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title: "2 Film Medium Quotes By Frank Lentricchia"
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> [“Cinema is a mixed form. L'Avventura has characters, it has social context, and these things are not trivial. Its plot is the disappearance of a disappearance. Possibly the most frightening plot imaginable. Forgetting the dead, whom all of history tells…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frank-lentricchia/cinema-is-a-mixed-form-l-avventura-has-characters-it-has-social/)

[Frank Lentricchia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frank-lentricchia/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f4b/frank-lentricchia-36155_cinema_cinema-is-a-mixed-form-l-avventura-has-c_1785041.png)

> [Our personal past is only available to us now through black-and-white film, it's a medium for communication with the dead, including our dead selves, the way we used to be, which is why we're drawn to it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frank-lentricchia/our-personal-past-is-only-available-to-us-now-through-black-and-white/)

[Frank Lentricchia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frank-lentricchia/)

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## More by Frank Lentricchia

> [People are mysterious, even to themselves.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frank-lentricchia/people-are-mysterious-even-to-themselves/)

[Frank Lentricchia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frank-lentricchia/)

> [“Kyle says (with glee), “Addicted to breathing? I can fix that. Get on the rower and give me two thousand meters, all out, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frank-lentricchia/kyle-says-with-glee-addicted-to-breathing-i-can-fix-that-get-on-the/)

[Frank Lentricchia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frank-lentricchia/)

> [“Tom said people should repaint their houses in and out, especially in, at least once a year—because who wants to live with the memories…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frank-lentricchia/tom-said-people-should-repaint-their-houses-in-and-out-especially-in/)

[Frank Lentricchia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frank-lentricchia/)

> [In the end, everything is found to be wanting.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frank-lentricchia/in-the-end-everything-is-found-to-be-wanting/)

[Frank Lentricchia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frank-lentricchia/)

> [“Cinema is a mixed form. L'Avventura has characters, it has social context, and these things are not trivial. Its plot is the disappearance of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frank-lentricchia/cinema-is-a-mixed-form-l-avventura-has-characters-it-has-social/)

[Frank Lentricchia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frank-lentricchia/)

> [“Only the past is real.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frank-lentricchia/only-the-past-is-real/)

[Frank Lentricchia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frank-lentricchia/)

> [The camera has a mind of its own--its own point of view. Then the human bearer of time stumbles into the camera's gaze--the camera's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frank-lentricchia/the-camera-has-a-mind-of-its-own-its-own-point-of-view-then-the-human/)

[Frank Lentricchia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frank-lentricchia/)

> [Our personal past is only available to us now through black-and-white film, it's a medium for communication with the dead, including our dead selves,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frank-lentricchia/our-personal-past-is-only-available-to-us-now-through-black-and-white/)

[Frank Lentricchia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frank-lentricchia/)

> [Take the road to contradiction, it'll lead you, I promise, to the palace of wisdom.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frank-lentricchia/take-the-road-to-contradiction-it-ll-lead-you-i-promise-to-the-palace/)

[Frank Lentricchia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frank-lentricchia/)

> [No one can be the total cure for another person.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frank-lentricchia/no-one-can-be-the-total-cure-for-another-person/)

[Frank Lentricchia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frank-lentricchia/)

> [“...that out of the quarrel with others we produce rhetoric, matter for the editorial page, while out of the quarrel with ourselves we create…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frank-lentricchia/that-out-of-the-quarrel-with-others-we-produce-rhetoric-matter-for/)

[Frank Lentricchia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frank-lentricchia/)

> [“Here's the most startling irony I know in film history: Antonioni, who is often denigrated by left-wing critics as a formalist and aesthete gives…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frank-lentricchia/here-s-the-most-startling-irony-i-know-in-film-history-antonioni-who/)

[Frank Lentricchia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frank-lentricchia/)

> [I want to die, stripped, by myself, of all fantasies. That's the goal. I want to feel what is real, at the end, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frank-lentricchia/i-want-to-die-stripped-by-myself-of-all-fantasies-that-s-the-goal-i/)

[Frank Lentricchia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frank-lentricchia/)

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