“The most satisfaction I get out of a film aside from its critical and financial success, is its contribution to thinking of people, socially or politically. In this sense every film is propaganda. But of course, propaganda must not look like propaganda.” — William Wyler, to a biographer
A good rule of thumb: if Steven Spielberg maintains some cinephilic…
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