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Beyond pure entertainment value, those looking for substance will find it. For audiences in 1938 theaters, ‘The Adventures of Robin Hood’ played as a warning to resist oppressors who were currently taking hold in Europe.

By consuming the wine and wafer, we vicariously channel the divinity of Christ, and, by watching ‘Rio Bravo’, I was vicariously channeling the courage of John Wayne.

Clowns is a hilarious, startling mix of stage-bound dialogue scenes and wildly inventive montages scored by marches, Dixieland jazz and, occasionally, Jason Robards strumming a ukulele.

This was unlike any movie I had ever seen. The movie unfolded with a slow, measured pace, revealing image after gorgeous image.

Watching ‘Member of the Wedding’ made me aware for the first time of the art of editing.

Chaplin’s on-screen mixture of humor, acrobatics and pathos has an almost magical ability to put a smile in one’s heart.

After seeing ‘The Graduate’, I realized that movies could be an art form.

‘The Third Man’ cleverly uses its Viennese locations to deepen the intrigue; the city itself becomes a character in the film.

After dinner, one evening, Mom and Dad asked if I would like to work as a child extra in the new Bud Abbott and Lou Costello movie, Mexican Hayride.

Dr. Strangelove was a confirmation of my growing belief about adults in positions of authority.