You could play this film [‘L’Age d’Or’] with ‘The Passion of Joan of Arc’, not just in a double bill, but at the same time, overlapping images, a perpetual dissolve. Because the screen is a place where all films live anyway. And they are fucking each other all the time. (…) The movies are about this great ontological riddle, and they are only modestly contingent on art, entertainment, or money.
David Thomson,’The Big Screen – The Story of The Movies and What They did to Us’, Pinguin Books, 2012: 139.
