“Though it is entirely proper to speak of the art of films, I find very little art in films except when artists make them–and they are exceedingly rare. I view most films–especially the American–as documentaries. They tell us more of the time and place in which we dwell than any of the other media. As fiction, drama, or art, they lie.”
Harold Clurman, “Reflections on Movies” (Harper’s, May 1971, reprinted in The Collected Works of Harold Clurman)
Terry Teachout on the arts in New York City
