Terry Teachout on the arts in New York City
In an interview released by the Criterion Collection as part of its home-video version of Jean Renoir’s The River, Martin Scorsese talks about seeing the film for the first time:
(This is the latest in a series of arts-related videos that appear in this space each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday)
“I believe in evil. It is the property of all those who are certain of truth. Despair and fanaticism, historically sources of incredible destructiveness, are only differing manifestations of evil.”
Edward Teller (quoted in Philip L. Berman, The Courage of Conviction)