简介：Isuppose,inintroducingLeonProchnik'sTheExistentialist,Icouldpoundoutafewhundredwordsonform,drawaparallelortwowithearlierworks,tossinthenamesBunuelandKeaton,rendersomeemptyjudgmentonthefilm'splaceintheCinemaofitsday;Icoulddoallofthosethings.Iguess.But...really,allyouneedtoknowabouttoday'sofferingisthis: Nofilmofitstimeoranyotherencapsulatedsoneatly,solyrically,theattitudelurkingintheheartofwhatusedtobeknownasTheNewAmericanCinema. You'llseewhatImean. TomSutpen…