"Of course the French are making very credible movies and it is still one of the greatest nations in terms of world cinema but the real problem is the decay in film criticism."

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"Of course the French are making very credible movies and it is still one of the greatest nations in terms of world cinema but the real problem is the decay in film criticism."

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"Many French directors, having now realised there was no more real criticism, that the standards of the past have gone, are very offended about the quality of film criticism."

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"So I am getting a little bored with defining one type of film as American and the other European or from somewhere else because the division is no longer true."

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"I'm getting a little bored by the juxtaposition of American and other cinema. I no longer think this division is as true as it might have been in the 1980s, or the early part of the 90s."

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"The culture of independent film criticism has totally gone down the drain and this seems to come with the territory of the consumer age that we are now living in."

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