Vulgarity Is Not As Destructive

The Words "kiss Kiss Bang Bang" Which I Saw On An Italian Movie Poster, Are Perhaps The Briefest Statement Imaginable Of The Basic Appeal Of Movies

Watching Old Movies Is Like Spending An Evening With Those People Next Door. They Bore Us, And We Wouldn't Go Out Of Our Way To See Them; We Drop In On Them Because They're So Close. If It Took Some Effort To See Old Movies, We Might Try To Find Out Which Were The Good Ones, And If People Saw Only The Good Ones Maybe They Would Still Respect Old Movies. As It Is, People Sit And Watch Movies That Audiences Walked Out On Thirty Years Ago. Like Lot's Wife, We Are Tempted To Take Another Look, Attracted Not By Evil But By Something That Seems Much More Shameful -- Our Own Innocence.

The Slender, Swift Bruce Lee Was The Fred Astaire Of Martial Arts, And Many Of The Fights That Could Be Merely Brutal Come Across As Lightning-fast Choreography.

Robert Redford ... Has Turned Almost Alarmingly Blond-he's Gone Past Platinum, He Must Be Into Plutonium; His Hair Is Coordinated With His Teeth.

Sex Is The Great Leveler, Taste The Great Divider.