No film is ever really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.

?Orson Welles

A long-playing full shot is what always separates the men from the boys. Anybody can make movies with a pair of scissors and a two-inch lens.

Orson Welles

There are no rules in filmmaking. Only sins. And the cardinal sin is dullness.

Frank Capra

A film should have a beginning, a middle, and an end, but not necessarily in that order

Jean-Luc Godard

The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.

Orson Welles

A tip from Lubitsch. Let the audience add up two plus two. They'll love you forever.

Billy Wilder

Cinema is vice. I love it intimately.

Fritz Lang

A film that can be described in words is not really a film.

Michelangelo Antonioni

There's nothing that says more about the creator than the work itself.

Akira Kurosawa

For ten years we had all been told to go out and die for freedom and democracy, but now the war was over. The Red Shoes told us to go out and die for art.

Michael Powell

When the last dime is gone I'll sit on the curb outside with a pencil and a ten-cent notebook and start the whole thing over again.

Preston Sturges

Most Recent Blog Posts

?Champagne Ivy?: Miriam Hopkins in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931)

by Lesley Gaspar | Jan 25, 2015 | 1930s, Classic movies, Pre-Code films, Pre-Code Horror

At first Miriam Hopkins did not want to play ?Champagne Ivy? Pearson, the charmingly carnal little bird who is infatuated with Jekyll and abused and terrorized by Hyde. When director Rouben Mamoulian offered her the part, she set her jaw and said No. She would play...

The Trouble with Stella Dallas

by Lesley Gaspar | Jan 17, 2015 | 1930s, Barbara Stanwyck, Blogathons, Classic movies, Women's Films

This post is part of the?Contrary to Popular Opinion Blogathon,?where we set the consensus on its head by defending a maligned film, performer or director or toppling a beloved one! Stella Dallas?is still much beloved 78 years after it was made, and a favorite to many...

Social Preachments: Wild Boys of the Road (1933)

by Lesley Gaspar | Oct 26, 2014 | 1930s, Running Wild II: Genres in Pre-Code Cinema

Wild Boys of the Road?is one of the movies I read about 40 years ago in?We?re in the Money,?by Andrew Bergman?the first book about Depression movies I ever saw. The story is one of those Warner Bros. ?ripped from the headlines? affairs?among the many horrors of the...

« Older Entries

Next Entries »

Blogathons

No Results Found

The page you requested could not be found. Try refining your search, or use the navigation above to locate the post.

Second Sight Cinema Live Coverage From Hollywood?
at the?2018 TCM Classic Film Festival!
[April 26-April 29]

Second Sight Cinema returns to Hollywood for our sixth TCM Film Festival, media credentials proudly in hand, to cover everything from pre-festival doings?fan gatherings, lectures and presentations, tours, the whole nine yards?to the mad whirl of official screenings and events, to the post-fest catch-our-breath musings on the experience. From nitrate to noir, pre-Code to silents, tearjerkers to comedies, I’ll bring you my best insights, observations, and celebrity sightings.

No Results Found

The page you requested could not be found. Try refining your search, or use the navigation above to locate the post.