Good Movies Make You Care, Make You

It's Sometimes Discouraging To See All Of A Director's Movies, Because There's So Much Repetition. The Auteurists Took This To Be A Sign Of A Director's Artistry, That You Could Recognize His Movies. But It Can Also Be A Sign That He's A Hack.

A Good Movie Can Take You Out Of Your Dull Funk And The Hopelessness That So Often Goes With Slipping Into A Theatre; A Good Movie Can Make You Feel Alive Again, In Contact, Not Just Lost In Another City. Good Movies Make You Care, Make You Believe In Possibilities Again.

What This Generation Was Bred To At Television's Knees Was Not Wisdom, But Cynicism.

The Romance Of Movies Is Not Just In Those Stories And Those People On The Screen But In The Adolescent Dream Of Meeting Others Who Feel As You Do About What You’ve Seen.

Citizen Kane Is Perhaps The One American Talking Picture That Seems As Fresh Now As The Day It Opened. It May Seem Even Fresher.