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I stopped lowering my head at the epithet "cultist" as soon as I realized that the quasi-religious connotation of the term was somewhat justified for those of us who loved movies beyond reason. ...
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?
First, it requires less writing or intellectual discipline, less relevance to the world we inhabit-though most films both praised and panned deal in a real historical context-and more regurgatative descriptions of the nuances of artifice.