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"Cinema--as an entertainment, an art form, an academic topic, or an institution--is addicted to melodrama. What greater contrast of chiaroscuro is there than that between burning screen and darkened audience? . . . And what are the abiding themes of cinema but glamour, sexuality, fear, horror, danger, violence, suspense, averted disaster, true love, self-sacrifice, happy endings, and the wholesale realization of those hopes and anxieties that we are too shy to talk about in the daylight?"

--David Thompson