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Oliver Irving's avatar

Given the great descriptions already in this list perhaps this is tautology -- but I have a mantra that I use when thinking about cinema -- “film is the crystallization of ideas” -- I suppose a distillation.

I then picture light traveling through various crystals in a kind of fortress of solitude, but I have no idea what that means... then I stop staring into space and get on with what I’m supposed to be doing.

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ken pisani's avatar

With the exception of #24, all these things are true of comic books at their very best. (*18 is sketchy. if you can see how many pages are left in your book, you also know when there's only a few minutes left of your 2-hour movie.)

I'd add the SENSORY experience of film. It taps the viewers' dominant senses of sight and sound; in a good theater with augmented audio you can even FEEL it. (And if you're watching "Polyester" you can even smell it.)

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