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City Symphony Primer: 3 Essential Films to Watch Now
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City Symphony Primer: 3 Essential Films to Watch Now

Written by Daniel Walber

Oct 14, 2013
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Is poetry fiction or nonfiction? The best answer is probably “neither.” Yet we spend a lot of time pretending that such a clear distinction exists for cinema, despite the fact that it is, in essence, the poetry of motion. Sure, a script can be fictional or nonfictional, but can an image? The high flying weightlessness of Gravity and the woozy, tempests …

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