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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.

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.

There Is Something Spurious About The Very Term 'a Movie Made For Tv,' Because What You Make For Tv Is A Tv Program.

One Of The Surest Signs Of The Philistine Is His Reverence For The Superior Tastes Of Those Who Put Him Down.