“For over a month now I’ve been pondering a New York Times article about the state of cinema that was published forty years ago. I’ve read the January 1969 Richard Schickel piece over and over since downloading it from their archive last month. “Don’t Go to the Movies to Escape,” proclaimed the headline, “The Movies are Now High Art.” A recent Times profile of veteran film critic Andrew Sarris made a passing reference to the Schickel piece with such an intriguing title.”
Read this article from IndieWire.
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