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E. L. Doctorow on movies:

It is not that great and important films will no longer be made. But one can imagine a merger of film esthetics and profit-making incentives that, apart from the efforts of this or that serious and principled filmmaker, effects a culture of large, beautifully dressed, tactically pigmented, stimulating and only incidentally verbal movies that excite predetermined market tastes and offer societal myths that slightly vary with each recycling: films composed artfully from the palette of such basic elements as car drive-ups, interiors, exteriors, faces, chases and explosions.

And that's what I love about E. L. Doctorow.

posted by dale @ 7:11 PM