Reality, Like God And History, Tends To

I Live In A Rather Special World. I Only Know One Person Who Voted For Nixon. Where They Are I Don't Know. They're Outside My Ken. But Sometimes When I'm In A Theater I Can Feel Them.

What's Disgusting About The Dirty Harry Movies Is That Eastwood Plays This Angry Tension As Righteous Indignation.

Before Seeing Truffaut 's Small Change, I Was Afraid It Was Going To Be One Of Those Simple, Natural Films About Childhood Which I Generally Try To Avoid I'm Just Not Good Enough To Go To Them. But This Series Of Sketches On The General Theme Of The Resilience Of Children Turns Out To Be That Rarity A Poetic Comedy That's Really Funny.

We Will Never Know The Extent Of The Damage Movies Are Doing To Us, But Movie Art, It Appears, Thrives On Moral Chaos. When The Country Is Paralyzed, The Popular Culture May Tell Us Why. After Innocence, Winners Become Losers. Movies Are Probably Inuring Us To Corruption; The Sellout Is The Hero-survivor For Our Times.

Movies Are A Combination Of Art And Mass Medium, But Television Is So Single In Its Purpose-selling-that It Operates Without That Painful, Poignant Mixture Of Aspiration And Effort And Compromise.