Sublime

the unreasoning conviction that anything that educates us can't be pleasurable probably accounts for much of the rest.

The odd confluence of Rose’s name and the use of “roses” in the lyric confused Jerome Robbins when he first heard it. “Everything’s coming up Rose’s what?” he famously asked.

Ray has argued that the dated aspects of films directed by William Wellman are more valuable than the relative "timelessness" of those directed by HowardHawks because they have more to tell us about the worlds they came from-which is another way of saying that film criticism can and should be a way of writing about the world.'

Eijanaika

Spectacle, he writes, is the expropriation of that possibility; it is the production of a one-way communication that he characterizes as “a generalized autism.”

the film’s cast could not come along. So Boggs intended to hire local talent to play the characters originated by actors in Chicago. Motion pictures were still such a new and makeshift medium that audiences, he figured, would never notice the difference.