{"id":458,"date":"2012-03-18T21:55:11","date_gmt":"2012-03-19T04:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=458"},"modified":"2012-03-18T21:55:11","modified_gmt":"2012-03-19T04:55:11","slug":"notebook-on-cities-and-culture-s1e10-a-roomful-of-strangers-with-wade-major","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=458","title":{"rendered":"Notebook on Cities and Culture S1E10: A Roomful of Strangers with Wade Major"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-460\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" title=\"wademajor\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/2012\/03\/wademajor1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"260\" height=\"404\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/2012\/03\/wademajor1.jpg 386w, http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/2012\/03\/wademajor1-193x300.jpg 193w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/>Colin Marshall sits down in Santa Monica with Wade Major, senior film critic at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boxoffice.com\/\">Boxoffice<\/a>, co-host of IGN&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/dvd.ign.com\/index\/digigods.html\"><em>Digigods<\/em><\/a>, and regular participant on KPCC&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scpr.org\/programs\/filmweek\/\"><em>Filmweek<\/em><\/a>. They discuss what <em>Sucker Punch<\/em> represents the coagulation of; whether it is a greater crime for Zack Snyder to make Zack Snyder movies sincerely, or for Zack Snyder to make Zack Snyder movies cynically; the importance of spontaneity, not formula, to creative business; the simultaneous democratization of criticism and of filmmaking itself; the world he emerged out of film school into; his father&#8217;s career in silent pictures; the philosophical differences between the film schools at USC, UCLA, and CalArts; the possibilities of a new business model for criticism meant to be read <em>after<\/em> seeing the movie; Pauline Kael&#8217;s conception of criticism as a means of keeping filmmakers honest; bigtime directors&#8217; assumptions that they can&#8217;t make films about their real passions; <em>The Artist<\/em> as it taps into both filmmakers&#8217; and critics&#8217; fears of getting left behind; how without taste, you&#8217;ve lost; feeding off the energy of a roomful of strangers in actual theatrical screenings, and learning something about yourself at the same time; the &#8220;dysfunctional family&#8221; that is the Los Angeles Film Critics Association; the critic&#8217;s mandate to move film into a larger cultural context; and the director&#8217;s mandate to get out into the world and live before ever shooting a frame.<\/p>\n<p>Download the interview from <em>Notebook on Cities and Culture\u2019<\/em>s feed <a href=\"http:\/\/colinmarshall.libsyn.com\/webpage\/s1e10-a-roomful-of-strangers-with-wade-major\">here<\/a> or on iTunes <a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/notebook-on-cities-culture\/id266539442\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(Photo: Kristi Lake)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colin Marshall sits down in Santa Monica with Wade Major, senior film critic at Boxoffice, co-host of IGN&#8217;s Digigods, and regular participant on KPCC&#8217;s Filmweek. 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