Citizen Kane
In Our Time: Culture
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The Importance of Cinematically Pure Cinema
I think there's one, there's the sort of revelation of these people who have not been seen on screen. I think sometimes the vocal performance style is what- That's where you hear some of the residue of the theatre,. Is that a bad thing? Not at all. No, I'm trying to insist that it's a good thing. I'm good. Also, why do we insist on this film being so cinematically pure when it's made by this brilliant producer of theatre and radio, and also cinema? The whole point of cinema is an impure medium that is able to cannibalize its sister media. You're seeing these electric sparks as these different media are rubbed up against
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