CREEMEDIA

There are no stories anymore, only isolated moments. Someone tells me this narrative breakdown started with Stendhal, which may or may not be pertinent. It is true that many—most—of the very best American movies of the 1970’s, by Altman, Allen, DePalma, Malick, Scorsese, etc. are less fully realized tales than frameworks for whatever special virtuosity the director and his actors want to exhibit.