Making Waves Quotes

“...it is one thing for experimentation to take place: it is another for it to acquire critical mass – or, to use a different metaphor, for ripples to become a wave.
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One sign was the emergence or re-emergence of an international audience that actually sought out artistically challenging films.”
― Geoffrey Nowell-smith, Making Waves: New Cinemas of the 1960s

“[H]e gave himself over to the vie de bohème, to reading books ... [A]nd to ever more assiduous immersion in the cinema.”
― Geoffrey Nowell-Smith, Making Waves: New Cinemas of the 1960s

“The whole thrust of the modern novel and short story, however, from the late nineteenth century onwards, has been to reject the convention of this form of ordered fiction and to tell stories which, while still crafted as stories, are respectful of the randomness of real life, stories which do not necessarily have clearly demarcated endings, or even beginnings, but just enter into a phase of someone’s life when nothing in particular is happening and leave it at a later point when something has happened which is not an achievement, or a consummation, or a tragedy, or even a step in the re-cementing of a social order.”
― Geoffrey Nowell-Smith, Making Waves: New Cinemas of the 1960s