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A place where Chris Campbell can put stuff.

Usually film related...

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The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life.
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If life is imperfect, cinema makes it just a little less imperfect.
permalink Sterling Hayden in Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

Sterling Hayden in Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

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I wonder how people remember things who don’t film or photograph or tape.
— Chris Marker in “Sans Soleil”
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I’d always professed that cinema was to be seen only in a movie theater, that television was to be used as a memory aid only. Shamefully, I have perjured myself, simply because I no longer have the time.
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A great movie acts like a window in our box of space and time, opening us to other times and other lands. The more windows we open, the better.