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Is There Something In Druggy Subjects That Encourages Directors To Make Imitation Film Noir? Film Noir Itself Becomes An Addiction.

The Movies Have Been So Rank The Last Couple Of Years That When I See People Lining Up To Buy Tickets I Sometimes Think That The Movies Aren't Drawing An Audience - They're Inheriting An Audience. People Just Want To Go To A Movie. They're Stung Repeatedly, Yet Their Desire For A Good Movie - For Any Movie - Is So Strong That All Over The Country They Keep Lining Up.

We Read Critics For The Perceptions, For What They Tell Us That We Didn't Fully Grasp When We Saw The Work. The Judgments We Can Usually Make For Ourselves.

One Of The Surest Signs Of The Philistine Is His Reverence For The Superior Tastes Of Those Who Put Him Down.

It's Sometimes Discouraging To See All Of A Director's Movies, Because There's So Much Repetition. The Auteurists Took This To Be A Sign Of A Director's Artistry, That You Could Recognize His Movies. But It Can Also Be A Sign That He's A Hack.