tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481549185308465110.post504608392683672982..comments2024-03-08T04:06:20.301-05:00Comments on TrustMovies: HERE AND THERE, '09 Tribeca winner from Darko Lungulov, opens at lastTrustMovieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01130460547029155342noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481549185308465110.post-60320842301079507882010-05-17T17:20:56.228-04:002010-05-17T17:20:56.228-04:00Wow -- thanks, CriticNYC. This is the best commen...Wow -- thanks, CriticNYC. This is the best comment I have received so far, I think, and I will try to live up to your praise. I may have been a little too vehement in my disdain for the current Loach movie, Looking for Eric. But I usually try to stay away from too much disdain. <br /><br />And if my words indeed whet your (and others') appetite for seeing the film in question, ah -- that's what I want more than anything else.TrustMovieshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01130460547029155342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481549185308465110.post-25911410090699897482010-05-17T14:02:02.390-04:002010-05-17T14:02:02.390-04:00This balanced and somehow entirely trustworthy rev...This balanced and somehow entirely trustworthy review and the beautifully illustrated others on your front page are a remarkable, possibly uniquely good example of how to write movie reviews. Among the qualities that make them very good are attention to every aspect, mild rather than vehement mention of flaws and those always set amid general appreciation of the good qualities also perceived and pointed out (even if they have to be references to previous works by the same filmmakers!) and in general a sense that the critic does not have any other reason for writing or any axe to grind or even self promotion, just a desire to illuminate the character and quality of the film and describe it in a way which whets one's appetite to see it to whatever extent it deserves the attention, and perhaps even if it may not, since the write ups make the darn thing interesting anyway. <br /><br />How the author manages to do so much of this so well is one of the mysteries of the new Web reality, where so much seems to be produced by certain people once the chains of commerce and editorial packaging are out of the way.<br /><br />Bravo James Van Maanen.CriticNYChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09704184075436984906noreply@blogger.com