The real problem with "minimal" art is not that it's minimal, but that it's not. The eye strays. In the cinema, it has been trained to do so, often with aberrant results. Though I doubt if I could coherently relate the plot of "North By Northwest", a movie I must have seen four or five times, I believe I'll remember to my dying day the color of Cary Grant's socks as he flees from the crop-dusting plane. Show less «

[on "Gone With The Wind"]: GWTW is a three-handkerchief movie, all right - but for the nose. It stinks. Show less «