Whether he is discussing the holy terrorism of Andy Warhol, the changing language of cinema, or the neglected art of film journalism, Jonas Mekas' special and "insanity and " - his deep love for film art and artists - is constantly evident in this book. A collection of Mekas' Village Voice pieces over the past decade, Movie Journal provides a chronicle of the birth and infancy of the new genre he baptised as the New American Cinema.Here are perceptive discussions of Markopoulos, Brakhage, Jack Smith, Antonioni, Anger, and Breer; lacerating comments on Hollywood film; exhortations to young film-makers, unabashedly ecstatic reviews. Unlike most film criticism, Movie Journal sees its subject not as a seperate, extracultural phenomenon, but as the lens of a kaleidoscopic new culture. Consistently rejecting the false for the true, the ugly for the beautiful, the trite for the meaningful, Mekas' passionately honest and human vision provides a unique and total trip through the sensual world of a new art.