Louis B. Mayer is one of those with a claim to posessing the equation... he began to buy up nickelodeon arcades in the years before the First World W…

- Edward Jay Epstein

I regret the way that America has elected to make films for its bluntest section of society and in ways that flatter them, and we have to recognize h…

- Edward Jay Epstein

The problem of journalism is simple. Journalists are rarely in a position to establish the truth of an issue themselves, since they didn't' witness i…

- Edward Jay Epstein

We have a thriving subculture of 'independent' American movies that makes an impact on America as a whole roughly equivalent to that of a the modern …

- Edward Jay Epstein

The discrepancy between what actually happened and the version of what happened provided by sources is an enormous gray area.

- Edward Jay Epstein

The Deer Hunter is securely on my list of American movie events, by which I mean those films that aspired to the whole equation, to be show business …

- Edward Jay Epstein

In 1972 Charlie Chaplin was allowed back to America to receive an honorary Oscar, 'for the incalculable he had on making motion pictures the art form…

- Edward Jay Epstein

Bonnie and Clyde became not just a big hit, but a movie that went through young audiences like a first slug of Scotch. It affected clothes, talk, man…

- Edward Jay Epstein

Who can now deny the loss of natural light, of skin tones, of real place, and common but precious things in our movies, to be replaced by the gorgeou…

- Edward Jay Epstein