The Tactile World of Cinema

I have a new piece up at MUBI on the many thoughts that came to mind upon seeing Steven Soderbergh's Haywire. But really, all talk of translucent boundaries between disreputable and super-reputable cinema seems a bit fussy when Bazin himself, more than half a century ago, gladly compared an acknowledged masterwork of children's cinema with a film I'd first encounter on a Something Weird Barry Mahon double-feature dvd in the early '00s...