January 1, 2025
Dear Readers,
Celebrating the 20th anniversary of our website, www.EmanuelLevy.com, Cinema 24/7, which now contains over 32,000 reviews, essays, interviews, profiles, Oscar coverage, we are establishing a new column, actually a club–with great commitment and excitement.
Naming it AMOUR (is there a better name?), our New Global Digital Club is dedicated to discussing and debating about movies, past and present, which, for whatever reason, have been Abandoned, Misunderstood, Overlooked, Underestimated, and Revisited.
Film history contains thousands of AMOUR films, which makes the endeavor nearly impossible to be complete, conclusive, and even comprehensive. Yet, in the spirit of the new year, we remain optimistic. We feel that bringing the attention and/or raising the visibility, to even a few numbers of AMOUR films justify our “nearly quixotic” endeavor.
Moreover, in addition to discussing our team’s lists of AMOUR films, we encourage our readers, students, peers and colleagues (over the past 45 years of being a full-time film professor, scholar and critic) to brings their own choices films that deserve the label of AMOUR.
Critics have complained about the changes in viewing patterns, a result of technological innovations such as streaming, 4k DVD rereleases. Yet, the new platforms could–and do-provide a second and a third life for films to be seen for the first time by younger viewers, and/or to be enjoyed and reevaluated by more mature and older viewers, who may have seen them in theaters upon their initial release.
