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Carney
on Culture -- Reflections on the Awfulness of American Film Reviewing |
The
material on this site is provided by Ray Carney, an authority on American independent
film, and a frequent speaker on indie film at festivals and special events around
the world.
- The
world's most over-rated movies
- There's
no business like show business
- Scattershots
on multicultural unawareness
- Mental
Identities: When being replaces doing (Leigh's lesson for Hollywood)
- Modernism
for the millions—The films of Woody Allen
- Why
journalists should never be confused with critics—Kael, Sarris, Schickel,
Kauffmann, Simon, Corliss, Canby, and others
- They
never grew up—the pop culture frivolousness of American film reviewing—the
examples of David Denby and others
- The
difference between fake and real emotions-in life and art -- a discussion
of the effect of artificial ideals and emotions in American culture and film
- A
Rappaportian "third realm" and America's "culture of unreality" -- the creation
of artificial drama, fake issues, and illusory solutions by the American mass
media
- What's
wrong with the media? Why are things so banal, so trivial, so bad?
- To
buy one of Ray Carney's packets about Independent Film
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