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"both high and low culture have produced masterpieces and works of mediocrity. it is our task to find beauty in unexpected places." — jahsonic (june, 2006), art & popular culture wiki

"i urge you: learn to look at ‘bad’ films, they are so often sublime." — adonis kyrou,
le surréalisme au cinéma (1953)

"a still is not a film. it lacks the dimensions of time and movement — indispensable components of film art — and represents only a small fraction of a single second of a given motion picture." — amos vogel, film as a subversive art (1974)

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139 notes "…capitalism is basically a system where everything is for sale, and the more money you have, the more you can get. and, in particular, that’s true of freedom. freedom is one of the commodities that is for sale, and if you are affluent, you can have a lot of it. it shows up in all sorts of ways. it shows up if you get in trouble with the law, let’s say, or in any aspect of life it shows up. and for that reason it makes a lot of sense, if you accept capitalist system, to try to accumulate property, not just because you want material welfare, but because that guarantees your freedom, it makes it possible for you to amass that commodity. […] what you’re going to find is that the defense of free institutions will largely be in the hands of those who benefit from them, namely the wealthy, and the powerful. they can purchase that commodity and, therefore, they want those institutions to exist, like free press, and all that."
— noam chomsky, interview by david dobereiner, john hess, doug richardson & tom woodhull, january 1974