CinemaDiscourse.com, the Online Site for the Rebirth of Serious Discussions of Movies, Launches

CinemaDiscourse.com, the Online Site for the Rebirth of Serious Discussions of Movies, Launches

NEW YORK, June 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Now that the movie has replaced the novel as the dominant art form of our time, where has the intelligent film discussion gone? Find it on CinemaDiscourse.com (http://www.cinemadiscourse.com/).

Just as Pauline Kael was the defining movie critic of the 1970s and 80s and Roger Ebert more recently, so John David Ebert, writing on CinemaDiscourse.com, is the defining critic of the beginning of the Twenty-First Century.

(Note: John David Ebert is not related to Roger Ebert)

The creators of today's movies are deeply aware of the mythological and archetypal sources of their stories and images, and audiences relate to these references, even if unconsciously. But these mythological and archetypal sources have not been discussed. Until now.

CinemaDiscourse.com lists and discusses the twelve classics of this new
genre, movies that define our age:

1. 2001: A Space Odyssey
2. Jaws
3. Star Wars
4. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
5. Apocalypse Now
6. Alien
7. Raiders of the Lost Ark
8. Blade Runner
9. Videodrome
10. The Road Warrior
11. Solaris (1972 Tarkovsky version)
12. Nosferatu (1979 Herzog version)

Recent reviews on CinemaDiscourse.com include:

-- X-Men Origins: Wolverine
-- Terminator: Salvation
-- Star Trek

CinemaDiscourse.com covers the background of the new cinema, discusses the classics, reviews current movies, and provides forums for reader feedback. Plus it provides YouTube videos of Ebert's explanations of key movies.

On CinemaDiscourse.com you will find how:

-- Kubrick and Clark's 2001 set out to create the new mythology for our technological age, ending with the Star Child hovering in space, thereby launching the modern age of movies.

-- Iron Man is a retelling of the tales of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, in which the hero must come into a proper relationship with a woman before accomplishing his quest.

-- Kubrick and Spielberg's A.I. is an exploration of what it means to be human in our increasingly technological world.

-- Movies like Wanted and Babylon A.D., while poorly received by critics, are powerful retellings of fundamental myths.

CinemaDiscourse.com was created by John Ebert and John Lobell.

About John David Ebert

Ebert is an independent cultural critic whose essays, reviews and interviews have appeared in periodicals such as Lapis, Alexandria, Utne Reader and The Antioch Review. He is the author of Celluloid Heroes & Mechanical Dragons: Film as the Mythology of Electronic Society.

Email: johnebert@mac.com

About John Lobell

Lobell is a professor at Pratt Institute where he teaches architectural history and theory, and issues in technology and culture. He is the author of Joseph Campbell: The Man and His Ideas and Between Silence and Light: Spirit in the Architecture of Louis I. Kahn. See http://www.johnlobell.com/ for more.

Email: JohnLobell@aol.com

More information at: http://www.cinemadiscourse.com/

Contact:

John Lobell
JohnLobell@aol.com

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