With Penn Cinema Studies' authority behind [the lectures] -- with their prestige -- this is going to be a much bigger event than it has been in the past. We're very excited and very grateful to them.

We're offering them the world's imagination.

We are hoping to really draw from the University of Pennsylvania community for the film festival.

The way cinema changes reflects the change in German society as the Nazis came to power.

Do you know anything about silent films?"
"Sure," I said. "The first ones were developed in the late nineteenth century and sometimes had live musical accompaniment, though it wasn't until the 1920s that sound became truly incorporated into films, eventually making silent ones obsolete in cinema.

I would always slip away to the cinema. I always found something absolutely extraordinary about the fact that these actors were always kind of kicking hard at some new dimension they were doing on film.