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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...
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?
Well, given an auteur who's also a good director, he will manage to come up with as good an explication of his films as most critics; possibly, because of his fine eve for visuals, a better one. He does champion such out-of-current mood directors as Peckinpah and...
Besides the host-school, Harvard is meeting the University of Virginia and William and Mary College. "Everybody is pretty close right now but it looks like a toss-up between Harvard and William and Mary to see who will end up 3-0," Franklin and Marshall coach Ron Gray said...