The cinema was the unrivaled art form of the twentieth century. Film, as well as later incarnations like television and the internet, has penetrated to the culture’s core so that the very boundaries between “real life” and make-believe have become at least blurred, if not indecipherable.
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Today, the cinema is everywhere — it is in the way we perceive our world, in the way we speak, in the way we dream. We have no need of entering a movie theater to experience cinema; life itself is just like a movie.
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The exhibition brochure includes a quote from Stephen Fry’s book, Making History. Here is the quote, with a minor substitution:
When you walk along the street, you’re in a little bottle of oil; when you have a row, you’re in a little bottle of oil….When you skim stones over the water, buy a newspaper, park your car, line up in a McDonald’s, stand on a rooftop looking down, meet a friend, joke in the pub, wake suddenly in the night or fall asleep dead drunk, you’re in a little bottle of oil.
Decide what to do next weekend. Whatever you decide to do, and even if you don’t decide to do anything, that weekend will be over soon.