The Persisting Vision: Reading the Language of Cinema

This is a brilliant article by Martin Scorsese:

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2013/aug/15/persisting-vision-reading-language-cinema/?pagination=false

I particularly enjoyed his comments about what makes cinema (not film - or the movies) special:

What was it about cinema? What was so special about it? I think I’ve discovered some of my own answers to that question a little bit at a time over the years.

First of all, there’s light.

And then, there’s movement…