![]() Ulmer have lost much of his mystique if someone had accidentally handed him a good script?) Auteur critics, even at their most extreme, do not dissolve our distinction between “high” and “low” cinema. (Think back, if you must, to The Reader or The King’s Speech.) Critics go wild for auteur directors who manage against the odds to express themselves as artists, despite (or is that because of?) the fact they worked in popular, lowbrow genres. Institutions like Hollywood and Cannes award prizes to films that fit their a priori notion of “quality” cinema, whether or not such films are particularly well-made. Yet it’s central, at the same time, to the way we understand movies. The distinction between “high” and “low” types of cinema – between those films that were made for festivals and art houses, which can be considered Art, and those made for drive-ins and late-night cable, which are Trash – is at once artificial and absurd. – Edgar Allan Poe, “The Masque of the Red Death” (1) To and fro in the seven chambers there stalked, in fact, a multitude of dreams. ![]() ![]() ![]() There were much of the beautiful, much of the wanton, much of the bizarre, something of the terrible, and not a little of what might have excited disgust. There were delirious fancies such as the madman fashions. ![]()
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