It struck me that the movies had spent more than half a century saying, "They lived happily ever after" and the following quarter-century warning that they'll be lucky to make it through the weekend. Possibly now we are now entering a third era in which the movies will be sounding a note of cautious optimism: You know it just might work.
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I don't think you should feel about a film. You should feel about a woman, not a movie. You can't kiss a movie.
In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.
In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.
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In the 1930s people went to see films not just to be entertained or to escape the dreariness of their workaday lives but to gain an education, to see the world, to learn table manners and interior decoration, how to dress, kiss, to laugh and cry, how to react to tragedy and happiness, how to be brave, evil and good.
Fortunately I know how to counter it, the man who did the waking buys the man who was sleeping a read more
Fortunately I know how to counter it, the man who did the waking buys the man who was sleeping a drink. The man who was sleeping drinks it while listening to a proposition, from the man who did the waking.
It grossed something like 12 million dollars and started a cycle of so-called boy-meets-ghoul horror films.
It grossed something like 12 million dollars and started a cycle of so-called boy-meets-ghoul horror films.
Life is a B Movie: it's stupid and it's strange, it's a directionless story, the dialogue is lame, but in read more
Life is a B Movie: it's stupid and it's strange, it's a directionless story, the dialogue is lame, but in the 'he said she said' sometimes there's some poetry, if you turn your back long enough and let it happen naturally.
Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
