"It was in the January 1954 edition that Truffaut published his landmark essay “A Certain Tendency in the French Cinema,” in which he attacked directors who merely ground out films without any personal cinematic vision; he also propounded the auteur theory, which opined that the only directors worth serious consideration were those who left their own individual signatures on each of their films. Truffaut noted that writing critiques enabled him to understand why he loved films and to rationalize his reasons for liking them"
- James Lane
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Nearly home after one of those "can you redesign it to look like the old site coz we don't have budget to change the design"! I don't get.
Enter a book you like and the site will analyse our database of real readers' favourite books (over 65,000 and growing) to suggest what you could read next.
- James Lane
"I've seen a lot of movies over the years, and to prove I've sat through at least the first ten minutes of them I started making screenshots of the titles. Then my computer crashed and I almost lost them all. To save them for future generations I created this little website."
- James Lane
from Bookmarklet
"USC professor Henry Jenkins coined the term to explain how an array of platforms can be used to enrich media's impact on the public."
- James Lane
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