A Love of Film is something shared by most of us, whether or not we admit or recognize it. In film, there is something of each of the arts. Perhaps that's why it so indelibly impresses us. There's something for everyone. This book explores the relationship between the aesthetic and the technical--the poetry and the hardware of making movies--in a way that's both enlightening and entertaining. It deals as well with the still unanswered mysteries of this extraordinary medium. Is the darkness of today's color films due only to the nature of their stories or to something deeper? How did...