Posted AT 8:44 AM EDT on 06/09/07
The four things great films do best
As I was watching Fugitive Pieces, tonight's kickoff to the Toronto International Film Festival, two thoughts came to mind. The first was obvious: This is a good movie. The second seemed, perhaps, too obvious: This is an even better example of what the movies do more easily, more powerfully and more indelibly than any other medium. Most or us are schooled from an early age in the grammar of film, and so never bother to parse what we intuitively understand.
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