Remembering Arthur Lipsett: The Collage Makes the Man (The New York Sun)

One of the joyful delusions shared by successive generations of film students is that though most aesthetic discoveries have deep roots in the work of yesteryear, they nevertheless spring fully formed from the bright young minds of today. This is particularly the case with nascent filmmakers working in the cinematic avant-garde (for want of a better word). The pleasures of discovering and …