It’s a Barbie world, sang a song, and now we hear the same tune in a movie. But we do NOT live in a Barbie world. If anything, it’s quite the opposite. For all its defects and its shallow consumerism, Barbie’s world was kitsch but at least it was pink and cheerful. But our modern…
Martin Scorsese has just published an article about Fellini at Harper’s magazine, but which also discusses a bit the current sad state of cinema. Today, he says, everything has become merely indistinct “content”, and the magic of cinema and its artistic auteurs has been lost. I tend to agree. When I was a teenager, I…