Savoring a Century of `the Cinema'

"As I now move, graciously, I hope, toward the door marked Exit,it occurs to me that the only thing I ever really liked to do was goto the movies. Naturally, Sex and Art always took precedence overthe cinema. Unfortunately, neither ever proved to be as dependableas the filtering of present light through that moving strip ofcelluloid which projects past images and voices onto a screen."

Gore Vidal,

Screening History We know more, much more, about Marilyn Monroe and Jack Nicholsonthan we know about Julius Caesar and Thomas Jefferson. We know whatthey looked like when they stood up and walked to a window, how theysounded when they were sad, and how they smiled when …