The potential of cinema

17Oct06

“In none of the traditional arts is there so great a disproportion between potential and achievement as in the cinema.A film acts directly upon the spectator presenting him with concrete people and things in the silence and darkness of the theatre; it isolates him from what we might call his normal psychic habitat.
For these reasons it can stimulate him more effectively than any other form of human expression.

The bulk of current film productions seem unfortunately,to have this as its mission ,and the screens of our film houses daily parade evidence of the moral and intellectual void in which cinema is wallowing.”
Luis Bunuel

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