{"id":7943,"date":"2008-04-08T12:34:31","date_gmt":"2008-04-08T16:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=7943"},"modified":"2010-07-01T18:12:09","modified_gmt":"2010-07-01T22:12:09","slug":"new-york-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=7943","title":{"rendered":"New York movies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/anniversary\/40th\/culture\/45766\/\">a wonderful retrospective<\/a>&#8230;. which demonstrates why David Edelstein is one of my favorite critics writing today (I put him on my list <a href=\"http:\/\/housecrit.blogspot.com\/2006\/12\/sheila-omalley.html\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>For me, it&#8217;s never just about agreeing with a critic&#8217;s opinion &#8211; it&#8217;s about how the critic writes, how they choose to express what is good or what is bad in a film.  Simple plot synopsis holds no interest for me.  But an illuminating look at what works, what doesn&#8217;t, and WHY &#8211; That&#8217;s the hook for me.  I disagree with Edelstein quite a bit &#8211; but I read every word he writes.  He gives each of these New York-based films one paragraph only &#8211; and just boils each one down to its essence.  It would be a good exercise for me, to try to &#8220;sum up&#8221; movies in one paragraph.<\/p>\n<p>Example from Edelstein&#8217;s piece &#8211; the paragraph about <i>The French Connection<\/i>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Pauline Kael wrote that on-location shooting had ushered in a new age of \u00e2\u0080\u009cnightmare realism,\u00e2\u0080\u009d with New York as \u00e2\u0080\u009cHorror City.\u00e2\u0080\u009d Here was Exhibit A: trash, horns, gore, Gene Hackman\u00e2\u0080\u0099s Popeye Doyle slapping suspects around, and a chase scene yet to be equaled for suspense and public endangerment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read Edelstein&#8217;s whole piece <a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/anniversary\/40th\/culture\/45766\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"818077233_c8a6475e68.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/818077233_c8a6475e68.jpg\" width=\"340\" \/><br \/>\n<i>Picture by yours truly<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; a wonderful retrospective&#8230;. which demonstrates why David Edelstein is one of my favorite critics writing today (I put him on my list here). For me, it&#8217;s never just about agreeing with a critic&#8217;s opinion &#8211; it&#8217;s about how the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=7943\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[382,516],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7943"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7943"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14281,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7943\/revisions\/14281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}