Dear Mr. Rosenbaum,
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We think that you are undoubtedly the best film critic working today. In our opinion, you pen insightful, intellectual, and trenchant columns that analyze films more deeply and skillfully than any other critic currently published, and we are thankful that someone as knowledgeable about film as yourself writes about world cinema when most American critics couldn’t care less.
We know that you show disgust and disdain for the American public’s typical viewing habits, most of the crap produced by Hollywood, the isolationism of Americans, and especially the ideology that movies are only a business and not art. We would just like to reassure you that there are teenagers in America who do not make such boneheaded and stupid comments as those made by Kevin Smith and the teenager that you wrote about at the beginning of your first piece on the 1999 Chicago International Film Festival. We regularly see films at a local art-house theater where foreign and independent films are shown, and we see many older films at the George Eastman House, which has an extensive collection of classic American films, silent-era films, and classic foreign films. We also read Film Comment, Sight and Sound, and Film Quarterly.
