Word: sarrises
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Its lead film commentator was Andrew Sarris, who boasted quite a reputation among film school cliques. He was the valiant proponent of auteur criticism (the reviewing wave of the future), banking in movies for their own sake and American ones in particular. The argument for him went this way. Sarris...
But the actual impulse behind the Sarrisites seemed more psychological than aesthetic. Who needed to stop the world with politics or drugs when you could get off on Celluloid? A photograph of Sarris which appeared sometimes on Voice ads showed a rough looking character with a pugnacious glare, decorating a...
After a year, I left film school and left New York City. My Voice lingered unsold in the racks of the Waverley Smoke Shop, Some time has passed, and much history. But social values don't change in three years--particularly those held by egoists. Even after one term of...
Sarris simply hasn't written much at all lately, and what he has written has been listless at the core. You could once imagine his effusions as if they emerged from a fevered monk of an arcane order. They now seem merely monkish. And the decline can be attributed both...
Tonight the Plaza is showing two by Truffaut The Wild Child, one of the best, an unsentimental detailed and narratively pure chronicle of Dr. Itard's attempts to tram a wolf child for human society in Enlightenment France, and The Bride Wore Black, one of his least, a stale tale...