![]() I even know people who actively seek out famous deviant puke-pieces such as Nekromantic and Mermaid in a Manhole. ![]() Of violence or sexual assault or other such unpleasantness, but I still know plenty of people that can watch, say, Audition and not even classify it as "extreme" in terms of its content vomit-eating, feet-sawing and all. Obviously, there are thresholds for subject matter that films can cross in terms You can't go around telling everyone to watch Lancelot du Lac or Head On, but there are still scores of appropriate viewers whom I wouldn't hesitate to urge to see those movies. There are plenty of films that I love that don't have broad appeal and would be hesitant to, say, program for a general audience at the JBFC, but which I would still quickly recommend to a half dozen people. Over the course of the near-decade I’ve been doing this, I've become pretty good at figuring out to whom I should be recommending what – and that there'sĪn audience for nearly any film. That is, I spend almost all of my working time thinking about the potential audience for the films I see and in what capacity I could bring any particular film to any particular group of moviegoers. Īs the esteemed Senior Programmer for the Jacob Burns Film Center, my job is basically to recommend films to people. However, if you were curious as to why that is, please read on. ![]() Just don't think anybody else should have access to that information. These are films we admire and support unconditionally.we Just to emphasize: these are not guilty pleasures. Nevertheless, there are certain titles we're big fans of, the names of which we balk at dropping to pretty much anybody for a number of complicated reasons. Obviously, recommendations thrown indiscrimately into the general public lose the benefit of taking into account individual taste and preference - if you hate horses, for example, you probably won't like westerns - but we'd never get behind a movie we didn't strongly feel deserved the undisputed love of a large percent of film enthusiasts everywhere. We've got reputations to protect, so when we put our necks on the line to endorse a title (like in our Rarely Recommended series) there's a lot of thought that goes into it. Here at the 'smoke, we realize that recommending or not recommending any given movie goes beyond one's personal opinion of the film in question.
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