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Many film critics have quit writing regularly on film after stints much shorter than Andrew's (which has continued, in one form or another, since 1956). Macdonald, Morgenstern. Sheed and Kanfer come swiftly (and recently) to mind. But these men then moved into the different fields to which they were...
As I perused Sarris's collected criticism two years ago, it appeared that Sarris was mellowing, speaking more often than before with some logic and extra-film development, indulging once in what to most acteurists was anathema--social criticism (in a useful review of The Great White Hope). Judging from...
His main retreat has been the traditional academic one. He mentions his Columbia appointment incessantly. In fact, one of the deadliest experiences I've encountered since reading Cleero in translation is Sarris's film curricula in the original. He has almost achieved dignity, and it has spoiled his original persuasiveness...
That veritable essay sprouts from a review of The King of Marvin Gardens which supposedly marked a heightening in Sarris's social consciousness (or so one of Sarris's pupils thought). Maybe it has. The purpose of the political prelude actually is to color the lackluster points of this piece...
He analyses Bob Rafelson's style, pulling out on route some of his favorite baseball cards--Fellini, Bergman, Antonioni, Truffaut, Godard, Hitchcock, Ford, Welles, Walsh, Nichols, Mazursky, Grosbard--all in one short and easy review. Past the intro, there's no more social consciousness. It is pretty nervy for Sarris...