Word: sarrises
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If Fiedler claimed that the undirected turmoil of the New Left is what killed off concurrent cultural progress, it actually appears that there is now a new health afoot both in the arts and politics since the all inclusive youth frenzy panned out (proving itself to be largely a media...
The good people--Kael (The New Yorker), Hatch (Nation), Kauffmann (New Republic), and Sarris (Village Voice)--each have an axe to grind, and make no bones about grinding it. Kael has a perversely radical culture-consciousness, loving most those films which, rooted to a trashy crowd-pleasing base, manage to...
For every former advertising man who has shucked his job in mid-career for a chance to make a go at real writing (there are a handful of such confessions in the class's report), there is a lawyer on the Boston firm of Ropes and Gray (Harvard's own...
Third, Sarris's auteurism carries with it vast pseudo-intellectual pretense. Mr. Sarris may well be as prophetic about the careers of directors and their philosophic overview as Mr. Byron says he is, but the critical question remains "to what ends?" That question remains unanswered, lying forgotten somewhere between Ophuls...
Can anything be salvaged from Sarris's body of work?