers. Claiming greatness through the use of random access and velocity, in intellectually undernourished movies such as The Matrix and Magnolia , is praising the poor workman for his tools. It's saying Suck is better than Dickens because it's faster. My own new eon's resolution is not to spend time attacking other critics and just enjoy the privilege of being a filmgoer in the Bay Area. Not just the Camera Cinemas and the Stanford Theater, but also the Pacific Film Archives in Berkeley and the Yerba Buena Center in San Francisco.
Movies exist in their own time-space continuum in which the old can be fresh and the new stale.
In filmmaking, like all the arts, an old man can be limber, and a young man can be a real fossil. I mean, with horrific amounts of introspection, substance abuse, anniversary journalism, nostalgia and, finally, semi-ironic TV commercial shilling. And quality cinema will exist in the crevices, right where it always lurks. Just say American Beauty and The Matrix duke it out as the most overpraised. Metro Publishing Inc. MetroActive is affiliated with the Boulevards Network .