Gene [Siskel] often mentioned something François Truffaut once told him: the most beautiful sight in a movie theater is to walk down to the front, turn around, and look at the light from the screen reflected on the upturned faces of the members of the audience.

in a way [director Lynch's] behavior is more sadistic than the Hopper character"). As an undergraduate he was a member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity and president of the U.

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