When you clean them up, when you make movies respectable, you kill them. The wellspring of their art, their greatness, is in not being respectable.

Movies are so rarely great art, that if we cannot appreciate great trash, we have very little reason to be interested in them.

The small triumph of 'The Graduate' was to have domesticated alienation and the difficulty of communication, by making what Benjamin is alienated from a middle…

Kicked in the ribs, the press says 'art' when 'ouch' would be more appropriate.

The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.

Far from affording artists continuous inspiration, mass-media sources for art have become a dead end. They have combined with the abstractness of institutional…

I was surprised as anyone when T-shirts, jeans and leather jackets suddenly became symbols of rebellion. In the film there was a scene in which somebody asked …