Jonathan Rosenbaum famous quotes

05-17-2025

Judging by the the movie's enduring popularity, the message that stupidity is redemption is clearly what a lot of Americans want to hear.
-- Jonathan Rosenbaum

#Judging #Stupidity #Messages
Just as Freud couldnâ€™t always be blamed for the Freudians, Bresson didnâ€™t always feel obliged to behave like a Bressonian.
-- Jonathan Rosenbaum

#Feels #Behave
It's a sign of this film's greatness that the enormous sadness that accompanies the final leave-taking of the circus interior is a good deal more than the conclusion of an unpretentious evening's entertainments; it's a sublime and awesome coda to the career of one of this century's greatest artists.
-- Jonathan Rosenbaum

#Sadness #Greatness #Artist
Whether these characters are lovable or detestable, they're lovable or detestable in a TV way - defined by a minimal set of traits that are endlessly reiterated and incapable of expansion or alteration, a fixed loop.
-- Jonathan Rosenbaum

#Character #Tvs #Expansion
Since many people have been asking me to elaborate on why I think "Inglourious Basterds" is akin to Holocaust denial, I'll try to explain what I mean as succinctly as possible, by paraphrasing Roland Barthes: anything that makes Fascism unreal is wrong. For me, "Inglourious Basterds" makes the Holocaust harder, not easier to grasp -- as a historical reality, I mean, not as a movie convention. Insofar as it becomes a movie convention, it loses its historical reality.
-- Jonathan Rosenbaum

#Mean #Reality #Thinking
Just as Freud couldn’t always be blamed for the Freudians, Bresson didn’t always feel obliged to behave like a Bressonian.
-- Jonathan Rosenbaum

#Feels #Behave #Obliged

Justice should be cheap but judges expensive.
Our constitution, in short, is a judge-made constitution, and it bears on its face all the features, good and bad, of judge-made law.
But let no person say what they would or would not do, since we are not judges for ourselves until circumstances call us to act.
Success is the sole earthly judge of right and wrong.
There are two fools in every marketplace; one asks too little, one asks too much.
Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.
War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder.
It's funny how the littlest things can make you feel larger than life; the right lyric, the most heartfelt melody, the clearest message. Love.
Any 'transmitting' device or applied technical method, which gets in the way of the 'transmission'/message/story, etc., is a negative element, garbling that which ought to be clear and instantly understood, and ought to be simply-stated with economy!
What gets posted online is not short term, and is open for easy misinterpretation. Messages and pictures spread faster through the Internet than they ever could by word of mouth.

Jonathan Rosenbaum famous quotes

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