Ken Kimmelman, Emmy award-winning filmmaker and Aesthetic Realism consultant, says about this upcoming class in his course “If It Moves, It Can Move You”: Opposites in the Cinema:
Something big and new in art came to be with the motion picture. “Right from the beginning,” Eli Siegel explained, “there was the accent on motion, some kind of abstrac- tion even, and then there was sentimentality.” The silent film brought wonder to people and great emotion about the world.
Some of the films I’ll be discussing are: Intolerance, Greed, Napoleon