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Lawson, Mark
Lawson has been a freelance contributor to numerous publications since 1984
2 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.
How cinema is becoming increasingly intelligent
Mark Lawson considers that we are currently experiencing a "A new golden age in cinema". "The main reason for this renaissance is that all levels of cinema - from the people who put up the budget to the people who pay for tickets - have become less frightened of intelligence and complexity. In its first decades, the people who made movies tended to come - except for an injection of European intellectuals displaced by Hitler - out of mainstream art forms such as vaudeville and Broadway. Now, a producer, director or actor is likely to have been schooled - and then film-schooled - to high levels, and can rely on a potential audience of similar sophistication. ... Admittedly, this revolution of intelligence is not all-encompassing: films are being released ... that are as stupid as movies have ever been. As with wealth, education and healthcare, the gap between the top and bottom tiers is getting ever wider. But our luck is that, in this area, good and bad cost the same to the consumer."
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Less is best for English football
England failed to qualify for Euro 2008 football tournament, after losing 3-2 against Croatia. Steve McClaren, the coach of the team, has been sacked the next day. Mark Lawson thinks it is time for England to aim lower. "The problem with the national game is much more fundamental: we suffer from a culture, tub-thumpingly encouraged by the media, that refuses to accept that sporting history has moved on. ... Whichever hopeful fool the FA [Football Association] can persuade to trade the rise in his bank balance against the ruin of his reputation should begin by hanging up a clock which begins not in 1966 but 2007, a period in which England's footballing aspirations should probably be on a par with Scotland's. For the sake of managers and players, the slogan 'England Expects' must become 'England Vaguely Hopes'."
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