Steve BowbrickIn this review of Michael Curtiz's 'The Adventures of Robin Hood' I use the word 'gesamtkunstwerk'. So sue me.
Oh God, another landmark, another gigantic cultural iceberg for me to navigate. Gone With The Wind is the next film in the GROSS sequence. I’ll be watching this one over the weekend. Subscribe and get my review in your email and IT'S STILL FREE http://bowbrick.substack.com
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A materialist critique of the immaterial joys of the cinema and a chronological journey through the biggest movies of all time. Click to read GROSS - Cinema history and criticism, by Steve Bowbrick, a Substack publication. Launched 10 months ago.
In Gone With The Wind Rhett Butler is the only fully-formed man, without sentimentality or illusion or nostalgia for the old South. Without Rhett this melodrama would have been just a nasty hymn to the old ways. With him it’s a complicated argument with the old ways.
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Pauline Kael, one of the brilliant critics featured in the special books edition of GROSS. She was a bit uncool when I was younger but her humane attention to how movies make you feel now seems like the route back to enjoyment of cinema.
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