Michael Wilmington: Self
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Michael Wilmington : The average level of Hollywood films went down a shocking amount in the 1980s. They had younger executives who believed that their job was just to appeal to a very young, basically teenage, crowd. I think their ideal viewer during that period was a 15 year old male in a shopping mall.
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Michael Wilmington : The Ebert and Siskel show is very important for kind of establishing the romance of movie criticism. They were the first movie critics who became a sort of big TV celebrities - and became TV celebrities because they were movie critics.
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Michael Wilmington : If you give people an expansive world of all cinema, all movies, if you include the movies they love and, then, show them the movies they could love, if, if, if they just expanded their vision a little, then I think you're performing a service. At least you're performing the service that I've always wanted to as a critic.
