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 sorts of vegetation one will find along the upper Amazon and that Big Ben has not yet gone digital.
[His acting] remains forever fixed in a time that never dates. - Vincent Canby
[His acting] remains forever fixed in a time that never dates.
- Vincent Canby
Miss Dietrich is not so much a performer as a one-woman environment. - Vincent Canby
Miss Dietrich is not so much a performer as a one-woman environment.
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 fish bowl. It … - Vincent Canby
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 fish bowl. It …
We are drawn to Twitter the way we are drawn to the scene of an accident. - Vincent Canby
We are drawn to Twitter the way we are drawn to the scene of an accident.
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. - Vincent Canby
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.
Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world. - Vincent Canby
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 experi… - Vincent Canby
Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experi…
It is guaranteed to put all teeth on edge, including George Washington's, wherever they might be. - Vincent Canby
It is guaranteed to put all teeth on edge, including George Washington's, wherever they might be.
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 lot of it is hot air.… - Vincent Canby
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 lot of it is hot air.…
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