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What hath Sarris wrought?
Well, with the help of others like the febrile Mr. Byron, who reviewed Sarris's latest tome in adulatory terms in the New York Times Book Review, Sarris has legitimized the auto-erotic school of film criticism. What is looked for in a film is the indelible signature of a...
Among the "classics" canonized in Confessions of a Cultist are Aldrich's Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? Sergio Leone's spaghetti westerns, Hitchcock's The Birds, Preminger's Advise and Consent. All are auteur genre items; Sarris rarely has the flexibility of such British auteurists as Raymond Durgnat to admit...
WHAT, then, gives the Sarris brand of auteurism its especially attractive quality?
Second, it puts even the most timid of souls into an anarchic critical position of imagined danger. Sarris continually rants and raves against the "literary critical Establishment." He also bears a curious, love-hate relationship with the motion picture viewing audience, scolding an "out" director like Huston for attempting to...