Vincent Canby Quotes

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• Radio wasn't outside our lives. It coincided with and helped to shape our childhood and adolescence. As we slogged toward maturity, it also grew up…
• Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.
• Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience of living our…
• It is guaranteed to put all teeth on edge, including George Washington's, wherever they might be.
• The solemnity of the annual Nobel ceremonies in Stockholm with the cheerful bad taste of the grand opening of a shopping center in Los Angeles.
• Horror need not always be a long-fanged gentleman in evening clothes or a dismembered corpse or a doctor who keeps a brain in his gold…
• In this land of unlimited opportunity, a place where, to paraphrase Woody Allen, any man or woman can realize greatness as a patient or as…
• Confession: When I went to see The Empire Strikes Back I found myself glancing at my watch. The Force is with us, indeed, and a…
• There's no doubt about it. Arcadia is Tom Stoppard's richest, most ravishing comedy to date, a play of wit, intellect, language, brio and, new for…
• Semi-Tough pokes fun in rambling fashion, but it is vulgar in intelligent ways and almost always amusing in its perceptions of befuddled people who are…
• Nothing in Death Hunt makes a great deal of sense, though the scenery is rugged and the snowscapes beautiful.
• Like Godard, Tati is also remarkably appreciative of the odd beauty that can be revealed in the shapes, patterns and colors created by the technology…
• [His acting] remains forever fixed in a time that never dates.
• Through the magic of motion pictures, someone who's never left Peoria knows the softness of a Paris spring, the color of a Nile sunset, the…
• She was a woman attempting to make some sense of, and get some satisfaction from, a life that seemed to have no more logic than…
• The only remarkable thing about Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather, Part II is the insistent manner in which it recalls how much better his original…
• We are drawn to our television sets each April the way we are drawn to the scene of an accident.

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