Film and Television

The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded. The image it once held for us all, that of a dream we dreamt with our eyes open, has disappeared. Is it still possible that one thousand people might group together in the dark and experience the dream that a single individual has directed?

A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provide they come close together.

For intellectual authority, the appropriate version of Descartes's cogito would be today: I am talked about, therefore I am.