>Good criticism is still needed otherwise you get poverty aesthetics
>like David Walsh's which never go beyond plot.
My point was that millions (billions?) of people watch movies without having any idea, or caring, what the critics say. That hasn't been true of painting for a long time.
> > So I think there's more to this than Ford just not liking the
>suggestion that he was making art.
>
>There may very well be. I am not enough of a Fordian to give you
>an adequate answer.
>
But you weren't talking just about Ford. You said his generation wasn't interested.