I Am Mystified. I Know Only One

Great Movies Are Rarely Perfect Movies.

Moviegoers Like To Believe That Those They Have Made Stars Are Great Actors. People Used To Say That Gary Cooper Was A Fine Actor Probably Because When They Looked In His Face They Were Ready To Give Him Their Power Of Attorney.

For Perhaps Most Americans, Tv Is An Apppliance, Not To Be Used Selectively But To Be Turned On - There's Always Something To Watch.

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.

Watching Old Movies Is Like Spending An Evening With Those People Next Door. They Bore Us, And We Wouldn't Go Out Of Our Way To See Them; We Drop In On Them Because They're So Close. If It Took Some Effort To See Old Movies, We Might Try To Find Out Which Were The Good Ones, And If People Saw Only The Good Ones Maybe They Would Still Respect Old Movies. As It Is, People Sit And Watch Movies That Audiences Walked Out On Thirty Years Ago. Like Lot's Wife, We Are Tempted To Take Another Look, Attracted Not By Evil But By Something That Seems Much More Shameful -- Our Own Innocence.