Quotes by : Frank Lentricchia

...that out of the quarrel with others we produce rhetoric, matter for the editorial page, while out....

I want to die, stripped, by myself, of all fantasies. That's the goal. I want to feel what is real, at....

Only the past is real.

The camera has a mind of its own--its own point of view. Then the human bearer of time stumbles into....

In the end, everything is found to be wanting.

Our personal past is only available to us now through black-and-white film, it's a medium for communication....

People are mysterious, even to themselves.

Here's the most startling irony I know in film history: Antonioni, who is often denigrated by left-wing....

Cinema is a mixed form. L'Avventura has characters, it has social context, and these things are not trivial.....

No one can be the total cure for another person.