»In modern life the movies are what most other forms of art have ceased to be, not an adorment but a necessity.«
ERWIN PANOFSKY
»Making judgments on films is in many ways so peculiarly vaporous an occupation that the only question is why, beyond the obvious opportunities for a few lecture fees and a little careerism at a dispiritingly self-limiting level, anyone does it in the first place.«
JOAN DIDION
Cinema =
»unreality, validated by emotion«
JEAN EPSTEIN
