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Free MIT Course Teaches You to Watch Movies Like a Critic: Watch Lectures from The Film Experience
« on: October 09, 2017, 05:36:22 pm »
Free MIT Course Teaches You to Watch Movies Like a Critic: Watch Lectures from The Film Experience
in Film, Online Courses | April 12th, 2016
http://www.openculture.com/2016/04/free-mit-course-teaches-you-to-watch-movies-like-a-critic-watch-lectures-from-the-film-experience.html


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFOsw1Vccac

We all have our favorite film critics. Maybe we gravitated to them because they write well or because they share our tastes, but the very best of them — the critics we read even on genres and directors we otherwise wouldn't care about — make us see movies in a new way. Specifically, they make us see them the way they do, and the point of view of a professional critic steeped in cinema history and theory (not to mention the thousands and thousands of hours of actual film they've watched) will always have a richness that the casual moviegoer can't hope to enjoy on his/her own.

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Re: Free MIT Course Teaches You to Watch Movies Like a Critic: Watch Lectures from The Film Experience
« Reply #1 on: October 09, 2017, 07:19:24 pm »
I guess the question is, why would I want to watch movies like a critic? Most of them are too painfully out of touch to be of use for the casual viewer.
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Re: Free MIT Course Teaches You to Watch Movies Like a Critic: Watch Lectures from The Film Experience
« Reply #2 on: October 09, 2017, 10:41:42 pm »
These wouldn't be the same critics who raved about "My Dinner With Andre" would they?
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