Film Criticism

🇺🇸Roger Ebert

Literature

Humanism

1942–2013

"I could list some Japanese films illustrating this, but the last thing the audience for Memoirs of a Geisha wants to see is a more truthful film with less gorgeous women and shabbier production values."

🇺🇸Gillian Flynn

Literature

b. 1971

"Love makes you want to be a better man—right, right. But maybe love, real love, also gives you permission to just be the man you are."

🇺🇸Gene Youngblood

Journalism

1942–2021

"As a design-scientist the artist discovers and perfects language that corresponds more directly to experience; he develops hardware that embodies its own software as a conceptual tool for coping with reality."

🇨🇭Jean-Luc Godard

Entertainment

French New Wave

1930–2022

"Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion."