My friend, the philosopher Jose Zalabardo at University College London, has some memorably apt comments about movies at his personal web site (click on the upper right box to see them):

“Contemporary Hollywood films are the most deplorable cultural phenomenon of our time. The way they trivialise life makes me sad and angry. I don’t watch them and no one should. Fortunately, other people in other places are making wonderful films all the time. Click here for a list of some of them.”

I will confess to liking some Hollywood films (mostly from the 1970s), despite their trivialisations. But Jose has a nice list of non-trivial films, which I plan to get to work on. (I should note, however, that the 1991 Slacker, which is on the list, and which purports to be about Austin, Texas, is utterly boring!)