1. The widespread failure of critics to appreciate the Big Lebowski is really part of a more general tendency not to appreciate off-kilter comedy.https://twitter.com/notjessewalker/status/971576839352344576 …
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8. I mean you can dispute the relative merits of Clockwork Orange or The Shinning, but to consistently dislike all of Kubrick's major post-Strangelove works suggests a critical blindspot.
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9. I think Kael wasn't able to appreciate most of Kubrick because she mistook his high artifice (a deliberate choice of modes) as a failure of naturalism & sign of lack of feelings.
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10. But, ultimately, good film criticism isn't about being right or wrong so much as it's about explaining your reaction convincingly. So Kael or Kubrick or the Lebowski pans don't bother me.
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11. In fact, my favorite movie podcasters (
@williamfleitch &@TimGrierson) still don't like the Big Lebowski! But they explain their lack of enthusiasm well here:https://soundcloud.com/grierson-leitch/a-fantastic-woman-winchester …Show this thread
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The barb that he makes movies to take photographs and not the other way around is spot-on though.
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Ah yes, Kael on "Barry Lyndon": "This film is a masterpiece in every insignificant detail. Kubrick isn’t taking pictures in order to make movies, he’s making movies in order to take pictures." http://scrapsfromtheloft.com/2016/07/12/pauline-kael-barry-lyndon/ …
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To be fair, even the Coen brothers are fairly ambivalent about the Big Lebowski. I think it's one of the few movies where the fans like it more than the directors.
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I think if you follow a filmmaker's career as it happens as a critic, it's easy to develop a notion of the types of films they "should" be making
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I've had a few modern directors disappoint me solely because their careers went in a different direction than I had wanted
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wow..... didn't she love Eyes Wide Shut tho or something weird......?
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