In 1996, it seemed like the point of 'That Thing You Do!' was to provide proof of concept for the idea that Tom Hanks, who even then seemed like one of our last genuine movie stars, could also write and direct a motion picture. I am thinking about the 1996 film 'That Thing You Do!' It is a movie I enjoyed when it was released, but one I imagined would almost instantly slip out the cultural conversation. The critic who files on deadline always risks missing what makes a special movie special - films often need time to marinate in the head. And that resonance is not always apparent on first viewing, and especially not in the immediate aftermath of that first viewing. The point is that while movies can endure without being good, there is something in enduring movies that resonates with audiences. That's not to say that there are not instances where award-seeking 'prestige' films (what Farber called 'white elephant art') attain a certain purchase on our imaginations - John Ford, who was one of Farber's nemeses with his proclivities for 'rounded, declamatory acting' and who 'silhouetted riders along the rim of a mountain with a golden sunset behind them,' happens to be one of my favorite directors, and I'm not certain that's entirely due to his habit of employing termite actor John Wayne, who, Farber notes, was 'infected by a kind of hoboish spirit, sitting back on its haunches doing a bitter-amused counterpoint to the pale, neutral film life around him.' leaves nothing in its path other than the signs of eager, industrious, unkempt activity.' that goes always forward eating its own boundaries, and. seem to have no ambitions toward gilt culture but are involved in a kind of squandering-beaverish activity.

Like the painter and film critic Manny Farber observes, 'ood work usually results when the creators.

That's probably because enduring classics don't try too hard they are more the result of an earnest filmmaker trying to tell a great story than a serious director trying to make a grand statement. One sign of an enduring classic may be that you do not recognize it as such on first contact.

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