One of the world's most erudite and entertaining film critics on the state of cinema in the post-digital - and post-9/11 - age. This witty and allusive book, in the style of classic film theorists/critics like Andre¿ Bazin and Siegfried Kracauer, includes considerations of global cinema's most important figures and films, from Lars von Trier and Jia Jiangke to WALL-E, Avatar and Inception.