Wednesday, August 08, 2007

Slightly Off-Topic

Read Roger Ebert's filleting of Jonathan Rosenbaum.

Finally, Rosenbaum laments how Bergman’s “mainly blond, blue-eyed cast members became a brand to be adopted and emulated.” Hello? Bergman worked in Sweden! Does he forgive Ousmane Sembene’s African exteriors and mainly black-haired, brown-eyed cast members? Or the way Ozu used all those Japanese?


Ebert's been ill for a long while, so it's wonderful to see him so feisty.

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