I do not regret my not having seen this before, since I now saw it under circumstances so favorable. I was in just the frame of mi...nd to see something wonderful, and this was a phenomenon adequate to my circumstances and expectation, and it put me on the alert to see more like it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The history of theater from the medieval period until the nineteenth century has been in large part a history of further and furth...er separations of the scene of dramatic action from the physical situation of the audience. Even as the subject matter--in the plays of Ibsen, Chekhov, and Strindberg--became more and more continuous with the life of the audience, the stage itself pulled in its apron, emphasized its proscenium, and became a room with an invisible fourth wall, allowing the audience to look in, while keeping it more definitely outside. The progress of film was the reverse. From the stylized and theatrical settings of the early dramas, silent films moved into greater and greater involvement with the actors. Previously the audience saw actors from a distance, with a sense of tableau and formal separation. Although they seemed to be like us, they were not: silent, hieratic, caught in frightened frenzies of comedy, tragedy, and melodrama.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Eyes that last I saw in tears Through division... Here in death's dream kingdom The golden vision reappears I see the eyes but not the tears This is my afflictionLESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Y'know plenty of people, in their right mind, thought they saw things that didn't exist, y'know, like flying saucers. The light wa...s just right, and the angle and the imagination. Oh boy, if that's what it is, then this is just an ordinary night. You and I are going to go home and go to sleep and tomorrow when we get up that sun's gonna shine. Just like yesterday. Good ol' yesterday.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »