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...taste been infected by all the theory, criticism and analysis I've spent the last three years digesting and regurgitating? The answer is, as one of my professors is fond of saying, far from obvious. So I decide to pay a visit to John Gianvito, the guest curator at the Harvard Film Archive, hoping that he'll be able to help me make sense of the situation...
...John Gianvito, guest curator of the Harvard Film Archive, must have recognized that an all-night showing of the English-subtitled German classic would be a little intimidating to audiences. In his introductory speech, Gianvito jokingly asked the 50 audience members assembled whether they were feeling tired yet. He also mercifully scheduled breaks every four hours during the showing of the movie, and had assistants selling coffee and food in the adjacent auditorium. "It's worth it" to remain through the entire film, he reminded the audience, in order "to reach that amazing two-hour dream sequence...