Frank Lentricchia

People are mysterious, even to themselves.

— Frank Lentricchia

“Kyle says (with glee), “Addicted to breathing? I can fix that. Get on the rower and give me two thousand meters, all…

— 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…

— Frank Lentricchia

In the end, everything is found to be wanting.

— 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…

— Frank Lentricchia

“Only the past is real.”

— 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…

— 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…

— Frank Lentricchia

Take the road to contradiction, it'll lead you, I promise, to the palace of wisdom.

— Frank Lentricchia

No one can be the total cure for another person.

— Frank Lentricchia

“...that out of the quarrel with others we produce rhetoric, matter for the editorial page, while out of the quarrel with ourselves…

— 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…

— 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…

— Frank Lentricchia