I watch movies every day. I go see them in the theater. I see them on my computer, I watch them on my TV, on VHS, DVD.
I think about movies all the time. I think about movies I've seen the night before or movies I saw that day. I hear lines of dialouge going through my head. I think about movies I'd like to make.
I want to make movies.
I've written screenplays for movies.
Movies make me think.
Movies touch me. They make me feel alive. They make me feel like I'm not alone. They get me in touch with other thinking, creative, alive people.
I think that movies are the apotheotetic art form; that is, they are the highest art form and the greatest expressive art. I think that they bring together all the other arts; story, visual mise en scene, choreography, cinematography, costumes, set decoration, sound tracks, scoring, and music. They bring together many different artistic expressions and manifest into one whole.
Why movies and not film or cinema or reel? The term "movies" means the most to me of all the words for moving pictures. The reason is that they are just that: moving pictures. Movies is a short and cute and fun word. Film is anachronistic, old school, referring to a medium that isn't always or even often used to shoot movies these days. Cinema is more the place we see movies, and I love cinema. I love going to the cinema. And reel, well, that's also archaic, as film was shot and stored on reels. I'm going to call all moving pictures movies for the above reasons.
So, here, at Leila On Movies, I share my musings on movies. I share movie reviews, critiques, reflections. I share bests of, favorites, and lists.
Please chime in and share your thoughts about movies.
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