Forum Overview :: Peter Molyneux's The Movies :: Notes Toward the Devaluation of Woody Allen

[quote name="Jonathan Rosenbaum"][quote]But one still needs to ask why Allen has been nominated and all but elected our foremost “artistic” filmmaker and the poet laureate of our collective uncertainties in so many circles, most of them upscale and middlebrow. What does he do for this audience that is deemed so essential and irreplaceable? To what extent is his stature a progressive factor in our film culture, and to what extent is it reactionary? How much does his status as an intellectual filmmaker represent genuine intellectual inquiry, and how much does it suggest something closer to the reverse — a representation of intellectuals for nonintellectuals and even anti-intellectuals that serves to satisfy curiosity about intellectual concerns without any sort of intellectual challenge?[/quote] Pretty much sums it up, but <a href="http://www.jonathanrosenbaum.net/1990/05/21337/">read the rest</a>[/quote]