What guided Chaplin was the proper protection of self-interest (or craziness). So Chapling, Douglas Fairbanks, and Mark Pickford, with DW Griffith and William S Hart, made an alliance, called United Artists, whereby they would own a distribution company that would… — Edward Jay Epstein Copy Share Image
In 1972 Charlie Chaplin was allowed back to America to receive an honorary Oscar, 'for the incalculable he had on making motion pictures the art form of this century'. That's what the Academy was always for - to blur the… — Edward Jay Epstein Copy Share Image
The discrepancy between what actually happened and the version of what happened provided by sources is an enormous gray area. — Edward Jay Epstein Copy Share
We have a thriving subculture of 'independent' American movies that makes an impact on America as a whole roughly equivalent to that of a… — Edward Jay Epstein Copy Share
Who can now deny the loss of natural light, of skin tones, of real place, and common but precious things in our movies, to… — Edward Jay Epstein Copy Share
“Snowden’s penetration went beyond whistle-blowing, however. In the vast number of files he copied were documents that contained the NSA’s most sensitive sources and… — Edward Jay Epstein Copy Share
The problem of journalism is simple. Journalists are rarely in a position to establish the truth of an issue themselves, since they didn't' witness… — Edward Jay Epstein Copy Share
In the first week of the showings of the The Matrix Revolutions, The Godfather and The Godfather Part II played on cable television. I… — Edward Jay Epstein Copy Share
What guided Chaplin was the proper protection of self-interest (or craziness). So Chapling, Douglas Fairbanks, and Mark Pickford, with DW Griffith and William S… — Edward Jay Epstein Copy Share
“Unless one is willing to believe that the Putin regime acted out of purely altruistic motives in exfiltrating this American intelligence worker to Moscow,… — Edward Jay Epstein Copy Share
“Greenwald told the Associated Press that the documents that Snowden had taken from the NSA constituted “the instruction manual for how the NSA is… — Edward Jay Epstein Copy Share
I regret the way that America has elected to make films for its bluntest section of society and in ways that flatter them, and… — Edward Jay Epstein Copy Share
“He further disclosed that before leaving the NSA, he had gained access to the lists of computers that the NSA had penetrated in foreign… — Edward Jay Epstein Copy Share
“would strain credibility that such privileges would be awarded to an intelligence defector who had refused to cooperate with Russian authorities.” — Edward Jay Epstein Copy Share
Louis B. Mayer is one of those with a claim to posessing the equation... he began to buy up nickelodeon arcades in the years… — Edward Jay Epstein Copy Share
The Deer Hunter is securely on my list of American movie events, by which I mean those films that aspired to the whole equation,… — Edward Jay Epstein Copy Share
Bonnie and Clyde became not just a big hit, but a movie that went through young audiences like a first slug of Scotch. It… — Edward Jay Epstein Copy Share
