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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The film begins with the title card from an Old Arabian Proverb: And the Prophet said, 'And lo, the beast looked upon the face of beauty. And it stayed its hand from killing. And from that day, it was as one dead.'
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Most men hate to shop. That's why the men's department is usually on the first floor of a department store, two inches from the door.
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Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.
Most of us do not consciously look at movies.
Most of us do not consciously look at movies.
Neil: The meek may inherit the earth, but they don't get in to Harvard.
Neil: The meek may inherit the earth, but they don't get in to Harvard.
So, where's the Cannes Film Festival being held this year?
So, where's the Cannes Film Festival being held this year?
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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.
Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and read more
Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.
