Richard Linklater is my favorite film Director. I think he’s arguably the most important Generation X Cinema figure. He has collaboratively created audio-visual artworks defining what it means to have lived in America through the hopeful but anxiety-growing 1990s and the terror-filled 2000s. Critic Patrick Brzeski recently asked Linklater, “Do you think a career like the one you’ve cut out for yourself and enjoyed over the years is possible anymore? How do you view the current state of American moviemaking coming out of the pandemic?” His response is important: "It feels like it’s gone with the wind — or gone with the algorithm. Sometimes I’ll talk to some of my contemporaries who I came up with during the 1990s, and we’ll go, “Oh my God, we could never get that done today.”...the way distribution has fallen off. Sadly, it’s mostly just the audience. Is there a new generation that really values cinema anymore? That’s the dark thought...I fear that there’s not enough of a critical mass in the culture to sustain what was...With a changing culture and changing technology, it’s hard to see cinema slipping back into the prominence it once held. I think we could feel it coming on when they started calling films “content” — but that’s what happens when you let tech people take over your industry. It’s hard to imagine indie cinema in particular having the cultural relevance that it did. It’s hard to imagine the whole culture is going to be on the same page about anything, much less filmmaking. We can be self-absorbed and say it’s just about cinema, but it’s really all of our modern cultural life. You could say the same things about reading books. A lot of young people can’t read a book, because they’re just on their phones. Some really intelligent, passionate, good citizens just don’t have the same need for literature and movies anymore. It doesn’t occupy the same space in the brain. I think that’s just how we’ve given over our lives, largely, to this thing that depletes the need for curating and filling ourselves up with meaning from art and fictional worlds. That need has been filled up with — let’s face it — advanced delivery systems for advertising." Critics are an indispensable component of the cultural value of Cinema. Without serious people looking with critical intent and appreciation at these works of art, they hold no meaning other than in the creator’s minds as intention. The power of art does not lie in the creation but in the interpretation. The creation is no different than any other natural act. Some of us create wealth. Some create knowledge. Some create misery. And a few create art that matters. I am a self-proclaimed “New Critic.” I only write about the art that brings me joy and transcendence, even if it is troubling and worrisome. I have a secret short project coming soon based on my favorite film by Richard Linklater. Subscribe on Substack and stay tuned.
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